Village Idiot

How irrelevant. They also have the WC rights in Spain! There, now it is.

Fuck me, to make this day shittier the company that pays Barça's TV contract (and Madrid's) has just filed for administration.

Some very big news that can potentially send ripples across Spanish football. Mediapro, the company that holds the TV rights for Barça and Real Madrid (and several other La Liga teams), has just filed for administration. They say they will honor the football contracts, but we'll see.

I was sympathetic to SA but I find myself wishing they get dumped and they stick the damn vuvuzelas on their arses.

Actually I'm fine with us being defeated with this kind of display, since it highlights the way people are going to play against Barça after Inter (let's admit it, Spain is Barça+guest wingers/fullbacks) and hopefully we'll make a plan for that. Hopefully.

Well that sucked. Entertaining game though.

You need to distribute 50k trumpets at the door of SJP before every game tbh.

Good subs.

I knew it

Has Senna went well off the boil like? I seem to remember some mutterings that he'd been s*** last season, it's a hazy memory though. Legs gone.

I'm watching this on the BBC and I'm really enjoying the pundits' incompetence.

Touré to City for €30m is a done deal according to his agent. Don't want to see him go, but €20m of transfer profit in a player is soooooo unlike us.

Honestly, it isn't like Spain is teeming with DM prospects.

Man, I'm creaming with the prospect of Villa lining up for us.

Casillas kicking, one of the reasons Reina or Valdés are better there.

He isn't expected to last a full game in terms of match fitness, so he'll come out during the second half.

McCarthy cunt

Amusingly incompetent commentary, this FilmOn thingie is paying for itself

Capdevila was the starter in the Euro 2008. Pernía in 2006.

Xabi Alonso is a lot better suited for that role though. One of the things I like about Del Bosque, he is resisting the calls to play fantasy football and just try to soehorn all of our most talented players in the same lineup.

"For five hundred years, the Spanish searched for the golden city of Eldorado". What?

First time I hear Cesc talking in English actually, he has exactly the same accent as me

Can't fucking wait for this. Bring it on.

I agree I play with that ball every Sunday. Huge fan of the Questra ball myself. It was very popular in Spain for some reason in the 1990s.

I'm 25 down. I'm a very modest better, only do it to give me something extra to look forward to in games. Given myself a limit of minus 100 in this WC.