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by **damjan193** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:04 pm

I really hate Barca. They're so full of themselfs, they act like they've invented the game. And they're always bitching about something, always crying to the ref about something even though they never play it fair and can easily be considered as the best divers in the wrold! The football they play is beyond doubt the most attractive on the planet at the momment, but there's more to it in football.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygmGIFz_EP0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2oRXFRl6QE

Now this is a focking red card! poor Xabi...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwPQ0fInwx8&feature=player_embedded

by **stmichael** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:10 pm

damjan193 wrote:I really hate Barca. They're so full of themselfs, they act like they've invented the game. And they're always bitching about something, always crying to the ref about something even though they never play it fair and can easily be considered as the best divers in the wrold! The football they play is beyond doubt the most attractive on the planet at the momment, but there's more to it in football.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygmGIFz_EP0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2oRXFRl6QE

Now this is a focking red card! poor Xabi...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwPQ0fInwx8&feature=player_embedded

Barca p#ss me off a lot of the time. Madrid p#ss me most of the time. Mourinho's a tw@t 24/7.

Pretty much sums up how I feel

by **dawson99** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:14 pm

Real are worse than barca for cheating... but they both suck

by **maypaxvobiscum** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:23 pm

now i know how it feels for opponents to play against me.....apparently, according to my team-mates, i'm the biggest cheat and diver

by **maypaxvobiscum** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:34 pm

Higuian (sp) should have started the game! :angry:

fking Barcelona! such big cheats. Ronaldo and Mourinho are right about how refs favor them. Arsenal, Chelsea, Inter and Real all ended up with 10 men against Barcelona.

by **damjan193** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:34 pm

I dislike Real aswell... but Barca are the team I hate the most right now. I really can't stand them.

by **Scottbot** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 4:36 pm

damjan193 wrote:I dislike Real aswell... but Barca are the team I hate the most right now. I really can't stand them.

All that really matters (surely) is who is most likely to beat the mancs in the final and that has to be Barca.

by **Benny The Noon** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 4:41 pm

Scottbot wrote:
damjan193 wrote:I dislike Real aswell... but Barca are the team I hate the most right now. I really can't stand them.

All that really matters (surely) is who is most likely to beat the mancs in the final and that has to be Barca.

Exactly and the added bonus is Maureen losing

I feel some are letting their love for Maureen cloud everything .

by **dawson99** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:12 pm

Barca play fantastic football. Sure last night was a disgrace but after what they have had to put up with due to Maureen and his plebs i kinda dont blame them.

Cant stand Real, and Maureen is total scum as a person

by **metalhead** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:14 pm

I think both teams were disgraceful yesterday, having said that I feel Real Madrid were hard done by the red card. I've seen worse tackles than this and it was a yellow card at best.

Still funny how Mourinho reacted to it, laughed my @rse off :laugh:

by **metalhead** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:14 pm

Greavesie wrote:

that was one of the funniest moments yesterday :laugh:

by **Benny The Noon** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:20 pm

The red card was Karma for all the awful tackles Pepe got away with in both the league game and cup game .

Disgusting player

by **dawson99** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:22 pm

Benny The Noon wrote:The red card was Karma for all the awful tackles Pepe got away with in both the league game and cup game .

Disgusting player

by **Bad Bob** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 7:32 pm

Nail. On. Head. :nod

Do More People See Through Barca Now?
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I have written often, perhaps too often, about my dislike of Barcelona and especially all her slavering non-Catalan acolytes. I hope, after Wednesday night's semi-final more people can understand why.

I know many of you think this is a football blasphemy and just outright ignorance - you don't need tell me again, I know, I really do, but this alternative view of how great Barce are needs saying.

Quite simply, for most of any game they play where they are well-matched, they are boring to watch. It's true. Yes they can cream up a poor side and score loads of goals but there's no joy in that. Watching a vastly superior side killing a bad one is poor sport and does not prove greatness.

Were it not for the flashes of utter brilliance from Leo Messi too many of their games melt your eyes in tedium. Yes, they can play sublime football - but more usually they don't. More often they fanny around a lot and wait for Messi to do something. He is astonishing, of course, but for f*cks sake...sitting there watching them pass it five times to go sideways by 10 foot is tedium which has somehow become transformed into the virtue of patience.

This doesn't mean I want them to play like Wimbledon on 1988, though it would be more fun if they did, but for Christ's sake, this is nothing to worship so slavishly.

Do their non-Catalan-based admirers not realise that they are chock full of players who are high on the must-punch-in-the-throat league, primarily Dani Alves and Sergio Busquets who are unparalleled in their cheating, whining, diving and feigning.

What they have done so successfully is exploit the outlawing of physicality in football. Ten years ago or more, a defender would give Dani f*cking Alves et al something to hold his f*cking leg about and by God he'd have bloody well deserved it.

Well fair enough, you do what you've got to do to win, I understand it from their point of view, but let's get off our knees and pretend it is somehow a higher art form than the game played by the other mere mortals on planet football.

In tight games they rely on cheating to help them win. Their games are disrupted by endless disputes, fouls, outrageous play-acting and generally unmanly behaviour. To pretend otherwise is delusion. Is this why you love them?

But as annoying as it is, I don't really mind that, I just mind the fact that this is overlooked in all the spittle flecked ranting over their supposed brilliance. And I loath the way that this type of football has been elevated to the status of being the greatest we've ever seen. It simply isn't. It does not regularly entertain except in flashes of stunning brilliance, usually from Messi.

As a neutral who wants to enjoy a game of football, almost every other side in the latter stages of the Champions League has been more entertaining more often and compared to the truly fantastic teams of the past, who played incisive, high-art football, they don't come near enough to deserve the acclaim they regularly get.

The Ajax side of the early 70s, The Inter team of the late 80s, the Manchester United side of the late 90s all properly stirred the blood; all of them were a wonderful mixture of high skill, tactical flexibility and tremendous physicality distributed throughout the side. None of them quite consciously, as a deliberate and pre-planned tactic, cheated on a regular basis - especially in big games - in order to win. Barcelona do. This disqualifies them from any tag of greatness and I won't be told otherwise. No matter how brilliant any of them are individually.

If that's the football you like, fair enough. But I can do without it and, though this is rarely reflected in the media, keen to make them all out to be Superheroes, I'm not alone.

JohnnyNic - Footy365

by **Benny The Noon** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 7:47 pm

The Inter team of the 80's???

Strange one that seeing as we conquered everything in the 80's and certainly would stuff the mancs of the 90's

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