Village Idiot

If you scrape this and then play Maradona's Argentina it's going to be an epic run, so much drama and old grudges

Phantom goal aside, brilliant game for a neutral, hope it keeps up during the second half

Can't wait for the English press response if you lose because of this.

Well, that guarantees England's support for goalline technology

Awesome. Massively entertaining game.

Shit, that was a great move. You getting raped tbf.

Real Sociedad about to bid for Jo, according to his manager.

Anime of Captain Tsubasa is one of the reason rapid football development in Japan. when the old days Japanese more like of Baseball moved to Football nowadays. New Sport trend setter. Captain Tsubasa ruled my childhood (it was huge in Spain), and then when he signed for FC Barcelona it was the greatest thing in the world http://ssj.jeeran.com/tsubasa_barcelona.jpg

I blame ESPN's massive fate-tempting campaign. They should have known the football gods wouldn't sit idly.

US Gold never had that loading screen in any game I played... did they cut it for Europe?

For some strange reason that format failed when they tried it in Spain

Uruguay

Awesome!

Now a Forlán goal and a round of "he didn't cut it at Manchester United" comments, please.

And here it comes.

Donggook

I think it's a dive to be honest. He's felt the touch, then thrown himself. No way that's a natural fall. He clearly trips himself on that repeat. And it's not the first time I see it happening to him, sometimes he's very clumsy.

Busquets was great today incidentally, showed all the things that make me think he's the best player we have for that role. Chuffed that we made first after the bad start, wasn't looking forward playing Brazil at all.

He was also in his last year of contract too, and I guess he just didn't rate him that highly. I don't think anybody expected him to be so good so soon to be frank.

Ghana and then Uruguay/Korea isn't the hardest of brackets. Would love the reaction here if they made the semis.

Has he completely gotten over his chronic homesickness? I was under the impression that he's only making an exception for Spain. He has said he has overcome his problem with professional help. He'd just be moving to Madrid anyway.

Ok, today La Liga announced the nominations for our player of the year awards. A couple interesting names in there, and a couple interesting names *not* in there. Also if you're named Xavi and play in midfield you're automatically good. Best keeper: Palop (Sevilla), César (Valencia), Valdés (Barça) - No Casillas Best defender: Arbeloa (R.Madrid), Domínguez (Atlético), Piqué (Barça) - No Alves Best midfielder: Xabi Alonso (R. Madrid), Xavi Hernández (Barça), Javi Martínez (Athletic) Best attacking midfielder: Pedro (Barça), Pedro León (Getafe), Navas (Sevilla) - weird category, I'd class all these as forwards... Best forward: Messi (Barça), Higuaín (R. Madrid), Cristiano Ronaldo (R. Madrid) Best new player: Pedro (Barça), De Gea (Atlético), Canales (Racing) Only 3 foreigners nominated, all of them in the forward category.

I wish NE5 was here now I keep seeing people mentioning this NE5 personnage. Guess some post search is in order.

Way too much money, doesn't really have much over Pedro. Also, the current board has 9 days left in charge, why are they spending €20m right now?

I was at the hospital about it today. The ear is so sensitive that you can do absolutely nothing to help it without major surgery. That's why these instruments are so f***ing stupid. I've never heard about what you said. I'm pretty sure it's false aswell. I know you can use special sleep helping machines to emit a similar frequency and destructively interfere with the frequency in your head but it's very complicated. I have it too. I just sort of got used and blanked it out over the years, but it's still there.