It is now time to switch to a new Money AM football blog as the world cup is now over and we all look to the future.....World cup 2010 is over, Bravo Espana, and Forlan, once again and bring on the new season !.....I never expected the last thread to be such a success...thanks all.... so this new one might go on for years without the need to edit the title...we shall see...

Nice one rf, brilliant defending Cahill and Cole superb, bodes well for England. Will be having a punt on Messi 1st goalscorer next week though.

Yes they were superb in defense.....a repeat performance is necessary with a couple of away goals....

Just seen the end bit of the australian final Brisbane-Perth...: if there is ever an ------ ref there was one in that final...injury time and 94 min...and a player dives after missing the ball...and he awards a penalty.....hope that the UK never ever has a ref like that...what a berk !....

4-4.....what a scoreline.....must have been a great match between ManU and Everton....

Barca out of the race for the spanish title.....2 losses in a week for the catalan giants....Chelsea will have to be at their best on tuesday....

Bravo Chelsea.....!!!...wonderful.....had a just a £10 bet to qualify......nothing else..... delighted....for the blues....sorry for John Terry..and Ramires but what a result........

Great result for Chelsea but I certainly don't feel sorry for that idiot Terry , he knew what he was doing.

Not having sky....cannot say....bad week for the catalans.....2 finals for the blues...

What a twat!

And again.

Ah bless - Terry’s in tears

Yes...it looks like a wooden leg knee thing.....bad reflex thing to do....

Real or Bayern.....both excellent teams.....almost impossible to predict....the Germans are well capable of getting an away goal......might go to extra time this one....

Chelsea's final last night, got through with the help of the football 'Gods'. How Terry expected to get away with those tactics with the amount of officials watching only he knows, pillock! With the amount of players now missing they wont be favourites whoever they play in the final, may suit them? Can't see lightening striking twice. To see 10 players parked in the penalty area isn't football.

True....Final is in Munich.....Chelsea will not be favourites ...far from it....English teams seem to be getting to the champions league final and losing most of the time...but who knows for sure ?...might just be their year !...

Perhaps it will be a day when the forwards turn up - Kalou for example takes the field and does nothing other than lose the ball or miss golden opportunities. Terry still goes home as a multi millionaire - what has happened to the game since the crowd turned up in jacket and tie and a ratting cap - and many of us footballers were part time professionals.

Couldn't diasagree with CC's comment "To see 10 players parked in the penalty area isn't football" more

In fact it is - and that's perhaps why all the other english clubs are out - with Man U being the only other british team imo with the tactical nous to recognise that

Tactical nous my arse, how many Chelsea players as a result of playing those tactics including your so called Captain are missing from the Final? There is no way I would pay to watch that crap week in week out.

Gardiola will be ManU's next manager.....you read it here... Sir Alex Ferguson is in no rush to retire and rightly so.....and I presume that even if he did he would become a director of football for ManU....so as to influence the style of play....he probably is the greatest manger the world has ever seen !....anyway I think that the catalan manager is probably going to be in strong contention for the manger's job at old trafford......by the way ManU are going to have to make their stadium bigger....it might become almost the size of wembley (not quite)..but almost with good planning.....impossible to bet on the ManU-Man City derby.....could go either way so a draw possibly ?...

So naive - we don't play like that every week, and had we played the way I suspect you'd have wanted, we would have been annihilated.

Armchair pundits, eh ?

Naive ?

...... Oh well That's all right then, Chelsea's game plan fly on the wall :-

Look lads we have no chance of beating Barcelona fairly and squarely, they are so much better than us. Let's kick their players off the ball, Terry your the Captain lead by example mate. Ten men behind the ball and stop them from playing, foul the bastards outside the box, if you think you can get away with it inside the box as a last resort. Hope the ref is blind in one eye including the linesmen and third official behind the goal. Drogba your job is to hold up play in our half if and when you get the ball but make sure you get fouled, dive anyway, act as if you have two broken legs and take a ten minute nap. Oh and by the way if we get a lucky break do us a favour and either make or score a goal. Winnings what counts lads, after all it's only the Champions League semi final second leg, what's football got to do with it? If they can't take a joke fuxk em! Terry if if you get caught giving one of their players a dead leg plead insanity. Go get em lads!

Yes Congratulations Chelsea, Good Luck in the Final :O)

Sounds like a game plan from I think Helenio Herrera for InterMilan in the 1960's .....