Village Idiot

Thought it was a legit postseason testimonial when I read the thread title

To be honest to them, I suppose you can't get an open-top bus painted in less than 24 hours for the parade, so they have to have it ready before that. Probably Atlético's was ready before the final too.

http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/970576_10151496688288101_1810966788_n.jpg

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That's the problem, it doesn't use their usual secondary colors (purple, gold), and the red makes it look like another team's kit. It looks like a Valencia kit had a son with a Sevilla kit and left it in front of Real Madrid's door.

Come on, he's just achieved what not a single Real Madrid manager has been able to in 14 years: Lose against Atlético.

Mou and Cronaldo didn't go up to pick their loser medals. Sporting. Anyway, great night for Atlético. This should mean the moon for them and hopefully give them more confidence towards next, and probably Falcao-less season. That assist to Diego Costa for the equalizer was f***ing unreal, Albiol's still looking for his hip. Three trophies in 3 years for Atlético now.

http://www.fichajes.com/IMG/jpg/camisetas-2.jpg Apart from the basic problem of it being a Real Madrid kit, I think this is the ugliest they've had in a while.

Just saw this, Mike FFS. A probably unpopular opinion around here, but I love Liverpool's crest.

Mmmm... http://estaticos04.marca.com/eventos/marcador/futbol/2012_13/copa/final/rma_atm/images/13_300x209.jpg http://estaticos03.marca.com/eventos/marcador/futbol/2012_13/copa/final/rma_atm/images/15_300x398.jpg

Courtois; Juanfran, Miranda, Godín, Filipe; Mario Suárez, Gabi; Koke, Arda Turan; Diego Costa, Falcao Diego López; Essien, Albiol, Sergio Ramos, Coentrao; Xabi Alonso, Khedira, Modric; Özil, Cristiano Ronaldo, Benzema

Not lifted, just shortened.

Copa del Rey final tonight. 14 years since Atlético last defeated Real Madrid I suspect Mou could go get 11 random blokes at a pub and put them on Real Madrid shirts and Atlético would still shit the bed and roll over.

Two well-known (but awful) Spanish pundits came to blows over José Mourinho the other day There's no video of the incident but one of them (the Pro-Mou one) is sporting a black eye ever since. This league is going to be so much less entertaining once Mou leaves.

Madrid-bound if that happens.

UEFA has reduced Málaga's ban from their competitions to one year. CAS has yet to rule on Málaga's appeal, expected on early June.

Athletic have just denied the transfer of Beñat. Weird, everybody over here was giving it as a done deal.

You definitely shouldn't be allowed to loan between PL clubs, it's absolutely crazy and just allows top clubs to stockpile players. Sale w/ buyback clauses will easily go around any kind of loan limitation likely to be implemented. Real Madrid do all their "loans" like that already (more because of a policy of monetizing their youth setup that the need of circumventing loan rules, but it's a really smooth operation).

I'm not sure Málaga will be able to afford him, and they most probably won't be in Europe next season due to their ban.

Name's been thrown into the hat several times throughout the years, but always as a last resort. Don't think it will happen. He's not shiny/cool enough for Pérez. Personally think Bernabéu fans would not take to him, either.

Puyol was so smashed during the open-top bus parade it was ridiculous http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GNODEzC3u_M

Personally I think that after winning a trophy he can probably wait out a year to see if there's an opening in a top 6. Pretty sure he'll do that.

And according to Spanish Radio Station Cadena Ser, Villa would have agreed terms with Spurs, pending talks with Barça.

Beñat to Athletic for €8m+4 in addons. Great signing.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Barcelona_SC_logo.png One of my neighbours is from Guayaquil, actually, came over the neighbourhood supermarket and bought a beer to everybody who was present when they won the league last year. They aren't doing too great this season though.