thecatmanbeep

How can you criticise Chelsea for playing negatively at the Nou Camp?

Chelsea have to keep possession if they want anything from this. The more Barca get, the more confident they will get and the better they will play.

Man Utd used these exact same tactics, had barely any possession and beat them.

Iniesta's probably the star player after Messi and at times he outperforms even Messi. The last 3 months or so Iniesta has been incredible.

Can't wait for tonight. It's a true clash of styles.

Essien is gonna have to get to grips with their midfield for Chelsea to have any chance.

Yep, I'm the 3rd Chelmsley Wood Villa fan in a row on this thread!

TWO NIL

Blues are ****.

Three threads in two pages. Just sayin!...

The Froch thread will die now, the fight's over.

On to the next one!!

Another boxing thread, oops.

It's the week of the fight.

Predictions/Analysis?

Hatton - Pacquiao 24/7 - Episode 1 - Full episode

Hatton - Pacquiao 24/7 - Episode 2 Part 1

Hatton - Pacquiao 24/7 - Episode 2 Part 2

Hatton - Pacquiao 24/7 - Episode 2 Part 3

Hatton - Pacquiao 24/7 - Episode 2 Part 4

Hatton - Pacquiao 24/7 - Episode 3 Part 1

Hatton - Pacquiao 24/7 - Episode 3 Part 2

Hatton - Pacquiao 24/7 - Episode 3 Part 3

Hatton - Pacquiao 24/7 - Episode 3 Part 4

24/7 is so well done, really gets ya in the mood for the fight. Would be brilliant if you had the voiceover guy at job interviews to read out your CV, there's no way you wouldn't get the job.

Roach has predicted Pacquiao wins in 3 rounds.

Hatton camp predicting he'll be too strong for Pac.

Can't wait.

You said yourself the football thread got confined to one thread, because people were creating too many.

Now boxing needs to be in one thread, because there aren't enough threads?

As I said, there's not many of them, not as if they're swamping the front page. I prefer discussing the fights on an individual basis than a mixed up thread.

There are about 5 fighters who people will start threads about. Khan, Hatton, Froch, Mayweather and Haye.

They only fight about twice a year, so essentially you're gonna get about 10 boxing threads a year. Less than one a month.

Hardly worthy of one combined thread.

There's two boxing threads in the 4 pages of topics I checked.

Hardly swamped by them, are you?

Boxing matches are totally different from the next one. Whereas F1 is a season with the same competitors in one competition, so one combined thread works. Football has too many matches to cover, so a weekend football thread covers them all etc

Boxing isn't the best at being advertised either and sometimes the TV deal isn't done till late, so an individual thread to attract attention and give details is needed.

Boxing is a sport that needs to be discussed on an individual fight basis.

Other sports can be confined to one thread, boxing needs to be a free spirit.

St Ledger's a rocket polisher.

At least it mean Moyes can't rest Lescott now and **** up my fantasy team, the rocket polisher.