Village Idiot

Fuck me, Bam Bam is immense on that anthem clip. Really hate that Chile ended up in our group, hopefully we can both make it out of it.

They switched sides in 1943, though.

Both.

Think I would answer that Paraguayan's girl prayer.

Shit. Jammy bastards.

Italy is stuck in a loophole in 2006

BBC experts fawning all over Italy as if they were winning.

The Spanish doesn't even have lyrics, which has the good side effect of saving us all the crap when footballers don't sing it

Russian anthem completely owns the Italian one, to be frank.

Quite pleased with the relatively vuvuzela-less atmoshpere in this game, I can hear the cheering and screaming from the fans for a change.

Cannavaro's acrobatics

There's more average quality in an Euro, that might change with the team expansion though. Sometimes I just think they should do away with the group stage and go all the way with a knockout, but I guess FIFA wants the extra games.

Geremi is Cameroon's Beckham. No legs, but a damn good cross on him.

Emana has been shit for Betis this season. Not surprised.

Can we comment on like the next 3-4 games of any given club? Like, "Wolves have Chelsea away next, Everton at home and City away. 1 point tops from this and bottom place" La Liga fixtures aren't copyrighted, but if you want to play it safe your site, your rules.

Webó preferred as CF to Eto'o too, Le Guen is nuts

Souleymanou making his bid for the goalkeeper blunder reel.

Aggghhhh the vuvuzelas are unbearable in this one. Elia really impressing so far.

Messi and Arteta are pretty different though. Messi came to Spain when he was 13 and has Spanish relatives. Arteta was signed in his mid-20s by an English team. Not saying that Messi should play for us, but I think it's blurrier than you make it sound. Honestly, I think if you have been living in your adoptive country a decent amount of years before your majority of age (how many I don't know), I think you should be eligible.

I'd take Deuce for no other reason than Don't Tread, man. I still can't get over it. Dempsey has to shoot a hip hop video with himself throwing 100$ bills to the camera.

http://www.sport.es/img/dream_team_rosa.jpg

Germany to be knocked out of the WC in three years then. Ok, now talking seriously, Spain are historically a bit on the offending side of this so I can be a bit biased. That said - and I don't know the biographical particulars of these German players - if we are talking people that moved to Germany as children and grew up there despite being foreign-born, I have no issue with that.

Quite an eventful day today. Sandro Rosell has - expectedly - won the FC Barcelona election. May God give him wisdom and silverware. Meanwhile, Real Sociedad and Levante have been promoted to first division. Looking forward seeing the txuri-urdin back where they belong Betis and Hércules will fight out the remaining spot, they are tied at 68 points with one game remaining and Hércules holds the head-to-head.

Was just shit goalkeeping. The ball wasn't really going in fast.

Barça's holding their election today. Frontrunner is Sandro Rosell, but wouldn't be the first time we have an upset. Results should start coming in after 8pm.