Village Idiot

I love banter and over the top tifos as much as anybody, but I really don't think beheadings and gunning down people are images that should be on a football pitch, imho.

Big clothesline by Montolivo there

Fuck, he looks EXACTLY like my boss. Scary shit

Given the other available option, I'd have chosen Red too.

That was poetic, though.

No way this tifo would've been allowed in Spain tbf.

Tbh, I think it's a bit extreme

Is it the most disgusting thing in the world, though?

Kitchen foil balls a thing in England? We used those during recess at school, since we usually weren't allowed proper balls. We would pool together the wraps of our sandwiches and make an amorphous ball out of them.

"He moved the post! I've seen it!"

Lucho seems to have found the formula, he's finally settled into a starting XI (Busquets-Rakitic-Iniesta midfield plus the three stooges, mainly, with Messi on the right) and the players feel more comfortable. We've been pretty good this January, and beating Atlético convincingly was a good yardstick. We'll see, as you say it might be yet another false dawn.

They left him out of tonight's squad. They are holding out for the maximum amount of money possible, but will be happy to get the cash imho.

Nah, it's par for the course for them; they need to balance the books with sales. He's only become an important player relatively recently so they probably believe they can take the loss.

Griezmann has been truly impressive tonight. It took him a while to get going at Atlético, but he's easily their most in-form attacking player at the moment.

He's been pretty good. Reasonably tall, good in the air, hard worker - a bit weak for a guy his size, maybe. But his progression has been pretty impressive in the few months he's been there.

Manucho with an o.g. Such a donkey

I needed a good half a minute until I recognized him under that ridiculous hairpiece

Sometimes I wonder if Jémez just shouldn't be a little less reckless when playing the big sides of La Liga. But well, that's part of his charm. Love him.

Not unless the FA decides to report it on their own, which they won't do (they never do it even with less famous players, tbf). The Discipline Comittee is only allowed to act on what the referee reports.

They are saying only 2, since the referee didn't consider it violent conduct, just foul play.

Elche have imploded this second half. They were pretty tight in the first 45, to be frank.

0-2 and Elche go a man down. This should be it. Not brilliant, but we didn't win here last year.

Typically, we put 4 past this lot with our second string a couple weeks ago, but we struggle to create zip today.

It was a stupid pen, but a pen. Sigh, it was a good chance to claw two points back. Real Madrid aren't too great at the moment.