FOOTBALL!

[John Mc]

I'm stunned by the result, it's the kind of thing which would have happened under Souness. The whole club seems to be a total mess at the moment. Hopefully Rafa will stay, the ownership thing will get sorted out, we'll get 4th, find 100 million down the back of the Anfield Road to buy a couple of new strikers and then push on next season.

[discoRdance]

were Barnsley in action at the weekend, Tomi?

[Tommy BOO]

Hahah yes, they may have been... although I'm still expecting to wake up and realise that it was all just a dream.

Just the fact that Barnsley have beaten Liverpool and Chelsea is already quite amazing, it's difficult to believe that we're in the FA Cup semi-finals for the first time in 96 years and just one game away from the final...!
We've beaten two of the world's biggest teams, where each player could buy the whole Barnsley squad and their stadium with their weekly wages. That makes the victories even more sweet, and makes me believe that maybe there's still hope for football and that money hasn't completely ruined everything yet.
Perhaps Barnsley could join "the Big Four" now and make it "the Big Five"?

Supporting Barnsley may usually be a bit shite, we're dangerously close to the relegation zone in our league again, but it's the moments like these two FA Cup games, or the play-off final in 2006, that make it more than worthwhile. Football's great as long as your team is winning.

We're going to play Cardiff at Wembley next, and it's gonna hurt if we get knocked out now, as I'd love to see a happy ending for this fairytale. But it's already been so great, and despite of what happens next, this is something that I'll never forget.


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"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius" -BC

[Tommy BOO]

Oh, and the best thing is that Barnsley were (as anyone who watched the game on Saturday can surely confirm!) easily the better team too!

Cudicini was poor but so were Chelsea's tactics... what's the point of hoofing the ball upfield and trying to make desperate crosses all the time, when most of the Barnsley squad is defending inside the area?

Unlike in the Liverpool match, I wasn't really feeling nervous at all, not even in the end when Chelsea had a couple of half-chances... In fact it was all a bit surreal, Chelsea never even looked like scoring, and I would say that despite of Chelsea's possession, Barnsley were dominating the game.

And they can't use the "we were playing our reserve team" excuse either that some Liverpool fans tried to use. I doubt that Cech would have made such an error that led to Odejayi's winning goal, but then again Barnsley had three first team players out as well (just like against Liverpool!)

And the funny thing is that Chelsea can't use the "the FA Cup isn't important, we're only concentrating on the Champions League" excuse either...

http://users.utu.fi/tlvais/music/goal-bsly.mp3
"It's happening again!!"


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"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius" -BC

[discoRdance]

yeah, Chelsea didn't have Liverpool's valid reason of having a much bigger match, against Inter Milan, to play a few days after their game against Barnsley, or the alibi that goalkeeper Luke Steele had the game of his life (congratulations to him on winning the official 'player of the round' for that performance, by the way), and unlike Liverpool, they had time to equalise. Shame on Chelsea's players, well done to Barnsley on a thoroughly deserved win.

[Tommy Tynans Lovechild]

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normal service resumed, Tommy
http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N159197080315-1852.htm

[Tommy BOO]

Alright then comrades, so I went to see the FA Cup semi-final (Barnsley vs Cardiff) a week ago.
I can't believe it was actually snowing in London that day! It almost felt like... er... being in Finland. We (some London-based Barnsley fans and me) had booked an open top bus for the day so we were riding all around central London. It was freezing out there but we had a pretty good time anyway.



There must have been hundreds of people taking photos of us and beeping their car horns. The funniest thing (that none of us actually realised until much later, and we did find it quite hilarious then) was when our bus stopped next to a group of Olympic Torch protesters and we were all chanting "Red Army"... haha, I wonder what they were thinking!

Well, the game itself was a big disappointment. It took ages to get inside the new Wembley and I wasn't very impressed. I thought my seat would have been in a good area too (at least it should have been as I paid £45 for my ticket!) but I think the view and the atmosphere was much better at the Millennium Stadium when I went there in 2006.
The match was boring, I thought it would be the most exciting game that I'll ever see, but I was just bored for most of the time. Cardiff got a lucky goal on the 9th minute and after that neither team never looked like scoring again...

Apart from the football game on Sunday my little trip to London was excellent though. I guess I should have stayed for a bit longer though as Barnsley murdered Watford 3-0 on Wednesday and beat Preston 2-1 last weekend as well! Now it looks like we're almost safe from relegation, which is a big relief. And to make things better, Sheffield Wednesday could be relegated to League One.

I also bumped into Mr Carr the day after the semi-final on a busy street in Notting Hill, which was a bit odd! I'm not going to calculate the probability for that, as my head would probably explode, but it's really quite a coincidence!


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"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius" -BC

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[Tommy BOO]

I can't believe that none of the Liverpool people are posting here anymore, I was once considering changing the subject of this thread to "LIVERPOOL! (and barnsley!)"

Shame about the Champions League result on Tuesday, perhaps 1-1 was a deserved result for both teams, but what on earth was Riise doing in the end?! That was even better than Hyypia's own goal earlier this season (or last season?)

I thought that Hyypia has been pretty good recently so I was a bit disappointed to see him left out of the starting 11. I hope he'll play in the second leg next week, I still think they have a good chance but it's not gonna be easy. Chelsea vs ManUre would be the worst possible final that I can think of.

11 years today since Barnsley's promotion to the Premier League ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOykXPHlSvU

... and they're battling against relegation today.
Looking good so far though, 1-0 up against Charlton at the moment and the other results are going our way too.


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"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius" -BC

[Tommy Tynans Lovechild]

summed up new wemblee pretty spot on tommy boo. its shite and any stadium that looks like a call centre from outside should be knocked down.

red army
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Britain... It's not that Great!

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[John Mc]

"We will score. We will win and we will get to the final." - Rafa Benitez. I love that bearded Spaniard.

Tune of the day: She Loves You - The Beatles

[Tommy Tynans Lovechild]

is tim lovejoy the worst presenter of 606 ever? No thats obviously david mellor but, alarmingly, lovejoy is 'aving a good go at replacing him.

*turnsradiooff*
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Britain... It's not that Great!