After tonight's Barca PSG game

[chris]

It just comes down to what constitutes a foul. Years ago it would have had to have been a sufficient contact to have impeded you or brought you down. Nowadays it's seems as though if you're touched, however lightly, you have to hit the deck in order to display to the ref that you've been fouled.

IMO if the tackle isn't hard enough to bring you down, then it's not a foul anyway.

if paris st germain had been chasing a four goal deficit at home, you can bet your bottom dollar that they would have been playing the referee as well as barcelona, it would not have been allowed to happen .

the champions league is very much like the premier league the top sides will always get key decisions go for them. its all to do with tv and viewing figures and how much money they can make..

they want all the top sides playing against each other in the major finals , even though most of the country or neutrals want a david v goliath scenario which is more entertaining than watching the same teams win everything.

they do not realise that they are boring most of the country to death , and that if football becomes a closed shop many people will just simply switch off if you do not support any of the top sides

[lardy]

they want all the top sides playing against each other in the major finals , even though most of the country or neutrals want a david v goliath scenario which is more entertaining than watching the same teams win everything.

they do not realise that they are boring most of the country to death , and that if football becomes a closed shop many people will just simply switch off if you do not support any of the top sides

We might like to think this is true, but it's absolutely not. David v Goliath is great if David wins, but most of the time it's Goliath with a comfortable 2-0 without even trying. Look at the FA Cup finals since the famous Wimbledon win. I'd count a dozen where there's a big club against a 'smaller' one. The only David to win was Wigan.

What you're saying doesn't really make sense anyway. First, they're concerned about viewing figures so they make sure the big teams go through. Then many people will simply switch off if it's only the big sides left? How can both be right?

Still, everyone seems to have been bored to death by the Barca game tonight

[Cyclops]

Still, everyone seems to have been bored to death by the Barca game tonight

Yeah and we got the Monaco v Man City game to come. Yawnsville!

[chris]

We might like to think this is true, but it's absolutely not. David v Goliath is great if David wins, but most of the time it's Goliath with a comfortable 2-0 without even trying. Look at the FA Cup finals since the famous Wimbledon win. I'd count a dozen where there's a big club against a 'smaller' one. The only David to win was Wigan.

What you're saying doesn't really make sense anyway. First, they're concerned about viewing figures so they make sure the big teams go through. Then many people will simply switch off if it's only the big sides left? How can both be right?

Still, everyone seems to have been bored to death by the Barca game tonight

its very simply to explain, how many finals have been contested by the biggest clubs in the country in the last 15 -20 years ?

name me a final that does not include the following teams, man utd, chelsea, arsenal, liverpool, man city, arsenal, spurs, etc. the only one was portsmouth v cardiff, this year will be exactly the same.

unless you fancy lincoln to get there.