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Have to say I agree with LGJM on this one. Tough titty if you have to travel over a couple of days to get to the game. If you can make it there any which way then the game should go ahead in my opinion.

Me too

As someone that doesn't mind Hull City (I know I'm in a minority on here!!) but who does hate West Ham, I'm hoping for a Hull victory tonight to pile the pressure on West Ham. I'm also praying that it's Fulham, of all teams, who send the Appy Ammers down

Really annoying having these semis commentated on by people watching it in a studio and not at the match itself

Have some of that Ribery you dirty, ugly little w.anker.
Horrible challenge.

I get the feeling he might have had other things on his mind the last few days than playing football.

10 V 10 now. Very harsh second booking, IMO. Both had there feet up going for the ball, don't even think it was a foul.

ITV - rubbish

That was a pretty poor decision for the second yellow, wasnt even a foul

They'd have had to get there by coach and ferry - there's no way you could expect them to be on top of their commentary under such testing circumstances.

Whoever just stole Robbens goal take a boo son

If Glazer's gunna whack out another loan to strengthen the side this summer, I do hope he avoids Ribery.

I just wish we'd tried harder to get Robben before Chelski came in for him.

2-0 to Villa now. Milner penalty.

You can make all the accusations you want, when I wrote the comment about Barca, it was purely about Barca, I wasn't hinting at an excuse for Liverpool or thinking about Liverpool when I wrote it, I was thinking about Barca as I felt it was unfair that they'd received a hindrance for such a major game.

This isn't about consistent changing dates, it's just about being a little more flexible during times when something is clearly affecting the competition. How are our supporters supposed to get there? Why can't they just delay the game for a few games for the benefit of our team and supporters? If Atletico had to travel, I'd say exactly the same as I'd want a fair tie and I'd see it as unfair on their supporters and team, because it is. The whole 'home and away' advantage is mythical, what good will having them at home in the second leg be if they beat us 3-0 at their place because we had disruptive match preparations?

You can say all you like about Barca and the vvankfest, maybe the coach travel didn't affect them, maybe it won't affect us, but we'll never know but what we do know is they put in a sub-par performance against Inter. As I already said, these games are hard enough to win alone, without having added obstacles. Atletico, Inter, Hamburg and Bayern won't face such obstacles in a couple of weeks, we'll obviously have to accept it and get on with it, but it isn't 'fair' on the teams or the supporters.