[EU] Champions League 06/07 (33 Viewers)

[JCK]

Barcelona will win the CL because they are the best and have the best players and play the best football.

 

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[Martin]

Barcelona will win the CL because they are the best and have the best players and play the best football.

And have the best milkshake in their cafeteria.

 

[JCK]

That too and the colours of their jerseys are the best.

 

[Martin]

y porque mas que un club, muchos mas!

 

[Inara]

I think Barca's away jerseys are inspired by Gatorade colors. That might be one of their tactics - they blind their opponents on the pitch with excess fluorescence.

 

[JCK]

Blasphemy, Barcelona spread fear just by entering the pitch. Football was designed after them.

 

[Maher]

Barcelona will win the CL because they are the best and have the best players and play the best football.

now you are a nice guy

 

[Alltagsheld]

I think Barca's away jerseys are inspired by Gatorade colors. That might be one of their tactics - they blind their opponents on the pitch with excess fluorescence.

That is why they won last year. The yellow shirt must have caused epilepsy to at least half of their opponents.

 

[Bisco]

Blasphemy, Barcelona spread fear just by entering the pitch. Football was designed after them.

:rofl2:

 

[Juventico]

And have the best milkshake in their cafeteria.

Ronaldinho: My milkshake bring all the boys to Camp Nou, and their like it's better than yours (looks at Capello). Damn right, it's better than yours.

Barça jersey's suck particularly the lights-in-the-dark one...

 

[gray]

I think purely for practical purposes, Barca's flouro jerseys are great. The peripheral visibility you'd have would increase threefold, because all you need to be able to spot is a blinding yellow blob out of the corner of your eye.

 

[HelterSkelter]

I want some goddamn European Football!!!

 

[sateeh]

same here especially now that Juve wont be playing and I can't even watch serie A.

 

[AngelaL]

It seems that despite the San Siro not being one of the four stadiums up to scratch, they seem to be wriggling out of the "closed doors" imposed by Figc for the CL : -

UEFA: San Siro could be OK
The UEFA Champions League clashes between Milan and Celtic, and Internazionale and Valencia may yet take place at the San Siro/Giuseppe Meazza stadium in front of supporters, UEFA have said.
The ties had originally been set to take place behind closed doors, moving Newcastle United to offer Milan the chance to face the Scottish champions at their St James' Park stadium to allow fans in to see the action.

A statement from the European Governing Body said that ongoing work might change matters, pending "further evaluation of the stadium next week".

Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani is of the belief that his club deserve the chance to host Celtic on March 7th.

"We have done everything we could do," he said of the work currently taking place. "It's obvious we want to play at the San Siro with open doors.

"As far as the Champions League is concerned, I spoke to [UEFA president Michel] Platini and we are free to play at home, maybe behind closed doors, or away [from home].

"I think it's fundamentally unjust to close a stadium like the San Siro on which we have already spent 20m euros for works which are never-ending.

"We have done everything the law has asked us to do and have no reason to feel bad."

Inter's match against Valencia arrives before that clash, on February 21st.

Eurosport - Jonathan Symcox - 09/02/2007 19:42

No doubt they'll soon be playing Serie A games in front of fans too! :eyebrows:

 

[Elvin]

No doubt they'll soon be playing Serie A games in front of fans too! :eyebrows:

Agh Italy has always been all about palavra, anyway :groan:

 

[metalhead]

I think UEFA's regulations are not as strict as the Pisanu ones. So if Milan face problems with their stadiums in Italy, that shouldnt apply to UEFA sponsored games. Hell even Livorno's stadium is up to UEFA standards.

 

[Jun-hide]

I think UEFA's regulations are not as strict as the Pisanu ones. So if Milan face problems with their stadiums in Italy, that shouldnt apply to UEFA sponsored games. Hell even Livorno's stadium is up to UEFA standards.

I personally think Pisanu regulation is just dumb. I am not going to repeat the reason behind it since I have expounded myself fully before. I just want to say Italian's authorities are almost M in their orientation with intent of destroying their league. Just fining teams equalling the expected loss revenue through closure until they fix their stadium would have been far better solution.

 

[metalhead]

I personally think Pisanu regulation is just dumb. I am not going to repeat the reason behind it since I have expounded myself fully before. I just want to say Italian's authorities are almost M in their orientation with intent of destroying their league. Just fining teams equalling the expected loss revenue through closure until they fix their stadium would have been far better solution.

The regulations were there last year, but because its in Italy, No one except a few adhered to them. Now they are facing the concequences. IMO the FIGC could've said straight away in the summer that 'no team will play in a stadium that doesnt fit the bill'. Then we wouldn't have this rush to finish everything in the 11th hour.

 

[Jun-hide]

The regulations were there last year, but because its in Italy, No one except a few adhered to them. Now they are facing the concequences. IMO the FIGC could've said straight away in the summer that 'no team will play in a stadium that doesnt fit the bill'. Then we wouldn't have this rush to finish everything in the 11th hour.

Well, its not the regulation itself that troubles me. Any increased security is good in my book. The point is the manner in which it has been enforced; why force out all the fans when you can just place monetary fine with incentive laden scheme to get the stadia as quickly as possible into shape. Personally, there are rarely fan trouble during day games, so if all games are moved to day time, I see no problem with such solution. I can't but think current measures will alieniate the normal fans who may not come back once the stadia are re-opened. Of course, politicians won't give a crap since their prime concern is an image to combat the problem not the health of the game.

 

[Martin]

Well, its not the regulation itself that troubles me. Any increased security is good in my book. The point is the manner in which it has been enforced; why force out all the fans when you can just place monetary fine with incentive laden scheme to get the stadia as quickly as possible into shape. Personally, there are rarely fan trouble during day games, so if all games are moved to day time, I see no problem with such solution. I can't but think current measures will alieniate the normal fans who may not come back once the stadia are re-opened. Of course, politicians won't give a crap since their prime concern is an image to combat the problem not the health of the game.

I think this is a bit paranoid. People who are really passionate about the game will still come, daytime or not. What you might lose is some of those who only go to yell obscenities and declare their ideology. As long as the show is still worthwhile of course people will come. If they can do it in England and Spain, why can't they in Italy. People always have this entrenched attitude about how "change is going to ruin everything" bu things change all the time and the ripple effects are much less than they're always feared.

I mean omg we are giving up our currency, the euro will change everything. Then they introduced a ban on smoking in public, how could that be, we love smoking, it will change everything blahblah, it's always like that. Meanwhile Italy functions just the same way as before, only you don't have to exchange your cash and the air is cleaner.