martes, 6 de mayo de 2008
The Champions League final
In the Champions League Final, play Manchester United vs Chelsea.C.F on 21th May in Moscow (Rusia). 
miércoles, 23 de abril de 2008
F.C.Barcelona - Manchester United
Today play FC Barcelona and Manchester United at 20:45 in spain (at 19:45 in England)
Desperate Liverpool press the Champions League panic button
Liverpool 1 Chelsea 1John Arne Riise stood doubled over in his tiny corner of football hell. Agony engulfed him. One by one, team-mates offered a pat on the back, a handshake, or just a touch, some form of human contact to show they cared. None of it did much good. He walked, step by aching step, to the sanctuary of the dressing-room, discarding bits of the apparatus of the professional footballer as he went. A tie-up here, a shin pad there.
He clamped down on his water bottle and held it between his teeth, like a bit to stop him gnawing through his bottom lip. A camera zoomed in to show muscles around his eyes and mouth tensing as his mind worked overtime. He looked like Harold Shand being driven to his execution in the final scenes of The Long Good Friday. A replay of every mistake he had made to get there was showing on his face.
People at this club, of all clubs, know that football is not a matter of life and death, but a senseless own goal in front of the Kop in the last minute of a Champions League semi-final — against Chelsea, of all opponents — is as bleak as it gets without tragedy occurring.
Riise, a second-half substitute for the injured Fábio Aurélio, had no one near him when he stooped low in his penalty area and directed Salomon Kalou’s cross past José Manuel Reina. It was as irrational and panicked a decision as the one that resulted in Kolo Touré conceding a penalty here when Arsenal were all but through to the last four of the Champions League two weeks ago.
He clamped down on his water bottle and held it between his teeth, like a bit to stop him gnawing through his bottom lip. A camera zoomed in to show muscles around his eyes and mouth tensing as his mind worked overtime. He looked like Harold Shand being driven to his execution in the final scenes of The Long Good Friday. A replay of every mistake he had made to get there was showing on his face.
People at this club, of all clubs, know that football is not a matter of life and death, but a senseless own goal in front of the Kop in the last minute of a Champions League semi-final — against Chelsea, of all opponents — is as bleak as it gets without tragedy occurring.
Riise, a second-half substitute for the injured Fábio Aurélio, had no one near him when he stooped low in his penalty area and directed Salomon Kalou’s cross past José Manuel Reina. It was as irrational and panicked a decision as the one that resulted in Kolo Touré conceding a penalty here when Arsenal were all but through to the last four of the Champions League two weeks ago.
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