2013/2014 Champions League Thread

[devo22]

gotta love Mourinho and his whining.

José Mourinho has suggested he and his sides are victims of a conspiracy in Uefa competition after reacting furiously to Ramires' dismissal in the Super Cup final, claiming the Swedish official had "killed" the contest and that the red card tallied with his personal "history" with European football's governing body.
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"I have a fantastic experience of playing with 10 men in Uefa matches," he said. "I have a great experience. So I could react. I could coach my players in a way where, even with 10 men, even very, very tired, they could compete and find an opportunity to score a goal. In the end of the game, with everybody absolutely tired, they gave absolutely everything. I think my experience of playing with 10 men gave us a hand."

Asked whether he thought Ramires's dismissal was justified – the Brazilian will miss the Champions League group game against Basel on 18 September – the manager added: "People who earn their living in football always feel there's a very important rule: the passion for football.

"If you are in love with football, you don't kill a final with a second yellow card like this. You don't kill the final. There were many other yellow cards that the referee didn't give. There was a situation with Dante in front of me, with his first yellow card, and it was not given.

"A good English referee would have stopped the game and told Ramires: 'Look, you've not hurt anyone but you mustn't do that again.' Or tell the Bayern players: 'Don't dive. Don't try and provoke. Play a fair game.' If you ask me in pure terms, rule by rule, yes it was a second yellow card. But you don't do this every action in that way. But it's nothing new for me.

"I played two or three times with 10 men against Barça. I went to Inter and played a Champions League semi-final, one hour, with 10 men against Barcelona. I go to Real Madrid, I played again a Champions League semi-final with 10 men.

"Now I come back to Chelsea and played a Super Cup final with 10 men again, and go to analyse the actions and make your conclusions. I'm unlucky. Just that."

http://www.theguardian.com/football/...nho-conspiracy

lol

[Imported_Aussie]

Originally Posted by devo22

gotta love Mourinho and his whining.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/...nho-conspiracy

lol

That's classic Mourinho. now the focus is off Ramires on on him. He does this all the time to take the heat off his players, and they love him for it

[Bagor]

Yeah, that's it. Or maybe he just doesn't want to give any credit to Pep considering he was Chelsea's second choice after him and has an impressive record of having beaten him three times now in sixteen games.

[devo22]

Originally Posted by Imported_Aussie

That's classic Mourinho. now the focus is off Ramires on on him. He does this all the time to take the heat off his players, and they love him for it

I get that ... hey, Fergie has done it all the time too. But complaining about the ref and talking about a "UEFA conspiracy" are still two different things in my book.

[Locke]

Ramires really cant have too many complaints about being sent off. He really didnt give the ref much choice.

[d_phaneuf]

Originally Posted by devo22

I get that ... hey, Fergie has done it all the time too. But complaining about the ref and talking about a "UEFA conspiracy" are still two different things in my book.

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news...cle730825.html

[devo22]

Originally Posted by diane_phaneuf

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news...cle730825.html

I love how the article starts by claiming that Ferguson "pulled a Jose" ... that confirms my feelings against Mourinho, just not capable of dealing with the English media - even after all these years

[devo22]

Hallelujah, it's Shinji time tonight

[d_phaneuf]

lets go vicki plzen

impressive first half by united too

[devo22]

that United goal was one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen. What are those extra officials for? Should have never counted.

That being said, United had a fine first half and deserve to be up front.

[Locke]

United getting the Detroit Red Wings refereeing treatment.

"Need help scoring a goal? Just shove the goalkeeper out of the way."

And Bayern are putting on a clinic.

[Locke]

Goaltender interference doesnt get any more blatant than that without a T-shirt cannon and theme music.

[cam_wmh]

Rvp!

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by Locke

Goaltender interference doesnt get any more blatant than that without a T-shirt cannon and theme music.

that goal was also offside.

You can't be 'passively' offside when you're a foot away from the keeper.

[d_phaneuf]

CR7 and Welsh Jesus are unstoppable

[devo22]

wondered why Valencia kept kissing his arm after scoring ... turns out he got a tattoo in memory of his late friend Cristian Benitez. Found this kind of neat.

Spoiler!

also, Fergie seemed to have enjoyed himself asleep or texting advice to Moyes?

[M*A*S*H 4077]

Everything Napoli and Dortmund have done so far has been done at 100 MPH. They're flying out there. The effort hasn't accomplished too much on either side but Napoli has had a couple shots

[M*A*S*H 4077]

Lewandowski should have had that one

[M*A*S*H 4077]

1-0 Napoli

[M*A*S*H 4077]

I turn away for a minute and Klopp gets sent to the stands. That's crazy