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https://www.est1892.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=4002484#post4002484
Thanjk you.
Paul.S
I could not dig, I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
Great night although my pot herbs are shot,I heard from Will and he's just happy we won so it's all good.
Ok then, but just for tonight
I could not dig, I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
Manager Jose Mourinho felt Chelsea did not deserve their penalty shoot-out defeat against Liverpool in the Champions League semi-final.
The Londoners were beaten 4-1 on spot-kicks after Liverpool cancelled out Chelsea's 1-0 first-leg lead.
"It is a moment when everybody has to be strong," he said. "My players have a lot of reasons to be proud.
"We were the best team today, even against a team only playing for the Champions League."
He added: "In extra-time we were the only team who tried to win, but football is like that and the penalty shoot-out is part of the game.
"My players did a great run in the Champions League."
Mourinho also denied that his pre-match spat with Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez helped inspire Liverpool to victory.
He added: "I respected Liverpool always in my words. I don't need to say more and today I think the best team was Chelsea."
Is he for real?????? :whatever: :whatever: :whatever:
When you feel like you're done, you are not alone........
The acoustics at Anfield are so remarkable that when the ground was a quarter-full, as Chelsea came out to warm up, the home singing was deafening. So once the game had started it must have been nigh impossible for players to communicate on the pitch.
"I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence."
What a ****ing joke this place is turning out to be - AA says jump, the Mods say "How high?"
:whatever:
Good luck.
jesus mate.
for what its worth im siding with Jamo on this one. Im a superstitious *******..and this is bad karma right here in this thread....it should not be glorified.
The only reason we won tonight was due to this thread being un-stickied. You know its true
On a side note. Since this is after the game.
**** you Mourinho...your a ****, a smug ****...and i truely hate you. Just the look on your face pisses me off. Your a deplorable human being. Whinge, whinge ****ing whinge.......thats all you can do.
"When a man insults my country I insult him, by taking his woman" Tony Yeboah
"looking through your posts since 2007 and what you have consistently written about my football team I have come to the conclusion that if you had 1 more brain cell you would be a plant .. your father was a hamster and your mother smells of elder berries, I fart in your general direction ..." Nicey
Jose Mourinho was stripped of his self-appointed status as the special one and became the deluded one as Liverpool visited another Champions League nightmare upon Chelsea.
Mourinho's disappointment was understandable, as he had to swallow a second semi-final defeat in front of an Anfield gallery that has taken particular exception to his unique, outspoken personality.
But it took all of Mourinho's brass neck and some very thick blue-tinted spectacles to sit and declare - without any sign of his tongue drilling a hole in his cheek - that the best team lost and that Chelsea were truly deserving of a place in the Athens final.
Nonsense. Every word of it.
If Mourinho truly believed Chelsea were the stronger team, the team pressing inexorably for victory, the team throwing men forward at set pieces to secure the goal that would have made a final place certain, he kids no-one but himself.
Mourinho's self-belief is iron-clad, but in this instance he simply used it as a shield against what was a grim reality for Chelsea.
"Chelsea tried to win it in 90 minutes. Chelsea tried to win it in extra time. The best team was the team in blue," he said.
And on it went in an assessment that was nothing short of bemusing.
Liverpool were the side that deserved the win, even it came in the awful lottery of penalties.
Rafael Benitez's side showed the greater verve and variety - just look at the work-sheet of the two goalkeepers if you want proof.
Pepe Reina, before his penalty heroics, made a fine save from Didier Drogba and endured the odd skirmish around the six-yard area.
Chelsea counterpart Petr Cech was beaten by Daniel Agger's first-half strike, saved brilliantly from Peter Crouch and watched Dirk Kuyt's header hit a post.
Dutch striker Kuyt also saw a goal ruled out by a marginal offside and brought a fine save from Cech in the final seconds after he was played in by Robbie Fowler.
Chelsea, in the real world away from the place Mourinho appeared to be occupying, were brave, resilient, and only the hardest heart would not feel a tinge of sympathy for men like John Terry and Claude Makelele.
But they were pedestrian, unambitious, and seemed to have a simple plan A aimed at securing a goalless draw.
Once that went west, plan B was a horribly basic approach of hoofing the ball in the general direction of Didier Drogba and crossing fingers that these scraps would lead to a feast.
It did not work and never looked like working, hence general astonishment at Mourinho's swiftly drawn up attempt to re-write history.
Chelsea ultimately paid the price for failing to kill Liverpool off in the first match at Stamford Bridge, a game Mourinho was well within his rights to say his team dominated.
This game was Liverpool's and Benitez's. They will not care one jot for the somewhat bizarre analysis offered up by Mourinho.
Liverpool, fuelled by another firecracker of an Anfield atmosphere, deserved their place in the final.
And after the miracle of Istanbul in 2005, who would bet against Benitez making it a remarkable two Champions League wins in three seasons at Liverpool?
We managed to rectify it, though, because it now says, "Cook" where it once said "Cock", and "Pass" where it once said "Piss", so it’s slightly less rude.
Chelsea, in the real world away from the place Mourinho appeared to be occupying, were brave, resilient, and only the hardest heart would not feel a tinge of sympathy for men like John Terry and Claude Makelele.
I officially own the hardest heart.
"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
-- William Blake
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