Village Idiot

Seems we will find out if Remy really has a €0 relegation clause then. Utterly daft if true.

Damn, poor Plymouth. Have a soft spot for them since you played them in the C'ship.

I would say let the asset-stripping begin, but for all the money they've spent, there aren't many players I'd take off their hands. None for our first team anyway. Maybe someone like Townsend as a back-up. Only the combined powers of Hughes and Redknapp could create a squad so bloated and expensive yet so devoid of genuine good players.

Real Sociedad go one up against Valladolid, and momentarily go 4th in La Liga with it. Amazing.

Levante are fuming, but ultimately they made an €3m transfer profit in 6 months

Good spectacle in the Galician derby yesterday. Nice goals, a bit of violence and a sending off for headbutting. Both Celta and Depor look fucked, though.

I had completely forgotten that Souness also razed Benfica to the ground. That's a special bond to have I guess, like a pair of rape victims.

Wha? Reciting from memory here, said the stadium was built near the site of a mine and the "Light" referred to the miners' lamps. It sounded a bit forced to me.

Also as a Spaniard I need to control my urges to troll every Portuguese I meet, but I promise I'll behave until NUFC beats them.

The only mackem I ever met in person told me a convoluted story about their stadium being named after some miner lantern or whatever.

You lot use the trip and buy some towels over there. Cracking cheap.

Benfica fans are classy, got lots of fun when they came over to the Camp Nou earlier this season.

Only way you're likely to play in a Stadium of Light in an European competition.

Should be a great tie for you lot. Benfica are doable, in my opinion. Was afraid you'd get another Commie or an English side, which would have been utterly boring at this point.

Would love us to draw Dortmund today; think it would be an absolute cracker of a tie. Apparently our staff don't want Juventus under any notion; even would rather get RM.

Spurs.

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?