Champions League Knock Out Stages Draw - 16 Dec 2011 - Nyon

[LDG]

Why watch at all if you think it's fixed? I wouldn't bother if I thought that, where's the fun in that?

Dennis Bender could have scored the winner....but cocked it up. You can't legislate for everything in a match. You can't fix it all.

Hang on....

Dennis Bender could have scored the winner....but cocked it up.

Yup. As predicted.

Fix!

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Do they not do the next stage at this draw, or am I thinking of the Qtrs >>> Semis??

Anyway. For Clarity's sake.

Ars/Mil v Barca or Real
Chelsea v Barca or Real

I'll be back to quote this after the next draw

No they do it in the last 8 draw

[LDG]

And lots of people tweeting different draws, no doubt, and all those tweets forgotten...
Someone wins the lottery most weeks. It's not a fix it's just there are a lot of tickets out there and if you know anything about probabilities you'll know the chances of someone winning are quite high. The chances of it being you are very low.

Regards the lottery.

Always fat people.

Always.

[Letters]

Regards the lottery.

Always fat people.

Always.

Really?

*buys ticket*

[Kano]

It's fucking corrupt. The whole sodding lot of it.

I'll still watch it all though.

I'm a fucking mug.

[Kaiser]

The two seeded English teams in both the CL and EL were drawn first...

[Joker]

Someone on Redcafe posted the draws that Chelsea have had in the FA Cup over the last 5-6 seasons, and especially in the early rounds, they've always had extremely easy opposition, and if you compare their draws with the draws of other "big" teams, I'm sure the difference is statistically significant at the 1% level.

[Niall_Quinn]

Rigged to what end? What are they trying to achieve by fixing it, whoever 'they' are?

Good one!

Are you serious?

The first of the fixes is publicly announced, it's called seeding which is another way to say rigging the draw so the big teams all find it easier to get to the latter rounds. Why? Money, what other possible reason could there be? None of these parasites actually has any interest in the game beyond how much it can make them. "They" are the people who skim money from football and put it in their pockets because they have friends who write stuff on paper that says they are entitled.

But we know all this.

[Syn]

15th Feb AC Milan
18th Feb (FA Cup 5th round)
26th Feb Tottenham Hotspur
3rd Mar Liverpool
6th Mar AC Milan
10th Mar Newcastle United

Our season usually falls apart a bit later than this.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bollocks, Gervinho is going to be knackered by the time he gets back. Although I suppose the same might be true of 'Prince'.