I'm not sure if they were ever the good guys, possibly for a brief spell when Mourinho was at Madrid. They were always unbearably sanctimonious and I remember lots of cynicism, but I suppose that's just football.It doesn’t seem like all that long ago when Barca were seen as the good guys of world football. Less than 15 years maybe.
****ing hell being reminded of this has ruined my afternoonthat time Van Persie was sent off at the Nou Camp was massively dire (probably not as dire as the reffing in the Barca Chelsea game that caused the Drogba meltdown mind you, but at least Chelsea getting dicked over is always funny in itself)
but the real lingering direness in that game that I remember was Bendtner missing an open goal in the last minute the bloody idiot
would have been enough to put Arsenal through in spite of all the reffing ****housery ffs
Haha you know, it’s mainly from a debate with you many moons back about Barca that it stuck in my mind that people saw them as the good guysI'm not sure if they were ever the good guys, possibly for a brief spell when Mourinho was at Madrid. They were always unbearably sanctimonious and I remember lots of cynicism, but I suppose that's just football.
I would have supported them over all of the other clubs of their size (United aside obvs) but I didn't feel like that was the case for most people. They pissed off a lot of different fan groups independently with some, uh, poorly-officiated CL wins. Now I'm as happy as anyone to see them crash and burn.
Barcelona finished that game with 10 men.(probably not as dire as the reffing in the Barca Chelsea game that caused the Drogba meltdown mind you, but at least Chelsea getting dicked over is always funny in itself)
The anti-galacticos if I remember correctlyFrom memory, I think a lot of that is down to them being perceived as the antidote to super evil Real Madrid in the Rijkard and early Pep days
But they then lived long enough to become the villian
But Jurgen told us the problem was the oil clubs ???I'm sure they'll inexplicably be able to spend £200m in the January window.
Let him prove he can play out from the bacjAm I missing something? Why is the fact that de Gea isn't in Spain's preliminary World Cup squad news?
That's my point. The news he's not in the provisional squad isn't a surprise.Hasn’t he been a bit crap?
Yeah predictably awful.Who the hell thought Fulham v Everton was a match worth showing?