[cry]

this was unpleasant. again. [mad]

Curious what will happen now with the UEFA cup final. Parma's goalkeeper was missiled by the CSKA crowd and was unbale to continue the game. The ref somehow said 'play on' and CSKA won 3-0.

Sporting will be home in their own stadium now for the final.

I had deja vu today. Well at least AZ also put up a great fight. Both AZ and PSV can be proud of their achievement and the way the played.

Still sucks big time of course.

Any chance that AZ and Feyenoord won't loose next week? [rolleyes]

With feyenoord playing psv I doubt it. Gullit hinted at a possible departure. I read that Nelisse wants to go to Groningen, but Utrecht wants him as well. Nelisse-Nevland, nice duo next season in the new stadium.

The only real news is that UEFA once again proves it's incompetence: a very mild penalty for CSKA moscow, where as Inter got a match loss.

Yeah, very strange act from UEFA. Seems they hate Italians! ;)

But anyway, that game was continued, the Milan game was ended. That is a big difference!

I was amazed by that one as well...let's just say fans launch a fireworkmissile at the Keeper. Keeper is caried off whilst match goes on. Team loses and "only" penalty is some cash loss (easily made up by playing the final!!!) and playing the first round next year somewhere else (for CSKA that means they play Andorra's runner up at home without the crowd that would have met 500...). One could argue Parma should have quit the match entirely but In Moscow that was probably not an option.

IMO it's the uefa who should take action if the referee doesn't. Different referees take different actions, no matter what the uefa prescribes. In this case, it is clear that the safety of the players was at stake. The same penalty as inter got seems very appropriate. Cowards.

Van der Vaart linked to Hamburger SV.

So, Heracles champion of the first division. I must say they've earned it, previous season was a good one for them as well. Obviously I'd rather have seen Sparta as champions, but they screwed up last week.

Van der Vaart signed for HSV!

Interesting choice for him I say...My bet is he will end up like most "talents" of Ajax that left the club too soon and he will play for a minor club in say 3 years.