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Rossi 2-1

And there it goes, Nilmar 1-1

Lavezzi being a handful tonight. It'll suck if we're left with no teams in the EL.

My first live Barça game: January 3rd, 1990 FCB 3 - 4 Sevilla Pretty legendary game actually, for the awful refereeing, as he gave Sevilla a couple penalties to help them turn the game, and ignored a stonewall one in their box, just in the last 15 minutes. The ref got banned from refereeing us for... 5 years I think? Something like that. Still have vivid memories of using extremely inappropiate language for an 11-year old against him

How come isn't everyone in this forum ponying up for your ST?

Transparent masks suck. The whole point of them is the "masked superhero" look

Cronaldo and HBA are not at all similar players. Cronaldo learnt to use his strength and power to become more direct and effective, HBA doesn't have that. His game is about pace and close control. He has more of a change of modelling himself after Messi than Cronaldo.

I really doubt you'll sign Ireland. Wasn't he on 70k a week at Villa? Crazy wages that he won't give up, particularly if he has a few good games.

thats f***ing bad news (from a purely irish perspective) kieran f***ing westwood for our next qualifier and leon best leading the line alongside kevin doyle oh f***ing joy Leave off Besty. its the principle of the matter nowt against best in particular better than jon walters anyway Clears the way for Kevin Kilbane to become Ireland's most capped player, too

Wasn't there a yank team with that name? Dallas Burn? "Elona" sounds a bit girlish.

Castle is awesome, makes me think of The Punisher.

I wish they showed more Bundesliga down here to be frank. Odd game I can catch has been cracking, Dortmund specially.

An useless one. Cold comfort.

He ate them after the match, was just testing they were tender enough.

Have seen stick figures with bigger breasts than Ms Kightley: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/14/article-1180855-004EE99700000258-427_468x358.jpg

http://www.blaugranas.com/foro_blaugrana-iforo-67.htm Do you post on there at all? I just lurk. Tons of good info actually. I only post in one football forum other than this, and it's mostly because of the FF league we run there.

http://www.blaugranas.com/foro_blaugrana-iforo-67.htm

Shola Ameobi, the football magician.

I'd have never thought of Mendieta as a "playmaker" either

What a cunt :lol:

As a fan, seeing local boys bringing home the trophies makes me feel prouder of the team. If the teams are meant to represent their communities (and for me Barça does represent Barcelona/Catalonia), you need local lads on them otherwise you might as well be supporting a team 1000 km from where you live. But I agree it's not a necessity to achieve success.

You've had enough to make up for it. Bellamy v Feyenoord was pretty special to go with Albert, I ran out into my street screaming. I know, but the "we are not good enough" feeling really stung at the time!

His parents couldn't afford the treatment (remember how f***ed Argentina was at the time), and Newell's wouldn't contribute to it. His agent (yes he had one) shopped him around. We gave him a trial and our chief scout agreed to sign him and finance his treatment on behalf of the club after he played a single match (the contract was signed on the back of a napkin). Story goes that he even footed the bill for the first injections for Messi to keep him in town while the board agreed to the contract.

Sorry, I fail to see it as stealing. Surely Barca had the opportunity to keep him there? Or is there some kind of loophole I don't know about? There is a loophole. We can't offer 16 year olds professional contracts. English clubs can. Same way we lost Cesc (and Piqué, and Mérida, and Pacheco...). But you signed Messi at 13 didn't you? Or was there still a change he could have gone somewhere else for a few years? We didn't "sign" him. Had a trainee contract like everybody else but we threw in some kickbacks like his treatment and gave his dad a job in here. Dunno if he was ever offered anything to leave actually, but he could have. Always wondered by English scouts picked Cesc and Piqué from the same youth team and disregarded the little Argie with the ball stuck at his feet. I guess suitors were put off by his growth problems?