While their style of play does have a strong defensive element to it by keeping the ball so much, it is nice to watch as well and very technical.
They do have Busquets and Alves who are pretty appalling for diving but the rest are no worse than any one else and Messi in particular stays on his feet far more than any other player I've seen receiving the type of treatment he does. They did look bad against Real in the CL first leg... but then they got almost no protection in the two previous matches against Real who a decent ref would have issued several reds to in each game (and in fact the same in the two CL games).... Gods I despise Mourinho, despite his success as a coach he's just a nasty little turd.
They do have Busquets and Alves who are pretty appalling for diving but the rest are no worse than any one else and Messi in particular stays on his feet far more than any other player I've seen receiving the type of treatment he does. They did look bad against Real in the CL first leg... but then they got almost no protection in the two previous matches against Real who a decent ref would have issued several reds to in each game (and in fact the same in the two CL games).... Gods I despise Mourinho, despite his success as a coach he's just a nasty little turd.
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Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Who else despises Barcelona?
- 26/05/2011 01:59:57 AM
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I haven't watched them enough to notice injury faking, but they sure are boring to watch.
- 26/05/2011 04:04:45 AM
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I like 'em
- 26/05/2011 10:22:01 AM
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Oh, and while we have a football thread: anybody else think AC Milan's bosses are idiots?
- 26/05/2011 06:12:51 PM
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