The FIFA Club World Championship Thread

[IAceI]

So a real classy affair then, as usual from Channel 5.

The football sandwiched in between Zoo Days. Nice.

[King Ellis]

zOMG, 2-1! The comeback is on!

Oh no it isn't. ROOOOOOOONEYNEYNEYNEYNEYNEY!

I totally jinxed these guys with this post. FLETCHER!

Jesus Christ. ROOOOOOOOOOOOONEYNEYNEYNEYNEYNEYNEYNEYNEYNEYNEY!

If I was Keith this thread would be on page 235 now. 5-2!

Come on! 5-3!

Edited December 18, 2008 by We Three Kings of Ellis

[Marcos]

Seriously! I turned this over at half time because I needed to do some studying for my exam tomorrow.

Slightly pissed off now

[Liam]

Watched it at work. Was glad Osaka scored a couple of goals, as they didn't play horrendously, they just couldn't defend for shit.

[Baddar]

Well that was an entertaining second half.

It was a shame we conceded 3 goals, but in all honesty, it seemed like whenever United wanted to turn things up and score, they could've done so quite easily, which showed when they pulled it back to 2-1.

[The Future]

So the final is 30 minutes away, my personal line up would be:

Van Der Sar

Evra Rio Vidic Rafael

Park Carrick Fletcher Ronaldo

Rooney Tevez

[AJ]

The crowd being made up mostly of locals is making this a lot more exciting than it ought to be. Every time Utd are on the attack there's this wave of both expectation and astonishment amongst the Japanese fans.

Does look at the minute like it's only a matter of time before they go ahead.

[Crybaby Bunting]

Vidic will now miss the first leg of the CL match, with a chance of getting a longer one upon review thanks to an elbow.

[9 to 5]

Fuck Vidic. His red card led to Tevez being subbed and I had money on him scoring.

[FireDoughnut]

Seems like a harsh red card to me.

He was pushing the guy off him, and he made the most of it. A yellow I could agree with... but not a red.

[Dan]

Ugh, why didn't I decide to watch the 1-0 and not the 5-3

[Baddar]

There we go. Probably would have been more if we didn't have Veda sent off, but we played well when down to 10 men nonetheless.

[Matt]

Ugh, does this mean that I'm going to hear "World Champions Manchester United" for the next year?

[The Future]

Well yeah because it's the truth

[Turbo Yannis]

That looked like a "Get off me, you fucking twat" kind of elbow.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Well yeah because it's the truth

Yeah he's got a point.

They did just beat the 8th best team in Japan this season 5-3 and then an Ecuadorian team currently ranked the 34th top club (with 4 players from their squad of 38 to come from abroad) and are the fourth most successful club in Ecuador.

[Matt]

Well yeah because it's the truth

I'm pretty sure Dagenham and Redbridge could have given those teams a run for their money. Plus you didn't actually play half of the teams in the competition, you got a bye to the semi finals.

[Crybaby Bunting]

To be perfectly honest, it's a meaningless trophy anyway because it's got no real history going for it and only really features two games from the top teams. Most teams would prefer the Carling Cup to it, in terms of prestige.

What they should just have tried to do was create an international club ranking system to cover the world, then picked the top 32 to do a few games over a summer.

Instead this just messes EVERYTHING up for most teams.

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

Don't care if it's apparently meaningless, winning it is all that matters. It might not seem like a big deal to people here, but it clearly does to the players. So what if the teams aren't mind blowing? You have to win the Champions League to get there, which United did, so it wasn't fucking easy in winning it.

Shame about Vidic, losing him in the first leg against Milan is going to be crazy, but we'll see how it works out.

[The Future]

Well yeah because it's the truth

Yeah he's got a point.

They did just beat the 8th best team in Japan this season 5-3 and then an Ecuadorian team currently ranked the 34th top club (with 4 players from their squad of 38 to come from abroad) and are the fourth most successful club in Ecuador.

What are United supposed to do? We were obligated to face those teams and we beat them. We deserved the win in both matches and I'll gladly play in this tournament every year as it means we won the Champions League.