The best weekend of the year for league play is here!

Arsenal v Chelsea
Real v Barca

Insanity tomorrow morning folks... although that Arsenal/Chelsea game has lost some of its star power with Van Persie/Bendtner/Gibbs/Clichy/Diaby with Chelsea not having Boswinga as well as Drogba/Lampard/Deco/Ashley Cole being likely less than 100%

At least we get all of Barca and Real talent (except for Yaya getting the dreaded swine flu), still a question mark if CR starts, but If he can play I'm sure he wll seeing how important the game is.

At least Ireland still has "moral compensation" which I'm sure makes 'em feel all better.

I knew Portugal would wind up in the group of death, France and them were the best teams in that group so unless one of them drew South Africa they were going to be in a tough group unless they lucked into some cakewalk.

Still, that was a kick the nuts to see. Brazil v. Portugal should be excellent.

Man City absolutely owned Chelsea in an incredible game. Up there with the Manc derby earlier this year.

I love watching good Tevez play, he's a freaking maniac out there. Inter v Juventus next.

Man City is quickly becoming must see football as they beat Sunderland 4-3 in an excellent thriller. Bellamy is one of the most entertaining players to watch out there him and Tevez' pace up front can sometimes combine for some great moments.

Man U got absolutely owned in every conceivable way by Fullham 3-0. Sure the defensive injuries are killing them but their midfield outside of Valencia was absolutely worthless giving away possession an unspeakable amount of times. Speaking of which, obviously Valencia isn't replacing Ronaldo, but he's been an excellent playmaker for United after a shaky start. It'll be interesting to see what Ferggie does during the transfer window since the biggest problem right now is defensive depth, however they should be gettting guys back soon. But to me the big problem is the age and ineffectiveness of their midfielders. They've got decent defensive chops and when Giggs is there it helps a lot, but they are having so much trouble getting the ball up front to Rooney that he has effectively become useless to them. I'm not sure if its the lack of Ronaldo's presence (and the double teams he used to get that would open things up for everyone else) or if their midfielders just have collectively taken a step back but Man U is bearing very little resemblance to years past.

And Liverpool is just plain fucked losing against last place Portsmouth, what a horrible season they are having.

Also, WTF? No talk of the Champions league draw? Inter v Chelsea... Man U vs AC Milan and my two favorite teams Arsenal v Porto! Can't believe we have to wait two months.