weekend news (and matches)

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

• Jose Mourinho in 'no mood to laugh' over Nemanja Matic's red card and cryptically names four 'crucial' minutes which changed the game in Chelsea's controversial draw with strugglers Burnley
  the refereeing in this match has been shocking. here's a gif of the foul ON Matic. The Burnley player could have broken Matic's leg!


• Serie A giants Parma 'dissolved' amid claims they couldn't even afford water for training sessions Parma's fortunes just got worse over time


• Balotelli needs to work harder Not impressed by Balotelli's work rate and threw impressive shade on the Serie A . So subtle, but it's there


• Match-winning genius or Achilles heel? Pirlo will make or break Juventus against Dortmund Pirlo never shows signs of decay, does he?


• Borussia Dortmund Striker Immobile Rules Out Serie A Return Wants to prove himself at Dortmund


• Napoli Boss Benitez Coy On Paris Saint-Germain Job Rafa to PSG?


• Raheem Sterling must stay at Liverpool or risk ruining his career, warns Anfield hero John Barnes I agree. Last article about this, promise.


• Barcelona vs Real Madrid: El clasico at risk with La Liga clubs considering strike over TV rights deal That's one way to do it. As it is, TV rights amongst La Liga teams weigh heavily in favour of Real Madrid and Barcelona.


• Atletico in talks with Diego Simeonewant to lock him down with the rojiblancos until 2020 and ward off interest from PSG and various PL clubs. According to news, Simeone is satisfied that the club has met his two requirements- showing signs of growth and ability to keep their best players


• Robert Lewandowski was not dropped against Shakhtar Donetsk because of a rift, insists the Bayern Munich boss. I guess

You're having a laff!
funny vines by vonstrenginho- mostly PL football personalities, but worth a look
Pictures
In no particular order, sorry about that, we'll just have to live with things at is for today, savvy?

Bundesliga
Bayern Munich 6- 0 Paderborn match report here

With this slaughter, Bayern Munich is eleven points clear of the Bundisliga. As a neutral, this match was kinda boring, tbh.

Paderborn would have been better off cancelling the match and telling their players to stay in the showers. What a terrible performance. Even Burnley put up a better fight against Chelsea, yo (okay, almost broke Matic's leg- but at least it showed spirit!). Paderborn had none
Schalke 1-1 Wermer

Uchida got presented a shirt for his 100th match with the club

The match ended 1-1

Höwedes in action

La Liga
Barcelona 0- 1 Malaga

Match round up in this video. That's about it, really. No pictures worth searching for

Atlético Madrid 3- 0 Celta Vigo

Yayyy for videos. Question- do you prefer videos (when they can be linked) over pictures, or would you like both? I'm easy either way, but just thought that I'd ask

Stop, drop and roll, Greizmann, because you are on FIYAH!

Someone needs to pin down Torres for an interview, and ask him this question,'How does it feel to be coached by Simeone- years after you used to be his superior?' (Even though from what I've gathered, he and Simeone are friends, and stayed in contact all through Torres' years abroad, so it can't be too much static)

Greizmann has scored 17 goals since landing at Atlético Madrid. Real Sociedad holds its head and cries.

English Premier League
I'm not doing all the match pictures, because NGL, some of the teams aren't going to be in the PL next year, and it feels like gawking

Aston Villa 1- 2 Stoke City

Tim Sherwood compared himself to Guardiola and slighted Mauricio Pochettino. As much as I'm sorry that Villa lost, I can only say LOL to Sherwood

Villa started really well

Stoke's Moses broke their hearts and took three points

Burley 1 -1 Chelsea

I have things to say about Burnley's coach (it seems that I'm side eying all Northerners this weekend), but I ain't got the time! I'm kinda with Mourinho side this ONE time. That tackle by the Burnley fellow was out of order

Matic was (understandably) raging after that terrible challenge. He misses Wembley, and yeah, the FA really need to start seeing to their referees, because it's going to bring the game in disrepute

Crystal Palace 1-2 Arsenal

I agree with this comment

I'm meh on both teams, tbh. It's one of these results where I sit down, look at the PL table and do the math. It would have been good for LFC or Spurs if Palace had won, but Palace hadn't so *kanye shrug*. That's as much emotion as I can bring to this match result.

They won, end of. We move on

Hull 2- 1 QPR

Joey Barton of QPR punched a Hull player in his balls and got a red card. That was the highlight of the match. Moving on

Sunderland 0-0 West Brom

Sunderland's 13th draw, face relegation. Poyet is in trouble

The word for today is brought to you by woeful, because that's how the match was

Swansea 2-1 Manchester United

Herrera came on and made things happen, as he does

LOL, this made me laugh, so I'm putting it here

Best Man U kit in years. I've seen the rumoured Adidas one, and it's fug, like most Adidas kits are

Swans Ki man (I will push this pun until I diiiieee) equalised soon after. Shaw was MIA

Secret agent Shelvy slotted one home. Celebrate!

Manchester City 5- 0 Newcastle

Noel Gallagher rocked up to the Man City game

Dzeko got his goal

Everyone had a go.

The only good thing about Bony going to Man City is that now they can sate my thirst trap with more pictures. I think Bony is handsome, but as a Swansea player, he'd have always be under the radar. Now that he's with City, I can have more pictures! Mwhaahahahaahaaa!

First day at his new job and Bony looks over awed. You can do it, Bony! Show 'em what yah got. I also send good vibes to Newcastle because between Ashley and Carver, they're going to be in for a warm time

OP: done. Any broken links, push back at commentary, etc, leave comment and I will get to it when I have time (on beta duties today, so it might take a while). Thank you!

Comments

RE: pictures it is, then!

[ndobler.livejournal.com]

as much as a think most adidas kits look boring as fuck, as a fellow designer i can appreciate the ingenuity of the 3 stripes thing, in terms of branding. yes, most of them are dull, but an adidas kit is the only one you can identify from afar, no matter the damn angle, without the need to even show the damn logo.
it makes for some boring as hell kits sometimes, but it's damn good branding for the company.

RE: pictures it is, then!

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

I don't mind boring, as much as ugly. There's a reason why Southampton ditched Adidas and started making their own kit in house (only for Adidas to come back with more money and they've succumbed to having a kit in the 2015/16 season). I get the three lines, but their stuff is just fug, and less whatever team you're buying and more them. Whereas with Nike their kits have the room to be a lot more individual (and puma too).