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I wonder if there's still somebody in Southampton's squad that was already at the club for their 2003 FA final?

Can't believe they play 162 games in a league season! I was wondering how they managed gate receipts of £145m last year They need the exercise. http://product.images.fansedge.com/44-00/44-00691-F.jpg Baseball, keeping alive the aspirations of sports stardom for fat people since 1876

Stanislas looks promising in my opinion. But he's the kind of player they might want to hold on to, low wages and good future.

So afer this third placed Valencia will be 21 points adrift of the fearsome twosome

He didn't.

It was expected, to be honest. Atlético have been sitting in their box after they got a goal. You can't expect to hold on a lead for two halves against a team like Madrid at their turf.

He's already managed a yellow in 3 minutes on the pitch

Is that what all the ironic cheering was for? I know he's bad but is he that bad? He's awful. Decent offensively, but drops more clangers at the back than Bramble on LSD.

Perea in for Atlético. That's Madrid's comeback sorted.

Bernabéu booing their own players. Spoiled mongs.

If Wham end up going down, given how f***ed up they are you indeed could fish some interesting stuff. I reckon Cole would go to a top half team, but what about Diamanti? I also rate Behrami, guy never stops running. Could be a good replacement for Smith, he even has the same hair Upson's a bit old and is starting to drop some clangers. Ilunga is also fine, but you have Enrique on that side.

Real Madrid haven't lost a game to Atlético since 1999. Sadly I don't think it's going to change today. They have been massively smug about the derby though, hopefully they'll get some Lyon-like karma effect. Normally I'd love Atletico to beat them, as I'm not a fan of Real. But, tonight I want £15 back. Fair enough. I was seriously considering putting a bet on Madrid myself but that would mess me emotionally too much.

Most ridiculous name ever, still. Aye, but it gives me a hate figure in the league They won last year, only time in my life I have supported Beckham in anything and he fails Pettiness aside, it's pretty weird to have a team in a US major league named "Royal".

Real Madrid haven't lost a game to Atlético since 1999. Sadly I don't think it's going to change today. They have been massively smug about the derby though, hopefully they'll get some Lyon-like karma effect.

Was he the one you mentioned in the Transfer Targets thread for us? Do you know much about Getafe's other winger, Albin? Yes, the very same one. He's having a very good season. Albín... can't say he's having a great season, he's been dropped lately. Isn't he more of a supporting striker though? I remember him having a great season a couple years ago, but seems to have stagnated.

Torres

Villa have spent a lot, but the top 4+ManCity probably still outspend them and have larger wage bills.

Pedro León, Getafe's winger, been linked to ManCity, Spurs and Stoke.

Valladolid are awful, but indeed they have been getting results and I think it's more the confidence and sort of siege mentality that they can still pull it off when everybody had them written off a couple months ago.

Playing for Everton has kept him sharp, but I think so much time without rest will make him jaded after the World Cup.

Heck, I'm going to post some more of his quotes: "I know why we managers are sacked: for losing. What I don't know is why they hire us. It's as mysterious as the Coca-Cola formula". "Iniesta represents the whole and Messi the part. Messi needs more Andrés than Andrés needs Messi" "Possibility and probability aren't the same. I prefer teams that look after the probability" "Football has become a social dildo" "Not being risky is the riskiest choice. Hence, to avoid risks, I'll be risky" "Somebody that only knows football not even football knows" "Messi represents the sistemic and contextual paradigm. We are all in context and context is in us. Leo Messi is the most obvious proof of this" "27 years managing have thaught me opening your mouth will get it punched" (talking about Fernando Redondo) "His work as possibilitator of possibilities to the rest of the team is what makes me admire him" "Messi has improved a lot and I hope he keeps this up: not playing trascendentally balls that are, in fact, intrascendent" (on tactics) "To take care of the juncture you first have to understand the structure" "It's very hard, not only in football but in life, to attribute a cause-effect relation. Just five minutes later, or the next game, the effect is clashing with the cause" "Football is a game played with the least docile part of the body: the foot" "It brings a smile to my face knowing that my family and friends are all well. That, and watching Iniesta play." (after being sacked from Real Sociedad) "The human being has the necessity of being respected, we are beggars of respect. But desire has three phases and in all of them we are instatisfied. So, we are f***ed" "I'm not one of those that believe that leadership starts from the dugout. I believe that the manager is like God. Everywhere and nowhere" "Some people talk about anarchic players. Mistake. They just follow a different order. We need to adapt to it" "The opposition is also part of you" There are a bunch more if you feel like it. He is a philosopher-cum-football manager. A legend. Guardiola considers him one of his mentors.

Almería manager Juanma Lillo before today's game against Osasuna: "Looking down we are going up, so we'll keep looking down lest for looking up we start going down". Love the man (they have gone from 18th to 11th since he took over)

I see that once again Wenger is a sore loser.

DC United have a great following. Check out the Super Eagles and La Barra Brava and La Norte. Three great support groups. Yeah, that's why they tried to move it to Baltimore

Real Salt Lake two up, bah.