Monday Backpasses: The scene that celebrates itself.

My favorite musical genre of the 90s was shoegaze. Since we have a couple of navel-gazing links here today, I thought it appropriate to add in a video. Buzzsaw of noise, help me out (not for epileptic dogs):



A couple of quick notes before the links.
1) Although we dutifully did the polling and compiling, the power rankings are being pushed back to next week, in part because of
2) We will be doing previews of all of the Champions League Round of 16 ties around lunchtime tomorrow. Well, four tomorrow and four on Wednesday. We look forward to your presence then.

We have been called "snarky cynics". You have no idea how happy that makes some of us [Zidane Fans]
Hey, some soccer fans from Deadspin started a blog. I wonder why no one tried that before? Seriously, good luck fellas (esp. UF commenter Magnaki Haaskivi) [Avoiding the Drop]
Sorry, Landon. We're glad you tried. But with reviews like this, it's obvious you are coming home [Soccer America]

SAF is devious. Perhaps if he had not signaled his intention, it would have worked [The Spoiler]
You know it's a bad day when you concede 9 as a keeper, and are your team's MotM [Daily Mail]
Some Spanish player cuddles up with drag queens. There's video, you figure out what's going on [Off The Post]
If you skip ahead to 3:10, you can see the new gold standard for missed PKs. David Beckham, you are off the hook because of Edson Buddle [101 Great Goals]
Real want Gooch. Not Madrid, mind you, but Betis [Soccer by Ives]
A write up of Seattle Sounders FC first match. XBox Pitch, really? [Seattle Times]
And a reminder, voting opened today [The Hottie World Cup]

Finally:
"Suck it, Barclays!" gets a properly-credited runout on another blog. If they keep this up, I may have to get rid of the Old Firm Fans Are Twats tag [The Offside]