I'm so surprised about Barcelona going through.

[Sir C]

Number of German/Spanish finals in past 14 years? Zero (though there have been 2 all-Spanish and 1 all-German ones)

Both 2001 and 2002 were German/Spanish finals though (Bayern/Valencia, Real/Leverkusen). There followed 6 finals where only one team from either country featured - Barcelona in 2006

Exactly. The spirit of Franco and Hitler lives on through the Champions League

My head hurts.

[Burney]

Not. Clearly UEFA weren't going to allow us and PSG to knock out their favourite drugged up teams.

We never stood a hope. The whole game is corrupt.

How many 'extraordinary' games involving Barcelona can there be where they magically emerge victorious before people smell a rat?

[Pat Vegas]

How many 'extraordinary' games involving Barcelona can there be where they magically emerge victorious before people smell a rat?

Maybe they just are really good.

[Burney]

Maybe they just are really good.

Bóllocks. 'Good' is one thing. Repeatedly lucky is another.

[World's End Stella]

Maybe they just are really good.

Or, if you believe Neg, it's the drugs.

When they play well, it's because of the drugs. When they play badly, it's because they're coming down off the drugs.

Either way, the team with arguably the most talented players of any club in the world and also arguably the greatest player that has ever played the game, only win things because of the drugs.

No wonder Belgium is so f*cked.

[SWv2]

Bóllocks. 'Good' is one thing. Repeatedly lucky is another.

Remind me of the previous incidents?

[Sir C]

Bóllocks. 'Good' is one thing. Repeatedly lucky is another.

Don't forget the drugs. They give them an edge and the bent referees do the rest.

[Pat Vegas]

Or, if you believe Neg, it's the drugs.

When they play well, it's because of the drugs. When they play badly, it's because they're coming down off the drugs.

Either way, the team with arguably the most talented players of any club in the world and also arguably the greatest player that has ever played the game, only win things because of the drugs.

No wonder Belgium is so f*cked.

but I do wonder if say Messi suddenly joined Arsenal he'd start off amazing and slowly become ****.

[Burney]

Or, if you believe Neg, it's the drugs.

When they play well, it's because of the drugs. When they play badly, it's because they're coming down off the drugs.

Either way, the team with arguably the most talented players of any club in the world and also arguably the greatest player that has ever played the game, only win things because of the drugs.

No wonder Belgium is so f*cked.

Right. So you'll happily believe the top performers in other sports are drugged to the eyeballs, but reject the possibility in the case of football?
You're aware how silly that is, right? Particularly given the fact that Spain has been at the heart of much of the most suspicious activity in this area, with blood samples mysteriously disappearing, etc, etc, etc.

[SWv2]

Or, if you believe Neg, it's the drugs.

When they play well, it's because of the drugs. When they play badly, it's because they're coming down off the drugs.

Either way, the team with arguably the most talented players of any club in the world and also arguably the greatest player that has ever played the game, only win things because of the drugs.

No wonder Belgium is so f*cked.

I like Neg, he’s a very decent chap, and I say that in full acknowledgement of the fact that I have stood outside a pub with him while he has drink half pints!

However on the whole drugs thing he is now obsessed to the point of insanity, bit like you and Ramsey. Sorry old boy.

He has spent too much time within a cycling environment where every one of them is drugged up. Yes there probably is drugs in football, be naïve to expect not, but to simply dismiss the efforts of certain teams on an almost weekly basis at this stage on the basis of drugs and blood transfusions presumably before and then immediately after games is a nonsense.

Spurs, drugs. Liverpool, drugs. Bayern, drugs. Barcelona, drugs.

Perhaps we should drug.

I assume Brian Talbot drugged back in the day given the number of games he played and the amount of running around he did. See, even then we were visionary.