Village Idiot

Arrested already? That was quick. Wonder if NUFC were clued in and that prompted the release.

Pellegrini is a brilliant coach, isn't he. The Malaga team despite the (brief) Qatari investment isn't much cop outside of Isco imo. Most of the players in the team are in the twilight of their careers or are fairly non-descript journeymen. He has them playing some great stuff though, the rejuvination of Joaquin in particular is great to see. Aye he's done brilliantly with them this season. They sold all their true big-ticket players this season (Cazorla, Rondón, etc...) and what they have now is mostly people they got on frees like Baptista, Demichelis, Saviola, Santa Cruz... that like you point out are enjoying a great spell of their careers after being on decline. Still going to suck if their European ban gets upheld, since it may likely be the end for them as an ambitious club. But at least the fans are getting a great ride in the CL.

The new Pope is a San Lorenzo fan (they showed several photos of him yesterday with the shirt and his club membership card). You will face the might of the Catholic Church now if you refuse to release Coloccini.

Spurs. Somehow forgot them.

Seriously meditating a "will drink my own pee" kinda bet if both NUFC and Barça play in next year's European SuperCup. Just to tempt fate, mostly.

Decent chance that NUFC could be the only English team in Europe if you win tonight, btw. Good luck.

Arsenal and their quasi-comebacks. This reminded me a lot of their one against Milan, who themselves especialize in second leg collapses. Well chuffed for Málaga, will be historic for them and La Liga needed another tem that isn't Barça/Real to get past the last 16. It had been a while.

Abate trying to figure out how the fuck did he score.

Thought the same when I first watched Suppose the bald guy is an Inter fan?

My father in law (Milanese Inter fan), just sent me this http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZNQAtjCQbL0#!

Tito to return in two weeks, too.

Still giggling like a little kid. Best game we've played since the 2010-2011 season. Remarkably, swapping Abidal for Alba, that was our starting XI for that season. The stadium almost crumbled when Villa scored the third. Perfect tale, this one will go down in our history as one of our finest.

Valencia fan friend of mine now tells me they won't be repo-ed until August, unless they find €80m-odd million by then. Which barring miracle they won't.

Valencia's shares have been transferred to Spanish bank "Bankia" after defaulting on their debt. Bankia itself went bankrupt last year and had to be nationalized. Happy times. EDIT: Apparently it hasn't technically happened yet but it's impending after court tossed out the guarantees they had to back the debt.

Chivas has to be one of the most moronic ideas of sport franchising. Sure, let's make a team for all the mexicans in LA (which is borderline racist in itself), and then name it after a club which 90% of them will hate the guts of

Not even two months after being sacked by Sevilla, Míchel wins the Greek league; now that's what I call a lucky landing

Get in mags Stoke deserve misery.

There's no way we'd pay 92m for Neymar, nor we could if we wanted to. Personally think the only thing we need is another forward that can threaten and score, so teams can't afford to double team Messi so easily.

It was class to be officially considered a minority while I lived there. I was classed as "hispanic white", for what is worth. It was a bit weird, certainly I consider myself a run of the mill white caucasian but yanks are obsessed with minorities.

People complaining after a 0-0 away draw. You pampered children, wish I had a 0-0 away result in Europe! Genuinely thought it was a good result for you after the bitch of away trip playing in Russia means.

I was like two days in Seattle and thought that place was pure douché; seems I wasn't wrong

I love this lad, so different to what you see in the US NT. I even signed him in my MLS FM2013 save, hope he's good there too

They have noticed the lack of Modric, imho, Bale's form has just masked it. Their attacking play just doesn't seem as varied, although they have a different manager too.

Thing is that Spurs are more at risk of losing Bale that ManU at risk of losing RvP or City losing Touré, for example.

On a related note, when a team starts a counter and somehow, thirty seconds later one of its defenders is giving a backpass to the keeper.