Village Idiot

Loved the way your players went after the ball after scoring 1-4 by the way.

Weren't both incidents consecutive?

Matt Jarvis assist, god damn time he performed for my FF team again.

This time it's me clapping your team. Legendary stuff here.

Atletico Madrid game? Yes! One of the biggest rushes I remember being a Barça fan.

f***ing hell man, the most I can remember us coming back from is a 0-3 (under Sir Bobby that was)

Thanks for taking out their only decent CB and bringing down their morale Fucking mental comeback

Jesus fucking Christ

join us join us join us I want to live until old age man

For fuck's sake, this club is crazy

Goals flying all over and I don't own any of the strikers scoring them, VdV missed a pen FFS. I'm fucked.

It's like every low league player that puts on a Blackpool shirt gets superpowers or something.

Everybody you want to lose is losing, at least.

Should be a great game by all accounts. Yesterday on the telly they said this was the tie with most average goals of the last five years, averaging 5,5 goals a game which is utterly ridiculous

A fun stat for tonight's Barça - Atlético. We are currently on our league wins in a row record (15). Last record (14) was established under Rijkaard, and finished at Camp Nou, on a 5th of February, against Atlético de Madrid...

Three set piece/ long ball goals with Huth involved on them all. Stoke

Most Spanish clubs called "Sporting" or "Deportivo" were born the same way too. As multi-sports clubs that later became football teams. Sporting CP is a multi-sports club still.

Better lay all my "Spurs to win the league" bets then.

I know it's not a popular opinion around here, but I hope Stoke lose this. Absolute blight to football. At least Allardyce's Bolton still had some flair players.

IIRC it's because they were formed when the Olympic movement (remember Pierre de Coubertain was French) was starting and they were intended not as just football clubs, but multi-sport clubs to foment the practice of sports amongst the population, which was one of the pillars of the modern Olympic movement. Some of the French people or Baba might know better though.

Only football game on... Bah I'll pass.

It's ridiculously easy to get a Spanish passport if you're a south-american living in Spain. Two years working legally allows you to start the process (which can be slow or fast depending on how you grease the wheels). We have and have had a shitload of latin american players sporting Spanish passports in La Liga. Kun Agüero got his last week, Forlán has had one for a while, Dani Alves, Robinho, Messi... Marcos Senna even managed to become a Spain regular because of this. Also every Argentinian player in the world seems to have an Italian passport. Yeah but the names you quoted are all highly sought after by others ? If there is an easy way to sign cheap south Americans I expect the likes of redknappe, Bruce etc sucking them up like how we scourge cheap French players of minority ethnic origin. To Bruce's credits he is the first to take full advantage of established players in lesser countries. I really think we ought to do the same, hoovering up national players from Korea, japan, Paraguay, Colombia, USA, poland etc Yeah yeah, I used those names because they are the ones I know for certain that have Spanish passports without looking them up. But Alves for example was Spanish before even being called up by Brazil. Pretty sure there are a bunch of talented SA players in Spain with EU passports. For example I just looked up Piatti and he has an Italian one.

So does that mean the Eldon Sq Northumberland st store will be the only one in the city centre apart from the ground . Yeah but remember, most clubs only have one store, at the ground, some might have a city centre store. We will still have 3 stores within Tyneside. We have 6 stores (most of them opened in the last 4 years), and Barcelona's metro area has around 4 times the population of Tyneside.

José Ángel? He's actually pretty good.

Incidentally he hasn't made the last Spain callup, Capdevila being the only natural LB in the squad. Even if we aren't calling El Búfalo, it's damn time we started bedding in a new LB, particularly in a friendly.