Village Idiot

Most surprising thing, today I went to a ManU forum to make some FF research (wanted to know if Neville was going to start for them now that Brown's out), and half their threads are about Barça! They seem obsessed with us, they had like four different threads going on about how Rooney was better than Messi. Funny since we care so little about Manchester United (we regard Chelsea as bigger rivals continental-wise, have a much juicier story with them).

Villa seals it. Get in.

http://www.ecartelera.com/images/noticias/fotos/4300/4384/1.jpg

Howay Valencia, get in.

Crystal Palace got an interesting potential owner http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/10/03/18/manual_170157.html&TEAMHD=soccer

Easy to say when you have a team who is able to win it every year And yet we'll probably end up winning more Spanish leagues this decade than CLs. And when I started following this club we hadn't won the damn thing in 30 years of trying.

The CL anytime. Great clubs are remembered for their European dominance. And if for some reason people think winning the PL is harder than winning the CL, ask Chelsea.

Their playing squad is pretty big, must be a canny wage bill. Most of it is shit, mind.

Riera gave yesterday a pretty incendiary interview to Marca which pretty much will mean the end of his Liverpool career. He bashed Benítez pretty heavily. Dunno if it's been shown in your media, in any case, here's for your babelfish fun (i'm too tired right now) http://www.marca.com/2010/03/17/futbol/futbol_internacional/premier_league/1268845564.html

That means them winning all but one game. Not likely in their current form, is it? I'll go out on a limb and say that two wins will be enough when it's all said and done (third place will end at 82 points max)

Sounds like a wrestling competition.

You and Forest have win/drop a combined total of 15 points in the remaining games. 11 in the case of Leicester and Swansea, I think. If my math is right.

Incidentally, and admittedly it has only happened 3 times but... we have never got past quarter finals when defending a CL title.

Hedging your bets somewhat there. Now watch Lyon run away with the cup just to spite him

I don't know. I only saw the Promotionometer one and I think this is asking a different question. I am ok with it being merged if mods disagree, but it didn't look to me like the existing thread(s?) were covering the same question. http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,68182.0.html

I got a bit of time on the beer after today's game, so here's my bet. You win this, and we win the CL, and I buy a magpie "Messi" shirt.

Same, really nice mix of teams in there. Yeah, I like that apart from the usual suspects (Manu, Barça, Arsenal, Bayern...) there are some fresh faces who could reasonably make it through to the semis with a lucky tie.

I get the feeling we are getting Arsenal next round. With all the Cesc thing it would be extra-spicy. I would love it to be honest. I would also like to get Lyon, and show Madrid how it's done

We can't even get relegated man! Thinking ahead of the next season?

No chance of Girondins winning this. Way too many better teams in the competition and it's not like they are being that good. For some reason Arsenal are my dark horses. Nobody seems to take their chances seriously. I know they tend to bottle the big games but when they are up for it they are impressive.

Must be terrible,that. Yeah, for a moment I thought we had gone 442, it was 424 luckily. And bojan gets his after just coming in 4-0

Still trying to see how are we forming up with Zlatan, Pedro, Messi and Henry all in the pitch.

Must be a decent bet if it comes off, how much?

Messi nets the third.