It would be easy for the inattentive to think that the current strain David Moyes is under is the consequence of poor results and excessive tactical meekness not commonly seen at one of the most prestigious clubs on the planet. But really the seeds of discontent were sown very early on, in fact as soon as the appointment was made known a not insignificant portion of United fans loudly protested that this wasn't at all what they were expecting. And now the revolt against the new gaffer is threatening to engulf much more than just the touchline, with Fergie himself being allegedly jeered after the derby loss and feverish talk of a mysterious Arab-money takeover now a favorite of United fan boards. A loss to Villa tomorrow could start the implosion earlier than even the most negative naysayers would've predicted a few weeks ago. Especially with Bayern (which my phone always wants to spell-check as "battering", talk about fitting) looming in the wings for next week. But truth be told, United-Villa is probably just the third most interesting game scheduled for this weekend. Top of that list is arguably Liverpool v Spurs, which has turned out some very entertaining fixtures as of late. And with the Liverpool offense and defense continuing their season-long race to see who can generate more goals, this one should be no snoozer. Then there's City's visit to the Emirates; Arsenal will attempt to get over the worst birthday party in history but things are starting to look awful familiar for the Gunners and their hold on the 4th spot ever so tenuous. On the other end of the dial the relegation battle will be "highlighted" by Swansea-Norwich. Hopefully the contrast of styles results in a no-holds barred game.

Spain: Real's loss to Sevilla made what was already a very interesting title race into a devilish plot even Cormac McCarthy would think is too intense. The games this weekend make it seem like things will calm down somewhat, but with the way things have been going who knows. Barcelona will no doubt be ruing the season-ending injury suffered by Victor Valdes, but it's tough to see that as a huge obstacle the way their offense has been clicking.

Italy: Clarence Seedorf might have dodged a bullet when his side beat Fiorentina 2-0 this week, but it's gonna take more than that to shush the rumors of Pippo Inzaghi's imminent arrival. But of course there was still controversy as Balotelli claimed after the game that the ref goaded him into getting his second yellow. Back on the pitch there is an appealing Napoli-Juve on Sunday which could go a long way to determining if Rafa Benitez' side can catch up with Roma for the 2d place. Carlos Tevez is set to miss this game due to excessive yellow cardism recently.

Germany: By winning this week Bayern were officially crowned Bundesliga champions. With 7 games to go this is the earliest that has happened. They are probably the best club in all of football, so good in fact that I'll probably retire this section for the rest of the season. I can't think of a better mark of excellence than that.

France: With last week's misstep by Monaco PSG are now 10pts clear and can now almost fully focus on their clash with Chelsea. Mourinho has already started with the mindgames, stating that PSG are favorites because there is no pressure on them. Not that impressive by Mou standards, but we all know he saves the good stuff for when it really counts

EPL
SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2014
8:45 ET Manchester United v Aston Villa
11:00 ET Crystal Palace v Chelsea
11:00 ET Southampton v Newcastle United
11:00 ET Stoke City v Hull City
11:00 ET Swansea City v Norwich City
11:00 ET West Bromwich Albion v Cardiff City
1:30 ET Arsenal v Manchester City
SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2014
8:30 ET Fulham v Everton
11:00 ET Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur
MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2014
3:00 ET Sunderland v West Ham United

LIGA
SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2014
11:00 ET Espanyol v Barcelona
1:00 ET Celta Vigo v Sevilla FC
3:00 ET Athletic Bilbao v Atletico Madrid
5:00 ET Real Madrid v Rayo Vallecano
SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2014
6:00 ET Real Valladolid v Almeria
11:00 ET Osasuna v Real Sociedad
1:00 ET Villarreal v Elche
3:00 ET Valencia v Getafe
MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2014
2:00 ET Granada v Levante
4:00 ET Real Betis v Malaga

SERIE A
SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2014
1:00 ET Bologna v Atalanta
3:45 ET AC Milan v Chievo Verona
SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2014
6:30 ET Sassuolo v AS Roma
9:00 ET Hellas Verona v Genoa
9:00 ET Lazio v Parma
9:00 ET Sampdoria v Fiorentina
9:00 ET Torino v Cagliari
2:45 ET Napoli v Juventus
MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2014
1:00 ET Udinese v Catania
3:00 ET Livorno v Internazionale

BUNDESLIGA
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2014
3:30 ET Schalke 04 v Hertha Berlin
SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2014
10:30 ET Bayer Leverkusen v TSV Eintracht Braunschweig
10:30 ET Bayern Munich v TSG Hoffenheim
10:30 ET Mainz v FC Augsburg
10:30 ET VfB Stuttgart v Borussia Dortmund
10:30 ET VfL Wolfsburg v Eintracht Frankfurt
1:30 ET SC Freiburg v Nurnberg
SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2014
9:30 ET Borussia Monchengladbach v Hamburg SV
11:30 ET Hannover 96 v Werder Bremen

LIGUE 1
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2014
3:30 ET Nice v Paris Saint-Germain
SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2014
12:00 ET Sochaux v Marseille
3:00 ET AC Ajaccio v Toulouse
3:00 ET Evian Thonon Gaillard v AS Monaco
3:00 ET Montpellier v Valenciennes
3:00 ET Nantes v Bordeaux
3:00 ET Stade de Reims v Lorient
SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2014
8:00 ET Stade Rennes v Bastia
11:00 ET Lille v Guingamp
3:00 ET Lyon v St Etienne

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For the record, my teams:
MLB: Mets / Soccer: PSG
NCAA BB: Arizona / NCAA FB: Michigan
NBA: Spurs / NFL: Jets

I'd much appreciate it

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For the record, my teams:
MLB: Mets / Soccer: PSG
NCAA BB: Arizona / NCAA FB: Michigan
NBA: Spurs / NFL: Jets

forget international friendlies, play in a league format that leads to EURO qualification...

anything else?

The clearest sign of the team's mental instability was the final 10 minutes of the Swansea game. Instead of taking the game by the horns and taking the air out of the ball, we went into a complete shell.

4th place and the FA cup is our best case scenario at this point.

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

L D E A

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For the record, my teams:
MLB: Mets / Soccer: PSG
NCAA BB: Arizona / NCAA FB: Michigan
NBA: Spurs / NFL: Jets

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

L D E A

Madrid will probably beat Espanyol in their last game, meaning if Barca and Atletico tie, Real will be champions...but if either Barca or Atletico win, that team will be champions. Would be incredible.

either.

I mean, he probably couldn't win the league w/ this squad, but he'd probably be top 4.

I still have no earthly clue how he missed that chance to make it 2-2 right before the Mata goal.

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for leaving the area and playing the ball. but espanyol had already used all three subs, so the goalie gave up his shirt and a field player just had to face a free kick from just outside the box. maybe 5 minutes after a penalty for another handball to give barca the 1-0.

unfortunately, messi missed by about a foot wide. i was rooting for the field player to make the save, tbh. that'd be an amazing story to tell your kids.

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It's only funny till someone gets mad. Then it's hilarious.

http://oi39.tinypic.com/2ih01ky.gif

one of the more awkward saves ever, but it worked!

don't know why they aren't just peppering him with long range shots.

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Y'all stupid...should've tanked for Lebron/Wiggins in 2014 -Rex LongFellow

It's only funny till someone gets mad. Then it's hilarious.

http://oi39.tinypic.com/2ih01ky.gif

i hope alexis gets so much shit from his teammates afterwards. lol.

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Y'all stupid...should've tanked for Lebron/Wiggins in 2014 -Rex LongFellow

It's only funny till someone gets mad. Then it's hilarious.

http://oi39.tinypic.com/2ih01ky.gif

The crowd was fucking intense and you could see the effect it was having on the Barça players.

"Puta barça, puta barça eh eh eh!"

They even had a call and response of the above chant across the stadium. The ones behind on goal started it and the ones behind the other responded. Its was nuts...

Then there was a "riot" (I don't know what else to call it) after the game.

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

>Then there was a "riot" (I don't know what else to call it)
>after the game.

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respect the gift.

The stadium was 99.9% Espanyol supporters. I was an idiot and wore a barça jersey, figuring that being in the same city, there had to be a Barça contingent there too. Nope. The only other people I saw in Barça colors were two foreign kids with their dads. I quickly learned I needed to keep my jacket zipped. After I was playful yelled at by one guy, and not playfully yelled at by another... really drunk guy when I was walking to the ticket booth.

So according to the local paper, some of the Espanyol ultras saw some Barça supporters celebrate the goal in a skybox and confronted them after the game. When I was leaving the stadium there were already sirens going off, but they were coming from an ambulance that was parked in front of the stadium. As I made my way over there it looked like a fight circle had opened in right in front of the stadium but i couldn't really see if there was a fight happening. A few hundred people were in the thick of it. There was a lot of yelling and chanting ("Puta barça, puta barça eh eh eh"), cans and bottles being thrown, and generally dudes fucking up their own stadium grounds.

Then one dude broke out and ran and another few dudes, including one with a broken nose covered with a bandage) ran after him. Then the riot police moved in, swing clubs (but to me, who'se seen police whoop ass they were just swinging to clear it out) and people scattered. Then as soon as the police retreated they were pelted with bottles, cans, rocks, sticks used to support young trees, and even branches broken off of those same young trees. Police move toward the ultras and again they scatter. They turn on the sprinklers on the grounds to encourage folks to leave but they just move to the street. The police try to form a perimeter... and some shit was going down on the opposite side from me but the ultras flipped over some dumpsters for ammo and again let it rain down on the police. The vans roll down that way as dudes spit on the passing vehicles, throw whatever they can... one dude (one of the main instigators on my side of things) moons them. There's several shots of either gas or bean bags fired down an alley. The riot police come back the other way with the vans and the mooner dude throws a fucking guard rail at one of the trucks.
The police zoom back and forth seeming pursing a group of the ultras but all of the trucks had evidence of shit being thrown at them, one had it's side mirror hanging off, broken. After maybe an hour things seemed to had calmed down.

I found the reaction of onlookers kind've amusing as they're saying "This is Spain" in the same way folks here say "this is America." People are making Nazi salutes at the cops and things like that... I was amused because where I'm from, cops would been really whooping their asses. They would've gotten maced and beaten with a quickness, but I didn't even think they cops were out of line.

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

Loolong forward to this Mourinho post-game lol

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

L D E A

Asked what quality is required for his side, Mourinho said: "I cannot say in front of the cameras. I can write it on paper." Offered a notepad afterwards, the Portuguese wrote "balls".

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THFC
F1
MotoGP

From the first goals of each team, niether of which was intended, to the final ones....worst part for West Bromwich and especially Sessegnon is that all he has to do is sit on that ball at the end rather than getting greedy and they get 3 points.

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

L D E A

Podolski turns right into Fernandinho, Man City releases quickly, shot off the post and Silva knicks in the rebound.

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

L D E A

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HOPE!
https://vine.co/v/i7JjIBL3Qix
https://vine.co/v/i7JtqEFwxDu

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

L D E A

although of course maybe he plays more restrained then, either way ... just pointing out he's not having a great day

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HOPE!
https://vine.co/v/i7JjIBL3Qix
https://vine.co/v/i7JtqEFwxDu

He's had a couple bad moments but that doesn't overshadow his work rate (he's been pressing high and tight all game) and he's been the only direct player on the pitch for us.

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

L D E A

I like the restraint shown though by the officiating. It was a foul but nothing cynical enough to warrant a 2nd yellow imo.

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

L D E A

But against a team like Man City with an incredibly quick ability to transition to their counter, you cannot give them those chances.

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

L D E A

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

L D E A

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

L D E A

Box to box, strong as an ox, so aware and heady, ridiculous work rate, disciplined, and most importantly a rock of a leader.

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

L D E A

Gibbs was brilliant on the left, often times having to defend 1v1 vs Navas which he did quite well and then got up the pitch very effectively as well.

Flamini...obviously the tying goal but he was responsible for Silva all game while also having to cover the back-4. The work rate is astonishing.

I'll take the point...c'mon Fulham!

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

L D E A

This feels wrong.

I need Bitey McRacist to do something bad again.

<--- Big Baller World Order

Suarez I love/hate depending on the week.

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

The only guy I kind of remotely like is Sterling.

Screw the rest of them

I absolutely love Brendan Rogers and have the utmost respect for Stevie G....which masks any dislike I have for any other individuals on the team.

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

L D E A

Since Arsenal is out, 'Pool is the side that I'd mind winning it the least.

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Cannot wait, what a game that should be.

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

L D E A

oof-dah.

Aggregate vs LFC was 9-0 I think.

This is all gravy to me.

i had been expecting the liverpool of last year to rear their heads, playing down to lesser opponents and not always finishing strong against better teams. last year, they would have certainly lost at least one of the recent matches against cardiff or sunderland.

i know united and tottenham have their own problems and arsenal has complained all year about their scheduling, but the thrashings that liverpool have delivered to all of them have been great. and they should have drawn at least city or chelsea earlier in the year.

and to win like they did yesterday with a strong defensive performance and goals from the less than usual suspects of coutinho and henderson make them such a fun, well-oiled machine to watch.

*fanboy rant over*

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ugh. what a year.

i remember thinking losing bale wasn't going to be a big deal because of players we were able to bring in, HAHAHAHAHAHAHahaHahaha ... haha ... ha ... *sigh*

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