Semi-final draw (Friday 12pm)

[Alex]

Cheating in sport has happened and whether we like it or not, still does. Whether there is corruption or not in current games I don't know (obviously), but that said, there has been in the past, particularly from the Italians.

It's hard not to love football after this week though. The discussions threads i can take or leave.

Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in. - YouTube

Not disputing that. Just find it hard to belive that the Semi Final draw of the Champions league is compromised like that.

[McDermotX]

Hot balls, cold balls.

Whether or not it's believable, it's plausible and frankly easy to set the semis the way you'd like.

Don't matter......fancy any of those teams, though think I'd like Real over two legs in order to maximise their punishment.

[Zapater]

I don't think that Italy is any better or worse than anyone else, they just police it. I guarantee it happens elsewhere it just isn't monitored or kept under wraps. Without opening a huge can of worms, doping is exactly the same. It's not only athletics and cycling where athletes are doing it, they just checking it more stringently. From a medical perspective it's so easy to beat drug and urine tests and it surely happens in all sports across the board. At the end of the day, it's irrelevant so pointless discussing, likewise with 'rigged draws'. Wasted energy.

[Zapater]

Hot balls, cold balls.

Whether or not it's believable, it's plausible and frankly easy to set the semis the way you'd like.

Don't matter......fancy any of those teams, though think I'd like Real over two legs in order to maximise their punishment.

Alonso, Shenchenko and every other former footballer who they have picking balls are all in on it?

[Darkon]

Defo Madrid or Roma in the draw. Preferably Roma just so Real or Munich can battle it out, but I wouldn't mind Real's defence against us at all!

[Shaggy]

[ame]https://twitter.com/GuillemBalague/status/984213145353846784[/ame]

[labourRed]

I don't watch a lot of Roma, Real, or Bayern but in City we were a bad style for them both in defence and in the attack. They reverted to crossing as it wasn't working through the centre and we just gobbled them up and obviously at the other end they don't like runners.

I'm not sure how that translates to those other teams but our attack will be a handful for any of those teams.

[McDermotX]

Alonso, Shenchenko and every other former footballer who they have picking balls are all in on it?

Not saying it's happened, just saying it's a juncture in the competition that it's conceivably at it's easiest to manipulate and doesn't require more than a handful of willing participants.

[Skrtelmania]

It'll be huge if Ramos misses the 1st leg of the semis, they're nowhere near as good without him as shown last night.

[kubrickscube]

Think we’ll get Bayern so it’s a Klopp v old rivals thing.

[Liverpool]

Think I'd like to get real or bayern at home first leg, take a lead and be dangerous on the break away.

Roma see out the away leg and win at Anfield.

[Liverpool]

Our lack of games against bayern is a bit mad considering our histories

[labourRed]

https://twitter.com/GuillemBalague/s...13145353846784

He has to after Alonso got done with the same thing, he didn't watch it from the tunnel though (that's OK), he was on the sidelines and then celebrated on the pitch.

One game extension or there are questions of corruption to answer.

[baitman]

I don't think that Italy is any better or worse than anyone else, they just police it. I guarantee it happens elsewhere it just isn't monitored or kept under wraps. Without opening a huge can of worms, doping is exactly the same. It's not only athletics and cycling where athletes are doing it, they just checking it more stringently. From a medical perspective it's so easy to beat drug and urine tests and it surely happens in all sports across the board. At the end of the day, it's irrelevant so pointless discussing, likewise with 'rigged draws'. Wasted energy.

when was the last time this lad was piss tested. it'd be like a redbull nandrolone cocktail.

[Alex]

https://twitter.com/GuillemBalague/s...13145353846784

Ramos has spent so much of his career being banned, im surprised he doesnt know that rule inside out.