More musical madness

More of my 'songs that remind me of famous sports people.' First, Bacary Sagna is dressed as a member of Take That (Howard, as he had dreads at the time) in the video for 'Back for good.' Do you see what I did there? Bac for good. Ha ha. Then Mr Torres makes another appearance this time dressed as Agnetha from Abba. Because they sang 'Fernando.' Yeah I know, sophisticated humour. Then finally, the one and only Guti is dressed as Beyonce in the 'bootylicious' video. Because that song is known as 'gutilicious' in our house.

European thoughts - Serie A and Uefa cup

I've been lucky enough to catch some pretty good European matches lately. Firstly I watched the Milan derby, which was a cracker. I'm a big fan of AC Milan so its really lovely to see them doing well again. It was fantastic to see Gianluca Zambrotta playing and playing well. And Clarence Seedorf. Its a well known fact about me that I love a verteran old campaigner and this is partly why I love Milan so much. It fills my heart full of joy to see all the players I've grown up watching still going strong. So I'm praying so hard for one of my very very favourite people to recover from his knee injury. The man they call SuperPippo. Everytime I watch Milan and he isn't playing I feel a little twinge. I think I'm going to have full on hysterics when he *whisper it* retires. Another thought that occurred to me during the derby was about Robinho. I think he is suffering from what we in the business call "Nicklas Bendtner syndrome." He displayed all the symptoms, terrible first touch, reluctance to pass to teammates and skying chances. As my dad said "its a pity Robinho isn't as talented as he thinks he is."

Then the other day I watched Porto in the Europa league. What a game. What a side. I really like the look of Andre Villas Boas as a manager; he's young, he's got his team playing lovely free flowing football, he has swagger and he's a snappy dresser. And boy are his team impressive. Time and time again they swept majestically down the pitch, what a pleasure it is to watch them. And Radamel Falcao in particular. He scored a hat-trick on the night and it was a stellar performance. Plus he's so beautiful. Like breath-taking. Look

Ruth's Europa Cup Special

Now I know lots of people take a dim view of the Europa League, saying its just a consolation competition and doesn't mean anuthing or whatever but not me. I'll come out and say it. I like the Europa League. I like lots and lots of very different very random teams throughout Europe for various reasons so the Europa League is ideal for me. Last night for instance I got to watch two of my favourite uruguayan boys in a row. Not to mention Quique Sanchez Flores and The Master Criminal himself Tomas Ujfalusi. First I watched Liverpool v Napoli which although goalless was very entertaining, not least for the amount of Edinson Cavani hair flicking on show. I love Napoli, they manage to encapsulate both good old fashion Calcio values while at the same time being capable of producing fabulous fluid football moves out of nowhere. Then ITV gave me an unexpected gift showing Atletico Madrid straight after. I adopted Atleti last year and followed them the full way through the Europa league to victory and thoroughly enjoyed every game. They can be very very frustrating but like Napoli are able to produce a moment of brilliance in a split second from literally nowhere. I also caught a hugely entertaining Porto match in the highlights package, some fun with Sparta Praha and a goal fest in Bern of all places. So lets all give the Europa cup a chance, go on you know you want to.
If that isn't enough here is a list of just some of the beautiful boys from our watch list who are currently involved in the contest:
Sergio Romero (AZ Alkmaar) Diego Forlan  Sergio Aguero (both Atletico Madrid) Serdar Tasci (Stuttgart) Guti (Besiktas) Edinson Cavani (Napoli) Martin Caceres (Sevilla) Mauro Camoranesi (Stuttgart) Alessandro del Piero (Juventus) Radamel Falcao (Porto)