I HAVE NOT DONE THIS IN LIKE A FREAKING YEAR, HOMBRES, I'M NOT SURE I KNOW HOW TO ANYMORE ( Read more... )

• Hey FIFA, fail a little more, I dare you.
  
  "The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has upheld the appeals filed by Schalke 04, Werder Bremen and Barcelona against the decision issued on July 30 2008 by the single judge of Fifa's players' status committee that consequently has been set aside in its entirety," said CAS ( Read more... )

Dear VCF:


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I don't have time to make this a ~real entry~ but I just wanted to say that the prologue of 43 Years with the Same Bird starts out with Bill Shankly's cock and ends with "PS. Huge. Obviously."

BEST BOOK EVER? I'M SORRY, BUT THAT SEALED IT. ( Read more... )

( Part 4: 1974-1978, The 1974 World Cup, a story of two rival managers, Argentinian football under La Junta, preparations for hosting the 1978 World Cup, the singlemindedness of César Luis Menotti, the final, and possibly the greatest post-victory reality check of the entire book. )

So I don't know if I've ever made a declaration, exactly, but I have to say it now. Out of all the teams, Valencia provide the most entertaining preseason. They all traipse over to Ermelo and then spend weeks running through the woods and other activities that would normally be considered pastoral if they weren't being done by muscled professional ( Read more... )

Kevin McCarra on why King Kenny is the best British footballer of the last 50 years. JUST FUCKING READ IT. It's not particularly inventive, but it made me smile.

He had the sort of career that bludgeons sceptics with a statistical barrage. There were a total of 336 goals for Celtic and Liverpool, with another 30 from 102 caps placing him alongside ( Read more... )

WAAAAAY TOO MANY WORDS.

( Part 3: 1955-1974, Argentina back on the international stage, football in post-Perón Argentina, the 1966 World Cup, and Estudiantes as they hit both the pinnacles and pitfalls of anti-fútbol. )

Fucking Valencia. They're so retarded, all of them, but I can't look away.


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This is TOO LONG FOR LIFE.

( Part 2: 1935-1954, football in popular culture, the golden era and la década infame, La Máquina and La Nuestra, Perón, Eva, and Los Padrinos. )