CL

Nothing could hurt more than losing like we did in Moscow so if we should lose in Munich then I´ll be much more able to deal with it.

comment by Purp (U5966)
posted 22 minutes ago

i always believe in "fronting it" if we lose, not so much as being arrogant more defiant if anything.
So I will not be hiding away should Munich win on Sat. I will take whatever abuse is going and reply in my usual partizan manner

-------------------------------------------------------

Same as and I think that is exactly what Bates meant, at least that is how I have always seen it.

JF

Yeah maybe he did...but as I said - he's a generally unpleasant disagreeable curmugeon at best

Re Saturday, i'
m going to be utterly gutted if we lose, but still nothing has come near the 2008 defeat...that pained me then & it pains me now

I must've drunk about 20 bottles of beer watching that - it never touched me

I must've drunk about 20 bottles of beer watching that - it never touched me

-------------------------------------------------

I bet it didn´t. Suprised you didn´t keel over with alchohol poisoning.

I was just too bereft with rage & pain for it to have any effect

Sherriff, I was in Moscow, I had drunk loads of beer and vodka, all brewed on the site of the pub we were drinking in, that just happened to be the hoe of the Moscow blues. I was gutted we lost but not devastated, even though we lost I would rate it right up there as one of the most amazing experiences you can have at a football match, to be at the CL final that everyone wants to be at and is watched around the globe is something that can only be bettered by actually winning it.

On Saturday I have a ticket and will be there again and hope to go one better.

Day trip to Moscow cost me about 8 to 900 pounds. I reckon my threeday trip to Munich will total £700 tops (both including beer money).

JF

I hope it's money well spent...however it goes, I'm sure it will be..
Had 21st birthday at Munich beer festrival (lucky - happened to be on football trip) great place

I know, I have been there a few times. Went to the Chelsea game when we lost but we had already won the group, that was at their old Olympic stadium, great trip. We said it would be great to go back and play them in their new stadium which was opening the following season, never thought we would have to wait this long or that it would be a final, funny old game ain't it.

Oh aye...It's that..

Song 17

A lot of it depends on whether there has been opposition fans arrogantly predicting our downfall. Obviously as an Arsenal fan, I recognise that you would prefer that we are not successful on Saturday, as you would like to be the first London team, that wins the Champions League and there's nothing wrong with that. The Arsenal fans on 606 have by and large been quite gracious about our run to the final, so if we were fortunate enough to win it, I would like to think that Chelsea fans will not indulge in gratuitous gloating on the Arsenal board, I know I won't.

However the other lot in North London have given it such a large and bitter one, with every round that we got through, that if we do it (which let's face it is not going to be easy) they will have earned all the stick that they will inevitably get.

Basically it's a case of if you don't want to receive it back then don't dish it out in the first place