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Well i'm in the office and Liverpool are still in the Champions league, despite Mrs Binners plotting our doom 🙂
Another day begins .... Can't wait for the insanity 🙂
I can’t believe how bad Citeh were.... rabbits in headlights stuff. Good to see our DNA is still true to form and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is still the MO.
When was victory in their jaws?
Poor? Thought they played well first half and creating a lot more than Liverpool through the match. Looked like they tired a lot and score would have been different if the worked out how not to be offside
score would have been different if the worked out how not to be offside
Yes, 2-2 🙂
being caught twice on a short corner routine is rubbish, for a start.
Rockape 63..being relatively new to this thread I hadn’t realised you supported Arsenal ..
Are you ready for a hiding at the weekend ?
Actually Hodgy......not sure what I was thinking of suggesting 2-2 at the weekend, its got 0-0 written all over it!
Rockape ...two months ago I would have settled for a point from this fixture ..but if we are to have any chance of catching Burnley ( given that 7th place probably gets you there this season) for that last European spot we need all 3 pts 😎😁.
( He said very much with his tongue rolled up twice inside his cheek !).
2-0 Toon ...
Just about to say no miracles tonight and Juve score in the second minute!
Your fave commentator again Binners! Steve (iz it because I iz a scouser) mac.
Also think Bale may have embraced the local culture a bit too much, as he’s wearing gloves....in Madrid! 😀
Game on now!
Yes! Mon Juve!
What a game, Juve playing well and Ronnie making desperate attempts to win a pen!
I said after the Liv-Man City first leg - doesn't matter who you are, if you concede early that two goal lead is very vulnerable, when you start thinking 'surely we can't blow this, can we?' Then the second goes in and then you're one shot, one deflection, one missed tackle......
Juve level now.
wtf!
3-3, who would have thunk it? Not Mrs Binners I’ll wager!
Could be a very open Semi draw from here...
Ronaldo will win it, no doubt.
Sorry guys. Damn me.
Bonkers lol. There's no words!
god i love football.
top off celebration was a dead cert!
Football...bloody hell. That was probably the best set of QF we have had in a long long time. Say what you like about Ronaldo but that penalty was perfect, you could have had buffon in net as well and they still wouldnt have saved it. Lets hope the semi finals are just as good.
Champions League
Liverpool v Roma
Bayern Munich v Real Madrid
Europa
Arsenal v Atletico Madrid
Red Bull Salzburg v Marseille.
Arsenal v Atletico Madrid
hmmm....not what we wanted, but hey we had to meet them sometime I imagine! Shame we can't use our new striker .....and we've got 180mins potentially against that (see you next Tuesday) Diego Costa! 🙁
Liverpool v Roma
Liverpool are 2/1 to win the cup and Roma 8/1 which tells you what the bookies think! Great chance now for Liverpool go all the way and win it!
I think Roma suits Liverpool slightly better than the others. Roma are closer to a Premier League style of play really and with luck, hoofing the ball to Dzeko will be less effective against Liverpool with VVD and Lovren. (He says optimistically).
Big plan is like with the City game really. Go at the hard and fast and try to take a 2-0/3-0 victory away from Anfield into the 2nd leg in Rome. Can they... well.... Yes, no reason why not !
After the QFs, I dunno, anything could happen.
Its anybody's really, isn't it?
The polar opposite of the Premiership.
Should be some belting games though. 'Cagey' is isn't really a word you'd associate with any of them
Its anybody’s really, isn’t it?
The polar opposite of the Premiership.
Insightful.. It is the nature of a cup competition that one 😉
Liverpool have a great chance, so do Madrid which might make it closer.
Where did you end up watching the match Mike? Did you pop to the White Lion?
Late home in the end so managed to watch/listen at home. Will be out somewhere for the Newcastle game Sunday then back in before Man U get shocked by a liberated and relegated WBA playing purely for their resale value Sunday afternoon 🙂
Here is a real jumpers for goalposts story sent to me a few minutes ago from my oldest mountain bike buddy Nick McKeown..
As a prefix to this story in the 70's when Supermac was strutting his stuff for Newcastle ..Nick was probably the hottest schoolboy talent in the entire North East ..every club in the country was watching him and our local evening newspaper The Evening Chronicle did a like for like feature on his goalscoring exploits v the other Supermac ..the pressure got to Nick and in the end he said **** it and turned his back on football completely ..with no regrets.
Fast forward to the present day and it would appear that his talent has transferred itself to his son Corey ..who has had scouts buzzing around him for years ..although Nick has protected him somewhat ..insisting that he plays for " fun " ..and with freedom .
This though has given me a tingle down my spine and I'm so pleased for them both ...
Hi Neil, amazing day watching Corey play for his boys club team Newcastle east end yesterday. They played against MK dons in London yesterday in the semi final of The national cup. The biggest junior cup in the country which started off with 140 of the strongest u16 teams in the hat. They had already beaten Rochdale academy, Solihull, Rushall Athletic and Coventry city on the way. 2-0 down with 20 mins to go. Pulled it back to 2-2 then Corey scored the winner in the last 5. Unbelievable emotion when he scored. The goal celebrations were crazy. Probably the nearest I will get to knowing how it felt being at the hillborough cup semi in 74. Very very proud dad indeed!!!!!
Well looks like Newcastle have come out fighting, keeping the tempo up so we will see how both teams tire as the game goes on.
Game on!! Easy to see with this and the last few games why Arsenal are where they are, hard to tell how they are in the Europa Semi's though
Burnley only two points behind them too 🙂
Evenly matched first half ..
Well taken goal by Perez ..Yedlin scares me every time he has to defend ..an upgrade needed for next season .
Shelvey has played some lovely passes..but Gayle looks like he had a late night .
It would be good to see Slimani given a full half ..but it's probably going to be 20 mins which is Rafa' s usual default time ..
Wenger obviously isn’t taking it seriously, as he’s picked Iwobi!
and Chambers!
I obviously don't know how well he has played up to this point in the season but Iwobi has been one of your better players today ..
I just want to press fast forward to full time now.
Slimani ..what a difference !
Sign him up Rafa ..
In Rafa we trust ..but Joselu ?
Good to see Perez looking like he has given everything out there, that's how I remember him playing.lets see what Jo's can miss
Arsenal 72% of possession, 2-1 down...
Well done Magpies.....another poor team selection from Wenger, which hopefully will help seal his doom at the end of the season. Every cloud and all that!
I obviously don’t know how well he has played up to this point in the season but Iwobi has been one of your better players today
says it all!
What a game, so easy to take the ball of Arsenal there. Thoroughly deserved for the work rate in there, 41pts, time to sell up Ashley we are safe and need to get some new faces in and the good ones secured.
Cheers Rockape ..its about time !
Well another season in the Prem guaranteed ( if it wasn't already)
Now ..if Fat Mike would just sell up it will have been a good season!