Meanwhile, in the USA, actual football is being played. Columbus have a busy week - after drawing with New York on Saturday, the Crew host Real Salt Lake tomorrow night at home. They knocked us out of the playoffs in 2009, and this year they knocked us out of the CONCACAF Champions League, so I'm looking for a little revenge.
*Hilarious/embarrassing sidenote: as some of you may know, Salt Lake City is the heaquarters of the Mormon faith in the US, and having been there I can tell you that Mormonism has a heavy influence on the city in many ways. To get to the point, Columbus' front office, in their eternal wisdom,
has designated tonight's match against Salt Lake as "Mormon Night", with discounted tickets and Mormon-themed halftime entertainment.
I'm sorry, but I have to emit a small rant here:
What the flying **** were they thinking?!?!?
There are worries that one or two drunken idiots might taunt Real Salt Lake with chants involving Mormon jibes, so it has the potential to be an unmitigated disaster (none of the RSL players are Mormon as far as I know, so the only people being insulted will be other Columbus residents).
I'm going to leave work a tad early to catch the USA v Canada Gold Cup match, probably won't be a classic but I'm already starved for some football.
He's better than Big Sam. A solid choice in my opinion.
In other never-ending transfer rumours; Romanski is thought to be prepping for a bid of up to 60m for Fabregas because he's apparently identified him as the ideal link to Torres from midfield.
I find it hard to believe, those are crazy numbers. But if there is any truth to it Arsenal should stick Cesc on a bus to Stamford Bridge posthaste. No player is
really worth that much money, and if you are offered it you take it. With 60 million you can buy any player in the world except Messi or Ronaldo.
Yeah, just Nasri. Who appears to currently be holding the club to ransom wanting higher wages...
Losing both Cesc and Nasri at once would be a big deal. I wonder who, if anyone, Arsene sees as potential replacements in a worst case scenario where they both go.