Village Idiot

If Darlington had 10000000000000 times the size of Newcastle, yeah.

Say what you want about La Liga, but one of the reasons the league displays more skill is because refs allow much less contact than in the PL.

Trezeguet 6 in 8 at Hércules. Wow.

You going through the five stages of dying already? Early doors.

Awwww... pity.

Keeping De Las Cuevas in the bench, which is disgraceful.

Botía playing the game of his life. We shouldn't have sold him on this form. EDIT: Ramos was wearing Pepe's shortpants after coming out for the second half.

Laughing my ass off at all the manly hyperbole in the Spanish commentary for the Madrid game: "A match for men", "a body to body affair", "not for the squeamish". EDIT: "All muscle and sweat" now. Priceless stuff.

Sporting Gijón players are sticking out legs and playing like they have a rocket up their arses. Mou has riled them up good this week.

McEachran's a cracking prospect. Still not the kind of sub you'd be looking at when you're chasing a game.

Some random teenager coming in.

Technically 4 fullbacks in Chelsea's defence today.

Viduka syndrome perhaps. Last year of contract indeed.

Just caught the Elmander goal, class He just seems to have the confidence this season.

Mint game of football tonight, Villarreal were quite good. Going to sleep well.

Dazzling football at the Britannia Stadium.

We are paying something ridiculous like €3m, if reports are to be believed. Suppose he'll be cover/rotate with Iniesta in the "A"MC and winger positions. Anyway, he any good?

Seems we are about to close the signing of Afellay for January. I don't watch the Dutch league much anymore, he that good? A bit of a weird signing since with Thiago coming up and presumably us trying to get Cesc again we'll have a bit of a glut in the middle of the park (although right now Xavi is struggling with fitness and needs resting).

Phil Brown should still be managing in the PL.

Four in a row, yes. A league record actually. Long it may continue.

Actually we've won more convincingly at their place than at ours since Pep is at the helm. 2-6 and 0-2 vs 3-0 and 1-0. Their home crowd makes them throw caution to the wind.

Aye, it's been like that for quite a while, fixed draw if you ask me (to make the Clásicos more rellevant as they are played towards the end of the league).

convenient excuse for him to use the whole world is against me card. Probably did it on purpose. What did he do? Called the referee something bad, can't remember what. "Véte a la mierda" (literally "go to shit")

Mourinho has been delivered a 2-game touchline ban and will "miss" the Clásico (as much as managers with touchline bans actually miss games).

He's just removing Alex Ferguson from up Ferdinand's arse.