Village Idiot

Agger is world glass.

RvN saying that going to Real Madrid would be "a dream made true". Dude, you spent three seasons there already

I don't know, both your forwards had to feed on long balls and scraps all game long, with the (very) odd winger run. I thought they managed at least to be a nuisance all the same, I wouldn't fault them.

Well my record stands. Have yet to watch a game that you lose since I started following your lot last season.

Loved that turn and shot that went inches from the post and that backheel. Leonel Besstie.

They were all songs and flags for Dalglish when he came out like. They had one flag with all their glorious managers faces on it, though it looked like some oppressive Soviet Union flag. Their fascination with their managers' iconography always reminds me of tin pot dictators actually http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5hDFu2z_gtY/TROBDKV8G_I/AAAAAAAAAVE/b4BngDCUEow/s1600/rafa-benitez-pa_1356726c.jpg http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:uZxr1fYFdL5R8M:http://cache4.asset-cache.net/xc/1771051.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF878921F7C3FC3F69D929FDFFBD76ED3645E353C396CA5D4A119C41A6D7FA9E00BB2834E30A760B0D811297&t=1

Best looking like a handy footballer today.

Lionel Besstie.

Nice turn by Best.

Your midfield is being a bit wasteful, punting the ball as soon as it gets to their feet. Should try to keep it and slow the tempo.

Peach of a deep cross that.

Get in

So much hoofing to get forward...

Today's derbies so far

Woodgate debuted at Real Madrid with an own goal and a red card. Pretty sure Vítor Bahía and Julen Lopetegui had dreadful debuts for Barça, but I have erased them from my mind.

Romário debuted with a hattrick against Real Sociedad. Best Barça debut I can recall. Such a player

Tried to make a Bilbao one, until I realized it's mostly their current starting XI+Aduritz given their transfer policy. But they have one of the best youth setups in La Liga (they have to). Iraizoz Iraola San José Amorebieta Asier del Horno Yeste Gurpegi Javi Martínez Muniain Llorente Aduritz

Fortunately, I'd add.

As said, Messi, Iniesta, Busquets and Puyol didn't start football at the club, but moved in when they were teens without money changing hands. We paid for Pedro so I left him out.

Also Madrid could put out a decent team if they had bothered. Casillas Arbeloa Pavón Mejía Raúl Bravo Granero Jurado Borja Valero Mata Soldado Raúl/Negredo (Raúl was an Atlético boy but they dissolved their youth setup and joined Madrid on a free)

Mmmm... if no transfer paid is the criteria. Valdés Bartra Puyol Piqué Fontàs Busquets Xavi Cesc Messi Bojan Iniesta

One of the first "classic" English legends I knew about. RIP.

Madrid's DoF Jorge Valdano just said that the transfer "it's complicated". Still can't see this being a good idea. Mou's Real Madrid have a good dynamism going for them and really can't see RvN providing that.

Every time I see the name of a Blackpool player in the scoresheet I wonder who the hell he is. Most overachieving set of players of recent times, I barely recognize 1/3 of their squad.

Aye, me as well mate. It'll go exactly like this: