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Argentina winning the WC at the soil of its biggest rival? Would make for some great scenes. It's still Argentina...Hand Of God/Falklands/....ahhhhh it's VI, dm! Yeah, I suppose for a brit it's like us wishing Italy won

Argentina winning the WC in its biggest rival's soil? Would make for some great scenes.

TBF the thing I'm looking forward the most is Costa going mental in some game. Against Italy would be preferred.

I think it's pretty clear to everyone that Spain are enormous favourites. Or Argentina. Sorry flip, no amount of preemptive reverse-jinxing is going to change the fact you're big favorites.

Brazil are gonna win this, no discussions.

Rodrigo. Brazil want him. Trying to do a Costa with him. Another Brazilian. Spain are bunch of pigs. Both the Alcántaras and Rodrigo have lived in Spain since they were bairns. Not the same as Costa. I don't rate him much anyway.

Nobody around here considers us favorites for the WC or anything, I hope for a decent showing at least. Truth is that we'll take a lot of old legs to Brazil and the next generation hasn't been bedded in yet. As I said, Del Bosque gives a big bonus to creating a "club squad" mentality around the NT, which imho is the reason behind a lot of our success but at this point in time it will probably hurt us a bit.

Spain's U25 best XI could be something like... De Gea Carvajal Moreno Bartra Alba J. Martínez Thiago Isco Jesé Costa Mata Plus Busquets, Koke, Morata, Illarra, Muniain, García, Deulofeu... That's a great base.

Nice thing is that we have decent bunch of young fellas coming through: De Gea, Thiago, Isco, Deulofeu, Illarra, Costa... so we should be able to do decently in tournaments after the current generation rides into the sunset after Brazil.

Definitely missed, he's only making the side lately on account of Cristiano being injured. He'll probably be called up to the initial squad, though, but Del Bosque is very big on squad blending and he hasn't featured enough in Spain callups due to not starting for Madrid. He's a very talented lad, though, his main problem is a) sharing squad with Cristiano and Bale, who are automatic starters b) Thus trying too hard to impress when he gets a chance Regarding Illarramendi, he is not ready for big ticket games. He has the ability, but not the character. He was completely overrun by Dortmund, for example.

Alonso's legs have given up. They have abused him in a similar way we abused Xavi.

Well, I'm back from pill-induced sopor. We were terrible yet somehow managed to stay in the final somehow until the end. Maybe Real Madrid are terrible too, but if we manage to at least postpone the ban and get a decent manager and the players we need in, we should be able to be back there next season. Also the WC will be over and Messi will maybe start running again...

Pill time!

Fortunately if we lose I can just OD with the painkillers the doctor's given me

Cup final starting in 15. I'm bedridden and thus I'm going to watch it all alone... :'( Plus my neighbour is a Real Madrid fan and every time Barça loses he celebrates with wild sex with the missus.

Pretty sure I read somewhere that UEFA is forcing to change domestic cups in order to avoid this kind of issue; the losing finalist would never play in the EL from now on.

Marco Reus Although I agree it makes no sense given our needs. Gotta see if the ban stands anyway.

That Pirlo book looks mint!

That's actually the name Real Madrid and Espanyol fans use against us. I'll admit it is good.

The result at the Camp Nou is a freebie if we are out.

Wouldn't surprise me to see Chelsea and Real winning it Atlético only need 3 more wins to clinch it since we'll give them the victory lap before playing against us if we are out of the race (as it looks we are).

Atlético winning la Liga and Liverpool the PL. Now what a surprising season this one could be.

Abso-bloody-exactly, the papers will be full of it and it'll be tedious as f***. Man, it just won't be the same Saint George's Day without Barça playing in a CL semi.

Good, Pep will have another chance of indulging in his favorite pasttime: beating Real Madrid.

I want the two best teams in the final. Atletico - Bayern final please! It would be a replay of their only EC final so far. Fitting. I want Chelsea-Madrid for the lolMourinho factor, though.