the first half of juve/olympiakos has been great

beautiful goals-- incredible suspense

catch the highlights in halftime

Will watch them after. Real Liverpool's been good. Real deserve ttheir lead but Liverpool definitely aren't being outplayed

change the channel, you're missing out!

i'll avoid spoilers

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UAU! heart attack till the end

Surely the big match was Arsenal? Wenger was supposedly so pissed off coming off at the end. Rightly so too.

Yeah, in retrospect that was the game to watch but, with Arsenal 3-0 up after an hour, not even their most jaded fans could've expected what was to come.

Gonna watch Chelsea tonight. Probably more interesting games but that's the best of the ones I can get.

oh i read about arsenal! should i laugh or feel sad? i kinda want to laugh. wenger needs a limpia.

bayern/roma was good but not anywhere near the insanity of the previous game--of course robben (FIFA's next player of the year) was out sick, and he can't be replicated by any system. but bayern dominated and won fair. neuer had an AMAZING save! that guy is a beast. all good with the match. i found juve's game yesterday much more thrilling though.

any recommendations on replays to watch? you have mine. thanks.

Laugh, but only after you've stopped laughing at Man City.


Love him or loathe him, It'll be Ronaldo, and deservedly so.

who??? (ha ha ha)

beaten by moscow! roma should be in and this pleases me.


i'm not denying his greatness or his role in la décima or what he may be doing right now, but he limped through the world cup, and for this year i think that counts

The WC distorts so much though. Not knocking Robben at all, I just think that at club level Ronaldo's been in a league of his own this past couple of seasons. Plus, the decision is also based on conduct so I think Robben's diving will probably lose him a few points. Not saying Ronaldo doesn't dive but even Robben's biggest fans would have to admit he's one of the worst out there for it.

Besides all that I really think Ronaldo's been the best player on the planet this past two years. I used to hate him, then I started to grudgingly respect him. Now I'm just in total awe of him.

i see him play week in & week out and the last time i saw him presumably dive was vs. mexico at the WC. but he was fouled. does he have a reputation already made? sure. but i don't see the behavior to back that up this year. honest.

fair point about ronaldo being generally speaking the best player right now--i like him A LOT as a player, but i just can't stand his douche face ha ha ha. having said that, i think the world cup distortion is valid though-- i think it deserves the extra weight, which also increases the stock of james rodriguez or mascherano and decreases zlatan or ribéry.

then again there's neuer-- best keeper right now, world champion, he's got everything.

wait, i sound like i'm biased towards bayern. guilty as charged, ha ha ha.

Thank you for.being a voice of reason about Robben.. his dives are notorious but 99% of.the time.including that game against Mexico.he is.exaggerating contact or fouls.but.rarely inventing it.

Also fuck Ranaldo..

When was the last time you could say Ronaldo legitematly dived? He's not been accused of doing that for a while now.

And surely the fact that both he and Messi were pretty much injured during the world cup counts for a lot.

exactly my point-- these guys have supreme talent, i'm just saying for whatever circumstance this wasn't their best year.

I didnt accuse ronaldo of.diving, just.being.an.ass

In the world cup sure. In the league? Come on, man. They had a stormer. Ronaldo especially. 17 goals in the Champions league campaign, 51 in the liga, 14 assist for both of them, and so on, and so on. Right now when Messi isn't supposedly at his best he still stand heads above pretty much everybody. And n top of that you'd struggle to find beeter all round players than the two.

Don't get me wrong, I like the one-footed donkey but was he the best player last season? No. And if they had judged Suarez on his footballing merits alone I suspect they'd place him above Robben too.

51 GOALS IN LA LIGA??? HOLY FUCK.

i had no idea.

true about suarez but his suspension has to disqualify him

OK, everyone (me included) has raved about his performance in the WC, in which he actually only scored 3 goals, with two of those against a Spain side in full-on meltdown mode. Even Van Persie outscored him. And we can hardly talk about Robben contributing much in other areas. He did his usual running-really-fast-then-cutting-in-to-the-left thing supremely well but, in all honesty, that's about all he did do. I'm not suddenly saying he had a bad WC but in retrospect it's hard to say anything really outstanding about it besides breaking a speed record.

He did win a Bundesliga title, though, with a Bayern team that were hardly not gonna win it. And yet even so, he wasn't even voted one of the Bundesliga's top 3 players at the end of the season - voted for by his peers in the league. He didn't even make their top 3 forwards list. Not that I take those kinds of polls very seriously but it does raise the question of what he's done this year to lift his reputation to the level where he's now seen as a serious contender for the Ballon D'Or.

At 30, his current market value is reckoned to be about £30m. Ronaldo's just a year younger and valued at over £100m. The numbers aren't clear cut but that's a helluva difference.

You know who should get it? Naismith.



Love the albino Scot.

Don't you mean Sahko?



Love the spray-tan Senegalese

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