The Legend of Leo

ZOMG!!1!!!11! Leo Messi is the bestest at everything ever!!!!!!!!!11!

No, really, he coolly slotted home the penalty as 13 minutes of stoppage time elapsed during the second half of the Catalan Derby, the score previously tied at 1.

This is instantly the biggest story in the eastern half of Spain. If Ruud van Nistelrooy hadn't put Real Betis away in injury time it would have been the biggest story for all of Spain.

Take that, England. Spain effing rocks.

Image via Reuters

Gijon must mean 'punching bag'

Did Sporting Gijon's chairman insult someone's mother? This has been the team's September schedule: @Sevilla (currently 5th), Barcelona (6), @Real Madrid (2), Villareal (1). And guess what? Reverse the home/away and it's their February schedule, too! Not too surprisingly they went 0-4 during this nightmare stretch, mercifully ending earlier today with a 1-0 loss to Villareal despite outshooting them 15-8.

For a visual representation, here is Sporting Gijon before this stretch:


And here is Sporting Gijon after:


Friends don't let friends run the Gauntlet of Spanish soccer.