Village Idiot

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.

I was the best goalie in our league though! Got an award and all

How is Pellegrini a joke ffs City flew back from Dubai overnight, arriving in the UK this morning. Now that is a joke Is that true? Deserve to get kicked out then. It's either arrogance or incompetence.

Man, Córdoba missing quite a few good chances. They are going to regret that, won't they?

I *was* rubbish, a Fat Kid to be exact. I ended up being a decent goalie though, and played as one in Sunday League up until my late 20s!

With Atlético midweek, we were always going to rest one of the big guns for this one.

I always voluntereed to go in goal in what the article calls Wembleys (we called them Taqui-Gol in Spain, I still don't know why) Our rule against goalhanging was that you had to run out of the box if you stole the ball or caught a rebound - otherwise if you scored it wouldn't count. Clean and simple. Hated, HATED that.

I like Navas. He's a very good player in my opinion. Jovetic on the other hand is more and more looking like an absolute waste. Navas' end product is pretty s****, imo. He's always getting into decent positions, but the final ball is often poor. He's not good enough for City. Always what's held him back. He had a great understanding with Negredo, though, always connected well with him.

That said, if you had to sign a volatile manager that previously played in midfield for both Madrid and Barça and then made a name for himself managing Getafe, I'd have gone for Laudrup.

Yet he's always got decent enough results and played nice football. He just makes things too hard for himself sometimes with his character. You have been linked to more exciting managers, but he's miles ahead of Pardew.

To be honest, he obviously said that to motivate his players, it was just a terrible soundbite from a Real Madrid manager. He was right, anyway.

He's never been too diplomatic. He famously got sacked from Real Madrid for saying that it was impossible to defeat us on the verge of a Clásico. He's a bit passive-aggressive on the mic, tbh.

Not too well, Real Madrid got rid of the likes of Juan Mata, Negredo, etc... under his stewardship but that was more club's policy than anything else, tbf. He's never lasted too long at any club too really judge; he did play quite a few last year at Málaga though.

He's always been a pretty attacking manager.

Yeah. He's always worked under pretty strong chairmen or DoFs - in Spain at least. He's probably not as shiny and exciting as the other managers you've been linked to, but there's a decent upside if things work out. He's always been a pretty offensive-minded manager. Full disclosure: He was my childhood hero until the c*** signed for Real Madrid.

Schuster has been a bit of hit and miss, but his hits have been pretty watchable. His Getafe side was really entertaining, and earned him the Madrid gig; his Málaga side last year was pretty turgid though. Heck, even his Real Madrid team was fine, he just had the bad luck of squaring off against a nascent Barça side under Guardiola.

Sorry, but it looks like Lucas Silva is getting that one