Champions leage final who do you want to win?

[RexCathedra]

Whenever i have no national dog in the hunt, I plump for whoever has the smallest total wage bill.

Similarly, in the NCAA basketball tournament, whatever school actually makes their players go to actual classes. (My bracket lasts usually two rounds...)

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

7-8 are German, fair enough. But my point still stands imo. They still get paid ridiculously high wages, and if we (Britain) produced as much young talent as they seem to then I have no doubt we'd play them.

We could produce as much talent as the Germans but the Premier League runs football in England and the clubs choose not to develop and nuture English talent.

 

[goofball]

BLUE IS THE COLOUR! CHELSEA! ask poyet who he wants to win

 

[TheBlueAndWhiteStrips]

It's only two though isn't it? It's fair to say Bayern are predominately German whereas Chelsea are not predominately English.

I believe the current Bayern squad has 13 Germans out of 24 players while Chelsea have 8 English in there squad.

 

[goofball]

also i heard from members of chelsea that poyet was at newcastle game midweek, and rumoured hes on way to wolves..

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I believe the current Bayern squad has 13 Germans out of 24 players while Chelsea have 8 English in there squad.

Fair enough. I have counted and it's 14 Germans. That said they seemingly only regularly start games with 3 non-German players in their 11.

 

[TS90]

Same as. I think it must be "cool" or "trendy" in some weird way to not want the team representing the English League to win or something

Why the f*** would you want Chelsea to represent you?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Why the f*** would you want Chelsea to represent you?

This is the best response in this thread. Quite.

 

[chez]

WTF?? We have an English club in the Champions League final that aren't Man Utd, why would you not want them to win.

Chelsea all the way, absolute no brainer. It's England Vs Germany for fucks sake!!!!!

 

[Dowling93]

Bayern if Newcastle get 4th as they have been an exciting team to watch this season and deserve Champions League next season

 

[ferring seagull]

As a Jock in Sussex for nearly 35 years, and whilst I don't especially like some of their personnel, that will be Chelsea who are an English Club. Does that surprise everyone ?

 

[Marc1901]

WTF??

It's England Vs Germany for fucks sake!!!!!

Exactly!

If it was Chelsea against Madrid I wouldn't give to shits but it's against the Germans so I want Chelski to win. Simple.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Chelsea or Bayern?

Schimples... Chelsea... I shall find myself a watering hole somewhere around the Fulham Road or Putney Bridge again.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

I believe the current Bayern squad has 13 Germans out of 24 players while Chelsea have 8 English in there squad.

Not bad for a top EPL side huh? And we could have three of the back four from Chelsea in the England side too.

 

[westy1983]

Bayern, Chelsea aren't an English team. They're Russian/Italian/Czech/Spanish/Ivorian/Serbian and others, with a smattering of English. Let's be under no illusions!!!

So what are Bayern?

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

The only 'connection' I have with Chelsea is that their ground happens to be in the same country that my mother was in 9 months after I was conceived.

Sorry, but that alone is not enough for me to want them to win anything.

I'd rather judge clubs on my perception of their individual merits (or lack thereof) rather than any geographical concerns.

Probably more association than you have with Barca yet you support them

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Some of the posts in this thread make me want to vomit and have only made me want Bayern to win more.


Chelsea are about as English as Hitler's left foot. "They're representing England" absolute bollocks, most of them are representing their wage-packet foremost and a couple are representing Chelsea - not England.

Hope they get battered.

 

[W.C.]

Stupid question unless you're anti English.

oh yawn.

I'm not anti-English, whatever that f***ing means, and I will be cheering on ze Germans.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Not bad for a top EPL side huh? And we could have three of the back four from Chelsea in the England side too.

It's a sad day when 8 of your 24 man squad is English and that is considered 'not bad'. Kind of proves the point.

 

[Brovion]

I'm a patriotic Englishman - so I don't care. When Liverpool played Borrusia Moenchengladbach in 1977 the entire country was behind Liverpool as the match was effectively Britain v Germany, but those days have long gone. Unlike the national side Chelsea don't represent 'England' in any true sense: they're foreign-owned with a foreign manager and foreign players; saying "I'm supporting them because they play in England" is on a par with saying "I'm supporting them because they play in blue".

If you want to support Chelsea for the night then fine. But it's not a patriotic duty.