Village Idiot

Atlético's 3rd or 4th choice keeper stops a penalty to keep his side up 1-0. Fantastic stuff for the lad.

FT Barça 1 - Almería 0 Pretty awful from us, but we still won. So well.

0 shots on goal. They have had a couple decent chances though.

A bit frustrating from Barça at the moment. We pass it and pass it but we are rather ineffectual in the last third. Almería are defending pretty well, though.

Great goal by Pedro, the lad is really impressing me (never rated him that much). 1-0 up for us.

I don't really care that much apart from my FF interests, but whatever makes less likely for either ManU or Chelsea to win the EPL *again*, I'm fine with.

Xavi and Iniesta to start their first game together since the CL final. Henry's still out with a knock.

I'm an oldschool Barça fan, which means I'm pessimistic by nature and always fearing for an equalizer even when 3-0 up. But we should smack them.

Scholes picks a yellow for a stupid midfield tackle

Yay, no clean sheet points for all my FF rivals touting Manyoo defences Plus I have Bent on my team

Fair enough, more chances of oogling hot brazilian women in skimpy outfits while watching reputed sport competitions

Rescue Frank Rijkaard from Turkey, give him an Assistant Manager that lays down the law like Hen Ten Cate in his first Barça years. Enjoy the show.

Pay up Pompey, pay up?

And Villa's on 7 before tomorrow's match. Happy goalscoring times in Spain.

As a Marseille supporter, I'm conflicted about that result. It means that we are only three points behind second with Zurich up next. However, it also means that third place is by no means a guarantee. I just hope we can take care of business about the Swiss team, because I don't see Milan getting that lucky against us twice. We were rubbish in the second half of this game, but the first half performance leads me to believe we would have a chance of getting at them in the Velodrome. Madrid is very like that so far. Poor most of the game and then they just come up and pound on the opposition in 10-15 minutes.

Just watching the Atlético highlights and I see that they lost their keeper at min. 28 That means Atlético is without their first, second, and third choice keepers at the moment...

Milan This really opens up second place on that group though. Also Atlético keeps being shit.

Jimmy Nail is a fan, isn't he?

Peter Beardsley http://www.ligafutbol.net/wp-content/2009/08/leo_messi.jpg Leo Messi http://cahyana.info/wp-content/uploads/peter_beardsley_gallery_460x340.jpg

Wahey, came back to see we won 2-0 and Inter dropped points. That's very nice. Chuffed about Sevilla strolling over Rangers, they should be a shoe-in for a playoff spot.

Also, I have just been called to a meeting which means I'm missing the Barça game. Quite pissed off at the moment.

What has he done?

Poor Eto'o.

Russian teams are hard to beat in their turfs, particularly when the cold months approach. We are playing them in November, with an expected temp of around -5º minus.

What are SJP's and SoL's UEFA ratings? 4-star for both?