Village Idiot

Here's hoping your curse holds up for another year.

The Camp Nou toilets aren't as clean as they used to.

All our press taking for granted Luís Enrique will be our next manager. I'm still undecided - he's done well with Celta but dunno, I may be letting his career as a player inform my perception of his ability as a manager but doesn't strike me as a tactically nuanced fellow. But his character could be a good addition. Puyol rumoured as his assistant - while I applaud the idea of keeping Puyol in our dressing room, he doesn't even have his badges yet. But we regularly employ 2-3 assistants so we'll probably have somebody else with more technical nous.

To be honest, Valencia behaved like cunts for the last 30 minutes or so with the timewasting and injury feigning, which was unnecessary given how they had moped the floor with Sevilla up to that point. So there's a small bit of justice.

What a heartbreaker.

Valencia and comebacks

To be frank before coming to this board everything I knew of Newcastle I learnt it from Geordie Shore

Hey, I will be in Spain too! Oh wait.

Sevilla might well win the EL this year after getting the slot that Málaga was banned from... UEFA, man

Holy fuck, Villarreal fans threw a banana at Alves... who then went and ate it

Martino won't be our manager next year. No point in sacking him now. Still can't believe we won this though.

Athletic have been class this season, a win here would almost seal Champions League football for them, after 20 years.

Think Atlético have just won the league here.

Man, I'm so p*ssed off at this. He was such an easygoing and likeable bloke. One of those managers that you know will never get in petty fights, embarrass the club, and that always will always lose count of his friends and be unable to count any enemies. Not fair.

Come on, that's exactly how it went with Chelsea and Nantes - ban was suspended pending resolution of the appellation. And it should be that way - if the ban was upheld and then the TAS resolved against FIFA, those would be some damages we could exact.

:( Like he would ever come here. I know, I know, but it still makes me sad He seems a bit wasted in the French league to me :/

That probably rules him out of the Barça job too. Damn. Good on him though. Would be easy to leave Dortmund at this point.

Hasn't been like that for years anymore. Look at Real Madrid last season, blame was on the players (like Casillas) the whole season and Mourinho did nothing to stop that. Aye, he doesn't deflect blame off the players; he simply deflects blame off himself.

The Argie side still looks too unbalanced to me, although they have improved under Savella. It would be fun if they won it, but sides like Spain/Germany/Brazil and even Italy look more solid throughout.

He deserves it for what he's done for the club and the fact that despite not being at his best he's still close to the amount of goals as CRonaldo. I just don't think anyone will ever be worth that kind of money. He signed a new contract two years ago, when he was arguably at his best. Messi or not, I just dislike footballers asking constantly for new contracts without too much justification - besides the fact that Cronaldo now earns more than him under the one he got last summer.

He wants a new contract, that for sure. And he doesn't deserve it going of this season's performance. But 100m? Nah.

Find that hard to believe, to be frank. There's been loads of nasty rumours around Messi these weeks. While some may be true and he's certainly lost himself a bit, a lot of it smecks of character assassination.

Is there a chance of him being fit?

Him being useless for Barça is the only memory I have of him.