Village Idiot

Aye, remember when Rayo Vallecano got a spot that way in 2000. They got to quarter finals, it was the season of their lives. I remember them getting knocked out by Alaves aye. Who also had one mental European campaign only to subsequently dissapear after that, that final against Liverpool was incredible. They got relegated the season immediately after and then they got done by Dmitry Piterman, the club destroyer.

Aye, remember when Rayo Vallecano got a spot that way in 2000. They got to quarter finals, it was the season of their lives.

Burnley in the UEFA cup, that would be a sight!

Aye. First European final for Atlético since 1986, and would be their first proper European trophy since the early 60s. (they happen to be the only club to have won the Intercontinental Cup without winning the EC/CL before!)

He really can't do much else. Awful bench.

Get the fuck in Forlán you beauty!

Please, my dear English friends ATLÉTICO No h in there. I allow you to scrap the "´", but no h.

Gerrard has been looking way sharper these last weeks, wonder if he's remembered there's a World Cup around the corner.

¡Aúpa Aleti!

74563 just by clicking in the midlands for most of the stadiums apart from Elland Road

Meh, a Liverpool-Hamburg final would feel so anticlimatic at this point.

Isn't it interesting that - bar Fulham - all the teams in the UEFA cup semis have been shit in their domestic leagues?

Man, I'd have never thought one year ago that Busquets would achieve this level of internet infamy. ¡Adelante Aleti!

Always the arrogant twats.

Gotta love Gerrard's skill in already claiming for a pen as he is falling

The talk in Barcelona (Mourinho was our B team coach at the time), was that SBR had promised him that he would retire and give him the managerial post after one or two seasons (I don't remember exactly).

what in the name of f***? Much worse was the elbow to Juan Arango (third photo), Arango's life was actually in danger and had to be hospitalized urgently. Navarro was an animal, really. Actually the whole central defence of Sevilla from the mid 90s-mid 2000s were a bunch of psychopats. Pablo Alfaro, another legend. http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/object3/451/90/n107174387983_6860.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a193/varelax/videogames2copiar.jpg

Javi Navarro http://www.elsalvador.com/noticias/2003/09/03/deportes/COVER.JPG http://www.blogsasuna.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/webo-javi-navarro.jpg http://www.bermellones.com/media/galeria/38/2/0/4/0/n_rcd_mallorca_juan_fernando_arango_saenz-402.jpg http://www.sporting-heroes.net/files_footballworldcup/NAVARRO_Javi_20060510_GH_L.jpg

Samuel Allardyce, the foreign relations expert.

Keeping with the language theme, we call that shot "semivolea" (guess could translate as "semivolley"). Is there an English word for it?

Thanks, couldn't really tell with the small size. Nice goal.

Is it Nolan in your sig, too?

You're not Spanish at all are you? You're some imposter from Birkenhead. Actually I wrote "awesome" first and then realized it sounded too yank and tried to come up with something more British Unrelated but i asked this while game was on and got no response, what do Spanish fans shout when a shot goes close - is it just "Oooooee"? ¡Uuuuuuuuuuuuy! "oooooeee" or "ooooleeee" is when you pass the ball around the players of the other side when you're up, we call that the "rondo" since you are dancing around them. It's actually a common game to play with a football when you're a kid in Spain. Was just the noise i was going off. Does "¡Uuuuuuuuuuuuy!" mean anything or just a noise, as in they didn't do it in the game i went to in South America. It's a common Spanish interjection when something comes close. I don't know, if you slip on the floor but avoid falling, somebody accompanying you would say that. @madras: yeah, it has the same origin in Spanish (since the moorish occupation). It's meant as a praise of what you're seeing, and I guess moors would praise Allah or somesuch when watching a good spectacle.

You're not Spanish at all are you? You're some imposter from Birkenhead. Actually I wrote "awesome" first and then realized it sounded too yank and tried to come up with something more British Unrelated but i asked this while game was on and got no response, what do Spanish fans shout when a shot goes close - is it just "Oooooee"? "¡Uuuuuuuuuuuuy!". It's a common Spanish interjection when something comes close ("almost!") "oooooeee" or "ooooleeee" is when you pass the ball around the players of the other side when you're up, we call that the "rondo" since you are dancing around them. It's actually a common game to play with a football when you're a kid in Spain. The expression comes from bullfighting, since that's what people yell when a bullfighter makes a pass at a charging bull (like an opposition player running to get the ball off you)

You're not Spanish at all are you? You're some imposter from Birkenhead. Actually I wrote "awesome" first and then realized it sounded too yank and tried to come up with something more British