Village Idiot

Sitting down and "deciding" upon which team to support. So yank At least you took the most irrational decision

The only time I have seen NUFC live Ameobi scored.

Truth is that Ancelotti's narrow system is very ill-suited to the players they have, even the players they bought (hello Bale). Given that Carlo probably had fuck all say in recruitment it smells of Pérez going back to old ways after he tried letting a manager do his thing with Mourinho. Still early days, but I can't see RM clicking unless they change to another system.

Finger is firmly pointed at Ancelotti right now, with some blame to players (Pepe mostly, but he's a favorite for finger-pointing given how hateable he is - even for RM fans).

Lots of "Ancelotti is shit" with a smaaaaaall side of "Atlético are doing really well". But in this country the narrative will always be centered around the two greats.

They replayed an hilarious clip today of Bale and Cronaldo in the derby. Cronaldo goes to take a FK, Bale comes to whisper into his ear and Cronaldo nods. Then when the ref signals for the FK to be taken Bale makes a dashing run through the right - obviously expecting Cronaldo to pass it - but Cronaldo just smashes it over the goal.

You should support Accrington Stanley, then. Our success is a quite recent thing, more than 50% of our trophies have been won in the past 20 years actually - after Cruyff took over. Talking a bit more seriously Shearer was one of my favorite players when I started following the PL in the 90s. But I didn't really take to the team until I found this place. Not a really convincing reason, but NUFC are certainly my favorite English team. I sort of bought on the deluded Geordies media image (shame on me), and found out it to be very untrue.

I actually considered writing "four" but then I thought somebody might make the same comment you did, and provide a bit of banter.

I think Altidore is a mediocre player, and I lived in the US 4 years!

The proper Barcelona metro area is 3 million with all contiguous towns included. That "urban area" in the wiki it's like putting Sunderland and Middlesbrough in the Newcastle area. It includes places lost in the mountains I'd never put my feet in

I need to balance out my karma while supporting Barça.

Not really. We sold 50k for a testimonial and Barcelona as a city is probably more than 10x the size of Newcastle. Not really, Barcelona isn't that big. Newcastle would need to be some hamlet if Barcelona were 10 times the size of it. Population wise 1.6 million v 279,000, only 5 times the size.. See, I was right. Hum. Sorta. Had Newcastle for a bigger city for some reason. It looks bigger in Geordie Shore.

Comfortably the most high-octane football match in Spain. Must be experienced. It's been a while since the last riot too

Not really. We sold 50k for a testimonial and Barcelona as a city is probably more than 10x the size of Newcastle. Not really, Barcelona isn't that big. Newcastle would need to be some hamlet if Barcelona were 10 times the size of it. The Gamper trophy usually sells pretty well when it's played before the season starts (not always possible due to nowadays congested schedules and shitty preseason tours), since then it's the first home game of the season and thus the first time people can see the new signings live, etc... I used to go a lot myself as a kid, since then we didn't get every single preseason friendly on the telly and it really was the first time you could see the team. That's the reason why preseason trophies used to be so huge in Spain before the 1990s.

Had 19 points until today, when Sturridge and Suárez propelled me to 48 Still got Ben Arfa and Lukaku tomorrow, so it will be a decent week.

That Henríquez fella is doing quite well for Zaragoza, just scored his second in 3 games. Reminds me of Hernández but with more movement outside the box.

Put on some random Liga Adelante match, get rewarded with an Olympic goal :nomalo:

Love how Atlético are full of mentalists nowadays. http://31.media.tumblr.com/157e33558085c4c11def2ae3b4b3dbdb/tumblr_mtvw8dnqOp1sxym1ko1_250.gif

Reus, Lewandowski, Hummels, Götze, possibly Gundogan. That's 5 WC players to me.

Messi 2-3 weeks out. Thanks to the international break he'd only miss two games though.

Considering how they play wouldn't it be a bit counter productive? Mata wouldn't be able to put in the work Simeone wants from his players either. I think eventually Oliver Torres will force his way in anyway. All flash little substance yet, he's still young. Koke's actually allright, very underrated player. But they lack backups.

Little depth, it will get to them when they have to play in the CL knockouts and the league at the same time. Plus they are one injury/multi-game ban to Costa away from dropping points.

Great result for us.

So much madness about that sale. What compounds the hilarity is that 3 weeks later they ended up sacking the manager that sanctioned the sale.

He's probably bladed tbf.