Each semi-final always brings the same. We’re talking about a fantastic football team. So why? As a match strategy we were not going to lose.I don’t know if it’s the advertising for Unicef. I don’t know if it’s UEFA. Congratulations for a wonderful football team. It must be difficult to get this power. They have managed to get this power. No-one else has any chance really. Arsène Wenger. Today myself. I don’t understand why. I hope one day I will find the answer.

It’s mission impossible. They have to reach the final and they will. That’s it. Perhaps they could win on merit. This match was bound for a nil-nil result. Why did he do this? He won’t answer because now he is going home. Last year was a miracle but this year absolutely nothing. Why don’t they let other teams play against them?

Yes we are out. We will go there with all the pride and respect for our world. Sometimes I feel disgusted living in this world and earning my living in this world. We have to do it with pride. Without Pepe. Without Sergio Ramos. Without the coach. The result is practically impossible to revert. If we score in Barcelona they will kill us again. There is no chance for us. I know many Catalan friends and they will be happy and they’re going to Wembley but to win this way cannot feel the same.

I won two European titles and I won them on the pitch. I would’ve been embarrassed to win that title because it was won with the scandal of Stamford Bridge. This will be won with the scandal of the Bernabeu. I hope one day he wins a Champions League title as it should be, perfect, spotless, without any scandal.

Jose Mourinho, post-match, onsdag aften

Liverpool’s nye away-kit er blevet offentliggjort her til morgen. We like. A lot!

#9 kom igang i aftes mod Manchester City…

Lucas, Luis & Maxi.

Liverpool – Manchester United, søndag, kl. 14.30, 6’eren/downthelocal

– If it was any other club or player, you can bet your life he would have been sent off. But officials seem intimidated by the words “Rooney” and “United”. Manchester United are allowed to get away with things the rest of us get pulled up for. And you can’t have one set of rules for one club and another for the rest.  I don’t care what the FA say about the matter being dealt with at the time by us getting a free-kick. They, and everyone else in football, know justice isn’t being served here. The FA will be delighted they can hide behind their rules and let Rooney off, as they are frightened of taking sanctions against him and his club.

Wigan-ejer Dave Whelan om Wayne Rooney’s albuehændelse i lørdags.

Lad os få ugen på vej med et billede af den 18-årige Pele foran Michel’s Eck, et daværende udskænkningssted i St. Pauli, Hamburg. Året er 1959 og få timer tidligere har FC Santos besejret et udvalgt Hamburg-byhold med hele 6-0. Det overskud fejres med sightseeing på Reeperbahn…

What Rino did was an unpleasant episode that was not good. But he has been deeply provoked and should not be criminalised.

AC Milan-president Adriano Galliani forbereder os på en mindelig UEFA-løsning i sagen om anfører Gattuso’s dubiøse optræden mod Joe Jordan, Peter Crouch og resten af Spurs forleden.

Og mens vi er omkring fodboldens færdselspoliti, har UEFA i går fremsat prisniveauet for årets Champions League-finale på Wembley. Hold fast, man kan frit vælge fra de billige billetter på £176 stykket – til den spotpris dog sikkert med begrænset udsyn – til de lidt dyrere oppe på £326 pr. plastiksæde. Fodbold for folket, nej, ikke ifølge Michael Platini og UEFA-banden nede i Schweiz. Pampere.

De 1.500 Liverpool-tilhængeres billetter til UEFA Europa League-udekampen i Prag i aftes var prissat helt op til £145. Henvendelser til UEFA derom fra engelske medier – samt højlydte protester fra supportergrupper – indtil videre mødt med en forudsigelig mur af tavshed…