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Pharoh:
Nice gesture from both teams and i think UEFA refused in other to concentrate on the tragedy in Japan because they had some minutes silence and a banner displayed on the field before the kickoff. It was more of not doing two things at the same time and taking the most important one. It is good that both teams still did what they have to do after the match and we all hope everything goes well with abidal.

AjanleKoko:
The Capital club yesterday showed an amazing amount of support for Abidal, ahead their game against Lyon last night.
UEFA turned down their request to put Abidal on their jerseys for the match. However, on the scoreboard, there was a picture of Abidal in a Barca jersey throughout the game. After the game, all players from both teams turned out in this T Shirt (courtesy Total Barca):

Inked_Nerd:

I was thinking about him before I started the thread. Even though I've searched for him on Facebook many times, I keep searching just in case I may find him. I never had the idea to call his former high school until it dawned on me that they may still have records of him graduating from there. No, I don't think any of you are losers. I hope this thread encourages others to go seek out old flames because I've been searching for mine for over 3 years now . Will all honesty, I may not ever find him but I can at least say I tried.

edwinagili:
I got mine back!!!

She was the sweetest girl I have ever known, we were so complete together but her parents were opposed to the r/ship cos they are muslims and I am a christian. She was at the University then and was too young to stand up to her parents especially in the north. So eventually we broke up in 2006 after the best 3yrs of my life.

I left Abuja for Lagos(my folks live there, hers as well). Luckily for us, I went back to Abuja for the Christmas break in 2009, and out of the blues i got a call from her asking me if i came home for christmas and I said yes. She now dashed to my house and the moment we set our eyes on each other we knew we could not let go again.

Long story short, we got married last Oct 2.

holydante:
Its on Total Barca site although i cant find it on Barca's official web page

Johnpaul88:
There is this allegation of doping against FCB, by a spanish radio. I guess it is serious cos FCB has released a statement denying it and threatening a legal action against the radio station.

eyoniggar:
Please provide link Johnny.

mukina2:
since you are posting pics on our thread . .though you might like this  am sure you can identify them

[img]http://thecannon.files./2010/07/xavi-puyol-pique-gay-spaniards.jpg?w=460&h=364[/img]

manmustwac:
Am surprised. How did we survive the whole 90 mins without them scoring   [/quote
How you Survived? ''Audere est Facere'' (To Dare Is to Do)
It is the resilience, self believe and maturity of your team especially the sterling performance of your back line (Asuo Ekotto, Dawson and ever reliable Gallas, etc Sandro was outstanding too) although the strikers didn't score.

I have always opined that teams hardly and dont win trophies and titles with teen back lines and another teen manning the goal post (Los Blacos Casillas is a one-off), that zone is for veterans, perhaps William .G. has been vindicated at last after his objective scathing comments that warranted him been stripped of his captaincy when he was still plying his trade for a certain 5-years-trophy less club.

Ironically, while he was clearing balls off his goal line to help keep The Spurs dreams alive in the race, his former team mates were giving assists to opponents to score, ''Nani style''.
Footie sure do follow a certain superstitious pattern.

Your next door rivals should appreciate your achievement and not showing up with dour sour faces all over, duh!!!! ( I hope i can do same if Madrid gets the better of my team this season )

Congratulations.

We are Barcelona

Stealthy:
I hope we face Schalke in the QF. We love to play German teams!

ogazi007:
Congratulations people.i must admit that we did not play well.we were just lucky and we all should thank God that we singed Mascherano,he was the man of the match IMO.Iniesta deserves it too,but we were so wastful that i began to imagine if we will ever see wembley if we continue this way.it seems our players were not aware that Arsenal only needed to score another goal to send us packing from CL.i am not happy,we should have wiped them 8-0 to set the record straight

proproman:
Now you arsenal fans are getting rather annoying. Answer the following;

1) Did Koscielny deserve a red on at least two different occasions or not? Oho, so the ref wasn't biased not to have sent him off abi. If van persie had not been sent off, koscielny definitely would have. Whichever way you look at it, Arsenal deserved to be a man down yesterday.

2) was messi'a goal in the first leg legal or not? If you have any doubts about the validity of the goal, visit goal.com or youtube, watch the video and tell me where you see an infringement. Aha, the ref was perfect in that match, ba? Because arsenal won that match. The ref wasn't biased abi. If that goal had stood, barcelona would have two away goal and arsenal would have needed to score twice at the camp nou to get to the next round. Considering they couldn't muster just a shot, how much more, one on target, i wonder how they would have achieved that.

3) did messi deserve to be awarded a penalty in the first half or not. Ehen, the ref's eyes were clearer then, wasn't it and he hadn't been paid ridiculous sums to help barca win, eh? Or are you saying it wasn't a penalty?

Soft penalty call or not is no excuse, Arsenal have had soft penalty calls in their favour and their fans rejoiced and saw nothing in it. Abi una wan claim say every penalty call una get, una deserve am? Now barca were given what was clearly a penalty and are crying blue murder.

I find it appalling that certain fans failto address the root problem in their team and blame their problems on the ref, or linesman, or the opposing team or the opposing fans. Arsenal were totally outplayed and needed an own goal to give them hope. What did you guys expect to win from, another own goal? Your team played poorly, deserved to lose, accept it and stop blaming the ref. All of you just watch, if arsenal loses to man u in the fa cup, it will be the ref's fault and man u being "pdp". Do you guys ever listen to yourselves? If i were an arsenal fan, i would be pissed at my teams poor play and admit that we were second best the whole match. There was no way Arsenal was going to win that fixture playing like that, trying to park the bus when you don't have the players for it. Inter Milan were a man down at the camp nou last season, if i'm not mistaken, for a longer period than Arsenal were a man down yesterday. Yet they defended gallantly and fully deserved their qualification.

Look at it this way; if the ref hadn't given van persie a red, then koscielny definitely should have had one, true or false? If the ref didn't award pedro a penalty, he should have awarded one messi in the first half, true or false. So either way, there should have been at least a penalty and a sending off last night. Imagine Arsenal fans complaining of the ref awarding barca many fouls, what did you expect? Who held the ball last nite and who did the chasing? So who should have been fouling who? Abegi, you people have no excuse. When you don't play a shot on target, yet hope to score and win a match, that's the height of unrealistic expectations. Arsenal were just not up to it. All this "one day, one day" you guys are hollering is just hilarious. It's the same way Nigerians address political problem, just blame someone else for your problems, instead of addressing them. You guys are saying uefa have made plans against epl teams, abi? I laugh in swahili. When Arsenal lost to Newcastle, and their fans were chanting biased referee like it was a new religious chorus, was uefa "planning" against an eplteam in an epl competition? Una go soon talk say na uefa make koscielny and scsczeny get brain touch when them give martins through pass make im score awoof goal. Play poorly and lose, get over it, arsenal should improve their squad. Who expects me to believe in an Arsenal side that were handed a trophy on a platter of gold, theirs for the taking, yet handed it over to martins and birmingham, a side that failed to muster a shot on target against a team they'd beaten three weeks earlier. Infact, you guys can go and hug a transformer and give it a big, wet kiss for good measure. Guardiola can afford to say the red wasn't deserved because his team is already through. Na wa for una o, Koscielny deserve red, una no see am, una no fit remember am, messi deserve penalty, una no see am, una no remember am, dem come give vp red, give pedro penalty, una come dey shout dem mama. Infact sef, una dey vex person. Tell Wenger to build a squad that can play barca mano a mano, man to man, not one that needs own goals to get on the score sheet. I used to praise Arsenal fans for being faithful to their club despite years of trophy drought. Now i deride them for abject naiveity.