Semi-Final

May 6th, 2008

The 2007/8 Champions League. In Numbers.

By: Rob | Comments 2 Comments

This season’s Champions League is quickly drawing to a close. Just two teams remain, Chelsea and Manchester United. So while the CL Offisde team prepares its teams of the tournament, and before we hand over to you to pick your team of the tournament (all will be revealed in due course) here’s a blitz through […]



April 30th, 2008

The Other Photo Of The Day: Who’s a Diver?

By: Rob | Comments 4 Comments

After Rafa Benitez tried to influence the ref earlier in the week by saying us that Drogba was ‘theatrical’ (well, duh) the Ivory Coast hitman reacted in exactly the right way, not only putting in a fantastic performance, but paying respect to another striker often accused of diving - Jurgan […]

April 30th, 2008

Chelsea Vs Liverpool Preview - The Battles That Will Be Key.

By: Rob | Comments 3 Comments

Its time to step up and be counted. Can Liverpool break that ‘Not Scoring At The Bridge’ duck? Will Chelsea finally lose at home? More importantly, will the match be any good? Well Hopefully It will be some kind of entertainment, even though the track record speaks for itself. I have the expected starting XI’s […]

April 30th, 2008

Chelsea. Liverpool. Liveblog.

By: Rob | Comments No Comments

Games between Chelsea and Liverpool are traditionally not as interesting as most semi-finals (Sheva, left, looks like he’s sleeping to avoid it) So if it isn’t amazing, you have a couple of things to do. Drink yourself to death, and follow Daryl’s liveblog and argue in the comments section about whether Shevchenko should be in […]

April 30th, 2008

The Man Barca Missed The Most: R10

By: Rob | Comments 5 Comments

So after 180 minutes of football, it is Manchester United who will play in Moscow in two weeks. The teams - to my surprise, I told you there would be goals - were seperated by just one goal (what a goal by the way). Barca lacked idea’s going forward, Messi became predictable, Henry was too […]



April 29th, 2008

Predictions: No numbers just scorelines

By: Adam | Comments 2 Comments

Aha…so yet again we fall into the mired trap of predictions. Last time none of us got everything right, still we want try our mettle once again. As usual its joint venture post by every CL blogger. So lets see how well we predict this time. By the way before submitting your predictions, do read […]

April 29th, 2008

How To Stop Messi, Eto’o, Rooney and Ronaldo.

By: Rob | Comments No Comments

Four Fantastic players on thier day and players whom the opposition will worry about. In fact I imagine if you are a defender for either Barcelona or Manchester United, you would be getting pretty damn worried right about now. With only hours to go to kick off, here is my guide for the defenders involved […]

April 28th, 2008

What would make the CL Semifinal even more exciting? Liveblog!

By: Rob | Comments No Comments

I’m fired up for it. You are fired up for it. Ryan Giggs is fired up for it. But what could make this potential game of the tournament even better? Well if you could talk to your favourite offsiders during the game. With Daryl’s Liveblog, you can.
Its sort of like going to the pub to […]

April 28th, 2008

Manchester United Vs Barcelona Preview. There Will Be Goals.

By: Rob | Comments 6 Comments

The first leg threatened to be more entertaining that it ever was, but as I said in the preview to the last game, the second leg was always, always gonna be the biggie. Excited? You damn well should be. Some of the best players in the world will not only be out on the pitch, […]

April 27th, 2008

The Champions League Semi-Final Drinking Games

By: Rob | Comments 11 Comments

So we are just a couple of days away from the mammoth second legs in the Champions League semi-finals. To make them even more fun, I’ve constructed drinking games for either night - though you would be pretty unwise to try both I fear you may need it on Wednesday. Anyway, here are the rules […]






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