Village Idiot

Okay, I need to watch this now.

Apparently Kun has been injuried and won't play against Bolivia. Pity, a Messi-Higuaín-Kun front three is currently the strongest striking line in the world by a comfortable margin. Club or country.

Wow, six of our players starting for the Spain U21 team, including the entire back four. Wasn't expecting that.

I'm not much into internet memes but that's awesome I hope they won, for their own sake.

International break is alright this time. The playoff games should be an entertaining watch. Good luck against ManCity.

Fair price, tbf. It's a friendly and I'll be surprised if Spain turn up with any real intent or purpsoe. It's an exhibition match. England conversely will work hard with little quality but lots of graft. It'll be a tight game IMO. Yeah, that's my take on it too. We don't really go hard in friendlies, and I expect England to be much more up for it.

Aye, Newcastle never seem to do well given their resources

It's at your place tough, and we never seem to bother much with friendlies, our record in those is pretty spotty since the WC. But yeah, our squad

Vidic has been the better of the two the past 2-3 years as Ferdinand's career has taken a dive because of his injuries. But at their respective peaks, Ferdinand was much better. He had much more to this game, I don't think I could name a "type" of striker that could torment him in the way that certain mobile strikers are always going to torment Vidic.

Our U21s have qualifiers this week so he's been drafted for those instead of a couple of meaningless friendlies with the seniors.

The pitch was water-logged, ball stopped in the grass as we passed it around... sucks to drop points like this, but it was the worst possible environment for us.

It's our new China-friendly kick off time. Pisses everybody off since ordinary decent Spaniards sleep at this time on Sunday. There's talk that one of our two Clásicos will be scheduled at this time. Sigh.

Reminds me of a guy I met once that claimed that "Liverpool was founded in 1878" (although he did it mostly to wind up Everton fans).

Villarreal are only interested as a stopgap solution while Rossi is out (La Liga allows to sign replacements for long term injuries outside a transfer window). And yes, you don't want him.

Oh, that's fun. I'll play the game too. FCB 11 - NUFC 22 - MUFC 1 Aragonés Venables Cruyff Robson Reixach Serra-Ferrer Van Gaal (2) Antic Rijkaard Guardiola

Sideshow Bob http://u.goal.com/125200/125279hp2.jpg David Luiz http://deadhomersociety.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/condom3.png

Put that on another forum, mostly to wind up the horrifically gloryhunting Canadian Barca fan there (although I don't know how much of a fan you can call him, he wanted Man U to beat them in the Champions League final because he preferred them at that point) His response Busquets is a great player, people let his gamesmanship (that he has cut a lot so far this season) influence his opinion on him. I love winding up Barça plastics myself. The other day I met a guy from China who said that loved us and me and a friend were taking the p*ss making up names of Barça players and having him agree on how great they were.

Poor kid that replaced Willy Caballero in Málaga's 0-3 defeat against Levante a couple weeks ago had a truly horrific display too.

Jonathan Clegg is evil, EVIL http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704569404576299314103473174.html

Udinese, Rennes and Atlético and Celtic have sued Sion in front of the CAS, to oppose their petition that the results in their EL group are voided and replayed with Sion in it.

Game finished 4-1 to us, Cole made a great run and assist for their goal. To be frank, ManCity were quite poor. They have lost all games in this competition so far.

Ok, Devante Cole coming in. Kid's huge indeed. We are 3-0 up with 15 minutes to go, so it doesn't seem he'll get much of a chance.

We are playing Manchester City's youth side in the NextGen Series (some kind of Youth CL), and they have Andy Cole's son in their bench. Hope they sub him in to see if he's anything like the dad.

Salzburg 0 - Athletic 1 Get in.

Wow, that shirt is ugly.