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They are actually still on the way... but they are expected to (barely) make it.

All top flight games are on, apparently.

Our match hasn't finally not been postponed, but utter shambles from us as we didn't plan an alternative way of travel and we might not make it in time and lose the game for no show. Still can't believe it has come to this, since the strike was already known yesterday evening. Somebody has to take responsibility.

Several La Liga matches scheduled this weekend - including the Osasuna - Barça - in danger of postponement due to the *massive* air traffic controller strike that's shut down Spain's airports.

Would be good if this rocked the house at FIFA a bit. It probably won't.

Going even back, one of my favorite Italian players when I started watching Serie A in the mid-90s was Marco Delvecchio, who played for Inter at the time.

I loved early 2000s Inter myself, always picked them in footy man.

Robinho knows kung-fu man.

That bustup doesn't beat the Gravesen-Robinho martial arts show. http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:MVvT4VzPfbzCyM:http://www.robinhoweb.com/fotos/gravesen2006.jpg&t=1 http://www.corazonblanco.com/media/galeria/44/8/8/8/7/o_real_madrid_r_de_souza_robinho-47888.jpg That was fucking legendary

Wonder why England and us are labelled "Medium Risk" regarding stadium operations when we are organizing the two top leagues in the world every weekend, with more than a hundred professional games being played all over the territory.

Nah, I do have worries about Qatar. Didn't around 1 million people go to South Africa? The entire population of Qatar is 1,6m I just don't know how can they cope with that. It's just nuts.

Yeah I'm aware of that, and fullback is not a position where you tend to play people on their weak feet (bar people like Lahm, who wouldn't make the lists of best fullback in the world if he played on the right). But in the past you still had the Krols, Santos, Maldinis, Roberto Carloses... nothing like that currently.

Also, to be honest, I have always considered Cole the best of a rather average bunch. There's quite an imbalance between the quality found in the right and left sides of the defence nowadays.

Don't think Cole has been that great this season. I like Coentrao a lot, too.

De Gea Maicón Piqué Lucio Coentrao Cronaldo Xavi Cesc Iniesta Messi Drogba Van Gaal (should be Mou but ain't voting for him) This has just made me picture Messi playing off Drogba...

The "continent rotation" has never been official, AFAIK the only rule in place is that a confederation can't host two consecutive WCs.

The two WC finalist coaches, the two CL finalist coaches, the EL winner coach. Lazy.

The game gets added to another gameweek when a date is arranged, which means ManU will play twice that week and you should transfer in and captain Berbatov.

You really should work the "couldn't get a game for Pompey" into a song.

We don't need a striker FFS

Any fun tabloid covers today?

Real Madrid doesn't even need agents nowadays. "As" called Wolfsburg's DoF to inquiry about Dzeko's price, and he said it would be €40m.

Are they going to ship that massive TV screen to a third world country too?

Hattrick or bust. Incidentally I think Rossi is a good player, just not a "very good" player.

Just bomb Qatar.