Village Idiot

Seven yellow cards in the Real Sociedad game, including one sending-off. For a rather sporting match that's a lot.

Granero coming on. Somehow he's back playing in the CL.

And Griezmann bicycle-kicked one into the net in the first half. 0-2, tie over if they can hold onto that result, imho.

Another Real Sociedad wondergoal

OMFG Griezmann

Vela hits the post, damn.

You should do much better with the players you have though. I know you bought a lot of them in January, but they should be much better drilled by now.

Job interview: 1) Will you play Gutierrez? 2) If you have a team of midgets, are long aimless hoofs a good idea? 3) Will your training sessions involve actual match preparation? 4) Can you use 'was' and 'were' correctly? If your answers went no, no, yes, yes then you're overqualified. I have some problems with 4) sometimes, but you can chalk it to my foreign sexiness. I can wear a scarf in the sidelines to stress it.

I'm available, I'm boss at FM and have a foreign accent.

Incindentally, Carlos Vela has become such a different player to the one he was at Arsenal. He scores, he creates, he's been magnificent these two years at Donosti. Bossed the game at the weekend too.

No idea, wasn't their star performer last season either.

In another episode of "Arsenal bids for 10000000000000000000 players after losing to Villa", they are now heavily linked with Guaita from Valencia.

Destination unkown. Just googled him up, can't believe he's just 28.

Bielsa is quite special (in the good and the bad), but one thing he doesn't is to take shit from the board. I can't see him working with your regime.

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Of course. Cabaye's agents would row here on a dinghy to get their cut when he moves, we hardly need to go cap in hand to them. Although knowing our lot I can understand why some might think we would. I hope you are right (Of course ) but I think alternatively we'd row on a makeshift raft made from Sports Direct bags glue together with Mike's spunk to get a deal sorted if its over £20m and from a French club. Didn't Ashley fly Carroll to Liverpool in his own helicopter, or am I making that up?

I don't know, can't see why an Italian journalist would break out the news of sale between an English and a Spanish club, makes little sense It will happen, mind, but not today imho.

Real Sociedad have only lost Illarramendi, and brought Granero in. They have kept their block intact, which is commendable in these years. They looked sharp at the weekend, so I expect a good game. Lyon are much more experienced, Real Sociedad have never played in the CL, and only Granero and Vela have experience there.

Lyon - Real Sociedad on the Spanish telly tonight. Can't wait.

Laudrup-esque assist by Krohn-Dehli for Celta. Amazing.

I'm actually gutted right now too. And I'm not even a proper fan.

Gonna watch Celta during HT, will be back to watch the rest of this.

To be honest, you don't really look *that* abysmal. There's just not an ounce of self-belief in the players, apparently. They started this game already defeated.

I have never, never understood why he doesn't just give it to Colo. I could understand kicking it long when under pressure, but he seems to do it way too often.

Well, went to have quick supper and I see I've missed a goal already.