What you missed while some guy in Colorado was taking awesome pictures of a bald eagle chasing a starling…
- UEFA Champions League roundup (teams in bold go through): Bordeaux 2-1 Olympiakos, Barcelona 4-0 Stuttgart.
- CONCACAF Champions League roundup (teams in bold go through): Pachuca 2-1 Comunicaciones of Guatemala, Toluca 3-2 Columbus, Cruz Azul 3-0 Araba Unido
- Roman Abramovich was reportedly furious with Carlo Ancelotti after being knocked out of the Champions League, and will likely sack him should Chelsea fail to win the Premier League.
- Jose Mourinho’s contract with Inter, incidentally, has a clause that allows him to leave whenever he wants.
- Chelsea will also probably throw a boatload of money at the problem; transfer targets include (but, of course, aren’t limited to) Fernando Torres, Franck Ribery, Sergio Aguero, Angel di Maria. Torres is the leading target at the moment; please don’t tell my wife that he might leave, because she’ll probably stop watching soccer without Torres around.
- In an interview he’s definitely going to claim was mistranslated, Albert Riera has said he’s thinking about moving from Liverpool to Russia in the summer.
- Landon Donovan may return to Everton if MLS goes on strike; in other news, David Moyes is rumored to have lent his full backing to MLS owners and thinks that free agency will be the death of the sport in America.
- Bobby Zamora is pretty sure he can outplay Fabio Cannavaro in Fulham’s Europa League clash against Juventus later today.
- Manchester United owners are considering raising ticket prices in order to help them manage their £700 million debt. I’m starting to agree with Barry Glendenning: if you really want the Glazers out, stop buying the tickets.
- Bayern Munich captain Mark van Bommel has extended his contract through 2011.
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If Torres wants to win the CL why the hell would he go to Chelsea?
Soccernet is getting progressively worse with their rumors and “sources” being reported as facts. I think the only reason they rolled this story out is because their “Jose WILL be fired if they lose to Chelsea” story ended up being moot.
There’s definitely a bit of a disconnect in the two stories; in one he’s about to be fired, in the other one he’s sitting down and identifying potential transfer targets.
I can handle Torres leaving for Barcelona; leaving for Chelsea is unforgivable.
If Barca hadn’t blown their load on that massively overrated Swede that would be feasible. As it stands though, so sad too bad. Frankly I don’t get how they could even think of affording Cesc let alone Torres who should cost twice as much.
This just in: Lionel Messi is a better than average soccer player.
This one is for Mags. Not Killer Jellyfish, but an decent fan video for the Gorillaz:
Love the lightcycle avatar.
This song has been irritating me for about two weeks, actually; it keeps coming up in my “Google News” searches for jellyfish.
Just an update: we’ve now joined the rest of the world and updated for Daylight Savings Time. Why WordPress doesn’t do this automatically is beyond me, but it’s fixed. Yay!