Village Idiot

Most people from Liverpool are Evertonians anyway......a bit like people from Barcelona are Espanyol fans (though they don't all go to the games)...at least what I was told when I visited there. Maybe Village Idiot can confirm/deny this. I was talking to a proper die hard Espanyol fan though so perhaps an element of bias :lol: Espanyol fans are not a majority in town, not even by a long shot. There's a reason we average 80,000 souls in our stadium, and they 25,000. The "they don't go to games" is a shit excuse.

Paul Burgess (Former head groundsman Arsenal) got his big move to Real Madrid last year. Aye, they interviewed him yesterday before the Clásico. They asked him if he was signed to make sure the Bernabéu pitch is good enough for Cesc Fábregas

Liverpool are about to get in really deep shit. It's not losing the CL money what's going to hurt, is the fact that they won't be able to attract the kind of talent they need so much (since their squad is dire bar a few players), and they might even lose some of their top players. Another title challenge could be half a decade away, at the earliest, since ManCity's money is going to make them very hard to displace. Still, they could find themselves another rich Arab since they are a big name still.

I can understand why they do it what happend there was horrible and atleast from what i gather from the film it was a bit of a cover up by S Yorkshire police and also what the sun wrote about them aswell. Correct. South Yorkshire Police and their incompetence played a massive part in the deaths of all those fans and nothing has ever been done about it, that's why they still "harp on" about it and that's why, yes, they are "owed something". You've just shown yourself to be either a w***** or very ignorant of the subject. If it's the latter then maybe you should think before you start throwing criticism around to try and win a bit of approval from other posters on here. Fair enough. That still was 25 years ago and I honestly don't understand why it is brought week in week out *today*. I'm aware of The Sun business, and if I recall correctly they issued a quite thorough apology a few years ago. Monumentally late, but they did. Really, it makes absolutely no sense to keep going with it the way they do. It was a disgrace, they paid the price for some stuff that had to be done throughout football stadiums. But it was 25 years ago.

I may sound bitter because we lost, but when they came to our place in 2007 they were nothing but bother. I usually like British clubs coming to Barcelona because of the quality of their away support and the great banter, but the red scousers were just a bunch of condescending twats ("we are a lot bigger than you", the fuck they are, a few them weren't born the last time they won the league ).

One honest question. Why the hell do they keep harping about Hillsborough? That was two decades ago, and yeah, it was a tragedy and I remember how big of a shock it was even in Spain. But they still rant and chant about "justice" "truth" and whatever, organize protests, do mosaics at the stadium... like everybody else still owes them something. The odd homage is perfectly understandable, but they seem utterly obsessed with it.

I don't know... they aren't terribly original but I don't think I'm allowed to float the language filter by posting Spanish curse words one thing we call them is "los gorrioncillos" (The little sparrows) or "las gallinitas" (the little chickens) since their nickname is "parakeets". I admit the name both Madrid and Espanyol use for us is cleverer... "Farsa" (which means "farce" in Spanish). But they have such shitty names that we can't get good puns for them!

How many teams do you refer to as 'the scum'? You called Real Madrid the scum the other day. I guess to a Barça fan they're both scum but would have thought you wouldn't call them both 'the scum.' I have yet to find a good English translation for what we call Espanyol. We actually don't call "scum" to any of our rivals (not a common word to use in Spanish) but seems the word I see used most in English.

Atlético soundly beaten by the scum 3-0. Why do they never win when I want them to win?

Village Idiot is also learning Geordie, I've noticed that it’s creeping into his posts. Why aye.

"Marca" back to their best with an article about how "Madrid fails in the big games" headed by a photo of... Gonzalo Higuaín Yes, he is rubbish, sell him please!

Get in Pompey. I have no emnity towards Spurs, but this makes a nice story for Portsmouth after all they've gone through.

The EL spot goes to the 7th place if they lose the final, doesn't it?

Course he is. And I don't think Pérez will want rid of Kaká (and Benzema) after just one season, particularly if they end up trophyless. They were his signings and it would be a glaring admission that he fucked it up.

All it's going to depend on how they react after this defeat. Last year's Clásico wasn't really a title decider either but they just completely gave up after it and lost all their remaining league games. Since we are a sane country and our fixtures aren't copyrighted (never understood how that came to pass in the UK)... 32: Almería - Real Madrid FC Barcelona - Deportivo 33: Espanyol - FC Barcelona Real Madrid - Valencia 34: FC Barcelona - Xerez Zaragoza - Real Madrid 35: Villarreal - FC Barcelona Real Madrid - Osasuna 36: Mallorca - Real Madrid FC Barcelona - Tenerife 37: Sevilla - FC Barcelona Real Madrid - Athletic Bilbao 38: FC Barcelona - Valladolid Málaga - Real Madrid

Torres injured again? They look so utterly toothless without him. knee injury apparently What has happened since he moved to Liverpool? He had a great injry record while at Atlético, while he seems unable to play more than 25 games a season for that lot.

Torres injured again? They look so utterly toothless without him.

The Spanish finals aren't played until the end of the season, I think. So we still haven't qualified. Madrid failed to qualify from their group though

Fuck me, are all games going to end 0-0 today? :lol:

We still have 3 potential banana slipping away trips: Espanyol, Villarreal and Sevilla, mixed with the CL games. All's not done yet.

There's a reason we got rid of Giovanni. Talented, yes, but he's lazy as fuck and has very little work ethic. If he didn't cut it in La Liga, he won't do it in a more physically demanding league.

One ManU friend has just sent me this. Probably fake as stripper tits, since it comes from a Russian site and it wouldn't make any financial sense for you lot. He tells me he found it on a ManU forum. http://gong.bg/view_article.php?article_id=129369 The translation might be bollocks, but in the Russian headline the first word is "Newcastle" in Cyrillic.

Holy crap, just saw Terry's tackle. Fucking disgusting stuff how the little shit tries to feign injury himself to get away with it.

Congratulations on the win, beat Reading and that's one hand on the trophy. Just realized that if Jonás' goal is given to him it will set a new personal record for him of goals scored in a season.

No, we are pretty overcrowded in the left wing (Silva, Mata, Iniesta potentially playing there, Navas too). I fancy him getting his call after the WC, probably.