Village Idiot

Do you know why they are called mes que en club? It's because at the time Camp Nou was the only place Catalans could speak their own language during the Franco regime. Has f*ck all to do with the questionable actions of today, just thought I'd mention that. Well it wasn't *that* bad, we could speak Catalan, the language was just barred from official use. The thing is that a huge-ass stadium like Camp Nou was a great place to hold impromptu covert political meetings when such were forbidden, away from the gaze of Franco's police. The "more than a club" motto has always been related to how the club has implicated itself in social, political and cultural affairs in a very tempestuous century in Spanish history (two dictatorships, one civil war...). Barça's anthem is actually an "undercover" Catalan anthem (the guy that wrote the lyrics admitted so later). When singing Catalan patriotic songs would land you in jail, 100 000 souls sung it every match at the stadium.

Man, it's going to be a long year. I do despise Suárez.

He shields the board.

I'm slowly working on getting back to the US too. Hopefully by the end of the year I will start getting good news on that regard. My objective is to watch the next WC in an American bar.

Thanks man, I'm really feeling the pain lately. :'(

The only way I can see us affording it is by putting Sánchez in the deal, which would be a waste, he brings a lot of stuff to the table that a frontline of Neymar-Messi-Suárez wouldn't. We are doing a Real Madrid circa 2002, flashing the cash for big names while letting the pillars of the team slowly rot.

Class.

http://i.imgur.com/Kd49W9W.png The Altidore love...

Get a tattoo of that, Wondolowski.

FUCK. That was it.

Howard's been the 101st Airborne at the Ardennes today.

Fellaini is such an oaf.

Please, not another ET FFS.

Player for player, Yes, by a big margin Then f***ing go down the line player for player. Flex your expert muscle. Tell me why. f*** this fake knowing s*** bullshit. Can't think of many US players that would get in the Belgian team... Johnson? The one thing Belgium lack is width. Bradley is really good, but Belgium aren't lacking in that area of the pitch. Dempsey isn't certainly a patch on Hazard... Even Howard is worse than Courtois... Doesn't mean much tbf, especially when Belgium still play like a bunch of individuals. doesn't mean they won't win mind. Belgium are definitely less than the sum of its parts, but those parts are so much better than the American ones that it doesn't matter. Rooting for the yanks, mind, but it doesn't look like it will happen for them.

Men vs boys.

Player for player, Yes, by a big margin Then f***ing go down the line player for player. Flex your expert muscle. Tell me why. f*** this fake knowing s*** bullshit. Can't think of many US players that would get in the Belgian team... Johnson? The one thing Belgium lack is width. Bradley is really good, but Belgium aren't lacking in that area of the pitch. Dempsey isn't certainly a patch on Hazard... Even Howard is worse than Courtois...

How is that Origi fella playing ahead of Lukaku? He seems extremely ineffectual.

Good decision, Fellaini.

Wouldn't want to meet Fellaini in a dark alley. Scary fucker.

Nice from Bedoya checking his OS position and waiting, most footballers would have just touched the ball right off the bat and got flagged.

All Belgium now. This ends here, Mike.

Cameron's chasing shadows.

Watched this in Argie bar, they went properly mental. Happy for them. Can't say this WC hasn't been exciting, even the games of questionable quality like this one have had exciting finales. Now, onto the next! USA! USA! USA! http://i.imgur.com/vSmc1Ry.jpg

These lineups sorted by shirt # instead of position drive me nuts.