Village Idiot

Wow. That's hideous That's not even one of the 3 options you posted a few days ago, is it? Yeah, La Liga/UEFA didn't approve the mixed sponsor logos approach. It's monumentally shit. Seems we will still wear the current one until the end of the season, though, will make the most of it.

We weren't in our best form when we played them, but fair enough they made it very hard. Still favour Chelsea massively, particularly with the second leg at Stamford Bridge.

Awwww... I feel like José Enrique is doing the most for Spanish-English goodwill since Queen Mary felt like hosting a barbeque

Oh, I think it will be closer than people think. We are famously s*** in February (our form always seem to take a dip and peak back in April), and let's not forget they missed a bunch of important players for our home leg last season. But I'll still enjoy all the running and screaming until then.

Just been to Arsenal-mania...

Dunno, i just don't like playing the same team two years in a row. We can go complacent since we dispatched them easily last year and they will be fired up.

Arsenal, would rather have played them later.

I think the coloring might be off, this is a recreation made by one of our newspapers.

Looks like this is going to be our new shirt http://www.elmundodeportivo.es/gif/20101217/e__archivo_graphic_10_1_2_20101217_YBA13M11.eps6.jpg

Yeah, I noticed that loophole in the offside law, I too wonder why we don't see more sides trying to exploit it (probably would get amended if it became too common)

I don't. I'm dieting.

I bought candy bars for one buck in NYC.

Is that his mam? Pretty extreme motherly love there

Ah yes, you even played sibierski upfront didn't you?

Ah yes, I remember that incident. Fair enough. Schadenfreude time then: http://estaticos02.marca.com/imagenes/2010/12/16/futbol/europa_league/1292529722_extras_portada_0.jpg

Any reason for that irrational Atlético hatred? They are cuddly.

http://estaticos02.marca.com/imagenes/2010/12/16/futbol/europa_league/1292431842_extras_portada_2.jpg

Still lower than ours, give them time I guess. Maybe not any more, what is yours? This guy usually makes for good reading (despite being an Arsenal fan): http://swissramble.blogspot.com/search/label/Manchester%20City Just edited my post, our wage bill is €220m euro (185m pounds). This, however, includes the wages of all our sporting sections (football, basketball, handball, roller hockey, etc...).

Still lower than ours (185m budgeted for this season), give them time I guess.

What's their wage bill? Any reliable data?

These are the same guys that are going to sponsor our shirt, we would be like brothers! We surely would play a friendly at some point. I'd fly to SJP to see that happen.

Glen Johnson linked to Real Madrid in Marca

Valencia is great, one of the best places in Spain to get on the piss.

67 vs 33 IIRC And the Barcelona derby this weekend, one of the great things of being back in town is feeling the heat of the derby again.