Comments on: The Champions League Round of 16: Your Soccer Lesson Part 1

By: Cone

Cone — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:57:28 +0000

Also, that Fenerbahce clip is unreal.

I’ve been spending the afternoon watching the whole series. Its ridiculous, those guys are super fucked.

for everyone: Real Football Factories

its all on youtube.

By: Cone

Cone — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:51:37 +0000

Fellas,

Thanks for the good reviews, we gotta get more people into the Champions League.
Stay posted for a review on the second legs of the other matches.
Mostafa – would love to see a premiership review
Trev – you’re a beautiful man

- Cone

By: TSmith

TSmith — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:33:02 +0000

Cone, you do the lord’s work spreading the beautiful game

Well done sir

By: mostafa

mostafa — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:40:40 +0000

I swear a Premier League review is coming. Just wait till I have a large assignment (thesis?) to procrastinate on and BAM.

By: Blake Murphy

Blake Murphy — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:10:36 +0000

Stafa, sounds like you weren’t joking about writing soccer articles a while back. Unfortunately, my stern no-chest-hair policy still applies for all writers, so get working on that.

Great debut Coner, though I was seriously tempted to repeatedly slip in Italian jokes when editing it.

By: mostafa

mostafa — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:02:16 +0000

Great summary of Tuesday’s action, no surprises with the results (except maybe Sevilla and Fenerbache), for me at least.

Bad news for Barca (good news for whoever’s unfortunate enough to draw against them in the final is that Lionel Messi (6 goals, 12 assists in 7 Champion’s League matches) is out for 6 weeks with a torn femoral bicep. Although its a huge loss to Barca, they still have a ton of different offensive weapons to fall back on and so are still front runners to take their 2nd Champion’s League title in 3 years.

I’m a Gooner’s fan so Tuesday really made me feel alot better about the squad after a hicup in their performance since Eduardo got his leg broke. Do I want an Arsenal-Barca final? Absolutely. It would be a rematch from the 2006 final when we lost our keeper (at the time one of the best in the world), Lens Lehman, to a questionable red card in the first 15 minutes of the match. Thierry Henry was also Gunner property back then as well and that adds another dimension to a match up of that calibre. We’ll see how the draw goes.

Oh and if anyone’s interested, Fenerbache do indeed have some unbelievably intense fans and there’s no way you can deny that they’d have some influence to the visiting team in the next round. Check that out… unbelievable atmosphere that I don’t think we’d see anywhere in North America. Don’t stop watching until they start throwing fireworks…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CFbcrjBXQCI