Village Idiot

Either Aussie or wholesale pie maker.

Constant was abysmal in the Camp Nou leg of the CL. Can't be that hard to be better than him.

That Wondolowski article is pure yankstats, loving it Friend of mine in NY was always telling me that football won't make it in the US because it can't be distilled into the sheer amount of "objective" stats as hockey or baseball. Give'em time.

Plucky Stoke doing the best they can with their limited resources.

Somebody caught Michael Johnson on vid it seems.

People already going full hysteria in Spain about the possibility of us not qualifying. This is such a silly nation.

Even if you got a bargain fee, I don't think he's worth the wages he's getting at Liverpool.

Never showed a great deal when starting for Racing Santander on loan. Granted it's harder to look great when you're surrounded with shit, but he's always looked to me as a decent, but nothing else, player. Good defender but slow and a bit of a bottler, and certainly miles behind Rio (on his prime at least). But I haven't seen him in Portugal.

Is Adriano still injured? Re-injured himself last weekend

As CB, surely. Only average-ish in midfield. But he's played little. Never understood that signing; I understand the role he's supposed to fill, but not the money we spent for a backup.

Not good enough for ManU unless he's improved lots since he moved to Portugal.

Oh well, hopefully Zlatan stays banned for the first match. We should get Adriano and Alba back for the second leg.

There will be a revolution if we don't qualify for the WC. Football's like the only thing working in this country. Don't think we'll be able to field a first team defence against PSG with Alba's injury to add to the list.

One and only: http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/history/season=2002/round=1637/match=1038235/index.html Actually sat pretty close to the away end that night; I usually do that since those are the cheapest seats and that means more games I can attend. I almost didn't make it, though, since the game had been postponed due to torrential rain (something extremely unusual over here), and I had to make arrangements to get the night free since I worked a night shift at the time. Ameobi looked quite the prospect that night, one of your best players.

Your USAF base in Spain gave you this: http://www.wwe.com/f/wysiwyg/image/2012/09/20120914_Light_Kane_OldPartners_HOMEPAGE.jpg No footballers though, soz.

Didn't quite a few of them play for the German youth sides?

He can't make the starting XI in one of the worst sides in Liga Adelante. That's really bad.

I don't rate Klinsman too much, I think he's been coasting on a burst of good form in the WC of 2006 where he played in home soil. But still, his record for the US until very recently was very good, so all the turning on him seems a bit premature.

f*** you Deuce, idiot. This is what we really should do, but won't of course: Boyd Gomez Johnson Zusi Bradley Edu Morrow Beltran Gonzalez Cameron Guzan That's quite a change of opinion in just a couple days

You shouldn't worry about the dirt stuck in the sole of your boots.

One of the things that always bemuses me of the US national team is the scattershot approach to giving caps. Is it because of how the dates clash with the regular season?

Would've made far more sense to just give him a standard 3 match ban if they wanted to sweep it all under the carpet with minimal fuss. Morons. Aye, it almost takes more balls to do nothing here

FWIW, gotta say this has been posted about in the two Spanish football forums I frequent and people are pretty mystified about how the Wigan player got away.

Anita's a girl's name in Spanish and Portuguese, nothing creepy with children books named after that. Mendy would be a bigger feat

Thanks for making our incompetent and hopelessly corrupt FA look not as bad in comparison