Dundee Utd vs Barcelona

[James]

Thursday evening at 2000, I have my ticket and I can't wait!

Bob you going to this? Am thinking about going along to see them train tomorrow morning, I might even chib Eto about not moving to us

[Jayesh87]

Will Henry play? or is he injured

Watching the Arsenal game atm, have to say they don't look that impressive and that new striker guy is a diving ****!

[James]

Henry is fit but not sure if he will play - the contract for the game says that Ronnie, Eto, Deco, Messi etc have to play for at least 20 minutes.

I'll take some pics tomorrow and post them for you all - be warned though all the action may centre around the United end and I may not get many pics of the Barca keeper!

[cobain]

My prediction for the game:

postponed for 2 weeks

[thesilverfoxlfc]

This is on Setanta....

....just watch Arsenal lose to Salzburg they were poor

[Jayesh87]

This is on Setanta....

....just watch Arsenal lose to Salzburg they were poor

Hope we don't get them in the CL Qualifier they look half decent and have a **** pitch!

[thesilverfoxlfc]

Hope we don't get them in the CL Qualifier they look half decent and have a **** pitch!

Yeah looked alright, Arsenal were poor though

[James]

My prediction for the game:

postponed for 2 weeks

The weather has been great up here today.

[James]

This is on Setanta....

....just watch Arsenal lose to Salzburg they were poor

Damn forgot about that one.

[red g]

and port vale beat man u 3-2

[Jayesh87]

and port vale beat man u 3-2

dont the mancs have a game in hong kong on Friday

[Chris]

dont the mancs have a game in hong kong on Friday

It was like Peterboro v us. The Man Utd XI

[James]

Well just popped over to St. Andrews to watch Barca train.

Ronaldinho and Henry were getting along fantastically and they linked up very well on several occasions. Et'o looked in good shape but almost as if his heart wasn't quite in it. Deco looked really sharp and just ran and ran all day.

Was interesting to see how they trained, 10 minutes of stretching followed by two laps, then soem more stretching.

After that straight into ball work, they split into 3 groups with all the attacking talent in one. They did the usual keep ball while 1 person tries to stop them.

After about 20 minutes of this they went into a mini practice match where the objective was merely to keep the ball - again it was interesting to see that Henry was always paired up with Ronaldinho.

Once they had done this for about 30 minutes they went into practice attacks on the goal with 3 players attacking and only 1 defending along with the keeper- at this point Rijkaard stood directly behind the goal watching every wave.

He then got severely pissed off that every ball that was knocked out the training ground they were losing. Finally a little kid with a Gerrard top on grabbed one and did a runner with 2 Barca coaches chasing him, after the crowd kept blocking the coaches and allowing the kid to escape Rijkaard went in the huff and moved the whole team to the other side of the ground!

Was still cool and Ronaldinho's skills on the training ground just have to be seen to be believed.

Will post pics in a little while.

[Shaggy]

Well just popped over to St. Andrews to watch Barca train.

Ronaldinho and Henry were getting along fantastically and they linked up very well on several occasions. Et'o looked in good shape but almost as if his heart wasn't quite in it. Deco looked really sharp and just ran and ran all day.

Was interesting to see how they trained, 10 minutes of stretching followed by two laps, then soem more stretching.

After that straight into ball work, they split into 3 groups with all the attacking talent in one. They did the usual keep ball while 1 person tries to stop them.

After about 20 minutes of this they went into a mini practice match where the objective was merely to keep the ball - again it was interesting to see that Henry was always paired up with Ronaldinho.

Once they had done this for about 30 minutes they went into practice attacks on the goal with 3 players attacking and only 1 defending along with the keeper- at this point Rijkaard stood directly behind the goal watching every wave.

He then got severely pissed off that every ball that was knocked out the training ground they were losing. Finally a little kid with a Gerrard top on grabbed one and did a runner with 2 Barca coaches chasing him, after the crowd kept blocking the coaches and allowing the kid to escape Rijkaard went in the huff and moved the whole team to the other side of the ground!

Was still cool and Ronaldinho's skills on the training ground just have to be seen to be believed.

Will post pics in a little while.

[James]

Here's a couple of the many pics I took, including Ronaldhino doing his 'Hello Sailor' impression.