I’ll go a step further with this rant, and yes, I’m fully aware that it’s a rant. 21st century Barcelona are killing football. They’re single handedly turning it into the non contact sport that every supporter who was around in the 90’s feared – wonderful players like Vincent Kompany and Robin Van Persie are being sent off for challenges that wouldn’t even have been yellow cards 10 years ago because FIFA/UEFA’s anointed team of footballer-gods are not happy with being tackled. Football is becoming dull and anaesthetised because one team in particular doesn’t appear to like being tackled.
Oh, and the snobbish, pathetic, legion of plastic ‘supporters’, who only inhabit cyberspace, boring everyone senseless with their tactical analysis of their recently found favourite team’s play.
If I hear the words ‘false nine’ again from a halfwitted fifteen year old who has never actually seen a live game and only ever watched highlights on ITV 2 of Barcelona beating FC Vitoria Plzen 58 – 0 on aggregate, I think I might set fire to my own eardrums and purposely deafen myself, then blind myself by poking my retinas with a specially sharpened effigy of Jose Mourinho.
These kids know nothing more about tactics than what they have gleaned from the latest release of Football Manager. They know nothing more about football than the average 6 year old in 1983 with a Panini collection. They need to stop. Whenever anyone dares to question ‘their team’, they scream of a conspiracy by Madrid, or accuse anyone who disagrees with them of being footballing atavists.
They are the 21st Century equivalent of the KOMSOMOL, refusing to see anything from the point of view of anyone else, because THEY ARE RIGHT AND EVERYONE ELSE IS WRONG AND SWEET JESUS, LIONEL CANNOT POSSIBLY DIVE BECAUSE HE’S RATED AT 94 ON FIFA 12.
So I’ll finish this mini tirade by saying this. Screw you Andres Iniesta, screw you Xavi Hernandes, screw you Lionel Messi. You’re ruining football. Man up and take a tackle, look forward before looking sideways, shoot from 25 yards. You don’t have to walk the ball into the net. You don’t have to cheat to win. Just play football like it was meant to be played. It’s not difficult.
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Bloody mourinhista, madridista, penaltista, franco kisser, frustrated english rubbish fan! What a load of faecal drivel, go to the loo you crappy joke of a writer. Ashamed to name the team you support, fool! What a waste of space!
This is one of the many issues with this “great” Barcelona side. The question is, when will Barcelona win a CL without any controversy? The Del Horno/Messi case of 2006 CL edition, the Ovrado controversy of 2009 @ Stamford Bridge, then the controversial sending off of Van Parse @ Nou Camp. I totally agree with you that Barcelona is yet to win the trophy “Clean”.
U are a very foolish writer who is unworthy of emulation. Get out!
What a load of rubbish. Just one of the haters being jealous of the mighty FCB. Why dont you do the world a favour & ******,instead of stooping so low, you idiot!
Visca FCB, The Greatest Of All Time!!!
“So I’ll finish this mini tirade by saying this. Screw you Andres Iniesta, screw you Xavi Hernandes, screw you Lionel Messi. You’re ruining football. Man up and take a tackle, look forward before looking sideways, shoot from 25 yards. You don’t have to walk the ball into the net. You don’t have to cheat to win. Just play football like it was meant to be played. It’s not difficult.”
What a envious piece of jealous English scum. So you want Barca to play like the English and win F**K all. Why don’t you write about the diving Ronaldo, Di Maria, Marcelo, Pepe, Ramos and Real Madrid. Or divers like Drogba, Molouda and Chelsea.
Rubbish. Just absolute rubbish.
jealousy,jealousy,jealousy,in life there will always be haters like this writter no matter how good u are
This piece is hilarious, so congrats to the author for that! & for having the considerable cojones to put it out there.. But as a very hurt, profoundly disgusted & deeply unforgiving Chelsea fan, I have to say “Balderdash” mate; for aside from their regular, unsavoury, unseemly & extremely unedifying spats with their arch-nemeses Real Madrid, which seem invariably to degenerate into farce & scandalous, shameful fraudulism, Barcelona are unequivocally football’s equivalent of a wet dream: probably the only team on the planet more diverting, entertaining & fun to watch than their own WAGs in their skimpies!!!
Why was this useless person employed to write rubbish.if u prefer the english type of wrestling football so be it but dont try to pass your unfortunate coments on the type of football that has been found after been lost for so long.you are just a piece of menstrual pad. Useless man.
If you want to talk about referees in the 2009 tie, you should add Barcelona deserved a penalty (on Henry) in the first leg and Ballack a second yellow, so with normal refereeing, Barcelona would have gone to Stamford Bridge with 1-0 against a Chelsea withtout ballack, which would have given another game. Second, all penalties Chelsea claim in that game certainly weren’t 100% penalties. Barcelona also deserved a penalty when it was 0-0 (handball Ballack, if we’re not wrong) and the red card of Abidal was a dive from Anelka.
Going back further, you can’t forget Collina (Mourinho’s favourite referee as he had said a week earlier) handed Chelsea the qualification for the quarter-finals in 2005, when he overlooked Carvalho ridiculously holding back Valdes on his line when Terry headed in the 4-2.
So in general, you win some, you lose some, saying referees favour Barcelona in the Champions League cannot be backed up if you look at it neutrally.
no wonder england does not win anything.you really think barca game is boring and you are aroused by kick and rush football.
idioooot!!!!
after harsh tackle from del horno messi is injured for the rest of the season and you are saying he dive???
morooooon!!!!
did ur mother by any chance ran away with a barcelona player!!!