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| closing notes | 12:07am 2/23/2006  |
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Okay, that was an ultra-weak red card on Asier Del Horno. If anything it was given as the result of a series of clumsy challenges, but the one that earned the red was baloney. Lionel Messi definitely made a show for the ref. A yellow card, perhaps ... Del Horno ran into him after the ball had been played. But no malicious intent, no last defender status ... i can't imagine why the ref pulled the red in that situation with an hour of the match left to be played. To give Mourinho and Rijkaard something to debate for the next two weeks, i suppose. I guess i (and José) can't make too much of a stink when just a few weeks ago Arjen Robben got Jose Reina sent off after similar embelishment. Although Reina had just hacked down Eidur Gudjohnsen and then slapped Robben, either of which could've been grounds for dismissal. Oh well. I'll let it go now. I'm sure Mourinho won't. 2-1 down after one leg. An iffy dismissal in the match that went against us. 1-nil up before the remaining ten Blues gave up two late goals. Media fireworks forthcoming. At the halfway point of the contest, there are eerie similarities to the way things went down last year. Only this time we played the first leg in London and have to go on the road for the penultimate match. Enough naysaying, i'm behind John, Frank, Damien, Arjen, and company to duplicate last year's epic 4-2 turnaround, this time on the enemy's home turf of the Camp Nou. | |
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