Village Idiot

He just scored

For my own egotistical interests I *do* hope Milner is the future of England He's not bad, but he's nothing special by a long shot. At least the few games I have seen him play.

Baines doesn't have any backup, they have only 3 fit centrebacks and again only one fit senior RB, unless you also play Heitinga there (where he is crap), how's that good depth?

Everton will do good business signing Neill, their depth at the back is awful, particularly with Lescott gone and Neville broken. When's Jagielka coming back?

So Butt is immortal and will still be playing for you even after Ameobi and Hughton die of old age?

Bah. We were a bit useless on the last third. Too much slick passing and we should have been more direct. But Guardiola actually hates that so hopefully it will be corrected. If Zlatan stops trying to shoot a youtube reel every time he touches a ball he'll be allright. But I expected more grit from a Mourinho team, they just sat on their last third the whole second half. On another matter, they are testing the new goal line assistant refs on the Europa League games tomorrow, I'm intrigued to see how it goes.

Bah, we really should have won this. Inter were pretty poor. But well, a draw away at Milan isn't bad on paper.

What the hell, we are owning the game but misfiring horribly.

Aye, he should. He's hardly been invisible though. Henry has had a much quieter game for example.

Albiceleste = Argentina football team you jesters.

One of these Argentinian commentators just said that some club presidents in Argentina are campaigning to get Guardiola to manage the Albiceleste

We are really getting at Inter these last minutes. Let's see if we can bury it!

FoxSports Vivo, their spanish channel. They have a couple Argentinians commenting.

Wow, the FoxSports commentators are completely clueless about practically *everything*, it feels like they just make shit up every time they tell any "fact" about European football.

Incidentally, does Inter have any Italian player on the field?

Holy crap, Zlatan has such a first touch... now if he only gets a bit more effective.

Iniesta starting on the bench again - understandable given he's hardly kicked a ball since the CL final - otherwise a full strength starting XI for us. Fingers crossed.

Sadly, I agree, and I support one of the teams that have come on top these years. But I crave for the times where a well managed team, built from the ground, could go all the way and get trophies. I remember Bilbao in the 1980s in Spain (scarily unbeatable), Red Star winning the European Cup... when travelling away to Anderlecht was a tough fixture, or when you were scared of getting Celtic at home. Dammit, when you just didn't see all the same f***ing teams winning all the f***ing time. It was just more exciting. And it was a beautiful thing to see the hard work of managers, players and fans from other teams being rewarded, instead of dropping bags of money on the table. And yes, it must suck to support one of the teams feeding off the scraps of the fat cats (which in turn fuels gloryhunting).

Bleh, was thinking on sending it to my parents in Spain and just grab it when I visit for Christmas, but it's 9 quid for that too. It's a great shirt anyway, I'll get one.

We'll have to go with a salary cap I guess, if we ever want a semblance of equality back into the game. Not sure how that can ever be implemented. Although the whole farce might crash on its own accord.

Atlético are really really really poor this season's start. I don't know how can you manage to not score against Appoel Nicosia at home with Forlán and Agüero playing for your team.

Crap, 10 quid to get it sent to the USA.

I will say it: too big to go down. Now I cursed you.

If I remember correctly, until Guardiola arrived, Robson had the best win record since the 1950s (only across a single season, of course). People never got to his style of play, though. We behaved a bit like spoiled brats (he was succeeding Johan Cruyff, though, that was always going to be a tough task). Admittedly, the following two seasons were very good ones and with a more passing style under Van Gaal (who additionally was a laugh riot as a manager).