UEFA Champions League Final, Manchester United vs. FC Barcelona

[serious14]

Stadio Olimpico, Rome - 27th May 2009, 20.45 CET kickoff.  4.45am AEST on the 28th May.

Capacity - 72 689

VS.

Right, first things first.  Who's going??  ​

 

[fedelta]

if only

 

[serious14]

Right, one return airfare to Rome booked.  ;D

Match ticket or not, I don't care.  After missing out last year because of Visa issues with Russia, I promised myself I wasn't ever going to miss out again.  To have the chance come around again so soon, and in my favourite city in the world...... well that's just something else. 

verhead:

 

[mariners4ever]

Right, one return airfare to Rome booked.  ;D

Match ticket or not, I don't care.  After missing out last year because of Visa issues with Russia, I promised myself I wasn't ever going to miss out again.  To have the chance come around again so soon, and in my favourite city in the world...... well that's just something else. 

verhead:

:'( 
fark, i'm so bloody jealous,so you going to rome then going straight to england ??
have fun  ;D 8)  

 

[serious14]

Nah, coming back here for one last fling. 

 

[clarence]

Nah, coming back here for one last fling. 

Are you leaving Australia permanently or for a long time, Serious? Sounds like it that's all.

WTF, you couldn't get into Russia! How did you accomplish that - they'll let Bin Laden in if he promises to behave.

 

[serious14]

Nah, coming back here for one last fling. 

Are you leaving Australia permanently or for a long time, Serious? Sounds like it that's all.

WTF, you couldn't get into Russia! How did you accomplish that - they'll let Bin Laden in if he promises to behave.

Yeah, off to England for a while. 

Tried twice to get a Russian Visa ('cause I got into the next stage of ticket app. for the final) but got rejected for no good reason other than...... I don't quite know.

 

[tuftman]

Nah, coming back here for one last fling. 

Shit


















I mean awesome

Nah, coming back here for one last fling. 

Are you leaving Australia permanently or for a long time, Serious? Sounds like it that's all.

WTF, you couldn't get into Russia! How did you accomplish that - they'll let Bin Laden in if he promises to behave.

Yeah, off to England for a while. 

Tried twice to get a Russian Visa ('cause I got into the next stage of ticket app. for the final) but got rejected for no good reason other than...... I don't quite know.

Conspiracy theory says that ROman Abramovich pulled strings to stop ManYoo supporters getting into the country

 

[Auburn Mariner]

Mate, enjoy, be safe, avoid Lazio fans, bring home the Cup for us.

 

[Sym]

Bring me back an Italian female pls

 

[Tassiemariner]

Serious = nutcase

Enjoy your time over there and avoid the roma fans too. 

 

[serious14]

http://www.fergiefields.com

Well, I've found my place to party on down.  ;D

 

[serious14]

Teams anyone??

For Manchester United I'd be leaning towards the following, barring injuries:

------------------Van Der Sar-------------------
O'Shea--------Vidic--------Ferdinand--------Evra
Carrick-------------Anderson---------------Giggs
Ronaldo-------------Rooney-----------------Park

Anyone more educated than me on the matter wanna take a stab at Barca??

 

[bjw]

Van Der Sar
O'Shea, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra
Carrick, Anderson, Giggs
Ronaldo
Berbatov, Rooney

 

[tuftman]

Teams anyone??

For Manchester United I'd be leaning towards the following, barring injuries:

------------------Van Der Sar-------------------
O'Shea--------Vidic--------Ferdinand--------Evra
Carrick-------------Anderson---------------Giggs
Ronaldo-------------Rooney-----------------Park

Anyone more educated than me on the matter wanna take a stab at Barca??

I'm just guessing a little:

                                          Valdes

Puyol                    Marquez                  Pique                    Sylvinho

                                        Seydou Keita

                        Iniesta                    Xavi Hernandez


Messi                                                                                    Henry


                                        Eto'o


I do know that Iniesta is racing to be fit, if he isn't I'd suspect youth product Sergio Busquest would slot into midfield. Abidal is suspended, and so is Alves I think? I heard or read that Yaya Toure is injured as well? so Barca arent really at full strength for this one, which is a shame

 

[mariners4ever]

Teams anyone??

For Manchester United I'd be leaning towards the following, barring injuries:

------------------Van Der Sar-------------------
O'Shea--------Vidic--------Ferdinand--------Evra
Carrick-------------Anderson---------------Giggs
Ronaldo-------------Rooney-----------------Park

Anyone more educated than me on the matter wanna take a stab at Barca??

I'm just guessing a little:

                                          Valdes

Puyol                    Marquez                   Pique                     Sylvinho

                                        Seydou Keita

                         Iniesta                     Xavi Hernandez


Messi                                                                                     Henry


                                         Eto'o


I do know that Iniesta is racing to be fit, if he isn't I'd suspect youth product Sergio Busquest would slot into midfield. Abidal is suspended, and so is Alves I think? I heard or read that Yaya Toure is injured as well? so Barca arent really at full strength for this one, which is a shame

meh, they're beatable

 

[Arabmariner]

Serious  travel advice!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/8058877.stm

 

[serious14]

I spoke to the Australian Embassy in Italy earlier today, they didn't have any specific advice (didn't really expect them to tbf) - they just referred me to any advice given by the Brits, Italians, and the respective clubs.  Areas of caution duly noted.

P.S.  10 000 ticketless fans??  No way, expect triple that from both sides.

 

[FFC Mariner]

Mate, stay with the bulk of the fans and dont wander around alone in colours and have a great time.

Mayor Gianni Alemanno said: "Rome welcomes the British fans with open arms and we look forward to celebrating this great sporting festival together."

 

[serious14]

Mate, stay with the bulk of the fans and dont wander around alone in colours and have a great time.

Shall do chief.  Got the "to avoid" (official advice, etc.) areas marked out just in case, and everything else is sorted.  Now it's just a case of playing the waiting game (21 hours until flight departure).

Got some spare Euro put aside for any potential ticket obtaining as well..... the typical "it's half an hour until kickoff and I need to get rid of this ticket for whatever cost" type of scalper that you always run into.  It's worked for me before and it will work for me again.  ;D