Village Idiot

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.

Costa is such a cunt Can't wait for him to be Spain's #9 for some reason.

Ancelotti's is doing a really poor job though; Real Madrid look like just a bunch of really good players thrown together.

The amount of w*****s in the dressing room must be dispiriting He managed John Terry for two seasons.

Hot Fuzz got to be one of the best comedies of the past years. The last 20 minutes or so had me in constant stitches.

Last weekend's game was best in a while though.

"Filet mignon? ....for breakfast?!?!" You're going to explode today

Cesc as #9

17.00 - Almeria v Messi&Neymar 21.00 - Real Madrid v Atletico Madrid Likely to be rested today. Nowt wrong with that, I reckon Messi and him would be devastating against Almería but we have Celtic away next Tuesday, a game we lost last year.

17.00 - Almeria v Messi&Neymar 21.00 - Real Madrid v Atletico Madrid Likely to be rested today.