otfgoon wrote:
Probably not, but I personally don't understand how you can't be excited by challenging the best team on the planet in the biggest footballing competition on the planet.
I'm mainly worried that we're going to be embarrassed. And even if we're not, every time we play Barca they expose our awful, scrappy, technically limited game to the world and make us look more like Stoke than a team with a philosophy to champion exciting and beautiful football. That's our own problem of course; we aren't actually better than this, but it still hits you right in the pride. That's how I feel about it anyway. It's hard to stomach on a personal level.
I'd love it if we beat them again (the Arshavin goal is probably my favourite singular Arsenal moment from the last couple of years) but it's much more likely that we'll end up looking like a team that has no business being among Europe's finest. If we get humiliated here I'm sure the players will just lie down and die in the league too. I'm not looking forward to the damage it'll do to the confidence of an already weak-minded team.
