Village Idiot

So, it looks like NUFC will give me the only footballing joy this season.

So, Tony Adams has brought Kieran Richardson and Nigel Reo-Coker to Granada on trial. This is going to be hilarious.

In all the years he's been playing for them, there's been many runs of Ronaldo up top. He's always went back to wing; he's just so much better with a striker in front of him, creating space and dragging defenders. Granted, now that he's in physical decline, he can no longer run the wing as much as he did. Him at #9 would be second best option, but still, feels suboptimal.

Madrid press are weighing heavily it will be Hazard. But dunno, I think it will be a striker since Benzema seems to be on thin ice. That said there aren't obvious Galáctico targets in that position. Maybe PEA.

In an investigation related to political corruption in the Madrid area, it has tangentially been revealed that one of the accused worked for Florentino Pérez setting up a dummy internet newspaper that vomited pro-Pérez news and, more hilariously, put pressure on Ancelotti to field some players and put out negative news about players Pérez intended to sell

Before the game, the only guy I knew that was confident on turning this over was a Valencia fan that despises us. "Emery always finds a way to throw the unthrowable, I should know", he said to me. It's true that Emery's record at Valencia in big games was always awful. But OTOH his Sevilla team was hard as nails. Yesterday we weren't that dominant but PSG looked like jelly.

Yeah, second pen was soft at best. No point denying that. But I thought the first one was clear as day.

I thought that yesterday was a Ballon d'Or performance from Neymar btw. He's been kinda threading water this season, I hope that this spurs him to assert himself more.

Watching it with the missus. No pissing allowed, but the celebrations will be heroic. Plus she's from Rosario and half-Uruguayan so it will be like fucking Messi and Suárez together.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT.

Definitely Figo. I keep his Barça shirt as a morbid memento.

Offering my firstborn in sacrifice to the Real Madrid moloch seems appropriate, but a bit longterm.

Not enough to get a 5-0. The tempting fate prowess needs to be harder.

Hey guys, what ludicrous promise should I make to draw the ire of the football gods and jinx this evening's game in our favor? Is drinking one's p*ss still en vogue?

Come on NUFC, close this and you're as good as promoted.

Lucho announces he's quitting at the end of the season. While I agree that he's run his course here, I'm not sure it's the best moment to announce it.

I'm an 8 and I thought I was being pessimistic...

Massive.

Ranieri at least deserved to see out the CL tie against Sevilla imho, they have a realistic chance of turning that one over.

On beyond the pale football corruption news #1242314 the Spanish FA has been forced to return €1,5m in public money they received from the Spanish government back in 2010 to build and run football schools in developing countries, football schools that were never built.

Fantastic news, a sacking before X'Mas was the second best outcome of his Palace tenure. He'll get another job in the Prem, for sure. He can ride that "his teams do well at the beginning" reputation to get employed by some team battling relegation. And hopefully get relegated with them.

Why the f*** are we playing in Doha today? God, I hate those cash friendlies.

I don't want Pardew to get sacked. I want them to go down with him captaining the f***ing sinking ship, after he's personally lead it towards the reefs with everybody screaming at his side to change course. I want all the world to see what a fraud he is. No ifs or buts.

If Sporting get something against Espanyol tomorrow, Valencia will be dragged into a relegation spot. Such an abysmal season.

Atlético's de Madrid new stadium will be called "Wanda Metropolitano". New crest, too: http://img.rtve.es/imagenes/nuevo-escudo-del-atletico-madrid/1481288248608.jpg Both terrible choices, imho.