Village Idiot

Carver looks like a fat Sean Bean.

Uuuuuyyyyyyy!!! Gorgeous ball from Sissoko.

Lovely feet by Cabella.

Watching! My record is pretty good, I have yet to see NUFC lose at SJP on the telly.

Still get a sinking feeling upon reading that surname in a NUFC lineup, until a split second later I realize it's his brother.

Spoke to soon. He's not doing too great. People say he's too conservative, score one goal and then protect the lead. They paid for it yesterday. Anyway, he's improved results over his predecessor, just not massively. Still early days.

He never got much of a crack of the whip, which is strange since he cost a fair bit and he apparently was a Simeone signing. I guess something didn't go well behind the scenes.

Is there a joke in his new name? I don't get it.

Our media are rather insular, to be honest. People playing outside Spain barely get a look unless they were already big names when they left (Torres, for example). Michu was hard to ignore in his first season, though, and the rest of Spanish players there helped drive a mini "Spanish Swansea" craze. Same happened with Liverpool under Benítez - they were the most popular English team in Spain by some distance.

Aye, they don't. Swansea got some airplay over here when Michu was banging them in for fun, also with Rangel, Chico, Hernández... They angled for it quite heavily, mind: http://s.libertaddigital.com/fotos/noticias/650/0/spanish-swansea.jpg

El Shaarawy looked like he would take over the world, just 2-3 years ago.

He's so fucking happy in that pic

Simeone

Well, that was a fascinating Merseyside derby. There were like one or two phases of play where I didn't feel like falling asleep.

That meme hasn't made it to Spain, to be frank.

Did exactly the same. I did it with Agüero. At least he got an assist...

It's just that you don't get shown much in Spain unless you're up against the glamour sides, yet we get to see both of your matches against fucking Stoke. Weird.

On the Spanish telly! Will watch. Funnily Stoke - NUFC was shown over here too.

Madrid

No, they have been terrible today. EDIT: They just bagged their first. Great save.

Real Madrid are a shambles this afternoon

No surprise, Leicester are woeful. Aye, expected them to win this game myself. Leicester are hopeless.

I wonder about this new-found love of Ancelotti for Khedira, he clearly doesn't give a fuck. Anyway, howay Atlético!

City runing my FF weekend. It's Hull FFS.

A manager that doesn't want to be there, being allowed only to select half the players. Rangers don't do shambles half assed.