Village Idiot

Noticing Madrid press starting to turn on Cronaldo regarding his selfishness. Wool falling from the eyes I guess. Wonder if Cronaldo could be unselfish and still be as good, though. It's his main drive.

Mmmm... Cigarini, Contini, Rossi (I guess)... yeah, not that many in Spain either. We have a shedload of Italian-Argentinians though (like Colo), but don't think those count.

Silva and Johnson can't be in the same lineup man, Mancini would get a stroke if he had to remove a DM.

Man, I really don't keep up with WWE that much. And a shame that, he was so great winding people up.

Iniesta has been clapped and cheered on all away grounds this season, it's pretty great

Now they are saying it looks like a 2 weeks out thing, pending scan.

And yes, I'm fucking gutted and I will be mashing F5 on www.elmundodeportivo.es as son as I wake up tomorrow.

Messi will be scanned tomorrow, but first reports are that he can stand on the ankle and walk, so they are hopeful at least it's not going to be a 123143 months injury. And I agree about the squad stuff, but Guardiola has been very stubborn about that (although I believe he's doing a Fergie and saying he has a great squad already because there's nee money to buy more).

As a player too or just as a manager? As manager. Always been a hard away fixture for us but we won there several times while he played.

Anyway, Atlético-Barça in a bit. Only La Liga pitch Guardiola has never won in, and this fixture is almost always a massive entertainer.

He should join WWE and make a tag-team with Randy Orton, he would be such a fantastic heel.

Macheda ahead of Owen in the pecking order. Heh.

Would love it if it ended up a 0-0 bore draw.

Shawcross pinball again.

Aye. He'll do well to come back from this, tbh. Crazy to think that the three keepers England has had in net for recent blunder now play for West Brom (yoyo club), the bottom team in the Premiership, and Bristol City. What? Howard plays for the USA

Man, would be funny if Wham win the day Grant takes a day off

Shawcross

David Silva down to 8.6, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... will see if he plays this weekend.

To be frank while at Bolton he mixed up stuff a bit with adding the likes of Djorkaeff or Okocha. Still this some of the most daft self-praise I have seen in a long time, FM much Big Sam?

That avatar is really perfectly cropped! Makes my chuckle every time Guardiola wishes he had such a full mane of hair though

With a contract written on the back of a napkin. Really, I didn't know that. Aye, they just interviewed our chief scout at the time, who related how he met Messi's father at a restaurant and once they got a verbal agreement he wanted to put it down in writing ASAP to clinch the deal and secure the boy for us.

With a contract written on the back of a napkin.

Big Sam Aye, they would love that hoofing at the Bernabéu like

I have heard this urban legend for several rivalries in world sports (Red Sox scarf in the foundations of new Yankee stadium, Barça scarf in the new Espanyol stadium...), so I doubt it.

Reminds me that sucks being atheist, I need a Non-Christmas or something that I can use to skip work.