Village Idiot

One touch too many Wesley!

Arn't Barca and Seville sort of rivals? No, we aren't. What makes you think that?

Bah, Sevilla go 1-2 down. They need to score two now. Really believed they could make the quarter finals. They haven't been the same ruthless team they were at the beginning of the season though.

I would support any Spanish team other than Real Madrid, it's only logical to wish non-odious teams of your nation well.

I would like Chelsea to go out, to be honest. Bit bored of English teams dominating the later stages. Barca have won the thing just as much as English teams in the past five years and have been in the semis three years out of five. Your complaints aren't valid, man. I was talking from a football fan perspective, independently of what happens with us. I want fresh faces in the later stages.

I guess it's a word play to mean "empower". Always thought that Coca-Cola Championship was way too long. To be honest "League 1" and "League 2" roll of much more easily. Are the financials better or worse than the previous deal with Coca-Cola?

I would like Chelsea to go out, to be honest. Bit bored of English teams dominating the later stages.

I love him. The funniest thing is that when he was with us he was very mild-mannered and soft-spoken. Then years later it was--- woah! What happened to him? We have had a lot of banter between us over the years (I remember the "Barcelona is a place well known for its great theater" one), and I cherished meeting Chelsea in the CL just for the chance of having a go with him. I really miss him being in the Premiership, that league fitted him a lot.

Real good list that Yeah, a boatload of Spanish clubs have that on their names Royal patronage was very commonly granted to the senior sports and arts associations of Spain's major towns in the early century. Only one per city in the same discipline, though, which is the reason there's only a Real Madrid and not a Real Atlético de Madrid, etc... it's not done anymore, which means that any association carrying the "Real" name has a bit of story to it, usually meaning it's more than a century old. This is also the reason why we never use "Real" to refer to Real Madrid, unlike I have seen a lot of foreign press doing. It's just "el Madrid" (and Atlético de Madrid are "el Atlético"). I'm also baffled by the great amount of people that I have encountered that think Madrid are really linked to the Spanish royal family just because of the name. Incidentally, the King and the Crown Prince are well known Atlético fans.

When's the last time a Welsh team was in the top flight? Swansea were there in the early 1980s, weren't they?

1. FC Barcelona 2. Real Madrid CF 3. Club Atlético de Madrid 4. Sevilla FC 5. Valencia CF 6. Athletic Club de Bilbao 7. Real Sociedad de San Sebastián 8. Real Club Deportivo Espanyol 9. Real Betis Balompié 10. Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña 11. Real Sporting Club de Gijón 12. Real Zaragoza CF 13. Real Club Celta de Vigo 14. Real Unión de Irún 15. Real Club Deportivo Mallorca 16. Real Valladolid CF 17. Club Atlético Osasuna 18. Real Oviedo CF 19. Real Racing Club de Santander 20. Villarreal CF (they're uppity though http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/avs/avatar_9223.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wvOoKLsuA8

He along with Messi practically carried Barca for the first half of the season, when the likes of Henry and Iniesta were miles out of form he was scoring goals. If his form doesn't pick up between now and the end of the season it starts to enter flop territory, but not yet. What he said. He was immense up until December, but his form is terrible right now indeed. Jury's still out.

Not sure about that story, we also have one about Zidane being linked to us at the exact same time but us preferring Dugarry It looks like every club has their Zidane rejection folk tale.

Left wing, switching with Zlatan throughout the game. A bit what Larsson and Eto'o had going when they played together.

David Villa? Torres is younger though. We would get more years off him.

We tried to sign him while he was at Atlético, hopefully we will revive our interest if he is in the market this summer... one thing we are lacking this season is the kind of directness and no-nonsense that he has when going forward.

Torres is such a ridiculously effective player, if he hadn't had all these injuries Liverpool's fortunes would have been different this season. I read that he might move on if Liverpool don't sign quality this summer, get him Pep!

He's the shortest tall player I have ever seen, if you get what I mean. Bet he's got the thinnest thick neck too His neck is freaky. And what I mean is that he's pretty awful at attacking the ball in the box, which means that despite his height, he is not that very strong in the air. http://beefbagel.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/maierhofer.jpg

He's the shortest tall player I have ever seen, if you get what I mean.

I chose a good week to make Torres captain of my FF team

Heh. I wonder how come O'Leary hasn't been able to find another job since the Villa sacking though. He really didn't do badly at Leeds all things considered, and I know that Villa fans ended up hating him (at least the ones I knew at the time, brummie might know better), but on paper his reign there wasn't that bad given their squad. I have seen managers with worse records get top flight jobs in the meantime.

Why would he go to a team where he wouldn't enjoy first team status if his main gripe at Bolton is that he isn't getting enough first team football? He is a decent player. Actually if you combined his shooting and crossing with Jonas dribbling and workrate you'd have a great player.

not a bad manager him and hes desperate for a way back into the game Aye I think it's vaguely believable tbh, expecially since we might only be talking 9 games. Could be any one of the usual suspects though in reality. Always had O'Leary for a bit of a chequebook manager though, he won't have that at Hull.

Also, quite amazing that Routledge has already bagged 24 points with the very few games he's had with you yet.