FA Cup Final 2009, Chelsea vs Everton
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Affects Shatner's Basoon
Webb was a fucking joke in this match. embarassing after Chelsea moaned about the ref in the CL vs us...Webb was no better today.
And Hiddink...what else can you say about the guy - his club management now includes an FA Cup. Sublime manager who even though he's managing utter cunts I still respect and admire.
And Hiddink...what else can you say about the guy - his club management now includes an FA Cup. Sublime manager who even though he's managing utter cunts I still respect and admire.
Spot on.
Hiddink, Fergie or Capello?
TrippyLondoner
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LOL
Yep, was a huge achievement to get to the final via Man U, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Villa, and the mighty Macclesfield, was sad to see us lose tonight but the scoreline doesn't feel like a robbery.
I'd never noticed how much Hiddink looks - and gestures - like Yeltsin before tonight..
stupid kid
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If Malouda's goal had counted I think he was the main contender, he was giving them all sorts of problems.
As for the rest of the game, there were three main elements of shame today
1) Neither team seemed to be particularly interested in playing much football before about the 65 minute mark. Chelsea may have given the false impression they were, but this was in fact a subtle illusion created by the fact that Everton's players are so used to feeling inferior to the 'big' four such is the gulf in financial parity these days, that after going 1-0 up in a record time of 25 seconds, they decided the most intelligent thing to do was play for penalties, and thus let Chelsea have almost all of the possession whilst floundering around in their own third hoping for the best. This tactic was surprisingly effective, probably because Everton can be described as world class as long as you're going to limit yourself to such disparinging and condescending terms as organised and brave.
2) The fact that, as a neutral who supports the swift and unrelenting modernisation of the game to aid our overworked and over-criticised refs, Everton didn't go on to equalise and maybe win after Malouda's 'goal', thereby inadvertantly pressing home the perfect case for goal-line technology.
Note that I and any other sane neutral would have sat through 30 more minutes of that only grudingly. In fact my attention to the 'magical' centrepiece of English football was displaced by a conversation about how my 21 year old Everton supporting friend who I watched the game with, got his rocks off with a 36 year old mother of two last night, and subsequently literally ran home at 5am on the advice that if her 14 year old son caught my friend, he was going to get battered. As diverting as that was, I still managed to notice that Malouda's shot did in fact cross the line when I initially saw it in real time. Yet the linesman didn't, so despite me sitting miles away from Wembley watching on a 28" tv, I got it right, which just goes to show that a linesman can't actually physically see whether the ball has crossed the line 100% of the time due to the position he's expected to take up in line with the defenders.
3) The dog-food awful design of Wem-ber-lee Stadium being shown up once again by something as simple as a bright sunny day.
Thought Ashley Cole had a really good game. He caused loads of problems for Everton. Class player.
Get Involved
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funnily enough, i think they designed Wembley with primary concern for those who are actually in the stadium, rather than those watching on tv.
speaking as someone who was actually at the game, the sun caused zero problems and the design of wembley is impressive. i think maybe your issue is with tv cameras stuggling with contrast?
TrippyLondoner
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That's a good point actually. Might go to a game at wembley sometime in the future when i can afford to and check it out.
stupid kid
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Exactly.
big eejit
She looks like Alan Gilzean
I doubt they did, given the influence of money on the modern game. As there were only about 90,000 in the stadium and 100 million(?) watching on TV it's quite important if Wembley doesn't 'work' on tele. They probably just didn't think about it at all when they designed it.
Also, never mind the spectators, I think it did have a negative effect on poor Tony Hibbert who had to spend the whole first half being roasted by Chelsea and the mid afternoon sun. Tip for the next cup final - if you win the toss play in the shade first half!
