Village Idiot

Aye. IIRC none of their starting XI is actually from Bilbao oddly enough. They are known to predate on other basque clubs' youth setups. They pretty much have to sign every basque that shows a wee bit of talent to make it.

Please, allow journos to keep their brainless clichés, what would they do without them, the poor things?

Since both Barça and Madrid are locks for the CL and they are in our cup final, seventh gets to the EL.

Great win for Atlético, hopefully they'll get their act together and build on that instead of getting humiliated by some shit side as per usual.

Their squad is quite thin yes. They haven't been the same team since January. Suspect they weren't ready for a long European campaign. They should still easily clinch a CL spot. 10 points clear of the parakeet cunts.

Wasn't he quite promising once upon a time at Espanyol? Yes and I never understood why Espanyol didn't give him a better crack of the whip, seemed to give up on him pretty quick despite the hype. He's been very, very good for Barça B, but I think he's found he's level since he's not going to improve more at his age.

That's classic Atleti defending. I don't know what happens there, no matter how many classy defenders they buy (Godín, Filipe Luís) they always turn into the chuckle brothers when putting on that shirt. Still a great result so far for them.

Of course, there's Jonathan Soriano but I don't think we seriously intend to make him a senior player. He's already 25 and our second division is probably his level. Plus he's an Espanyol fan.

We just don't produce strikers. Never. Bojan's the closest thing we have had.

I also doubt we'll sell/loan Bojan. We have f*** all behind him in our striking department. Personally think he'll still become a good player if he sorts out his mental strength, he is the quintessential confidence player.

Barely got out of neutral from the bits and bobs I saw. Yeah, it was a relaxed game. I usually get a bit nervy when we're just one up, but Zaragoza didn't even try to have a pop.

Should have put away some of those chances, but I guess we won without sweating too much, we'll need good energy to beat Arsenal.

Still not a single media outlet in Spain picking this up, and the journalist that broke it is as trustable as Hitler negotiating peace deals.

Errr... I checked Cadena Ser's website, and they say it was a pen, and it was because the bodyguard was preventing the aggressor from reaching Mou, presumably to get an autograph and not stabbing him to death with a Bic. There's a recording of the program where they broke the news, but it's too late and I don't care enough.

Leyton Orient have some shit support if they poof off to West Ham just because they save some quid.

Hum, I don't see any major Spanish media outlet picking this up. We'll see but if it is true they'd be all over it. And football related violence in Spain is ridiculously low, for several reasons (our hooligan firms are lame to begin with and they barely travel to pick up fights).

"Birmingham is a rubbish town for inline skate racing?" "Live in Cork? I'd rather shoot myself a good bottle of whisky"?

You lot should organize a Big Brother kind of thing with Barton, Ireland and Ben Arfa living together. Pity you sold Carroll but I guess he can be a guest star.

Cronaldo can actually use that rest, their next fixtures aren't all that and despite his hattrick yesterday he's looked pretty knackered lately. Until yesterday he played every single minute in La Liga. Madness.

This one looks to be more complete: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/232528/Stephen-Ireland-My-Aston-Villa-horrorStephen-Ireland-My-Aston-Villa-horror#ixzz1FacG7KBM f***ing hell, he's completely off his mind

Love how José Enrique has the same troubles as me spelling birghming brum.

Seems Cronaldo just has a slight strain.

He just missed a sitter when he did that, wonder if it's related.

People having a disturbing obsession with Tiote's testicular fortitude.

Piatti from the game played before this one http://estaticos.marca.com/marcador/futbol/2010_11/primera/jornada_26/alm_rac/images/ima2_300x216.jpg