The Round Ball Game

[Alison]

Leicester don't drop any points his weekend.

3 penalty shouts against Man C and hit the woodwork.

Lineker says Leicester are the unluckiest team in Premiership history!

No points dropped though

[johncorrigan]

Spare a thought for JC,St Mirren didn't play but ended the day bottom of the league due to Motherwell picking up a point and Ross County's 4th consecutive win !!!

Thanks for all the thoughts, folks, but my disappointment at being the butt of the 'How do you know you're reading the paper upside down?' joke is tempered by the Jags being pulled back into the swamp down at the foot. We'll be fine.

[EdgeleyRob]

FA Cup quarter final.

Liverpool 0 Blackburn Rovers 0. Deserved replay for the visitors despite plenty of late pressure from our team

[cloughie]

FA Cup quarter final.

Liverpool 0 Blackburn Rovers 0. Deserved replay for the visitors despite plenty of late pressure from our team

I guess there are more than a few of us on your sporting pink list who would like to have seen an upset at Anfield!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

well tonight will be a choice of two weevils eh?

[jayne lee wilson]

FA Cup quarter final.

Liverpool 0 Blackburn Rovers 0. Deserved replay for the visitors despite plenty of late pressure from our team

A very "hmm..." afternoon...

Perspiration minus inspiration = frustration. We scarcely got going till the hour. Henderson left his shooters in the boot room, Markovic reverted to running up blind alleys (he's got "getting nowhere fast" down to a fine art), Lallana kept running into the blue and white brick wall... to cap it all, Coutinho - Coutinho, for God's sake - had forgotten to calibrate his rangefinder.
(Oh and Balotelli - who's been a good, if not a super-, sub in recent weeks - gave us his favourite cameo of "30 yards out, 40 yards over the bar").

Blackburn? They did a rear-wheel-drive** Chelsea on us really, but - at the extreme risk of inviting hubris - I think we made them look better than they are. So it's the deja vu of another replay in old industrial N.Lancs, and - recalling what happened last time, I could do with just a little less excitement than the late show we put on at Bolton!
It remains a worry though, that we can't poke them in from 6 yards very much - when Toure stuck one in, you just knew it would be disallowed...

(**credit to Barney Ronay for this priceless descriptive inspiration).

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

well "Perspiration minus inspiration = frustration" describes les bleus .... not through on away goals against a 10 man team is not very special at all ...not scoring goals is a problem

[EdgeleyRob]

well "Perspiration minus inspiration = frustration" describes les bleus .... not through on away goals against a 10 man team is not very special at all ...not scoring goals is a problem

Didn't see the game but shocked that Chelsea are out,did I not expect that.

Results.

Champions league

Chelsea 2 PSG 2 (AET) 3-3 on aggregate,PSG through on away goals.Not so special.

FA Cup.

Manchester United Association Football Club 1 Arsenal 2. Not at all special.

Scottish Cup.

Inverness Caledonian 1 Raith Rovers 0. Very special

Reading 2 Brighton 1. Not special
Coventry 1 Bradford City 1, A bit special
Wrexham 0 Southport 0. Unspecial

[cloughie]

well "Perspiration minus inspiration = frustration" describes les bleus .... not through on away goals against a 10 man team is not very special at all ...not scoring goals is a problem

As a supporter of a club which has terminal goal drought I can't believe that Chelsea has the same disease!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

it is a relative goal deficit cloughie

[jayne lee wilson]

Commiserations Cal, sorry... but what stunning football drama it was...! Silva giving away the pen, then scoring the decider! And a certain poetic justice after Ibra's unjust dismissal - some of us switch on to watch him above all...but Paris S-G kept shape, discipline & played a great match.
Champions League in the Spring is always the best of it and really gets you going, even when your own team are out.

But then, Schalke nearly knocked out Real, for heaven's sake... Maybe Man City's fate next week isn't quite as pre-determined as it looks...another unmissable!

***
If I was a United fan I'd be angriest at Januzaj - past Monreal, through on goal, and he decides to go to ground when he could have had a go... (we saw rather too much of that (oh, real amateur-dramatics stuff) in Chelsea-PSG too - no wonder Souness was so fed up with it).
... as for Di Maria, you see so much shirt-pulling go unpunished it's quite an achievement to get sent off for pulling the referee's....
(feel a bit sorry for poor Angel though - so creative, but wasted & frustrated in his current role, if he even has one...could be worse though - at least he isn't Radamel Falcao...)

[Beef Oven!]

I was busy last night, missed the results. Did Chelsea go through ok?

[teamsaint]

I was busy last night, missed the results. Did Chelsea go through ok?

And did Ibrahimavic play nicely?

[Beef Oven!]

And did Ibrahimavic play nicely?

And is Mourinho taking it well?

[teamsaint]

And is Mourinho taking it well?

I imagine so.

Just seen the Ibrahimovic sending off, and he was unlucky.

Still the number one most annoying player in world football though.