I WANT I WANT I WAAAAANT!

Words cannot express how much I want these.
Upside, they are so pretty.
Downside, they are way more than I can afford in this lifetime. And they make me way too tall for the average male. Like, 6'3 tall. Yeah..

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Snoooowwwwww!

Because I miss the snow. I don't miss the effing coldness that went with it, but look at how PRETTY everything was. It's all melted away now. *sniffles*

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Yippee, whole week off!

I am a little overexcited about having had the entire week off (even if I was sick for roughly half of it) because since the new year started, I hadn't had a day off. And yeah, that sounds slightly pathetic when you think about the fact that it was only 10 days INTO the year, but still, almost everyone else I know had at least one day off in that time. No wonder I ended up sick, I have the weakest immune system I know and it was bloody FREEZING out.

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Shoe addict = me

I have a problem. A serious serious problem. I don't even wear the shoes I buy FFS, I live in trainers. However, my shoe collection keeps growing and if somebody doesn't hide my card away from me, it'll grow even more. Clicky here to see the current collection (minus five or six pairs I cannot for the life of me find). It isn't as bad as the twin's problem, because I don't own more shoes than I can possibly get through in a lifetime. However, I do constantly find new ones I want. Here's a run down of the top 15 'I waaaaant' pairs on my list right now.

1 - Steve Madden, Twistedd Blush. $104.97

2 - Prada, Ruched Criss Cross Sandals. £466



3 - Faith, Lutter. £40


4 - Fergie, Women's Blast Sandal. $89.95


5 - Ebay wins at life, but brand etc, no idea. I still want them. £12.99

6 - Nine West, Vampy. $89


7 - Christian Louboutin, Very Brode. Currently £135, was £437.

8 - New Look, Piped Suede Shoes. £30

9 - New Look, Studded Peep Toe Shoe. £25


10 - Schuh, Sparkle Zebra High Heels. Currently £30, were £74.99


11 - Rascal, Bright Orange Butterfly Sandals. £59

12 - Christian Louboutin, Pique 140 Sandals. $995

13 - Aldo, Simonelli. £54.98

14 - Aldo, Ohlson. $100

15 -Steve Madden, Loyyall. $89.95

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Failage alert

It;s 10 days into the new year. I have not blogged yet. And it's not like I haven't had stuff to blog about. There's been plenty, I'm just too lazy. I'm currently a little bit sick, so I'm not going to blog properly until i get better, but there will be stuff coming up. Like my heavily work based start to the new year. The snow in England. Again. And perhaps most importantly, Vicente's return. Yeah, he's playing again. Yay! Anyway, really, blogging soon!

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I went shopping crazy these past few months...

Christmas is just around the corner, and I am officially going to be broke this month. I've already spent so much money and not one of the things I have bought has been for other people. It's a little selfish, but hey...who cares, right? I work for the money, I should spend it however the fuck I want. So, these are just some of my buys:
The dress will never get worn. Aside from the fact I don't do dresses, it is short. Like, MICRO mini. I don't even have to bend over for my ass to be on show. No lie. The pic doesn't do it justice, it's the same colour green as the Atonement dress. I totally LOVE it. Even if I will never wear it...

The shoes will suffer the same fate as the dress, I am sure. I buy pretty things so they can look pretty in my wardrobe/under my bed. I don't buy them to wear them, seeing as I don't mix well with heels. Besides, I'm tall enough already, thanks.

This is my fave buy. I LOVE it. It will get worn so many times, it'll probably have changed colour by the end of the month. Uh huh.

On top of this, there's the 3 pairs of jeans I bought, which I totally do not need, seeing as I already own about 10 pairs and have no room in my wardrobe anymore. I also still need to buy myself a new Valencia shirt (with Albelda on the back. That has been decided now, so I'd better buy the damn thing before I change my mind AGAIN...) and I'm seriously considering buying two because I actually kinda want one with Dahveed's name on the back. I also REALLY want the one with the bat with Vicente's name on the back, even though I already have a Vicente shirt, because the bat IS Valencia and so is he. Not only that, I am saving for my ipod touch in the Jan sales and also, I have a 20% staff discount at work all this week, which means I will no doubt be spending more money soon. *sigh* Why is shopping such a fun past time?

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Changes!

As of next week, I WILL do a match report for every game I watch. I miss blogging and I've been so lazy with it lately, it's unreal.

For now, just to tide you over, have some pic!
Cute! The height difference! *giggles*

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I am such a bad blog owner :(

I forgot my blog's first birthday. It was last week. The day after I did my last blog post. Jeeze, I feel really bad now. But it's not like there was much to blog on anyway. Anyhow, in an attempt to breathe some life into the blog, I am going to try and focus on things other than just Valencia and Liverpool (as if there's much of the latter...)

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100 things about football and me:

1. I support 2 teams with my whole heart and soul.
2. Liverpool still come first but lately I’ve been a lot more vocal about my Valencia support.
3. ...it’s not because I prefer one over the other. I just get to watch Valencia is all.
4. La Liga is by far my favourite league. EPL is one of my least favourite. Ironic that my #1 team plays there.
5. I became a Valencia fan after watching them beat Liverpool in the CL.
6. I usually start supporting teams because of one specific footballer, but in no time at all, the entire team has grown on me.
7. Vicente Rodriguez is my favourite footballer. Ever.
8. ...it breaks me every time I hear he’s injured again because he doesn’t deserve it.
9. I hate Werder Bremen with every inch of me just because he was playing against them when he got the injury that changed his life.
10. It pisses me off when people assume you can only be a fan of one team at a time.

11. ...I’ve never had a problem and I’ve been a fan of two teams for 7 years.
12. The chances are, if I warn you to shut your mouth and you don’t listen, you’re going to get bitched out on.
13. ...don’t complain, I gave you suitable warning.
14. I am a psycho bitch when things don’t go my way.
15. I am sometimes a psycho bitch when things DO go my way.
16. My first live football game was Sheffield Wednesday vs Crystal Palace. Oh joy.
17. ...I don’t even remember the score. Or anything that happened.
18. I was much too old when I went to my first Liverpool game, but at least I was aware of what was going on.
19. ...YNWA sent shivers down my spine and it was only a friendly.
20. The first thing I do in any new city I visit is check if there’s a football team/stadium.
21. ...You can bet your ass on the fact that I’ll be doing a tour if I have time if there is.
22. I am a fangirl.
23. ...but I also know the offside rule better than most guys I know.
24. I sometimes feel bad for bitching out at people just because all they ever seem to do is fangirl.
25. ...but then when I think about it, there’s really no excuse. I made an effort to learn about the sport so why shouldn’t they?
26. I have no space left on my laptop because I download every game I find interesting or want to keep.
27. ...that is mostly Valencia, Liverpool, Spain NT. Recently, it’s been Roma and RM too.
28. ...the latter is because of Raul Albiol. I still miss him like crazy.
29. I hate RM’s policy of ‘buy first, think money later’ but some of my best friends are RM fans.
30. The more I watch them this season, the more I start to think that maybe I was wrong and maybe they CAN make it work.
31. ...I don’t want to admit that though, because that means I was stupid to go so OTT over the summer.
32. I cried all day when I heard RM had signed Albiol from Valencia.
33. ...I still cry every time I see him or hear his name mentioned.
34. I have two tattoos that are entirely football related and I still want another one.
35. I was going to get the three stars on my hip extended to five to symbolise Liverpool’s five European Cup wins, but I can’t go any higher or it’ll be visible and I refuse to go any lower.
36. I swear in 4 different languages when I’m watching football. If I knew more, I’d swear in more.
37. I think that it is crazy how much money gets spent on football when there’s people that are starving in the world
38. ...but honestly, once my team steps out onto the pitch and puts everything they have into a game, I think they’re worth every penny.
39. I make up nicknames for players in my teams because it makes me feel like I have some kind of link to them.
40. I wish football wasn’t so competitive sometimes because I’ve lost a lot of friends who just can’t handle how harsh I am about their teams when they play mine.
41. While I’m protective of my teams and will bitch out at anyone who dares say something bad about them, I will never get personal.
42. ...if I think someone is a diver, I’ll say it. However, if I think they’re a clinically insane freak of nature, I’ll bite my tongue. There’s no place for those comments in football.
43. I judge players on their talent on the pitch. Their personal life is of little importance to me as long as they can play the game.
44. I’ve often dreamed of being a WAG but then I realise that I wouldn’t be able to deal with the celebrity status.
45. ...I’d want to be with a footballer because I’m passionate about the sport, not because he’s got the money of the status to keep me in designer clothes for the rest of my life.
46. There was a time in my life when I could list the names and squad numbers of the entire top 10 of the EPL and at least 4 teams in La Liga.
47. Hate it when people use the fact that Liverpool came back from three goals down in the CL final in 2005 as a justification for being fucking deluded and think that they’re now going to go on and win everything.
48. ...and then go on to whine and whine when they inevitably win nothing.
49. At the same time, I get annoyed with fans of other teams who lump every Liverpool fan in the same category of delusion.
50. ...I may be devoted, but I’m not stupid. I’m happy with whatever they win, doesn’t mean I think they’re going to win it all because of one miracle.
51. I failed 3 exams because I got so drunk the night of the 2005 CL final.
52. I spent extra time and PKs of the second leg of the 2007 semi final against Chelsea outside the bar at uni, smoking my way through a box of cigarettes.
53. I was the only Liverpool fan there at the time and had to be dragged away by my friends when a bunch of Chelsea fans told me we were lucky to make the final.
54. ...I’d have handed out a lot of black eyes that evening if I hadn’t been dragged away.
55. Double standards in football fans piss me off.
56. I watch far too much football and far too many teams.
57. ...I need to narrow it down this year because I’m starting to get torn when they play against each other.
58. I follow a lot of players that used to play for my teams but no longer do because I want to remember the good times.
59. Used to post on football forums but hid the fact I was a girl because I was scared that if they knew, they wouldn’t take me seriously.
60. Get frustrated with fans of the England NT who seem to think the team has some god given right to participate in and win every competition going.
61. ...Those fans have made me resent the team.
62. Have a serious issue with people who support an NT they have no link to with no valid reason.
63. ...’so and so is really hot’ does not qualify as a valid reason.
64. Hate international friendlies mid season because my teams are always the ones who suffer and whose players come back from international duty sporting an injury.
65. I am one of those ‘club over country’ types.
66. ...The way I see it, your country only needs you to step up to the plate and perform your best once every 2 years. Your club needs you every year.
67. Sometimes, I am convinced I am too emotionally attached to my teams and the players.
68. I’ve spent over £500 on football shirts so far.
69. If a player is attractive to me but can’t play football for shit, he’s crossed off the list without a second thought.
70. I really wish Rafa B would go back to Valencia, but the thought of him leaving Liverpool fills me with horror.
71. ...maybe he should just be cloned so he can be in two places at once.
72. I miss the Valencia I started watching back in 2001/02.
73. I fall for left wingers all the time. I don’t know why that is.
74. ...I crush on all four of Valencia’s right now.
75. Don’t think I could ever be with somebody who either doesn’t like football or doesn’t support the same teams as me.
76. Find it weird that I’m able to get on with fans of all teams and it never even crosses my mind that they don’t support the same teams as me until our teams play each other.
77. Have been told by numerous people that I’m a really nice person to get along with until football comes up, and then I’m a bitch.
78. My mother gets really annoyed with the fact that football seems to rule my life, but my birthday card from her for my 18th birthday was a football.
79. I think the big 4 in the EPL are slightly overrated at times.
80. ...it’s nothing to do with their footballing ability and everything to do with football politics and finances.
81. I get so nervous before big games, I can’t eat. I just lock myself in my room and ignore everything else until kick off.
82. I never lose faith in my teams, and cheer them on from start to finish.
83. I don’t understand fans who walk out before the final whistle has gone. It doesn’t matter if your team is 5 goals up or 5 goals down, you stay and you cheer until the final whistle.
84. I’ve only gambled once in my life and that was during the Euros 2008.
85. I put a bet on Spain to win the entire competition before any games had even kicked off.
86. ...I then spent every single Spain game falling apart entirely or with my heart in my mouth because I was so scared they’d lose and I’d have to explain to my parents that I gambled and lost.
87. I’ve cancelled dates so I could watch a football game instead.
88. I sometimes think I’d be a better manager than the ones at my teams because their decisions frustrate the fuck out of me occasionally.
89. Transfers drive me absolutely insane at the best of times, but when I get the same old bullshit about how so and so player has signed for so and so team when said player has said he doesn’t want to leave, it really pisses me off more than anything.
90. I got to the stage of wanting to just forget football even existed over the summer and that’s the first time I’ve ever felt so low.
91. I’m argumentative when it comes to football and I’ll use any opportunity I have to prove that there’s more to me that just fangirling.
92. One of my pet hates in football is teams who rely on one player to get them through a game.
93. ....ironically, both of my teams sort of have one of those players. Steven Gerrard gives everything he’s got for Liverpool and when he’s spent, he finds the energy to give that little bit more. There’s been times when I think Valencia simply can’t score unless Dahveed Veeyah is on the pitch.
94. I really don’t see the attraction to certain players, but when they’re on the pitch and their football does the talking, suddenly I seem to understand what all the fuss is about.
95. I wish that we could cut diving out of football, but then when I think of how amusing it is sometimes when players get caught out, I think maybe it’s not so bad after all.
96. Rough tackles, no matter what the consequences, drive me mad. I hate to see players who go for the man, not the ball.
97. I’m sick and tired of seeing Liverpool play Chelsea in the CL. One high scoring game does not mean it’s a good fixture and if I ever have to sit through it again in the CL, I’ll throw a tantrum.
98. I’m more bothered by the fact that Liverpool weren’t able to win against the smaller teams when they didn’t lose to the other ‘big 4’ teams last season than I am by the fact that they didn’t win the title.
99. I have never once used ‘But we’ve won it five times’ as an argument as to why we’re a better team than anybody else you throw at me because I’m like any fan. Winning things feels nice, but I really want #19.
100. The captain’s armband seriously does things for me. As does footballers saying the word ‘puta’. I can’t explain why, but it drives me loopy. In a good way.

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100 things about me. I:

1. Am officially 21, but I act about 12 most of the time.
2. Have 6 tattoos and 6 piercings but I always want more.
3. ...my mother still doesn’t know about the tattoos.
4. Change my hair colour a lot. It’s bad for me, but I get bored easily.
5. Cut my own hair. Nobody else is trusted near it with a sharp object.
6. Wish I could grow my nails without them breaking.
7. Am an only child and I love it.
8. Pierced my ears myself when I was younger.
9. ...Pierced my eyebrow too, but that didn’t last too long.
10. Was born blonde but am now a brunette.

11. Wear glasses most of the time and when I can be bother to poke my eyes out, contacts.
12. Wish I had lighter eyes and have tinted contacts.
13. Am always convinced I’ve put on weight even if I haven’t.
14. ...The scales are not my friend.
15. Hate my nose.
16. Really love bats.
17. ...I wish I could keep one as a pet.
18. ...I’d call it Valencia.
19. Have ridiculously muscular calves. They make my legs look fat.
20. Am so far from a girly girl it’s unreal.
21. Broke my top right front tooth when I was a kid and now I can’t bite properly.
22. Have incredibly sharp canines.
23. ...it sometimes makes me wonder if vampires are real and if I could be one.
24. Have freakishly small feet for my height.
25. Hate talking on the phone, my voice sounds strange.
26. Have a weak immune system and get colds every other week.
27. Am a self confessed caffeine addict.
28. Used to smoke 20 a day until I quit after the Euros last summer.
29. Wear rings on my ring finger to keep the men away.
30. ...it’s a habit I picked up while I was in a relationship and it just stuck.
31. Have an awful memory.
32. Curse like a sailor.
33. Moved away from home when I was 18.
34. ...only to move back again when I was 20.
35. Am ridiculously clumsy, I’m always covered in cuts, bruises or scars.
36. Graduated Business Management with Law this year
37. ...despite never turning up to lectures. Or seminars.
38. Have travelled a lot in my life.
39. ...my favourite places I visited were Valencia and Paris.
40. Can’t eat breakfast. It makes me feel ill if I eat too early in the day.
41. Love animals and take in stray cats when I’m in Bulgaria all the time.
42. Speak 2 languages fluently, another half fluently and am attempting to learn a 4th.
43. ...I can understand a lot more when written.
44. Am a very convincing liar when I want to be.
45. ...it’s got me out of a lot of trouble in the past.
46. Lewis Hamilton drives me fucking insane. He’s not even as good as people like to make out.
47. Have a slight obsession with football.
48. Support two teams and will defend them to the death. Insult them at your peril.
49. Support the Spain NT just because they’re mostly made up of my club teams.
50. Get annoyed when people plaster the ‘fangirl’ stereotype on me.
51. Cried like a baby for about a day when I heard Albiol had signed for RM.
52. Prefer watching live football games but support inconvenient teams to be able to go more often.
53. Go psychotic when I’m watching football.
54. The 2005 CL final was both one of the best and worst moments of my life as a Liverpool fan.
55. Am more protective of Vicente than any other footballer I like.
56. Hate when people assume I am a Valencia fan because of the Davids and that once they go, I’m done supporting.
57. ...Yes, I love them. But I was a fan long before they arrived and I’ll be there long after they leave.
58. Hold grudges for a really long time. Kun still hasn’t been forgiven for cheating Valencia out of a CL place.
59. Own more football shirts than any other item of clothing.
60. Collect souvenir spoons and posters.
61. ...my bedroom walls are covered in Liverpool posters.
62. Have recently developed an obsession with the colour orange and buy things I don’t even need just because they’re orange.
63. Listen to all types of music, but mostly rock.
64. Grew up listening to The Beatles.
65. Listen to music ALL the time and always get yelled at for having my headphones in.
66. My favourite band is still Westlife.
67. ...I think it’s going to be that way until the day I die.
68. Buy too many DVDs for my own good. I can’t help myself.
69. Have watched Paris Hilton’s porn movie.
70. ...I laughed all the way through it.
71. Cry at sad movies, even if I’ve seen them about 50 times before.
72. ...the worst culprits are The Green Mile, Gladiator, The Notebook and Pearl Harbour.
73. Love reading.
74. ...my favourite author is Stephen King.
75. Used to write a lot of poetry. I haven’t written in over two years.
76. Get really bad stage fright but it didn’t stop me performing at my end of year show at school.
77. Get too emotionally attached to things I shouldn’t.
78. ...but I’m a cold hearted bitch when it comes to things I SHOULD care about.
79. Can’t drink certain types of beer, it makes my right arm go numb.
80. Used to drink an awful lot.
81. ...I’m a total lightweight now and even one beer makes me feel lightheaded.
82. Can easily survive on just one meal a day.
83. ...sometimes when I’m lazy, I don’t even make it to one meal.
84. Am annoyed way too easily by the stupidest of things.
85. Am scared of learning to drive because I think I’d get really bad road rage.
86. Have a lot of deep seated issues and people have to be patient as fuck with me because I’m more complicated than I look.
87. Would die if I had to live without my laptop.
88. Could gladly spend all my time online because I found some of my best friends ever on the internetz.
89. Share my bed with about 5 cuddly toys.
90. ...I’ve had one of them since I was about 6. It was twice my size then. Now I’m twice its size.
91. Work in a clothes shop, which is probably not the best of ideas seeing as I spend too much money on clothes and shoes.
92. Have to leave my card at home when I go out somewhere or I’ll end up with no money in my account.
93. Buy shoes all the time because they look pretty, and then never wear them.
94. Have an irrational fear of grasshoppers.
95. ...I scream, cry and throw tantrums if I see one, regardless of whether it’s irl or on the telly.
96. Love Aleskandr Meerkat. He wins at life.
97. Climbed a cliff barefoot this summer.
98. Have fallen in love once and I don’t plan on doing it again for a while yet.
99. Always have my phone with me but rarely answer it.
100. Live in a fantasy world, I find it’s so much better than reality.

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I'm alive!

I really am. I promise. I've just been busy having this thing called a life. I'm not so sure I like it. Anyway, now that footie season is upon us again, I will be back! And most likely bugging the crap out of you in no time at all.

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RIP Frankie

He was the bestest hamster in the world ever and I loved him to pieces. I'm going to miss that fat little lump. No more late night chases around the house when he gets out of his cage. No more eating the bathroom door. No more nosediving off the top of the sofa. *sigh* Can I have him back? I'll strike a deal with someone if I must.

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I want to be a cool kid.

1) Your name : Gina

2) Age : 21

3) Where are you from ? Originally Sofia, lived in London since I was 2.

4) Date of birth: 07/04/88

5) Your hobbies: Erm, watching football, singing, writing, surfing the internetz. The usual.

6) What do you do in your life? This was my final year at uni, I graduate in July, so until I find a job, I am officially a full time lazy bum.

7) Favorite club(s): Valencia CF, Liverpool FC, Spain NT, England NT. Though I like a lot of others too - Sporting Gijon, Sevilla, Villareal, Arsenal, RM (though if I'm honest, not so much lately), Barca, Roma, Atleti (though again, not so much lately), Malaga etc etc.

8) What got you into football? WC'98 and *that* goal.

9) Your favorite current football players: Vicente, Dahveed Veeyah, Steven Gerrard, Fernando Torres. Actually, pretty much every Valencia and Liverpool player, then a few others. Xavi and Santi mainly.

10) Your favorite past football players: Hristo Stoichkov, Paolo Maldini and Zidane. For the skillz, not the teams they played for. I guess players like Sami Hyypia and Ronaldo count even though they're technically still playing.

11) Most memorable game? CL Final 2005. EPIC. FA Cup Final 2006. EPIC. Liverpool 4-1 Man U. EPIC. Valencia 3-0 RM. EPIC. And Valencia 2-2 Barca was also epic because wow, that was so close to being game of the fucking season.

12) What do you think about the Real Madrid situation? I think my thoughts on this are very well known anyway. I have nothing against the players. I have nothing against the fans. But the board fucking SUCKS. Blowing €160 on two attacking players when it's your defence that needs sorting is just sheer idiocy and I cannot comprehend how this is a good thing. For anyone. Kindly keep your filthy rich selves away from MY teams, thank you.

13) Is there a thing you would like to change about your club? If so what? The debt issues. For both.

14) favorite ice cream flavor: Phish Food!

15) Chocolate or Vanilla? Chocolate. Om nom nom.

16) Coke or pepsi? Coke. But I don't like either.

17) Ketchup or mustard? Ketchup.

18) Iker or Pepe Reina? Pepe.

19) Sernando or Sergago? SERNANDO FTW!!!

20) Kickette or dirty tackle? Both.

21) Premier league or la liga? La Liga.

22) Jose or Pep ? Jose.

23) Which player would you like to spend a night with? Only one player? ONLY ONE NIGHT?! Spoilsports. Well, it would be Vicente, wouldn't it.

24) Which three players would you like to be stuck on a desert island with? Marchena - he looks like he could kill some things for food. Chente - Well, I have got to be entertained somehow. Xabi - I quite like his scruff and he speaks English and Spanish so I'd be able to communicate with everyone.

25) Which player do you like that you really shouldn't? Erm...Paul Scholes would qualify for this I guess.

26) Which footballer would you describe yourself as like/relate to/something like that? lol, well I'm going to be predictable here and say Vicente. *shrugs* Even when I know I'm better than someone else, I always come second best. And I get hurt an awful lot.

27) First live concert? LOL. I don't remember. I think it was Westlife.

28) A band you will always love: The Beatles. Legends.

29) If you could be one musical artist who would you be? I dunno. Pink?

30) Favourite and least favourite subjects at school: Favourite - English Lit, I loved writing. Least favourite - PE or RE. We never did the sports I like and RE bored me to sleep.

31) Favourite clothes shop: Primark. LOL. I kid, I kid. Erm, Topshop has cool stuff.

32) Current favourite outfit: Erm...any of my jeans with any of my football shirts. *shrugs* I like to be comfortable.

33) Flats or heels? Flats. I own about 50 pairs of heels and never wear them.

34) Late nights or early mornings? Early mornings? What are those? Late nights FTW.

35) Small social gathering with a few close friends or a wild party with tons of people? Small social gatherings. Unless it was a Kickette party. In which case BRING ON THE PARTY!

36) Facebook or twitter? Twitter. I never use my FB.

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Woohooo!

I am officially done with uni. Until I find out I failed and need to repeat the year, but pft to that... That is all.

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A-Z of Valencia's season

A is for Atletico
Season defining game. Win this and CL football was basically theirs. The future of the club rested on this game. Ok, so I’m over-exaggerating a little, but it was the difference between having CL football and having to make do with the UEFA Cup next season. No, I don’t much care if it’s Europa League now, it’s still the UEFA Cup. Anyway, back to the topic. They needed to win this. Or at the very least, not lose. And unfortunately for them, this season defining game defined them all wrong. Atletico won albeit with a Kun dive. And yes, I am still fucking bitter about that. On the night, Valencia didn’t want it as much as their opponents. Or if they did, they just didn’t show it. The score could have been much more humiliating for them had it not been for Cesar.

B is for Babies
Apparently, this season, the entire team was more concerned with pro-creating than they were with playing football. Vicente, Albiol, Veeyah AND Carleto (probably more of them, some are bound to spawn in secret, like Liverpool) all had/are going to have babies before the year is out. Boys, ILY. But PLEASE, save the babies for the summer, yes? The season is long, and Valencia need all their star players alert. I can’t help but feel daddyhood made Albiol score so many OGs and concede so many PKs this season. She’s mighty cute though, his baby.


C is for Cesar
Words cannot even BEGIN to describe how much I love this man. I will bear his children. However many of them he wants. He was just that good. When Renan got injured midway through the season, I will admit, I was a little nervous. All we had as cover was Guaita, and while he’s a good goalkeeper, with that defence in front of him...I wasn’t confident. Then, when I heard we’d signed Cesar, I was still a little sceptical. My exact thoughts were something like ‘He’s a great goalkeeper, but he’s kinda old. He won’t be that good.’ Oh boy. How wrong was I? He was the difference in SO MANY GAMES. Even after Renan recovered from injury, Unai chose to keep Cesar in goal, which speaks volumes about his importance to the whole team this year. He made crucial saves in many games to save Valencia from total humiliation, and the standout game of the season was against Atletico. He did not deserve to be on the losing side. He was harshly penalised for ‘bringing down’ Kun in the penalty area, but aside from that refereeing fail, he was faultless.

D is for Defence
If you can call them that. I’ll admit it was a damn sight better than what we had last year. But then, after Koeman, it couldn’t really have gotten any worse. There were certain outstanding games. There were also some absolute shockers. Marchena couldn’t go a game without being booked/sent off. Alexis was great up until the injury and when he came back, he was a little shaky. Albiol scored a fair few goals. In the wrong net. He also gave away a fair few PKs. Carleto barely had time to show us what he’s made of. Miguel was alright at the attacking side, not so great at the defence part. Del Horny, Moretti, Maduro – all had average seasons, nothing outstanding. There was one or two pics from the season that summed up the year fully. I’ll just post my fave.


E is for Entertainment
Well, they may have done it the hard way, but they made the UEFA Cup for next season and provided a fair bit of entertainment along the way. Mori with rescuing the cat in training, Alexis with the kung fu on the pitch, Unai with the airplane directions. It’s been a long and painful season for most Valencia fans, but the boys have been there every step of the way to put a smile back on our faces.

F is for Fail
This could sum up a lot of things this season. Failure to make the CL. Failure to pay the players for a significant period of time. Failure to sell the old Mestalla before agreeing to start work on the new one. However, my use of it is specific to referee attitudes towards Valencia this season. Every single referee, there was always a way they screwed the team over. Be it a wrongly called offside, or a wrongly given PK, or even a booking/sending off that shouldn’t even have been a foul. This fail cost Valencia a fair few points this season. Not that it’s an excuse, they should have been able to win games even with the referees and the rest of the footballing world against them. After all, don’t you know it’s just certain teams that are able to pay off a referee. Valencia couldn’t even pay their players, like fuck they can pay off a referee.

G is for goal.com
Clearly, these fuckers have had a major vendetta against the boys all season long. Be it predicting draws or losses for them, reporting that so and so player has agreed a deal with so and so team or covering their debt issues in great detail and basically writing the team off before they’d even got into the swing of things, they were a never-ending source of mockery. I didn’t appreciate their sentiments as I’m sure many other fans did not. And the amount of RM and Barca fans to crawl out of the woodwork on there and comment on how they’re going to steal Veeyah from under our noses was nothing short of pure hilarity. You have your own teams. Go talk about their successes and failures throughout the season and leave my team the fuck alone.

H is for Hate Mail
Well, it’s not mail exactly. But fans sitting around booing the players or booing the manager or even not bothering to turn up at all when the team needed it the most were a major blow to their confidence, and not at all what we as fans like to see in football. Yes the team was underperforming. But that doesn’t give people the right to make such public protests that in the end amounted to nothing anyway. It didn’t have the desired effect of motivating the team, and it just gave the fans that did it a bad name.

I is for Iker butting his nose in
Memo to Mr Casillas. I have an immense amount of respect for you as a footballer. But in the future, kindly keep your mouth shut about matters that don’t concern you. Yes, Veeyah, Silva and Mata deserve to be at a big team, and Valencia ARE a big team. They ARE capable of winning things. Their financial situation this season prevented them from doing so, but money is not the be all and end all of the world. You have money and you weren’t all that fab yourselves... I’d also like to point out Mata CAME from RM. YOU let him go. Your mistake. Don’t be bitter that Valencia reaped the benefits of your mistake.

J is for Justice
Something Valencia didn’t get much of this season. When the deserved to win games but were screwed over by the referees, nobody did a thing, and us poor fans were left distraught at yet another three points dropped when we needed them the most.

K is for Kiss
Something I’d probably do to the entire team. I’m so unbelievably proud of every single one of them. But mostly, it’s to do with their celebrations. Alexis ALWAYS kisses Silva. And then there was the time Joaquin kissed Chente. My head exploded. For real.

L is for Laughter
Well, if we didn’t laugh, we’d probably cry.

M is for Manpiles
Something Valencia CF are famous for. And whoa, can they manpile in style. Goal celebration after goal celebration involved them jumping into the ever growing pile on top of the goalscorer and crushing him somewhere. Oh boy. I want to join those piles. Can Vicente score and I be the first to manpile?


N is for Never losing faith
In the team. In their ability. In the board. Idek, all of these things needed the fans to have blind faith, and we did. And we weren’t disappointed. Although we didn’t make it into the CL, 6th spot is a darn sight better than 10th.

O is for Offside
The number of these I saw called this season. Oh my dear god. I don’t think I can even count that high. And tbh, I’m pretty sure at least a good 40/45% of them were wrongly judged. Still, not something we can change now, right?

P is for Post crazy
So my blog got taken over by Valencia over the course of the season. And various others did too. The Valencia thread on Kickette grew and grew. And we went batshit crazy on twitter. All in all, a rather productive season in terms of posts.

Q is for Questionable decisions
Every single offside that got given against Mata was questionable. Several PK’s given against Valencia were questionable. Don’t get me started on the red cards. *cough* Alexis and Dahveed*cough*

R is for Rehab
Something I will surely need after the rollercoaster ride that is Valencia. And it doesn’t end here. There’s still the summer of speculation to look forward to. Oh joy...

S is for Suspensions
Every time one player came back from a suspension, two more were suspended. It’s like the referees had a vendetta. And the players had anger management issues.

T is for Trying
This is one thing I can say the boys did for the majority of the season. They knew what they needed to do, and they tried their best. The few rough weeks in the middle of the season was their undoing, but seeing as they weren’t being paid at the time, I can’t hold it against them.

U is for Underrated
Players like Pablo and Michel who worked so hard for the team over the season. They may not have made any blindingly obvious contributions like Dahveed’s goals or Cesar’s saves, but these kids provided a much needed boost when certain key members of the team were out through injury or suspension.

V is for Vicente
Well, it’s not like this was EVER going to be a shock to anyone. Yes, Veeyah was probably the most important player we had this season, but don’t ever write off the importance of Vicente to the team. I lost count of the number of games in which he started on the bench, came on with 10 minutes left and turned things around completely. Ok, so the scoreline may not have changed every time, but the team looked boosted in attack and you could sense his hunger for the win. Why Unai did not give him more chances to play is completely beyond me. There isn’t a single player in the current team that will give as much as Vicente does for them. He bleeds Valencia colours. Let him play for fuck’s sake.

W is for What was that?!
It didn’t matter whether we were screaming this at the referee for making yet another questionable decision, the players for missing another easy shot/screwing up on the defending or Unai for making some questionable substitutions, this became the VCF fans’ motto. Well, the ones that I know anyway.

X is for eXclusive! Veeyah has agreed a deal with Man City/RM/Chelsea/delete as appropriate
Yes, the transfer rumours. The ones that have been going all season long. If we were to believe this, then Dahveed has left Valencia about 50 times for various different teams and various sums of money. And each time, it has been reported as an exclusive. And has then proceeded to make said newspaper/website look very idiotic when it didn’t go through.

Y is for YES DAHVEED!
Again, something that I screamed rather a lot this season. Well, he did score 30 goals this season, and I cheered like a loon for every single one of them...

Well, the last one, I’m just going to steal from LS

Z is for Zorio
The first rat to jump ship.

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I want!!!

Terry de Havilland is a genius. That is all.

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Changes to the blog

I've realised that there's an awful lot of Valencia related stuff on here, and not very much else. Now, that's all fine and dandy during the season when there is plenty to rant about, but I don't want the blog turning into my ranting ground over the summer transfer window, so there's going to be some changes. Firstly, I'm going to have to find something other than football to blog on. Secondly, I'm going to have to find the time to blog more, because I've been neglecting the blog a fair bit of late. And finally, for next season, things are going to get a little more serious around here. There's nothing wrong with fangirling, but I kind of miss doing match reports and whatnot. I'm going to make the time to do those every weekend if I can. In the meantime - what do YOU want to see more of on here?

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Valencia playlist

Because these are the songs that describe my relationship with that football team and I'm in a bit of an emo mood of late, I decided to make a playlist. Quick warning - it is long. It is also not very happy. If you want to be happy, then just don't listen.

Songlist in order:
Adele - Make You Feel My Love
Alexander Rybak - Fairytale
Ana Johnsson - Don't Cry For Pain
Annie Lennox - The Saddest Song (I've Got)
Ashlee Simpson - Beautifully Broken
Atreyu - Doomsday
Avril Lavigne - Keep Holding On
Bon Jovi - Nobody's Hero
Brandy - Have You Ever
Bullet For My Valentine - Tears Don't Fall
The Calling - Wherever You Will Go
Chad Kroeger - Hero
Coldplay - Yellow
Dido - Thank You
Evanescence - Lithium
Foo Fighters - Best of You
The Fray - Heaven Forbid
Gary Jules - Mad World
Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends
Hinder - Better Than Me
Incubus - Love Hurts
James Morrison - If You Don't Wanna Love Me
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Kansas - Dust in the Wind
Kristian Leontiou - Shining
Lonestar - Amazed
Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
Natasha Bedingfield - I Bruise Easily
Nelly Furtado - Try
Nickelback - Savin' Me
Papa Roach - Scars
Pet Shop Boys - Numb
Puddle Of Mudd - Blurry
R.E.M - Everybody Hurts
Rod Stewart - I Don't Wanna Talk About It
Savage Garden - Crash And Burn
Simple Plan - Save You
Switchfoot - Dare You To Move
Toni Braxton - Unbreak My Heart
Westlife - Us Against The World

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The twin said so...

1. gina puppy, 2. 14th August 2007 / Day 226, 3. Red Umbrella, 4. Baileys and Dutch Cocoa Mini Cakes, 5. (0597) L'Oceanogràfic (Ciutat de València) País Valencià, 6. 15 giugno 2008: il Lecce torna in Serie A - salento, italia / italy, 7. HELP !, 8. Against the Wind, 9. Symmetry IS beauty...


Rules:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search (http://www.flickr.com/).
b. Using ONLY the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Mosaic Maker. Change rows to 3 and columns to 3 (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php).
d. Save the image and post it!
e. If you’re tagged, reblog and pass it on.

The Questions:

(my answers are in bold)

1. What is your first name? Gina
2. What is your favorite food? Chocolate
3. What is your favorite color? Red
4. Favorite drink? Bailey's
5. Dream vacation? Valencia
6. Favorite hobby? watching football
7. What you want to be when you grow up? Young again
8. What do you love most in life? Myself, haha. I kid, I kid. Freedom
9. One word to describe you? Crazy

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Some day soon...

I will remember that I have a blog. And when I do, I will blog lots. But for now, I am sick of saying the same old stuff about Valencia, transfer rumours piss me off, nothing that fun is hapening in my life and Liverpool...well they just make my heart hurt. I really want this to be their year, and the optimist in me believes they can do it, but the realist in me knows that this is just going to be another year of 'so near, yet so far'. I really need to get a life that doesn't revolve around football.

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