Village Idiot

The fuck cares if you win 1-0s the rest of the season all ogs after rebounding the keepers arse after a fluky Nolan kick, as long as you get promoted. WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME, I'M A BARÇA FAN FFS.

I remember Charlton rented Selhurst Park off them when The Valley was being reformed, dunno if there were problems with that.

Rooney has really stepped up his game since Cronaldo left. Fair play to him.

Xisco scored today, just noticed. I favor ManU over ManCity. Although it's a bit like that episode in the Simpsons were Homer has to vote between two evil aliens to decide who becomes President of the USA.

Sometimes I wonder how many potentially good/great players slip through the cracks of most professional clubs youth setups and end up playing semi-pro or non-pro football. I.e. didn't Luca Toni play in lower leage teams until his mid-20s or something like that?

Just noticed there's only 3 subs on Crystal Palace's bench... didn't know they were so f***ed. How bad did the José Enrique injury look? And how's Williamson looking?

Well, it could be Scottish Premier League

Guy has barely played in the EPL? SAF must really be seeing something in him. Good business for Fulham though.

Apparently Cardiff attempted to sign him after his loan spell there, so it seems he's always been fairly successful in the Championship. That will do for now, I think.

Time to lurk on RAWK! EDIT: They locked the thread with the rumor, that place is priceless

Wasn't Roy Evans a boot room product too? So not Souness. Houllier was the one to close it, I think.

Giovani Dos Santos to Galatasaray on loan (Rijkaard has always been an admirer of him).

Arbeloa wanted out when Johnson was purchased and Madrid came knocking. Not that he is first choice there, since he's pretty average. They could have used him as cover, since Johnson's been fairly injury-prone this season. IIRC, the high transfer figure for Johnson was due to the fact that Liverpool were still owed money for Crouch, and they threw it in as part of Johnson's fee since there was no chance in hell they were going to see it given Pompey's state. Still, the squad is woeful. They have a few great players indeed, but their depth is horrific (Voronin/N'Gog ). They have had no playmaker for half a season... And people like Kuyt are decent hard-working players and all but... tell me in what top European club would Kuyt command an automatic starting spot?

He inherited Cúper's squad at Valencia, he really didn't make much improvement on it personnel-wise.

I laughed when I saw the starting lineup, two holding midfielders against fucking Wolverhampton

And the Bale curse is lifted. Was fun while it lasted. (He's actually been playing quite well).

For all that talk of Burnley's great first half of the season, they'll drop to relegation zone unless they nick a goal against Bolton.

Liverpool are so toothless without Torres it's ridiculous.

Liverpool

You lot should have waited until tomorrow to buy Routledge.

Just read that Materazzi has been retroactively yellow-carded for putting that Berlusconi mask at the end of the match.

Fake Berbatov twitter account. Gave me a good chuckle

Isn't he in supposedly huge wages? (which has stopped him from leaving several times). I don't rate him that highly but obviously he would probably rip this league to shreds.

According to Mexican media, Cabañas condition is "still serious" but shows "very favorable signs".

Cronaldo got hit with a 2-match ban. Madrid have appealed. Final decision will be reached on Thursday (they rarely overturn bans, but will see...)