Village Idiot

What's so FFS about it?

After watching him through the years I have noticed one thing. Messi isn't selfish, but won't pass you the ball if he believes you'll f*** things up. That's often detrimental, but it's the way he is. Imho the key of getting the best of him is just surrounding him with players he thinks are good enough and he'll enjoy playing with.

All in all, I believe we are now playing the way Lucho intended. For all the talk about him losing the plot and him tinkering endlessly, we seem to have ended up where he wanted. We are more direct and take more risks going forward, instead of passing it around the opponent's box waiting for a hole to open. More risks mean more chances of getting countered - so the defensive fragility is somewhat by design. Earlier in the season the team couldn't cope with this new "style", we'd lose lots of balls in midfield and open us up against the opposition. PSG in particular had a field day in the CL pressing our midfield. But the team just seems to have adjusted to it now, and the ball gets to the front guys quickly and in more dangerous positions. Also, Messi. It's stupid how good he can make a team just by himself. It's not only the goals, it's him dropping deep and spraying passes... he's at his best since the 91 goals season, imho.

The team's clicking. There was a lot of instances earlier in the season where we tried playing at higher tempo and the attack would just break down, for example, as the players weren't used to it - which in turn would generate counters. The front three is gelling too and our attack right now is very fluid. So there's more to it than just twatting small teams, since the same small teams were giving us more trouble earlier in the year. We'll see when we face better teams (we managed Atlético quite well, though). I do believe that our defensive system isn't up to snuff to face the attacking threat of some of the top teams, but at least we have some teeth now.

I still believe our defensive system is too fragile to really go the distance against truly top teams, but at least I'm enjoying our games massively.

Aye, it's so weird. 40 days ago everything seemed to unravel, and now we're playing the best football since Pep left.

Gonna get done for public indecency soon. Don't think I can get my hands off my dick at the Camp Nou for much longer.

If he thought he was good enough, why was it wrong for him to move to City? You're supposed to aspire to be part of the best.

We've won a trophy! Somebody dug up a communiqué from the Spanish FA dated from 1953 granting us the Eva Duarte Cup (Supercopa precedent), as winners of the 1952-53 league and cup. Supercopa rules weren't clearly laid out back then, so it wasn't clear if we'd actually won it or not.

The whole sequence of events man. Dismal campaign -> internal inquest -> keep the manager and bring Kinnear.

You speak like UEFA isn't corrupt to the bone itself Platini was one of the main drivers for Qatar getting the WC.

So his PR filth even works in Spain? As Mike pointed out, our so-called "premier league experts" just copy-paste whatever the English media say.

He had Liverpool "against the ropes" according to our press today. I give up.

I wanted a replay tbf, would have loved to have Palace fans put up with the extra games excuse until they got relegated to League 1.

People in this board celebrating a Liverpool goal; Pardew manages the unthinkable

Classy

Manuel Pablo starting at CB against Real Madrid. He's 39 and this is his first game of the season, this is going to end up in tears

C'mon, we're supposed to be pals. Saint George and all.

Mehdi talks about the possibility of NUFC winning games as if it's somehow doing something completely out of the ordinary. Winning 1 in 6 is good in this league man, of course winning games is out of the ordinary.

You should have picked Sevilla - Córdoba. Xisco's unlikely to make you feel bad. Truth. Didn't he get loaned to Mallorca? True, had missed that move.

It was quite scary how they repeated the same trite talking points "placed Newcastle fifth" "didn't have control on transfers" "has now revived Palace's fortunes"

You should have picked Sevilla - Córdoba. Xisco's unlikely to make you feel bad.

Catalan TV heaping praise upon him in their FA Cup previews.

36th in the NO league after a terrible start. Top 200 in Spain though!