If Cesc keeps up his pace I think the player of the year could very well go to him. Of course, Arsenal as a team has the problem of keeping up their pace. But still, his development has been huge.

It's weird to be looking so forawrd to a game and root for a tie.

So I'm sure I'll be getting complaints from the neighbors that I was yelling Die at something... Tie you bastards!

jcn stated right now. Sure normally I'd agree that Xavi, kaka and Gerrard are better CMs, however, have you seen Cesc this year? Granted I haven't watched every Real madrid game, but even when they were winning I would take what Cesc has done over Kaka and Xavi has been on and off this year. The key to this is how will Cesc hold up compared to the competition.

Chelsea v manU was a hell of a game, it was weird to see the home team get so many horrible calls against them... and yet Fergie still complains about the refs...

Great day for soccer and I.... have to work... stupid life getting in the way...

Portugal v Bosnia was an insane game the first go round, could very well be even more crazy in Bosnia. Portugal's already decimimated roster (No C.Ronaldo nor Boswinga) may add Deco and Bruno Alves to the list as well.

Nani of all people was the player of the game last week, so needless to say I'm a bit worried.

Hulk needs to pull a Liedson and Deco and become a portuguese citizen.

How about the hand of Satan, since only the dark prince himself would subject the world to French happiness. That really was a godawful non-call, its a good thing that happened in France because that ref would have been lynched in Ireland....

Fuck the damn French, also, damn you Slovenia, nobody gives a shit about your stupid country. Russia's style of play would have been a very welcome site to the WC.

I didn't know that Hulk played any games, my guess is his parents have none of the necessary Portugal connections to change citizenry or else he would have done that since Brazil's attack is always too crowded unless you are a truly top player whereas Portugal's attack always sucks as (except the great Eusebio back in the day).

Edit: ifmanis5 at Sosh is the winner for name that play: Dirty French Handjob!

Bayern Munich's GM comes out and says that he received an offer from Chelsea for Ribery for 65 million Euros AND Boswinga.... and they rejected it.... It's nice when stupidity gets punished.

Although, that would also mean that Chelsea should be getting punished as well... oh yeah....

That price isn't too far from overall value to Ronaldo's deal (94mil euros). Apparently the Bayern GM was only going to deal him for 100mil Euros... so in his world a 26 year old Ribery is more valuable than CR... OK.