Aug 28
Manchester United’s 08/09 Champions’ League Opponents
Today is the Champions’ League draw. This, coupled with the lack of progress on the Berbatov front (only four days to go), have made my job infinitely easier — I don’t have to come up with a longish post today.
Since the Champions’ League draw starts at 4:30pm (BST) I will leave the stage to you to come up with your predictions for our opponents. (I know, I can be a lazy prick at times).
So here are the pots:
Pot One
Manchester United
Chelsea
Liverpool
Barcelona
Arsenal
Lyon
Inter Milan
Real Madrid
Pot Two
Bayern Munich
PSV Eindhoven
Villarreal
AS Roma
FC Porto
Werder Bremen
Sporting Lisbon
Juventus
Pot Three
Marseille
Zenit St Petersburg
Steaua Bucharest
Panathinaikos
Bordeaux
Celtic
Basel
Fenerbahce
Pot Four
Shakhtar Donetsk
Fiorentina
Atletico Madrid
Dynamo Kiev
CFR Cluj
Aalborg
Anorthosis Famagusta
Bate Borisov
Okay, let’s see who gets their predictions right. The winner will get to do what no one else would be able to: swell with pride as much as Fat Frank on a pie-only regime, and boost his ego to an extent that would make Ronaldo squirm.
So, over to you…
PS: We’ll update this when the results are up.
Update:
Here’s our Group:
Manchester United
Villarreal
Celtic
Aalborg
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Celtic
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UNITED
VILLAREAL
CELTIC
I’m on track..Oh my God
…I have Fiorentina next.
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at last a bit of justice
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finally
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thats great. but he is a winger. nonsense.
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‘thank you my team mates’… i was expecting a ‘and my manager’
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Ugh, another season of the “Battle Of Britain” shit. It gets old and it always makes the bastards play better. And the British media love it and go oooooooooooooooooooooooooon about it. Boooooooooooring.
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he doesnt seem very happy to have won though
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yes finaly a easy peasy team
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aalborg it is….with villareal, celtic
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pretty easy group, we should go through, but this is blatantly fixed…
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Athletico should go to group H….that should be good
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oooooooooh, Torres to go back to Atletico. I hope he cant do it and fooks the scouse in the games.
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Phew…thank God it’s Aalborg and not Fiorentina..I would have freaked out…
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Liverpool are going out
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wow loserpool have a tough group
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I pity Bate Borisov…poor poor side..wat a Group of death for them!
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Phil is gutted
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the bindippers get athletico. j-u-s-t-i-c-e.
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@antsBoy: that’s a great draw for them. The money will be great for them
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@Liam: Yeah, looking at it that way…it’s good. Thinking about their “Goals Against” stats, not so good.
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I have an explanation for the wierd awards:
Goalkeeper of the year sponsored by http://www.geckoheadgear.com/
Defender of the year sponsored by http://www.kleenex.com/
Midfielder of the year sponsored by http://www.pukkapies.co.uk/
See it all becomes clear…
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Wakey – Feck mate, why did you quit the blog?. I wondered where you had got too. Hope you are staying now – where else you gonna rant and wind people up – just like I do. Trouble is, Liam and Gabriel are on to me now, they sussed my wind ups LOL.
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How much did the billionaire down at the Kremlin pay to get 3 of his players awards?. A feckin obscene amount of money no doubt. What does Edwin have to do?. In head to head penalty shoot outs against Cech, Edwin came out on top. Europe really don’t like United.
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All of those managers had poor poor taste in the first three choices… Maybe they felt sorry for them. Or perhaps the Russian made some phone calls. Oh well, at least Ronaldo has some more awards to go along with his ego.
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@dan(u-ol): lol, nice one Dan
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@dan(u-ol): And forward of the year: http://www.brylcreem.com/
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And I hope the manager of the year is sponsored by Black and Decker:
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@Craig Mc: Because I told him and Grognard not to talk to each other because they both just wound each other up way too much for me to keep my sanity and moderate comments. He didn’t like it and quit.
Of course, my doors are always open to those who quit.
I think that should be enough information on this matter.
As you normally put it, it was one of my tranquiliser shots.
Now let’s get back to discussing about the draw
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Larsson is coming back to the prem, we’ve just cancelled Dongs contract. Coincidence? I hope not. I’d bloody love Henrik back in the red.
Also, he’d get to go back to Celtic in the Champions League.
Fergie says he wants 4 top strikers. Rooney, Tevez, Berbatov and Larsson sounds like one hell of a setup. Especially if Saha gets fit (haha yeah I know) and ManUcho is half as good as we hype him up to be :
Another season at Hull for young fraizer methinks…..
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@Craig Mc: if I remember correctly before you quit you were one of the most loyal fans and a big supporter of the Roon. I was wondering why there was such a huge change of heart.
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@Red Ranter:
If you are going to tell the story tell it right as the way you have put it makes it look petty. What you actually said was if I replied to anything Grog said you would remove it (And you did to the perfectly fine comment I made before I got the mail telling me this) meaning in effect I couldnt take part in the majority of the discussions as he was posting 90% of the comments and was involved in every discussion.
And I quit because such a restriction is troublesome as all it takes is someone like Grog who doesnt like being challenged on his view to complain enough and the precedent has been set for you to state you would remove any comment you deemed a potential reply to them too.
As for Craigs question, I might post the odd comment like today but with the restriction hanging over my head its not worth getting into any serious discussion
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Manchester United
Villareal
Celtic
Aalborg
An easy group on paper but Celtic are not pushovers and neither are Villareal. Both teams are well organised and difficult to break down. I foresee a couple of draws.
If we could get Larsson back as a fourth striker Id like that. He’s an improvement on Manucho and Campbell at least, but Im still holding out for Berbatov. But I think it is all dependent on Tottenham signing another striker and its difficult to see who else they are going to be able to buy.
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@colver: you tell me how a 36/37 year old will be an improvement on what we already have…
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well done to ronaldo… at long last. but.
who the fucking fuck won the chamions league… thats right, so why the fuck has the best defender, goalkeeper and midfielder come from the losers?
i mean… which keeper won in the penalty shootout?
which midfielder scored to put us through?
and which fucking muppet cunt fucked up his chance of slipping on his chelsea arse to miss a sitter? yea thats right.. the best defender in the champions league thats who.
honestly.. if theys awards mattered at all id be pissed. but hell im pissed now… surely the best players are from the team that won the bloody thing. fucking chelsea scum.. carn’t wait to
playbeat them.p.s. celtic home and away will be amazing.
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Shit me that draw gets more boring, more Eurovision each year.
I mean christ I think I predicted the scouse group and if we had got Kiev I would have had are group correct as well.
Chelski again get a easy draw whats worse is Terrys smug face as he walks past Fergie, Am I alone in thinking Carvalho is 10 times better than him and that Terry had not just his worst season but he missed f**king half on it.
Ladies and Gentleman if Uefa ain’t rigged it again I don’t know, it seems UEFA gets more WWF every year with these boring fixed emotionally tied draws.
I thought Bobby was gonna bitch slap that male presenter for making him announce fat Franks name.
Should get through though top but a few hard away games. Arsenal will struggle there away games will screw them up. The BIG4 will all get through.
Liverpool (A)
Villareal(H)
Chelsea (A)
DECENT week of football there!!
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@dan(u-ol): because he oozes class and his link play with rooney was sublime last time around. plus he keeps himself lean and fit so his age realy doesn’t come into it.
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Terry the best defender???? I mean he made a great game in the ch l final but he blew it up by a stupid slip…..Ferdinad and Van der Saar deserved the best player awards more than C.(cunt)ronaldo did
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Well, well, well, ‘Michelle’ Platini is up to his usual coniving again. How the hell did John ‘CryBaby’ Terry get defender of the year? Or even Cech with Keeper of the year? If this is not a biased/rigged/bribed decision, I don’t know what is. Something smells rotten, and it’s not Platini’s breath.
This ‘Bring United down’ thing is going too far, first Platini’s CL prize money rant, Council refusal for United parade, Calderon’s public United bashing, Blatter’s Slave outburst, Levy’s outburst, now this injustice!!! WTF?
They can all go to hell for all I care… we will keep on winning and I hope this unfair snub will make Fergie, Rio, VDS and co more determined to whoop ass this season!!
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Anyone else heard that Henry has been in Manchester, supposedly for a medical
Just speculation I must warn nothing concrete.
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Ok Guys this is serious!
I mean Terry the best defender?
Seriously I am WORRIED about Rio!
First the england captaincy and now this.
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We should go through that group should be straight forward. Arsenal have a tough one I think, If we sign Henry which we won’t, I will never go to another United game, he is a big time bottler and poser, ps not a big fan!! Dan those links are class!!
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@Wakey:
Yes you quit and made a principled stance that you wouldn’t return until I took that ban off you. Is it me, or am I finding that stance of yours change all of a sudden just because John Terry and Frank Lampard won awards? Not that this is the only United blog that is out there.
Ok, maybe I made it sound petty. Maybe, it is. Maybe it is not. But you don’t exactly cover yourselves in glory right now with your about turn. So stop trying to take a moral high ground.
As I said, if you can stop talking about Grognard or making reference to him your posts will be approved — unlike you, my stance on that hasn’t changed. Or else move on… there are better things in life than this.
Because, regarding making decisions here, I do reserve the ultimate right to my own discretion. If you don’t agree, it will be unfortunate. In your situation with Grognard, I disagree with your version of the story. So there…
You have anything more to say, use the email. It’s just your second comment since your return and you’ve started bitching about Grognard. You see what I mean?
I really don’t think it’s worth talking about all this over here in public.
God give me strength.
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@Red Ranter: Where is Grognard? I cant see him on the posts!
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@Red Diablo: He’s not here apparently. He lives in Canada I think
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I just realised that we will meet Rossi again.
Hopefully he will miss Old Trafford when he visits us again and loses 
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I fucking hate Chelsea for the following reasons.
Lampard- Greedy ponce, only stayed at the club he er loves, and showed him support through his family situation, or because they gave him a 5 year contract at the age of 30, unheard of, in top level football.
JT- Well being simply known by the media (al la Jason Cundy) as JT makes me want to vomit. A player who is so limied in his ability it is untrue, the spitting at Tevez not included in the defender of the year menagerie, crying wimp England/Chelsea captain marvel!!
Kenyon- Smug self proclaimed United fan, selling your soul to the devil, chipping Ronaldinho @ the last minute, runners up medal leading arsewipe.
Mikel- Bullshitting about contract pressures and being generally amoying mouthy twat.
Drogba- Well being think speaks for itself.
A Cole- £55k a week made me feel sick, knob!
Ballack- Behaviour in ECP awful, love to see the referees stance if it was Rooney.
I could go on for hours!!
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@Red Ranter: OK! He lives in Canada! So can you tell me if there is a reason he doesnt post on this blog anymore? I mean was there a War between Canada and the USA?
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Liam mate, didn’t you read my post to Wakey a little earlier in the thread?. UNless RR wiped it out that is. I said that Gabriel and you had sussed my winding up people on the blog about Rooney etc. But reading your post just now, I guess not – haha!. Liam I love Rooney, but I still claim the right to say when he is playing shit. Or when he disrespects other players by turning up smoking and overweight by a stone or two. My recent posts I was winding you all up. Thought you got that lol.
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Wakey, get your arse back on the blog mate, you can still have your deep and meaningful interactions. Feck me, I sound like Red Ranter now with my psychiatrists couch lol. Seriously though, I have been winding up the Rooney fans, but one or two managed to see what I was doing, and my mischief was found out.
RR – why oh why do people even bother to email you with complaints over and over again?. Its a feckin blog, and FUN for some open warfare on site, but moaning to the blog master behind the scenes, hell I just don’t get it. It shouldn’t be that serious. I learn’t that ages ago, so I say what I say, and if others don’t agree, then to me that makes for a great debate. We are not all going to agree, that’s the fun of it. I love it when people gang up against my posts, bring it on lads. Prepare yourself for repeated defeats though.
Andrei – Ronaldo better than Rooney – a million times. Though the Roon is better than most other teams forward players.
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