They'll be sacrificing sheep in the streets of Karagandy tonight - Champions League 2013/14

Re Fellaini:
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got to remove the s in https if you want the vid to embed

ah now that's lovely

Bayern Munich have announced that they have banned British newspapers The Sun and the Daily Mirror from next week's Champions League quarter-final second-leg at the Allianz Arena, after taking offence to their coverage of Bastian Schweinsteiger.

Bayern complained in an statement released on Thursday that the Daily Mirror and The Sun "'reported' in disrespectful, discriminatory and personally abusive manner" on Schweinsteiger. It attached pictures of a Sun story headlined "You Schwein!" and a Mirror story headlined "You Dirty Schwein." As a result of the puns on the German word for pig, journalists from the two tabloids will not receive accreditation.

lol their press statement put 'coverage' in inverted commas

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can't understand why they'd object to Achtung! Achtung! For You Ze War Iz Overmars as a headline

David Moyes - "I actually thought Marouane got better as the game went on [against Bayern]. We needed him and I thought he played very well. He did well in the Villa game too. I think he is getting much closer to scoring."

That's you lot told.

Rooney probably out of the return leg - that's got to give a glimmer of hope to the Bavarians

How in the fuck is he "getting much closer to scoring"

in the "it's getting much closer to Christmas" sense

Wait why is this even a thing?
Who would have asked him whether or not a player that nobody expects to score not scoring is an issue?
Surely the fact that he has shit touch can't function as an enforcer/creator at even a moderately high level and isn't even that useful as a target man/harrier is more pressing?
I mean does he think that a goal from Fellaini redeems all the other shit? (unless it happens to be the winner at the Allianz)

he's probably going to play him as a striker in the second leg

http://espnfc.com/blog/_/name/tacticsandanalysis/id/2836?cc=5739

cavani, ibes &c

cavani with lavezzi and lucas moura either side should be enough to score at least once away to chelsea, so much speed and skill there, and thiago motta and verrati are long accomplished long passers

suppose it is possible pastore plays one of the wide roles too, not so quick but another ridiculously talented player

<3 joe cole

everyfing premeditted

Chiles threw "scintilla" at him seconds later and there was a wonderful hint of panic on his face.

psg are all over them, I love it

Hopefully that's the end of Eto'o's time in England, the dirty cheating cunt. Disgusting player.

Oh it was Hazard? I guess that'll do.

wait what did eto'o do

ugh

Dortmund two up.

cream yrself over suarez & moralize about a much less audacious cheat

xps early kneecap reducer on Henderson in the league game, in the Vinnie Jones/Steve McMahon tradition except with malice. Now Motta is his victim, cowardly creep that he is.

yeah that wasn't great but what was the first thing eto'o did, i wasn't watching then

for the amount of times i've watched him, and given he is a super-competitive cristiano ronaldo / roy keane type who hates losing, eto'o isn't a particularly dirty player

like a lot of players, he's got worse as his legs fail him and he ends up making 'challenges' once the ball has gone

Can't see baklava here either. Do you want anything else?

That was meant to be a text home

lol

why are we talking about baklava

xp lol

sainsburys used to sell a pretty nice set of baklava in a small black box

there's a guy on my road who makes good baklava & some cracking pesto too

turkish grocery shops have so many fascinating products

That Sainsbury's set was the one I was sent for, it must be seasonal in these parts

Found a maggot in a recent batch of local baklava :(

I've had a lucky escape.

Weird how that Schurrle effort shook both crossbar and then camera

blanc not really earning his corn tonight

tentatively approve of cabaye coming on for verratti, much as i rate the latter, cabaye has a little more direct threat and less defensive liability

psg probably better pushing forward and going for a goal because they don't look capable playing a withdrawn defence for the last twenty minutes without conceding

Fuck sake Derek

ugh yeah that was poor

he wasnt very good in the bernabeu game either

Messi-like run from Reus, played in Derek beautifully, touched it round Casillas and then with an open goal he hit it lazily and is didn't cut far enough, back off the post

He has had 4 decent chances tonight

jallet is to this psg what rainha is to bayern

psg just need to shift 10 yards forward because every time chelsea retain possession they are one short pass from the edge of the penalty area

Touch of the Fellainis about Bale whenever I've seen him against high quality opposition this season

Lucas Moura wearing the hangdog air of a man who knows it's his fuck-up that will send Chelsea through

Good move Laurent

Gah

oh man