Village Idiot

It was a delight to watch, but really, most of the time it looked like we were playing against training cones. They gave us all the space in the world. That said, Messi's second

Well, back from the Barça game. Nice therapy for the Hércules debacle although Panathinaikos were really, really terrible.

Which means Blackpool is keeping the only clean sheet of the day

David Silva is a pretty expensive backup player it seems.

No clean sheet points for Chelsea defenders

Mascherano getting his first start for us. And ye, I'm missing the game because of an ill-timed work meeting.

Does it look serious?

Why didn't Rooney play? Legit injury or the missus doesn't allow him to leave home anymore?

Pure Redknapp that. "I don't want player/job X, but X really is a t'riffic player/job so if the opportunity came around of course I couldn't refuse, but don't start saying that I want player/job X"

Thing is that everybody thought we weren't going anywhere with Aragonés, plus all the racism thing made him a bit uncool to have around so he was hounded out and the FA tried to dress it honorably. Then oh surprise, we go and win the tournament. So you can have a fecked managerial situation and still win stuff.

Man, these tabloid hacks

Aragonés did pretty much the same (IIRC he announced he was quitting one year before the tournament), and we announced Del Bosque as his successor six months before the EC.

Reminds me of Ronaldinho saying that he wanted to be a model pro when he started with us.

Yes, apparently was Brazil's best player today.

Barcelona B lost 0-3 in a friendly against Brazil in Barcelona in a closed doors friendly. Actually a friend tipped me to it but couldn't sneak into the training compound

FC Barcelona's site is utter shite to be honest, I wish they redid it. I too like ManCity's one a lot, although navigation isn't always intuitive (guess you need to get used to the layout), it's very clean on the eyes.

I suppose you're aware that record was made out of 20000000000000000 5-minute sub appearances at games we were winning in order to waste time.

Most importantly, bar Piqué that defence line is criminally weak, that's the part of our squad where we lack most depth.

Only half of that team is made up of starters. Still wouldn't have expected a 4-1!

Usually I wouldn't bother with a friendly but just can't stand losing to the Argies.

One of the local commentators said it's because of the time difference, probably not noticing that almost all of the Argie team plays in Europe Our team is half-strength.

So have we. 0-1 last ditch goal against Poland

No tash http://i.goal.com/files/images/stats/goal/player-images/99/14499_186x236.jpg

I guess you couldn't battle against the name of Wembley, but you should have kept NT games on the road like we do it in Spain. It works wonders to bring the team and raise support around the country and prevents it from becoming "Madrid's NT".

Atlético are stronger this season, too (they sort of spoiled it with selling Jurado, but well). It will be a 3-way battle between Valencia, Atlético and Sevilla for the CL spots. But given how stuff was looking financially for the Chés, they have still managed to keep a very respectable team.