World Cup 2014: Group B Spain v Chile 18/06/14

foolishness by vidal. vidal to get sent off today?

Originally Posted by Kill All Hippies

It's £#%&!ing glaryingly obvious now surely.

dirty @#%&! Costa

Originally Posted by Big Norm

It's £#%&!ing glaringly obvious now surely.

Its the sort of thing part of you wants to believe, but isn't it just that they are naturally past their peak?

Originally Posted by Vedder

Absolutely brilliant goal

shyeah.... that's what you say. what did danny murphy say?


good player, he was, incidentally.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Nailed on that @#%&! rafa nadal is on it as well.

agreed

Originally Posted by jem

shyeah.... that's what you say. what did danny murphy say?


good player, he was, incidentally.

As we were all too well aware

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Hung the cyclists out to dry to spare the footballers and the tennis players.

Nailed on that @#%&! rafa nadal is on it as well.

Yep, biggest scandal in modern day sport, suppression of evidence. All sorts of whispers around Spanish sport and the lax attitude to testing since the Barcelona Olympics.

Originally Posted by red in cumbria

Its the sort of thing part of you wants to believe, but isn't it just that they are naturally past their peak?

it's a sign the manager doesn't have the balls or nous to change it up.

Originally Posted by red in cumbria

Its the sort of thing part of you wants to believe, but isn't it just that they are naturally past their peak?

Xavi and Casillas are the only 2 regular starters over 30. The decline of both Barca and the national side since that doctor got done, as well as some of his reported comments make it obvious they were cheating imo.

They are £#%&!ing shite and have cost me £20.

Originally Posted by Big Norm

Xavi and Casillas are the only 2 regular starters over 30. The decline of both Barca and the national side since that doctor got done, as well as some of his reported comments make it obvious they were cheating imo.

puts our CL finals in 2009 and 2011 in another light.

hahaha

Originally Posted by Big Norm

Xavi and Casillas are the only 2 regular starters over 30. The decline of both Barca and the national side since that doctor got done, as well as some of his reported comments make it obvious they were cheating imo.

On 5 July 2006, Fuentes was indignant that only cyclists had been named and said he also worked with tennis and football players.[2] On 27 July 2006, IAAF was assured by Spanish prosecutors that no track and field athletes were involved.[56] On 23 September 2006, former cyclist Jesús Manzano told reporters from France 3 that he had seen "well-known footballers" from La Liga visit the offices of Dr Fuentes.[57]

In May 2007 Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA, at a World Anti-Doping Agency meeting in Montreal, was reportedly interested in the contents "of the Puerto file".[58] Le Monde had reported in December 2006 that they had possession of documents of Fuentes detailing "seasonal preparation plans" for Spanish football clubs FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. These plans did not specifically name any players.[59] This news seem to be only rumors, since the French journal lost its trials in 2009 and 2011 against the FC Barcelona because he could not produce any proof of its allegations. In the ultimate judgement, on 14 November 2011, it was condemned to pay 15,000 euros of indemnity for "using false and unverified facts".[60]

No other athletes had been named.

The whole thing stunk to high heaven. If it ever all comes out (which it won't now the blood has been destroyed) it'll be the biggest case of systematic doping and cheating in the history of world sport.

£#%&! me

Bye bye Spain

Casillas is having an awful tournament.

Hasta la vista gringos.