Anyone watching the Arsenal game?

[hisroyalgingerness]

singing eh? fancy that

when the scousers were singing steve gerrard gerrard i tried inserting a "he kisses the badge on his chest, he puts in a transfer request" and the whole west stand lower looked at me as if i was sat next to madelain mccann

[communistworkethic]

singing eh? fancy that

when the scousers were singing steve gerrard gerrard i tried inserting a "he kisses the badge on his chest, he puts in a transfer request" and the whole west stand lower looked at me as if i was sat next to madelain mccann

were you?

[hisroyalgingerness]

singing eh? fancy that

when the scousers were singing steve gerrard gerrard i tried inserting a "he kisses the badge on his chest, he puts in a transfer request" and the whole west stand lower looked at me as if i was sat next to madelain mccann

were you?

no, the guy i sat next to was wearing incontinence pants

[CrazyHorse]

singing eh? fancy that

when the scousers were singing steve gerrard gerrard i tried inserting a "he kisses the badge on his chest, he puts in a transfer request" and the whole west stand lower looked at me as if i was sat next to madelain mccann

were you?

no, the guy i sat next to was wearing incontinence pants

Batman?

[hisroyalgingerness]

singing eh? fancy that

when the scousers were singing steve gerrard gerrard i tried inserting a "he kisses the badge on his chest, he puts in a transfer request" and the whole west stand lower looked at me as if i was sat next to madelain mccann

were you?

no, the guy i sat next to was wearing incontinence pants

Batman?

well if people are gonna continue to buy him pints at the rate they are doing

[hisroyalgingerness]

anyone stray onto ITV4 to watch them tonight? they were outstanding, though looked scared to score a goal

we'll get dicked on at this rate

[Athers]

They were excellent, Milan just weren't in it were they.



Nearly joined Birmingham in the summer didn't he.

[Tombwfc]

As good as they were, they were like a classier version of ourselves up until Milans keeper decided to see if he could save Fabregas shot by waiting until the ball was nestling in the net before bothering to dive. All the play, but completely blunt up front.

A better, more clinical side than Milan were would've beaten them tonight. Unfortunately we are neither, so yes, we're going to get dicked.

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The defending champions have exited the competition in each of the last four years at the first knockout round - random stat of the day for you there.

[spraggy]

best performance I've seen by an English side in Europe for a long time. Took Milan to the cleaners

[enfieldwhite]

best performance I've seen by an English side in Europe for a long time. Took Milan to the cleaners

BWFC vs Bayern Munich?

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

best performance I've seen by an English side in Europe for a long time. Took Milan to the cleaners

BWFC vs Bayern Munich?

think he meant apart from the obvious

[Backgammon]

I thought it strange that ITV had put Utd on their main channel and tucked Arsenal away on ITV 4.. Surely the Milan Vs Arsenal game was the stand-out fixture?

Really enjoyed the game, and it was surprisingly open for such a delicately balanced game.

At one stage it looked like it could get really embarrassing for Milan, mind you I imagine that the 0-2 home defeat will be embarrassing enough. I wonder what the Italian press made of it?

[David Lee's Hair]

I thought it strange that ITV had put Utd on their main channel and tucked Arsenal away on ITV 4.. Surely the Milan Vs Arsenal game was the stand-out fixture?

Really enjoyed the game, and it was surprisingly open for such a delicately balanced game.

At one stage it looked like it could get really embarrassing for Milan, mind you I imagine that the 0-2 home defeat will be embarrassing enough. I wonder what the Italian press made of it?

I reckon that question may have been answered byt the programming after the game. Hamburger Hill followed by Manchester United: Football Great (or something like that)

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I thought it strange that ITV had put Utd on their main channel and tucked Arsenal away on ITV 4.. Surely the Milan Vs Arsenal game was the stand-out fixture?

Really enjoyed the game, and it was surprisingly open for such a delicately balanced game.

At one stage it looked like it could get really embarrassing for Milan, mind you I imagine that the 0-2 home defeat will be embarrassing enough. I wonder what the Italian press made of it?

Television companies do not choose games based on how good they think the game is going to be. They choose it based on the ratings they believe it will generate - in this region of ITV it was bound to be the Man United game (and across most of the country). I'd imagine that Carlton (or whatever the ITV franchise is down south) will have had the Arsenal game as their main game. That's what they always used to do, anyway.

[enfieldwhite]

I thought it strange that ITV had put Utd on their main channel and tucked Arsenal away on ITV 4.. Surely the Milan Vs Arsenal game was the stand-out fixture?

Really enjoyed the game, and it was surprisingly open for such a delicately balanced game.

At one stage it looked like it could get really embarrassing for Milan, mind you I imagine that the 0-2 home defeat will be embarrassing enough. I wonder what the Italian press made of it?

Television companies do not choose games based on how good they think the game is going to be. They choose it based on the ratings they believe it will generate - in this region of ITV it was bound to be the Man United game (and across most of the country). I'd imagine that Carlton (or whatever the ITV franchise is down south) will have had the Arsenal game as their main game. That's what they always used to do, anyway.

Nope ITV4 down here, too. I watched the last 35 mins of the Arsenal game and thoroughly enjoyed it. I like Fabregas, if only because I've known him since he was about 16 and he was living with one of these women who takes the Club's foreign youngsters in (she had Senderos at the same time) Anyway, my wife (who was working with this woman at the time) tried to convince Cescy that he would have a better opportunity to play first team football if he signed for Bolton instead. Funnily, he didn't take her advice.

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Nope ITV4 down here, too. I watched the last 35 mins of the Arsenal game and thoroughly enjoyed it. I like Fabregas, if only because I've known him since he was about 16 and he was living with one of these women who takes the Club's foreign youngsters in (she had Senderos at the same time) Anyway, my wife (who was working with this woman at the time) tried to convince Cescy that he would have a better opportunity to play first team football if he signed for Bolton instead. Funnily, he didn't take her advice.

Interesting - in the pre-digital days they always used to juggle their content between the various ITV companies; I suppose that's become more or less redundant with Freeview boxes, Sky Digital and all that malarky, though.

[spraggy]

I thought it strange that ITV had put Utd on their main channel and tucked Arsenal away on ITV 4.. Surely the Milan Vs Arsenal game was the stand-out fixture?

Really enjoyed the game, and it was surprisingly open for such a delicately balanced game.

At one stage it looked like it could get really embarrassing for Milan, mind you I imagine that the 0-2 home defeat will be embarrassing enough. I wonder what the Italian press made of it?

Well, the locals are not happy, but full of praise for Arsenal. This from the Corriera della Sera:

"L'Arsenal dei ragazzi non ha avuto paura dei mostri sacri del Milan. A San Siro i gunners si sono imposti per 2-0, con due reti nel finale. I campioni d'Europa in carica, così, non potranno difendere la Coppa vinta nella scorsa stagione, malgrado la fiducia del numero uno della squadra rossonera, Silvio Berlusconi, che si era detto sicuro di passare il turno e approdare nei quarti. Il successo dei londinesi è stato firmato da due dei talenti più brillanti: lo spagnolo Cesc Fabregas, autore del vantaggio al 40' della ripresa e al togolese Adebayor, che ha arrotondato il risultato allo scadere."

The funniest thing was seeing Berlusconi's face at the final whistle.

[Bruce Rioja]

I like Fabregas, if only because I've known him since he was about 16 and he was living with one of these women who takes the Club's foreign youngsters in (she had Senderos at the same time)

Did either of them scuttle her?

[David Lee's Hair]

I like Fabregas, if only because I've known him since he was about 16 and he was living with one of these women who takes the Club's foreign youngsters in (she had Senderos at the same time)

Did either of them scuttle her?

They're professional footballers so surely it should be did they "spit" her