Village Idiot

Valencia - Atlético and Rayo - Barcelona this afternoon. :nomalo:

Laudrup/Jémez, although I'm firmly convinced the first one wouldn't last longer than 18 months here - it would be some really good months imho. I'm a big fan of Jémez, and I really want him to manage a club that isn't utterly broke. I think you'd love his attitude at the very least.

Didn't know he had retired already, he's still relatively young. I guess he didn't fancy a career down the leagues too much.

I'm always amused by all those managers that go "he needs to adapt to the league" but then expect the player to do it by watching from the bench

BBC taking the piss out of Blackpool, methinks

Heh, I read that even the manager has sort of approved the walkout. Not likely to happen at NUFC.

What have they done? I don't pay much attention to the C'ship.

I don't think many Spaniards give a shit about the PL besides football hipsters, we're pretty insular in that. Gloryhunters already have Barça and Madrid, anyway. Liverpool used to be very popular when Benítez was in charge, but that's about it.

They showed the Stoke game over there, right? We may never be on TV in Spain again. Yeah, they did and I watched it! To be honest the fact it was on a Monday meant there was nothing else to put on instead.

Not on the Spanish telly, they are showing Liverpool - WBA instead

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/aug/13/jose-mourinho-louis-van-gaal-barcelona-shaped-seven-top-coaches Great read this, about LVG's influence on people he worked with at Barça, who've gone on to become successful managers. Hadn't realized that he worked with so many great managers-to-be during his spell here (Mourinho, Guardiola, Luís Enrique, Koeman, De Boer...)

And the other Manchester club is a midtable team now.

Such a slimy individual. Reminds me of Mourinho but without the talent to back it up.

I'm glad to see that Mou has such a good record against Leicester and Scunthorpe.

Piqué about his stay at ManU: "I wasn't afraid of Alex Ferguson. Roy Keane? Now that was different..."

Need to introduce Sherwood to Zidane's career and forehead.

One of us, one of us. The other day I collided with a fat dude jogging in a SAFC shirt and I almost shout SMB at him

He played wide, behind the main striker and ended up leading the line for Tenerife. He's one of those young lads that still hasn't really developed a ''main'' position, though.

Ayoze's goal has made it to Marca, they are comparing him to Messi http://www.marca.com/2014/10/02/futbol/futbol_internacional/espanoles_mundo/1412245128.html?cid=APUMAR33903&s_kw=gol-a-lo-messi-de-ayoze

I don't think they can cope with the Sun's offensive strength, imho.

Would probably be an agreed termination rather than a resignation.

Also, the accusation is that Zaragoza transferred money to his players so they gave it to the Levante players as a bribe. It looks to me that's a stupid way to bribe someone; the more people you get involved, the more easily somebody will talk. But I should never underestimate people's idiocy. Gabi has admitted to receiving that money but that "he gave it back to the club".

It isn't in Spain, at the very least.

It's getting a pretty large coverage, mostly because it's the first case that apparently can be solidly proved by the prosecutors after a long list of match fixing allegations that never went anywhere. Gabi looks guilty as sin, but he'll probably be retired before the courts are finished with this one. This is just the inquiry phase.

Wonga are despicable, they bought a local lender to enter the Spanish market at the height of our recession and they are ruining the life of desperate people that had to resort to their usury in these times of need.