Fir Sorman Noster

We have a winner. Sir Norman Foster is set to remodel Camp Nou and he won it against some prestigous competitors, although non of them has really his name and reputation and I guess the New Wembley really did his thing for him.
I have to see the model first to really judge, but I personally am not the greatest fan of him, or let's say, I see it as a huge name thing of prestige. First of all, it will cost a lot, second it will not be some avantgarde thing, third you know when two big names collide, it hardly ever results in something great.
But eitherway, I'm interested to see the result, which I hopefully should this weekend in Barcelona.

I can't stand the rain

It's raining now for around 2-3 days in a row. Incredible. I haven't seen anything like that before. It hasn't really stopped to rain and it keeps on and on. The weather is really flipping.
Too bad there's national team week right now, otherwise I would have probably booked my flight earlier, as in Barcelona and Madrid, there are 27 degrees and sunshine and here we got 9 degrees and rain....and rain and rain..

The new Keith Murray album is great btw.

Time will tell

I have more time now, also to update this thing here. My work contract is over, so I'm a full student again. I will go to Barcelona in end of September for the Sevilla game and the 50 year Camp Nou anniversary. However, I'm quite saddened, as I won't see Eto'o. His injury comes at a very very bad time, as in one way or other I'm pretty sure, that Rijkaard wanted to try the front 3 of Henry-Eto'o-Messi, because Henry-Eto'o is just perfect and Messi is just Messi. However, Eto'o is now out of football for around 3 months and once he comes back, he will probably have to play African Cup of Nations. I personally strongly believe that this season will be Ronaldinho's last at the club. I don't see him play for another year, so it would have been even more important for a healthy Eto'o to lead the way. Specially, as so far his partnership with Henry had looked pretty fine and now he will probably miss out again of El Clasico.
Regarding Ronaldinho, the friends from Futbolitis have written an excellent analysis on him, which unfortunatley the most Ronaldinho posterboys won't understand and they will come up with his 21 goals of last season. However, Ronaldinho as a football player right now to me is finished and I wouldn't mind uncle Silvio's suitcase of money. He might prove me wrong, you might come back at me, but as it is right now, Ronaldinho is just useless and my last hope for a semi-decent season is Henry, whom I really respect both as a player and professional.
With regards to the team, I had a look at our team again and I would say that we would need 1 more right or leftback and a winger would have been a good idea too. Dos Santos might fill the role, but I'm not so sure.
Eitherway, the game against Athletic should be interesting.

Anims Samu!