Village Idiot

1-0 dodgy own goal, but I'll take it!

Dave, do you have a problem with math? We play 38, halfway the tournament is week 19. If we win today, we'll be 5 over real after 18 games. So whatever happens next week, we'd be top. I understand that, it's the repeated insinuation on Sky that after this game they've already reached the halfway point. It's daft. Something lost in translation I guess, the "Winter Championship" as we call it is a bit of a deal in Spain, since whoever was top after 19 games has ended winning the whole thing something like 90% of the time (can't remember the exact figure)

Dave, do you have a problem with math? We play 38, halfway the tournament is week 19. If we win today, we'll be 5 over real after 18 games. So whatever happens next week, we'd be top.

Zlatan misses a sitter...

Exactly, halfway is 19 games, and we would have 5 points over them.

Xabi Alonso looks so pissed off, he's Real Sociedad through and through he must be losing to them in this way. Now let's see if we can do the business and get us a bit of a gap!

Iraizoz is immense tonight. He's a great keeper, mind, would be in the Spanish squad since long if it had not been for the fact we have a dozen great keepers.

Sevilla's crippled by injuries. I know their pain. Well. Not literally. IIRC Renato and Adriano were carrying slight knocks, so I guess Jiménez is being conservative with them. Plus Fabiano is flat out injuried.

Sevilla's crippled by injuries.

Argentine commentator here in the latino sports cable channel saying that "Real Madrid needs Gago"

f***ing hell, this is reminding me of the good old times when the San Mamés game was the scariest of the whole La Liga calendar, Bilbao are playing like psychos, they'll be lucky to finish with 11.

Got good odds on that? 3-2 works for me.

Llorente, get innnnn 1-0

Athletic de Bilbao - Real Madrid about to start, and Real are putting all their new stars in their natural positions for the first time: Benzema upfront, Kaká in the hole and Cronaldo on the right. Watch Javi Martínez for Athletic tonight, future Spain star.

Early days yet but he is giving every indication he can more than cut it in this league. Hope he keeps it up, LA Galaxy wouldn't consider a permanent move, would they? It's actually up to the league, iirc. They own the player rights outside the US. I guess it will depend on what Donovan wants, and if you can meet the fee (if Altidore - who's useless at this level - carried a 10 million bucks tag, you can imagine how much they'd want for the prize jewel).

Some dodgy math there.

Roque Santa Cruz manages a start and quickly resumes business as usual getting injuried 10 minutes in...

Everton - ManCity incoming... and this is something very strange, today I dreamt that City put 5 past the toffees (why I would dream such a thing I don't understand...)

Not in the Premier League.

By the way, Gareth Bale started for Tottenham and they are being held 0-0 at home with 15 minutes to go

Wolves are really a poor team. No fight in them, either.

Quite funny how Ancelotti just took off Terry and Cole at half time and got Alex and Zhirkov out, which have played fuck all this season, he would probably subbed in the entire youth team if he could at this point

Sunderland should really be doing better with the squad they amassed this season.

Liverpool really don't seem to even make it to Europe next year at this pace.

We and Real have been linked with Victor Moses.