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Mmmm... wish I could find a similar stat for La Liga, but google isn't giving me anything. Doesn't an all Spanish XI start every week for Athletic Bilbao? Yeah, just realized. But to be completely honest Laporte is French. They are really stretching the "basque rule" with him.

Mmmm... wish I could find a similar stat for La Liga, but google isn't giving me anything. EDIT: Facepalm, Athletic every weekend

So Lucho ends up subbing in Iniesta, Alves and Rakitic. It's funny how he started his career tinkering so much, but nowadays he doesn't see anything outside his starting XI.

Missing so many chances today...

I'm behind on a project

You realise that no one on this forum will ever have sympathy for you, ever, about anything? :'(

Messi And here I am, trapped working on a Sunday

Because it's his profession? It's obviously much more important to his life than yours.

Just found out that the League Cup Final isn't on any Spanish telly. Sucks.

So, Arsenal might be saying goodbye to the league and the CL in the space of a couple weeks, in March. Typical.

I imagine it's als really hard to root for a team as gutless as Arsenal too. Got no beef with Arsenal, I quite like them. Without looking it up, is it because you always beat them? True story, I visited England in the early 2000s, back when Arsenal were at the top of their pomp. I secured a ticket for the London derby, and remember watching the game, and giggling like a madman watching the shit Henry, Pires, Bergkamp, etc... pulled off on the pitch. How I wished, at the time, that we were as good as they were...

I imagine it's als really hard to root for a team as gutless as Arsenal too. Got no beef with Arsenal, I quite like them. And I don't dislike Spurs either. But Leicester winning it is too great of a story.

I find myself strangely rooting for ManU here, because of Leicester

Beautiful. Offside though.

Ancelotti would have had the same issues, tbf. He already did in his second season. Benítez was a bad appointment but ultimately it's the interference from upstairs what f***s everything up.

He's arguably the best athlete in the history of the game tbf Not this season. Which is understandable, he's 31. Honestly if you listen to the Spanish original it's pretty obvious he isn't talking about fitness.

Yeah he says that now, after the giant f***ing shitstorm. Makes sense when you know what he was on about. Probably lost in translation (in his brain if he said it in English) He says it in Spanish originally, and his backpedalling is damage control. It's not like his fitness levels are over the roof, anyway.

Real Sociedad - Málaga should be a tasty game; both teams are in great form.

Here you have it, Cronaldo's quotes, in English: http://en.as.com/en/2016/02/27/football/1456598707_801727.html

Whoever loses, we win.

There's been bother outside the Bernabéu. Police had to charge against Real Madrid ultras.

One i saw is if everyone was as good as me we'd be first. He even pointed at Kovacic, Jesé, Lucas as not being good enough. ("They are good players but..."). Such an asshole

Madrid losing, Pardew doing a Pardew, what a great afternoon.

Cristiano Ronaldo losing it talking to the press after the game I hope I can find an English link of what he said... mostly that his teammates are shit and they should be as good as he is.

Aarons hasn't signed a new contract yet? Damn.