My my, The Figos look absolutely perfeito in that photo snapped in Paris last week! In many ways, it's good that the Portuguese midfielder decided to retire from football completely... He could teach dear Guti below a thing or two about wearing proper pants.

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Looking good, Guti! We hope your new girlfriend, Paula, appreciates you and your inimitable fashion sense. We're going to ignore the reality that you're probably about to hork or blow something gross onto the pitch. Denial ain't just a river, etc.

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According the Sports daily "AS", REAL MADRID General Director JorgeValdano has given clear instructions to Coach Pellegrini; stop rotatingthe team & begin establishing a "prototype" 11 team.This has two implications:1. the below photo is the team we should be seeing from now on, withthe only difference that Cristiano Ronaldo will take the place of Marcelowhen he returns from his ankle injury. Click to continue reading...

Just a wild mess of 'em today:

• Despite Roma rift, Baptista is staying.
  
• Van der Vaart considering his options.
  
• Crew to dump Robbie Rogers?
  
• Xavi dying to get Cesc at Barca.
  
• Exiting Madrid: Guti?
  
• Yaya: I might move, not to City.

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Cuando Florentino Pérez gano las "elecciones" del Real Madrid, esperaba un fichaje de relumbrón para el banquillo: Mourinho, Wenger o Ancelotti eran los nombres que se me pasaron por la cabeza. Pero cuál fue mi sorpresa cuando el elegido fue Manuel Pellegrini.
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All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award winning Dirty Tackle...

Outrage over Wayne Rooney's use of wussy hand covers in the Champions League. [Channelbee]

Chelsea consider selling the naming rights to Stamford Bridge. And I consider crying.

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El entrenador y escritor, Angel Cappa, muestra a través de este libro diferentes puntos de vista, de distintos jugadores, entrenadores y ex-profesionales.

La óptica de distintos profesionales convergen en un punto en especial: La falta de amor por la pelota.

El exitismo, la falta de apoyo en cada proyecto, el incremento físico de los jugadores, hacen que las nuevas tendencias de juego, como el fútbol directo (básicamente, jugar en largo hacia un delantero en ofensiva), lleven al fútbol a un espectáculo sin vértigo, predecible, sin sorpresa.

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After much mid week humiliation, Real Madrid return to the Bernabeu to make amends and our friends at Heads or Tails believe Guti's abusive comments have been forgiven and he won't be spending time in obscurity... what matters more though is the fan's take on the situation and that could . Click to continue reading...

The Spanish media really want Manuel Pellegrini gone. They are playing up a war of words that Guti appears to have had with the gaffer during the Madrid vs Alcorcon match.

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Real Madrid midfielder doesn't like being called gay Real Madrid's embarrassing 4-0 defeat to lower league Alcorcon on Tuesday night was painful enough. But Guti had insult added to his injury. He was hauled off by under-fire coach Manuel Pellegrini at half-time, and upon taking his place in the dugout an Alcorcon supporter called him gay. Click to continue reading...

Esto se pone bueno. En el medio-tiempo del partido donde el gigante Alcorcon le iba ganando 3-0 al pequeño Real Madrid, el veterano jugador Guti, enfurecido, pidio a sus compañeros que reaccionen y le pongan huevos pero Pellegrini le dijo 'tranquila nena y cambiate que no vas a entrar pa' el segundo tiempo'. Click to continue reading...

Esto se pone bueno. En el medio-tiempo del partido donde el gigante Alcorcon le iba ganando 3-0 al pequeño Real Madrid, el veterano jugador Guti, enfurecido, pidio a sus compañeros que reaccionen y le pongan huevos pero Pellegrini le dijo 'tranquila nena y cambiate que no vas a entrar pa' el segundo tiempo'. Click to continue reading...

If the Copa del Rey is played, but hardly anyone cares about it, did it really happen? To say that some of the La Liga teams think of the cup as a nuisance would be quite an understatement. With the overloaded fixture list consisting of European and domestic matches, the Copa del Rey is near the bottom of the top teams' priorities.

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The day after goofing around in the snow and getting their free Audis, Real Madrid were thoroughly thumped 4-0 in the first leg of their fourth round Copa del Rey tie with third division side Alcorcon. The loss has been a staggering and embarrassing blow, which has not only put their Copa campaign in serious doubt, but has manager Manuel Pellegrini on the verge of getting sacked.

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Real Madrid's new 'Galactico' era has not started out the season quite as expected, and the struggles continued after losing in humiliating fashion on Tuesday.

Real Madrid lost to third division club Alcorcon, 4-0, in a Copa del Rey match. Alcorcon, which has 400 times less the payroll than los merengues, humbled a less-than-full-strength Real Madrid, but it still defeated a team which started players like Raul, Guti and galactico Karim Benzema.

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See the ridiculous on video. The whole World is "baffled", but Alcorconplayed a great match & deserved the win. Watch how the Real Madridplayers - Drenthe, Guti... - don´t run, plus that the weakness of RealMadrid are its flanks - right side & all the Clubs know it...Note: YouTube may withdraw this video, if so, SFS will attempt to substitute it when possile Click to continue reading...

In a Copa Del Rey match, Jerzy Dudek was the goalie under siege as Francisco Borja scored the first goal, a under pressure Alvaro Arbeloa scored an own goal, Ernesto Gomez tapped in a third, and Borja completed Madrid's woebegone display with his second goal and Alcorcon's fourth.

Pellegrini rested Kaka and his place was taken by Guti.

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Real Madrid vs Valladolid
Saturday 17 October 2009
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
Kick-Off: 20:00 CET

Real Madrid will be eager to quash the notion that they cannot win without Cristiano Ronaldo this Saturday, while Valladolid have somewhat expectedly struggled in the opening matches of the 2009/10 campaign.

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Let's get this over with:

• David Beckham allowed to leave MLS.
  
• Napoli the solution for grumpy Toni?
  
• Guti would welcome back one Roberto Carlos.
  
• Arsenal eye Bari duo.
  
• Ferdinand to be axed by Sunderland?
  
• EPL big boys after the new Vidic.

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101 Great Goals found the video of the verbal spat between Iker and Guti.
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In terms of the football played on the pitch, the Sevilla Real Madrid clash qualified as the best match of the young La Liga season. Honorable mentions to Athletic Bilbao's 3-2 victory over Villarreal CF in Round 3 and the pulsating 2-2 draw between Valencia and Atlético Madrid last Saturday night, but this fixture contained everything that a writer and a supporter wanted: back stories prior to the game, vigorous and attacking football, tensions boiling over the players at hand, and incredible stops by both goalkeepers.

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Tuesday and Wednesday brought about Match Day 2 in the UEFA Champions League, and the four representatives from Spain had interesting ties that helped shape their respective groups. On Tuesday, Sevilla FC visited Rangers FC at the Ibrox Stadium, where the European night atmosphere is second to none, buoying their beloved Gers, and FC Barcelona hosted FK Dynamo Kyiv at the Camp Nou, where both teams headed into this clash with undefeated records in both league and in Europe.

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One of CQC Chile's loco characters, "Cuchillo" Eyzaguirre recently went to Madrid to meet the manos there. In case you were wondering, CQC, which stands for "Caiga Quien Caiga" is a popular TV programme which started in Argentina and has since spread to the rest of Latin America and parts of Europe including Italy and Spain.

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Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey paid a visit to the Bernabeu to watch the Real Madrid v Tenerife game recently.

Here he is involved in a pose-off with Guti. We suspect they discussed how many open shirt buttons were appropriate before the shot was taken.Â

Wondering why we didn't lead with the shot of Iker Casillas meeting McDreamy/MacSteamy/whatever his web-moniker is?

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Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey paid a visit to the Bernabeu to watch the Real Madrid v Tenerife game recently.

Here he is involved in a pose-off with Guti. We suspect they discussed how many open shirt buttons were appropriate before the shot was taken.Â

Wondering why we didn't lead with the shot of Iker Casillas meeting McDreamy/MacSteamy/whatever his web-moniker is?

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Real Madrid ist ein beeindruckender Saisonstart gelungen: 5 Siege in 5 Spielen und 16:2 Tore in der spanischen Liga und ein 5:2 Sieg gegen den FC Zürich in der Champions League.

Der Einstand von Cristiano Ronaldo ist mit 5 Toren in der Liga und 2 Toren in der Champions League ebenfalls respektabel.

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Villarreal 0-2 Real Madrid
0-1 Ronaldo, 2'
0-2 Kaka (pen), 73'

With four wins in four league games and three clean sheets in the bunch, it's statistically difficult to find fault with Real Madrid's early season performances. They have ostensibly done everything right in their opening games: they have incorporated all the new faces into the mix, gotten big contributions from old favorites like Raul and Guti, and seen their world record signing get off to a record-breaking start.

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Redknapp eying up talented Real Madrid reject.

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Harry Redknapp is already toying with the idea of bundling a brown paper and string wrapped parcel containing Dutch disappointment Rafael van der Vaart into the boot of his Colonial Biscuit leather upholstered saloon.

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If Villarreal continues their poor run of form, El Madrigal will look similar to this on match nights.

After another underwhelming performance in a 0-2 loss to Real Madrid at El Madrigal on Wednesday evening, Villarreal currently sits in 18th place with only two points from four La Liga matches.

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[caption id="attachment_1376" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Guti is going to have to get used to warming the bench no matter how hard and long he ponders about this after giving good performances."][/caption] Looking at Guti's performance in the previous match against Xerez and also taking into consideration the past 3 seasons, from Capello . Click to continue reading...

Real Madrid 5-0 Xerez
1-0 Ronaldo, 1′
2-0 Ronaldo, 75′
3-0 Guti, 78′
4-0 Benzema, 82′
5-0 Van Nistelrooy, 89′

Real Madrid moved to the top of the table Sunday, ahead of Barcelona on goal differential, after a 5-0 rout of Xerez that was a more difficult affair than the final score might indicate.

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Alot has been made of Barcelona and Real Madrid's rivalry this season, rightly so, as the starting XI's are surely the best two starting XI's in the world. And after Barcelona stuck 5 past Atlético Madrid yesterday, we all might have wondered how Real would react. Well, by putting 5 past [...] Click to continue reading...

The Beauty: Arancha de Benito ("ADB") is surely one of the fairest Italian WAGs. I mean "fair" in all three ways it can be interpreted: (1) she's "fair" as in "pretty"; (2) she's "fair" as in "light-haired"; and (3) she's "fair" as in unbiased. How would I know she is "fair" in the equality arena?

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Even Kun Aguero can't help but look up terrified at Greaseano's facial expression in that photo. Cara's using up every possible facial muscle and it's a look that Nereida has not seen so ya'll better just sit down and enjoy FutbolWood's new Muscle Hulk!

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