They'll be sacrificing sheep in the streets of Karagandy tonight - Champions League 2013/14

yeah that wasn't great but what was the first thing eto'o did, i wasn't watching then

for the amount of times i've watched him, and given he is a super-competitive cristiano ronaldo / roy keane type who hates losing, eto'o isn't a particularly dirty player

like a lot of players, he's got worse as his legs fail him and he ends up making 'challenges' once the ball has gone

Can't see baklava here either. Do you want anything else?

That was meant to be a text home

lol

why are we talking about baklava

xp lol

sainsburys used to sell a pretty nice set of baklava in a small black box

there's a guy on my road who makes good baklava & some cracking pesto too

turkish grocery shops have so many fascinating products

That Sainsbury's set was the one I was sent for, it must be seasonal in these parts

Found a maggot in a recent batch of local baklava :(

I've had a lucky escape.

Weird how that Schurrle effort shook both crossbar and then camera

blanc not really earning his corn tonight

tentatively approve of cabaye coming on for verratti, much as i rate the latter, cabaye has a little more direct threat and less defensive liability

psg probably better pushing forward and going for a goal because they don't look capable playing a withdrawn defence for the last twenty minutes without conceding

Fuck sake Derek

ugh yeah that was poor

he wasnt very good in the bernabeu game either

Messi-like run from Reus, played in Derek beautifully, touched it round Casillas and then with an open goal he hit it lazily and is didn't cut far enough, back off the post

He has had 4 decent chances tonight

jallet is to this psg what rainha is to bayern

psg just need to shift 10 yards forward because every time chelsea retain possession they are one short pass from the edge of the penalty area

Touch of the Fellainis about Bale whenever I've seen him against high quality opposition this season

Lucas Moura wearing the hangdog air of a man who knows it's his fuck-up that will send Chelsea through

Good move Laurent

Gah

oh man

Inevitable though.

so shit

lol what a shit goal after a series of aimless punts

inevitable because psg have been defending far too deep

Ba had about five touches there

looked like he hit that off his own standing leg

get a load of this timewasting

bale was really good vs sevilla and in the first leg vs dortmund

not so good vs atleti or barca but baby steps

worst club

Fellainiesque in that his touch seems noticeably more leaden than others

PSG mugged themselves really

fucking despise mourinho beyond measure

Rangers > Greece 2004 > the other team in Escape To Victory >>>>> Chelsea

Are we supposed to like this PSG team? Fuck em' imo

I do like them anyway, but surely tonight it's got to be relative

don't particularly like psg but thiago silva & verratti are two of my favourite players

tonight is their fault though, should have done far more wit their possesion in the first half, cavani was shit

The silver lining is that Liverpool-Chelsea is between the two legs of the semi-final

Keane's hair's looking a lot better these days. There's always something not quite right about it - the front sits badly - but this is an improvement imo.

hes always had hair like an 8 year old boy, now with greying temples

finally got round to watching that vieria / keane programme 'best of enemies', worth seeing

real were so so shit tonight. missing ronaldo (but he was there shouting from the bench)but you'd expect better from them. dortmund should've won really. heaps of chances. bale was crap alright but hardly the worst offender. isco was terrible, he runs exactly like ronaldo with the little flappy arms prance but has half his brain.

those ITV docs are pretty good in general. Even the Ian Wright one surprisingly enough. His evil stepdad made him face the wall when MOTD was on!

madrid seem to have that same complacency after an easy first leg that bayern showed vs arsenal last season, although ancelotti's credentials in the really big games at madrid remain unproven

if atleti go through then half the sf teams will be attritional counterattackers, so madrid at least provide something more expansive

chelsea remain the desiccated maggots in the baklava of elite european football

lol