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Looks like him to me. Guess one or several of the servicemen are Geordies and asked him to wear it.

Regarding promotion to our first division, it's pretty tight: 1) Real Sociedad 68 2) Levante 68 3) Betis 64 ----------------------- 4) Cartagena 64 5) Hércules 61 (1 game in hand) 6) Villarreal B 60 (not eligible) 7) Elche 60 With 3 games remaining. Pretty shambolic that we're still playing the regular season with the WC just two weeks away. Some of these teams have lost players. Our FA is just useless, useless. And for our promotion to the second flight... Ponferradina and Granada are already promoted, the remaining two spots for our second division will come out of these playoffs: · Pontevedra - Alcorcón · Universidad LPGC - Sant Andreu · Ontinyent - Eibar · Real Jaén - Barcelona Atlètic I'm personally not in favor of B teams being eligible for promotion to our second division, very much prefer a real club get that slot. But I'll be rooting for Barça Atlètic naturally. Hopefully Sant Andreu makes it though. We need more Catalan teams in La Liga.

I liked the movement of the US team a lot, both on and off the ball. Gigantic leaps and bounds better than where it was 2-3 years ago.

googled jose enrique messi to see if there was any pics from his la liga days and i found that its a few pages in We still put four past them in the game in your avatar though José Enrique was immense in the second "leg", though.

Exciting end-to-end stuff at the start of the US game.

I make a point of never, NEVER betting on international friendlies.

I think Reina is a bit better overall, Valdés a better shot-stopper though. Casillas has really been nowhere near his old form these past two years and is clearly behind these two nowadays.

Casillas has entered his decline, but he's the team captain and he's settled, so probably won't be good if we mess up with the GK spot right now. Hope the rumors are true and he gives up the captaincy after the WC and we can get around to replace him.

Casillas having a mare, I'll laugh since it's a friendly

I think we are a bit shit. Yeah, the passes look nice, but it's Saudi Arabia, hardly Germany. Alonso 2-1 btw.

Camacho's barely played since he made the first splash three years ago. Been injured a lot, too. He's just been an injury time sub this season. Again, that's the rumored deal, but Atlético's interest in the player is well documented and both presidents have met these days. Antonio López isn't really great.

Atlético on the verge of signing Filipe Luis from Depor for €7m+Camacho and Diego Costa. Damn good signing if they pull it off, best leftback in La Liga by a mile.

Atlético home and away http://estaticos03.marca.com/albumes/2010/05/28/equipacion_atleti/1275081420_extras_albumes_1.jpg http://estaticos03.marca.com/albumes/2010/05/28/equipacion_atleti/1275081863_extras_albumes_0.jpg They also have "Un sentimiento, un orgullo" embroidered in the reverse side behind the badge. Nike, please stop doing this.

Yeah, I meant the Euros, I had a slip with the WC being so close.

"As" reporting today that ManCity have hijacked Maicon's move to Real Madrid.

So fucking true, they whine about this every tournament! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/worldcup2010/article-1282313/WORLD-CUP-2010-Brazil-goalkeeper-Julio-Cesar-blasts-grocery-Jabulani-ball.html

OK, so now we need to know why the planet Mercury doesn't rotate. Pretty sure Mercury does rotate, just very slowly.

IIRC the most accepted theory is that it's leftover momentum from the particles that were expelled from the Sun and formed the cellestial bodies of the Solar System

Just saw this photo, Mike needs a new avatar http://estaticos02.marca.com/blogs/fuera-de-juego/imagenes_posts/2010/05/26/donovan.jpg

They are starved for success. Sacking Capello was fine when they had won 3 CLs in the previous 10 years, but now they haven't had a sniff in quite a while. And it's not like Mou is going to park the bus against the likes of Almería or Mallorca so they'll still get their goalfests to stroke their cock with. The problem will be if he doesn't win in Europe in a couple years, though (even if he wins the league).

It's going to be fun seeing him cohabitate with Jorge Valdano (Madrid's DoF). In his times as a pundit, Valdano was notoriously anti-Mourinho.

99% glass. He's world-glass. Thanks, I try my best

Atlético are his boyhood club anyway. With him being out of contract, 20, and without much pitch time... it's a great move for him.

Madrid will pay €8m for Mou, who'll be unveiled this Monday at the Bernabéu. I expect some Cronaldo-unveiling madness. Fran Mérida has done the shirt-and-pitch for Atlético today. Great signing on a free, I say.

Germany 2006 Austria/Switzerland 2008