Posted by Rafa

Welcome Supporters,

How's it going everyone? Rafa here. Did you buy your WFD tee shirt yet? If not, then just head on down to worldfootballdaily.com and get yours, stat! Incase you are unaware; I am the Producer of World Football Daily. I will be writing the Kick-About this week. After a good deal of begging and pleading, Kenny and Steven who love to get carried away with it, let me write one for a change. I'll try to keep it short and sweet, but as always, so much to talk about.

First and foremost, I want to thank all those supporters out there who have joined the club. Really, that is what World Football Daily has turned itself into. A bunch of the boys have got together to sit and talk about footy everyday of the week. Hell! Sometimes we meet up on the weekends to throw back a couple pints and take in a good days worth of football in the pub. Look out for the new Pub Sponsor page that will be coming with the redesign of the World Football Daily Network. Currently we have the "wfd.com" and the "wfdpremium.com" websites. We will be combining the two so that all traffic and content will be on the "worldfootballdaily.com" website, meaning premium members will be signed into their accounts at this website now.

Like any other club, we have our perks. Not only are your buying a season ticket to our live show and commercial free pod cast, but you are also getting exclusive content that you really can't find anywhere else. Every week we bring you top quality guests with even better quality football discussion. Whether you are a newbie to the game, or a lifetime supporter, you can always enjoy the conversation.

Think about it. Sure you may have heard Harry Redknapp on TV before, but did you ever hear a 20minute interview with the Tottenham Hotspur Manager where Harry opened up like he did with Steven and Kenny? I am sorry, but no. Where else can you find USMNT and Rangers FC midfielder Maurice Edu sit down for a 25 minutes interview? We even have the "best American outfield player" Landon Donovan on the show regularly now. The quality of the content that WFD brings on a consistent basis is unbelievable compared to the price we ask for membership

To quickly recap last week, let's remember it was the second leg of the Champions League Quarter Finals. The top clubs in Europe, and our supporters get a complete experience to compliment the tournament. We started the week with Phil Schoen (Spanish perspective), Ian Herbert (English perspective), and Kris Voakes (Italian perspective) on Monday, all set to preview the massive mid week fixtures. Nick Szczepanik and the Arseblogger joined the boys on Tuesday to give our audience the build up to one of most talk about fixtures of the year between Arsenal and Barcelona. To use the words of Cohen, "it was an honor for Arsenal to be put to the sword by a team like Barcelona."

Wednesday was a great show for the audience. A fantastic game brings fantastic callers who make it so much fun to interact with on air. But our audience was also lucky to get a 45minute chat with Graham Hunter of Sky Sports. Graham always speaks reverently about the Spanish game, and he breaks down Messi's performance as only a true poet could. Later, we even got Jimmy Conrad of the Kansas City Wizards to give us his opinion on the Argentine wonder. Thursday was just as good with Andy Brassell and Ben Gladwell to cover the French tie and Bayern/United clash. We also had on former Premier League referee Dermot Gallagher to cover all dodgy calls throughout the Champion League Quarter Finals and even the Manchester United and Chelsea fixture from the weekend.

Friday brought the game back to our home soil... in terms of discussion of course. We started the show off with Jack Bell of the New York Times. Then we closed the show with New York Red Bull player, Mike Petke, who was in town to take on Chivas USA. But we used most of Friday to continue to dialogue on the Quarter Final leg of this year Champions League.

Now to the weekend's football.

The major match up this week was on Saturday: with Barcelona traveling to take on Real Madrid. After much emailing back and forth between all the crew at WFD, we can agree that the game wasn't on the same entertainment level as the Arsenal meeting just a few days earlier. But lets think about that. Just a few days before, Lionel Messi... I mean, Barcelona beat one of England's finest (at least, no mugs), and then they go on the road that weekend to take on the Galacticos in Madrid, and come away with a 2-0 El Classico win to top the table of La Liga. Not bad for one week's worth of work.

The other major game to see on Saturday wasn't the Chelsea v. Aston Villa FA Cup match, but the Serie A match up between Fiorentina and Inter Milan. Inter went to Florence and fumbled with a 2-2 draw against Fiorentina, keeping the race for the Scudetto interesting. AS Roma took the top place when they beat Atalanta. As for the FA Cup, you got to say that this weekend had a pretty predictable result on Saturday with Chelsea beating Villa, and a not so predictable result when Portsmouth beat Spurs on Sunday. I must say, that I predicted this on Friday when I took to the mic for The Big Debate.

There were some other big fixtures that help add to the twists and turns that come with the climax of the season ending: United drawing 0-0 at Blackburn, Milan drawing with Catania, and Cassano taking Sampdoria to beat their rivals Genoa. All good games and I am really looking forward to the discussion this week.

As for this week, you can look for WFD to continue to bring you the best correspondents, journalists, players and coaches from around the world. All you need to do is give up the Frappe for one day in the month. Not a bad compromise when you get to talk footy for everyday. Thanks for reading and make sure to tune into WFD all week long for more epic content.