Happy Saturday you beautiful people. Spring is arriving, so what could be better than checking in with my bunch of Latin Lunatics?

Last time out my boys went through an unfathomable period of shooting ourselves in the foot. Constantly. We crashed out of both domestic cups and only recently started to claw out way back up the table.

10 points behind Man Utd having played a game more isn’t ideal, but we can only look forwards from now.

I’ve decided goals are a problem at each end. I’ve hired this guy to help keep them out.

Goodbye grey skies, hello blue….

The Fons nicks all three points and tell us to sit on it. Maybe this blog save idea has offically jumped the shark.

At least we have Europe to keep our hopes of a decent season alive. It’s not a classic in the first leg, but I’ll take the draw and an away goal, because back in 2003 I still can.

That’s not the Dunga you are thinking of. This guy is the regen of Aldair I think, not the lead character from Small Soldiers

See how you can get confused?

More dirge against Man Utd in the league. Any hopes of clawing back their lead are undone by the poetic love rat.

I think second place is the best we can aim for now.

Indeed it’ll have to be, because any hopes we have of reaching a succesive Champions League final are over before we’ve even rolled our socks up, courtesy of Clarence.

Giggs loves a 69, doesn’t he?

Just pride and second place to play for now, I finally got my man, but is it 5 seasons too late? I hope he can influence this squad with his importance.

Viktor bloody Ikpeba. I’ve nothing against the guy, it’s just not happy times on LaTyneside at the moment.

My mood is slightly improved by Wolves putting one over Giggs and Man Utd.

Rodney Trotters namesake take a share of the spoils. I just can’t get my head around what I’m doing wrong with these guys. Last season we almost did the quadruple…

Ortega seems to be the only one putting in a shift at the moment, saving us from a Dida inspired defeat to League Cup winners Wolves.

Finally, a win and something to smile about. Julio Geordie has gone to shite this season.

Esnaider remembers last seasons exploits and scores a goal. Shame it’s no more than trying to T-cut your car when you’ve been involved in a multi-car pile up.

Another day, another dire result. If it had not been from our good form earlier in the season, we could have gone from champs to relegation fodder.

Yes, that is ex-Boro striker, Andrew Campbell sinking us with a hat-trick. I bet he enjoyed that.

Even Kluivert scores goals in this save. I’m hoping that with Liverpool winning a european gong, Uefa cup spaces may dribble down the league standings….

It’s an ignamious ending to our league campaign, and if a result could sum up a season, you’d be hard pressed to look further than this one.

7th. Not quite as bad as previous title defences from Leeds and Blackburn but still pretty torrid. We’ll be lucky to face European opposition next season looking at this…

Elsewhere, Monaco lose their crown to Man Utd inside 20 minutes. John Toshack has had quite the season in charge.

Thats Fowler and Kluivert combo seals the FA Cup at the second time of asking

A sad story told. So many renowned strikers, so few goals. Maybe we have too many for too few slots

Ratings wise, well….

Not since Dele Alli have we witnessed such a fall from grace as Julio. He’s still young though

Awards time and not a sniff, which wasn’t a surprise. Maniel Neira is one I discarded, of course.

No retirements in the off season, but I clear out some of the old gaurd anyway. At least it brings in a bit of cash to keep Freddy happy.

I wonder which of these decision will come back to bite me in the ass,

Anyway, that’s all for next week, where I manage to snare another aging Latin legend to try and put us back on top. See you then.