THE EUROPEAN CUP FINAL!!!
I don't care that they call it the Champions League Final now. It will always be the European Cup Final to me.
May the best team win.(as long as they're in red shirts!!)
I know Bob is traveling and Steve is delaying. I hope for some company.
COME ON YOU REDS!!!
posted by United We Stand @ 11:44 AM
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Welcome Everyone!
I am all set for the game. The weather outside looks stormy in Scotia. WE BETTER NOT LOSE POWER!!!
YIKES!!
1745: Let me entertain you with my first stat of the day - and it's a good omen for Chelsea. In the previous two same-country Champions League finals, the team finishing lower in their domestic league has prevailed. AC Milan (v Juventus) in 2003 and Real Madrid (v Valencia) in 2000.
The teams are in.
MANCHESTER UNITED
Van Der Saar
Brown
Ferdinand
Vidic
Evra
Carrick
Hargreaves
Scholes
Ronaldo
Rooney
Tevez
Chelsea
Cech
Essien
Terry
Carvalho
A. Cole
Makelele
Ballack
Malouda
J. Cole
Drogba
The Subs
GOOD GUYS
Kuszczak, Anderson, Giggs, Nani, O'Shea, Fletcher and Silvestre
BAD GUYS
Cudicini, Shevchenko, Mikel, Kalou, Alex, Belletti and Anelka
I am not going to comment much if no one else is around but I will comment for all the goals...all for United of course!!
Park isn't even on the bench. I thought he had a chance to start
With all the talk of all the foreigners in the Premiership, the all English Final has 10 of the 20 outfield players are English.
United have Rio, Brown, Carrick, Hargreaves, Scholes and Hargreaves
Chelsea have Terry, Cashley, Lamps and J. Cole
ESPN2 have a nice pre-game show.
About time they don't get there for just the kick off like they did in the World Cup. I hope they do the same for the Euros
Stupid idiots!
All the guys on the panel have picked Chelski!!! BE PREPARED TO EAT CROW GENTLEMEN
The European Cup has entered the arena
Here come the teams!!!
My picture has just changed to HD
RED balloons are being released. RED balloons
United fans spell out BELIEVE in the stands with a picture of the Cup as well.
50 years post Munich
40 years post Wembley
COME ON YOU REDS!!!!
SAF wearing a gray suit.
Same as '99
We're off
one minute and forty seconds until Ron is hacked down
Ten minutes gone and not a shot on goal
Scholes and Makelele both go in the book.
Scholes off with a bloody nose
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RONALDO!!!!!!!
Great pass by Scholes, great cross by Brown, great header by Ronaldo.
Cech didn't move
Rio tries his luck against VDS!!!!
UNITED GO CLOSE TWICE!!!!
Great saves
Tevez and Carrick stopped by Cech
C'mon on you Reds!! . . . . Dave, I need more commentary if you expect me to hang around!
Conference call coming up at 3:30 pm . . . I'll cech back in after that . .. get it? . . . Cech Back In???
Tevez should have buried that one!!
Free kick chance for Chelski. Rio gets carded. He learned those dirty moves at Upton Park or Elland Road.
Bollocks and Drogs not figting about it.
HIT ROW Z!!
Bollocks hits it over
Good to hear from you John
BLOODY HELL!!!
A LUCKY DEFLECTED PASS
and Lamps scores!
BUGGER BUGGER
It was all United until that.
Half time
What a shame!!!
Well, we are going in the same direction we did in '99 when we won it
SAF has a word with the ref
The second half is on
Slow start to the second half
Both #10s have done nothing
Cole and Roon have been invisible
It's now midnight in Moscow
Bollocks has a crack
Hits it wide
Phew
Makelele should be off the pitch.
He just bloodied his second nose of the day.
This time Hargreaves
Chelsea are starting to dominating at the hour mark
Tevez has slipped over again.
Change the boots man
Not happy right now.
Chelsea are starting to turn the screw. They are getting some chances.
Curse that lucky goal
Rio and Lamps are down with cramp.
It's only 68 minutes!!
Corner to United
Makelele is down for some reason
Tevez brought him down.
Well done boy, he could be a wrestler
Rio still isn't right
15 minutes to go.
UNITED TIME!!!
Still no subs used by either team.
Is Giggs going to beat SBC's record?
GORDON BENNETT!!!
Drogs hits the post
Rio slips but United survive
United haven't done anything in this half
Tevez has a shot, not too close
Giggs is going to come on for...?
My guess is Tevez
Into the last five minutes.
Giggs is coming on for Scholes.
Congragulations Ryan
Into two minutes of added time
JUST LIKE '99 please
Well maybe not. That is it.
Full time
Extra time... well same as '68 then please
2138: Fergie's straight in among his players, giving instructions to Ryan Giggs and Rio Ferdinand. Avram Grant, reports BBC 5 Live's Mark Saggers, is "just wandering about, as he does."
We're off
Same direction as the first half
Rooney, please get your finger out
United almost go through the middle
Kalou on for Malouda
Lamps hit the crossbar.
Same as '99, Bayern hit the woodwork twice.
2146: "There's been some doubt about Cristiano Ronaldo in the big games. He's delivered tonight. No question."
BBC Radio 5 Live summariser Graham Taylor
Russian soldiers are putting United shirts. Great sight!!
Rooney has been absolutely pathetic.
I am surprised he hasn't lost his head like he normally does
Chelsea should have gotten a shot on goal but get a corner but it comes to nothing.
J Cole is off for Anelka
Two of the ten Englishmen have been replaced
Giggs should have scored!
Blocked by Terry
Terry saved it with his head
Rooney is coming off for Nani
Another Englishman off
Tevez gets a shot easily saved.
United are at least getting some chances
two minutes of added time in the first half of extra time. I didn't know there was time added on!
Half time
10 minutes to pens
Free kick chance for Drogs
Wide
Drogba is sent off for a slap around the face
Terry intimidating Tevez, Drogs goes off trying to get Vidic
Everything is exploding here
Who knows how much time is left
It is bucketing down.
Manchester weather!!!
Please don't make this push Chels
2210: RED CARD Chelsea
What the blazes? A flashpoint develops from what seems to be nothing at all as Carlos Tevez argues with a couple of Chelsea players. Gradually, more and more players get involved and - right in front of the ref - Didier Drogba slaps Nemanja Vidic. The ref gives him a straight red and was that the last we'll see of Drogba in a Chelsea shirt?
One minute left plus who knows
Two minutes of added time
More head injuries.
Into the third minute of added time
Belletti is on for Pens
Anderson on for Brown
THAT IS IT!!!
Bugger!!
Penalties
I can't stand this!!
The kicks will be taken toward the United end
Tevez first...one nil
Bollocks...1-1
Carrick...2-1
Belletti...2-2
Ronaldo...saved
Lampard...2-3
Hargreaves...3-3
Cashley...3-4 just
Nani must score...he does
Terry to win the Cup...MISSED!!!!
Anderson...5-4
Kalou must score...he does
Giggs...6-5
Anelka...HE MISSES!!!!!!!!!
UNITED ARE CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE!!!!!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sir Bobby getting soaked hugging all the boys!!
United are making a guard of honor for Chelsea to go get their medals
United clapping the Chelsea boys
Nice touch
Terry still crying. He slipped on his penalty
United clapping Chelsea as they come down..
NOW IT IS UNITED'S TURN!!
Here comes THE CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE!!
Sir Bobby Charlton leading the way
Rio and Ryan lift the trophy!!!!
My coverage is about to end. No lap honor this time.
Bugger
Great evening.
Sorry Tony
Cheers lads
Wow! It was brilliant reading your commentary, Dave. I had to leave the bar mid-way through the extra time so I missed the Drogs flare-up and the penalties. It confirms what I've always said about pens. You pick solid, boring players to take pens, not your fancy Dan luxury players (Ronaldo) and certainly not your Braveheart center backs (Terry).
I'm really happy for you, mate. Now I need a positive result on Sunday.
Cheers!
Cheer mate, I am just as much behind your lot for Sunday.
Where did you read my comments?
In the airport - they had wireless access there.
Thanks, too, for the graphic of Comrade Ulyanov - the original Red!
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