Chelsea-Liverpool: Who do you want to make it through?

Pigman II

Curious to see where the boards support lies on this one.

And yes once again this is NOT 'who do you THINK will make it to the final' it's merely a statement of preference.

Jimboo_Jones

rarrr I get the first vote \o.

My vote went to the blues, been loving the way that they have shaken and scared the big two prem clubs this season.

eirebhoy

Either way, we'll have an Irishman in the final for the first time since Denis Irwin 6 years ago (avoiding injury).

The_B_Man

well i want liverpool to win it. if chelsea get knocked out, they have the best chance of the 2 teams of getting back to this stage next year.

opr

Liverpool

More than anything because i want to see that smug git Mourino get his comeupance.

Benitez is just the man for the job

Opr

Lex Luthor

I would love to see Liverpool go through, but can see Chelsea shading it, but I'm hoping to be proved wrong

Funny how Chelsea got the red poll bar and Liverpool got the blue one :cool:

Shred

The super 'pool all the way

Ardent

Go on the 'pool!

p.pete

If it was Chelsea against Juve or someone else then I'd have backed Chelsea, obviously as a Pool fan my vote was pre-ordained to go their way.

The Muppet

On Footballing grounds I would like to see Liverpool go through because they have not spent the money Chelsea have and I think Benitze is a good manager . On a minus side of that I'm not sure I will be able to withstand the crowing from Pool fans if they do {not that chelsea fans will be any different but theres a lot less of the for the moment anyway}.

I'll put up with the crowing and wish Liverpool the best of luck as I have done for both quarter final legs..

PHB

I'm a UTD fan, and I can't believe I'm saying this but I want Liverpool to win.
I like Benetiz, I think he is fantastic and a real fans supporter
I don't like Mourinho as much, although he is intertaining.

Also I think it would be hiliarous if Gerrard has left in the summer already or something, and then Liverpool beat Chelsea, and then Gerrard says he is moving to Chelsea to go onto bigger thigns. That'd be ****ing hilarious

kaimera

#20 for us.

get it in there Liverpool

On a minus side of that I'm not sure I will be able to withstand the crowing from Pool fans if they do

'99 against Munich ring any bells?!

jammy

meditraitor

Liverpool v AC final, the mouth waters

Washout

Chelsea for me.

Cant get the idea out of my head of what if Liverpool win the compotetion and Everton dont get through to next years competition if we finish fourth

PiE

Pretty unanimous, Liverpool with the bigger support.

After Chelsea win the league and if they win the CL, I'd like to see the same poll this time next year :rolleyes:

Guy:Incognito

Could be an interesting one for Gerrard. Considering the popular vote is that he's off to Chelsea (personally I thought so at one stage butnow I honestly don't think he's going anywhere). If he has a 'mare people will accuse him of taking a dive, especially if he does eventually go to Chelsea in the summer. So for his own sake, regardless of whether he's off or not , he has to stick it to Chelsea and roll them over.

Oh, I voted for Liverpool obviously.

SpAcEd OuT

Chelsea much more intresting to watch,and a Chelsea vs Milan final is quite mouth-watering.


however I want Milan to win the final so Mourinho will shut his mouth for a few months,if he wins we'll never hear the end of it :rolleyes:

jesus_thats_gre

Go on the pool!

Dub13

Liverpool will win...

Q_Ball

Not a pool fan (c'mon leeds!!) but i voted liverpool. I think someone has to feed moaninho humble pie and there's no better man than benitez to do it. Except maybe nigel worthington but thats because it would be hilarious more than anything else. I think it'd be just rewards for benitez after the poor performances the team has been putting in in the PL.

And it'd be a funny situation for gerard to find himself in.

Kone

Gwan the pool

mayordenis

Well this might come as a shock but i voted liverpool

growler

not too much of a surprise there, considering the amount of Irish support Liverpool have traditionally enjoyed, not surprised that (most) Mancs are supporting Chelsea now and Arsenal fans will be supporting the Pool.

Go on you Blues!

Cianan2

No preference for me really....i clicked 'pool though. Just hope that the football is good!!!

yop

just to see Moaninho knocked out I would like to see Liverpool but based on the type of football you would expect from two teams with serious attacking players I would like to see a Chelsea v AC game

mike65

er Liverpool as I think we should meet PSV in the final (boy, they'd be an inquiry if that final happened!)

Mike.

Oriel

:-)

Draupnir

liverpool v psv would be excellent i think, second year in a row too fairly sub standard sides made it to the final. twud just be a continuance of the recent trend in football.

im supporting liverpool in this game.

Thanx 4 The Fish

Draupnir wrote:

liverpool v psv would be excellent i think, second year in a row too fairly sub standard sides made it to the final. twud just be a continuance of the recent trend in football.

im supporting liverpool in this game.

When you say sub-standard sides do you mean not Man u ??

Liverpool have beaten some of the best teams in Europe on their way to semis, in last 16 and quarters Man u fans were all about how liverpool would never beat either team, now that they have they are a sub-standard team. Get serious lad, would you like some sugar to make those sour grapes taste better ?

Draupnir

its not sour grapes at all. united got knocked out fair and square by milan. united werent good enough at all. nor were arsenal for that matter. my whole footballing opinion isnt based on being a united fan ya know!

by sub standard i meant that the current liverpool side isnt made up of world class players, in fact they only have 2 imo, gerrard and alonso.

i meant sub standard in terms of European champions. thats all. and no liverpool fan who is honest can say that their current team isnt a poor group of b teamers with a couple of top players thrown in.

dont get me wrong, i was cheering liverpool on last nite, but its not a classic team and it is sub standard.

just a question, who are these best teams in Europe Liverpool have knocked out? Leverkusen? A juventus team with the imagination of an 85 year old alzheimers sufferer?

anyway, thats pretty off topic, but since youre the mod and started the off topicness, ill consider myself justified.

abccormac

I'm a big fan of mourinho, but I'd love to see pool go through.

Headshot

im a man utd fan and i want liverpool to win for once :eek:
i hate chelsea they have enough money and i hate mourinho so so much

Drag00n79

Needless to say my vote went for the Reds. Today, I was trying to explain to someone not really into football how much of a big deal it would be for me to see Liverpool in the Champions League Final and ....ah shìt, my eyes are welling up again here with the sheer thought of it!

smemon

liverpool. even though i dont want any of them to win it, if one had to i'd pick liverpool but hopefully liverpool will beat chelsea then lose in the final. (from a utd fans view)

chelsea sort of bulldose their way through everything with a massive squad and 1st class 1st 11. it's unnatural as it hasnt really been done before. certainly on this scale and the money spent in 2years. the main reason though i dont want them to beat liverpool though is murinho. he gets more arrogant and attention-seeking every day. ie the whole taxi stunt. commentators never shut up about him the whole match.

liverpool are liverpool and imo, and are a much nicer, fresher club than chelsea with benetiz running it, a fairly modest, quiet character.

Memnoch

well I think chelsea are the better team so i'll go with them on this one. They've played some really good football so I think they will probably give AC Milan a better fight than Liverpool would.

Still I guess whoever goes through will deserve it so fair play. I just hope the tie is decided by football either way and not conterversial referee decisions.

byte

Liverpool, naturally!

ziggy

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smuckers

Chelsea all the way the final with Milan, (but lets not underestimate PSV) would be interesting cause the they've been tight in previous years, the 1-1 where little Dennis Wise cancelled out Schevchenkos header, a terrific game.
Robben is back for Liverpool game, great timing!

BolBill

I'm a Liverpool fan so obviously I was them to progress. Three defeats against Chelsea doesn't make me feel overly confident. The game at Stamford Bridge was awful, thety deserved the win but weren't very good themselves. We were robbed of a penalty at Anfield and maybe it would have been a draw. I think in the Cup final we would've held on if not for Gerrards mistake.
I think most neutrals want Liverpool to win, partly because we will be the underdogs and partly because Rafa Benitez is a likeable chap that even Man U and Arsenal fans find hard to dislike.
Poor old Steven Gerrard now has to play the two best games of his life in order to "get his revenge" after the cup final. IMO it will be Alonso that will be the biggest influence as he has been anytime he plays.

BaZmO*

As a Utd. supporter I find myself in the awkward position of wanted Liverpool to win. Although I would like to see Duffer get a Champion's league winner's medal (but I'm sure he'll get plenty more chances in the future)

The reason why I don't Chelsea to win it is for a couple of reasons.
1. I don't think it's right that you can just go out and buy a title. and,
2. Even though I really like Mourinho and at the moment his arrogant nature is quite entertaining, just imagine what he'd be like if he won the CL and the PL this season considering he won The UEFA Cup in 2003, then CL in 2004. He'd be unbearable.

B.

Memnoch

BaZmO* wrote:

The reason why I don't Chelsea to win it is for a couple of reasons.
1. I don't think it's right that you can just go out and buy a title.

i really don't get why people continually say this? Pretty much all the top teams spend a lot of money on good players.

I mean Rooney alone cost as much as Robben, Peter Chec and some other good chelsea player.

At the end of the day what is it that seperates the top teams of europe or any league with the other teams? It's money and the ability to get the good players.

I find this kind of statement extremely hypocritical coming from a United fan.
Please tell me? what do you think justify's winning the title? Should only teams that spend X amount of money deserve it. This kind of statement reeks of jealousy really.

It's like, up till now we were able to spend the most money and win with little compitition from the other clubs in the premiere league. Now someone else has more money than us and is doing the same to us that we do to all the smaller clubs. :jealous:

The Muppet

Memnoch wrote:

i really don't get why people continually say this? Pretty much all the top teams spend a lot of money on good players.

I mean Rooney alone cost as much as Robben, Peter Chec and some other good chelsea player.

At the end of the day what is it that seperates the top teams of europe or any league with the other teams? It's money and the ability to get the good players.

I find this kind of statement extremely hypocritical coming from a United fan.
Please tell me? what do you think justify's winning the title? Should only teams that spend X amount of money deserve it. This kind of statement reeks of jealousy really.

It's like, up till now we were able to spend the most money and win with little compitition from the other clubs in the premiere league. Now someone else has more money than us and is doing the same to us that we do to all the smaller clubs. :jealous:

It's probably because Chelsea have spent more money in the last two years than any other english club has spent in the last 30 years.

I don't believe the bit in bold is true . Would you have figures to back that up particulaly betweem 1986 and 2002. After that united were big spenders but it didn,t win them too many titles.

TwoShedsJackson

BaZmO* wrote:

The reason why I don't Chelsea to win it is for a couple of reasons.
1. I don't think it's right that you can just go out and buy a title.

Hahaha. Of course United grew all their players from thin air with pixie dust I suppose? They would never spend £29 million on a defender, £19 million on a striker, £27 million on a 19 year old knacker, £28 million on Veron etc. etc. etc.

The Muppet

TwoShedsJackson wrote:

Hahaha. Of course United grew all their players from thin air with pixie dust I suppose? They would never spend £29 million on a defender, £19 million on a striker, £27 million on a 19 year old knacker, £28 million on Veron etc. etc. etc.

What have United won since those signings?

BTW I don't think Newcastles Fans are in any position to be calling other teams players "Knackers".

knobbles

well being an everton fan, Liverpool having these two massive European games could be a good thing...as long as Chelsea win...liverpool have a game every 3/4 days in the next 3 weeks, tough going...

16 April Liverpool v Tottenham
20 April Portsmouth v Liverpool
23 April Crystal Palace v Liverpool
27 April Chelsea v Liverpool
30 April Liverpool v Middlesbrough
03 May Liverpool v Chelsea
08 May Arsenal v Liverpool

..though i think Liverpool can do it against Chelsea, like Chelsea as underdogs beat Arsenal in 1/4s last season...but surely Milan will be one big gun too much though

BaZmO*

Of course I'm not jealous. I'm a Utd. supporter but as I've said numerous times, I'm not a die-hard supporter. I like watching good football, however imo I think it's extremely unfair and and unhealthy for the game in general if someone can just come into the game and buy a team and whatever players they want.

B.

thejollyrodger

liverpool of course. There is a touch of mercanaries about Cheski. Liverpool have been playing some good football too

PHB

Last year CHelsea were mercanaries, but that doesn't buy success. What buys success is a top quality manager, so if you want to argue that then perhaps he bought the premiership by hiring Mourinho, but I don't envy trying to make that arguement

Either way, whatever you say, CHelsea deserve to win the PM due to their preformance.

I don't however think they deserve to win the CL, cause I havn't been that impressed with their preformances. But I'm biased

uberwolf

The Muppet wrote:

What have United won since those signings?

you can hardly determine that Chelski are any worse than Utd merely because they made it work!!

Though looking at some of Fergusons detractors and that list of signings, they may have a point! Not that any of them have been failures per se, more that he's been backed, the spend has been significant.


Not that LFC can claim to have been hard done by, just backed the wrong manager for too long.

Memnoch

The Muppet wrote:

It's probably because Chelsea have spent more money in the last two years than any other english club has spent in the last 30 years.

I don't believe the bit in bold is true . Would you have figures to back that up particulaly betweem 1986 and 2002. After that united were big spenders but it didn,t win them too many titles.

they haven't won titles but they are still in the "top" 2-3 teams of the premiereship, and are also a good team in europe.

The point is that the teams that are more successful in europe and in the domestic leagues tend to be the one with the most money to spend?

Especially if we look at the English PL. What are the top 3 sides now?

Chelsea, Arsenal , United? Is it a complete and utter cooincidence that these are also the teams that have the most money to spend on players? Especially when compared with a team like say Charlton?

Please tell me, what United have that Charlton don't have that makes the big difference? It wouldn't be the ability to afford a manager like Alex Feurgesson and players like Van Nist, Rio , Heinze etc ?

Memnoch

BaZmO* wrote:

Of course I'm not jealous. I'm a Utd. supporter but as I've said numerous times, I'm not a die-hard supporter. I like watching good football, however imo I think it's extremely unfair and and unhealthy for the game in general if someone can just come into the game and buy a team and whatever players they want.

B.

really but it's okay that United can afford much better players and managers and coaches than charlton or norwich? Is that fair?

If it's fair for United to have a lot more money than charlton, then i'll say it's fair for Chelsea to have more money than United.