Ten o'clock on a day packed with Champions' League football and there's no thread yet?

Anyway, I can't be bothered with all the bants and anti-bants around that, so instead I'll link to two articles that are worth reading.

The first is John Barnes' take on the Toure/CSKA thing, which has a different perspective to anything else I've read on the matter: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/nov/04/racist-abuse-yaya-toure-john-barnes

And then this. SVEN, THE PLAYA: http://www.theguardian.com/football/shortcuts/2013/nov/04/sven-goran-eriksson-autobiography-five-surprises