Village Idiot

Well, The Beast is playing afterall.

We only seem to have 3 songs. The anthem, the "1899" song and that fucking "Olelele olalala ser del Barça es el millor que hi ha" repeated x1000000000.

Meh, looks like Dani has done his hamstring.

Iniesta's goalscoring form

Yo, you Italian league watchers. Does Baptista still have it?

Surprised with Almería's cohesiveness today to be frank, they have always looked like a house of cards: nice, but blow and they fall apart.

4 points ahead, which is always nice but certainly nothing with 18 games to be played.

4 minutes... Mackem-tastic.

I never get my hopes up, Real Madrid are kings of late goals.

That he is. Squinting from the distance of Camp Nou's upper stand he even looks like Messi.

Who are your mob playing later? Málaga at home... sort of regretting not buying tickets for it but need to tighten the belt a little after the Christmas spending madness. We should win, but seeing Baptista at the Camp Nou always gives me bad karma, lazy f***er always had a knack for putting us to the sword.

Get the fuck in.

Kaká off for Benzema. Predictably (Kaká's hardly fully fit) but good sub. Benzema's best games in a Real Madrid shirt have been as an impact sub.

Also I think Cronaldo doesn't look comfortable as lone striker. EDIT: Looks like Mou has noticed, Benzema warming up already.

Fuk sake. Oh christ.

It's been a few cold days in Spain. Not snood-worthy given that a cold winter day in Spain = breezy day of summer in the UK Almería putting up a good show, but can see them tiring in the second half.

SAF shouldn't have rested Webb today tbf.

What the hell happened to Wayne Rooney? Did he have a twin brother who's fucking wank?

Luis Enrique? True, Sir Bobby used him as forward but Van Gaal played him on right midfield. To be frank he played every-f***ing-where he wanted to so it's hard to pin down. Koeman would be the last CM to reach 10+ goals a season I think, and that's because he took pens and set pieces.

I can't fucking remember the last time a Barça midfielder scored double figures tbf.

Any reason for the chicken celebration? Also, this is already Nolan's most prolific season already. I had him as good as finished two years ago after he signed for you but it's good to see him having a new peak

Isn't Nolan a Bolton product?

A reverse Nigerian? He's got alopecia Might be my Liverpool friend tricking me. But he told me once "poor Spearing, he has that sickness that Mel Gibson had in that movie where he gets old". We were both drunk, mind... Shelvey has alopecia, Wiki says Spearing has progeria, but people with that rarely live into their twenties. Guess it's a common joke between Liverpool fans I guess, I found nothing outside wikipedia so I guess it's vandalized.

A reverse Nigerian? He's got alopecia Might be my Liverpool friend tricking me. But he told me once "poor Spearing, he has that sickness that Mel Gibson had in that movie where he gets old". We were both drunk, mind... EDIT: Just realized he was pulling my leg and Spearing's just ugly.

Doesn't Spearing suffer from that premature aging sickness?