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Barcelona versus the Rest

Qwiss

Public opinion really is fickle isn't it. After their horrible cheating against us and Real everyone hated them but now because they beat a limp United side without needing to resort to cheating they're suddenly football gods again. On their day Barcelona play extremely effective football but when the going gets tough the Catalans get cheating.

Timbob

Well not me. As far as I'm concerned they're the best team I've ever seen, and that's how I've felt about them for some time.

Klaus

Here's some quality reading: http://www.thecatalanconspiracy.com/fabregas/

Xcdude24

So I presume the reason they're trying to sign Rossi is because they want an all Catalan squad? I hate barca more than most of our supporters, but that's a load of crap.

Claudius

Xavi: The situation is a real putada for Fabregas.
I'd like to have such a putada of a life.

Burnwinter

The thing about that timeline is that it definitively shows the Cesc-baiting activity level through the media is far, far lower than this time last year. We've all noticed it. Reckon it confirms Barca's interest has cooled for this summer, or at least that Cesc isn't top priority.

goon

qs! wrote:
Public opinion really is fickle isn't it. After their horrible cheating against us and Real everyone hated them but now because they beat a limp United side without needing to resort to cheating they're suddenly football gods again. On their day Barcelona play extremely effective football but when the going gets tough the Catalans get cheating.

How is that fickle? You could have a cheating whore of an ex girlfriend can still think she's hot.

Famousno10

Bollocks to Barca.

They are good in an era when everyone else is fairly average.

The end up with 800 passes to a match when 750 travel around 3 feet and are utterly pointless.

We were cheated against them in the away leg.

Ajax were better in the 70's and 80's, hell even the scousers were better, even Forset come to think of it.

The invincibles would have pissed them this year.

Claudius

Lol. The Invincibles didn't piss anyone away in Europe, so why would they suddenly beat 'the bestest team ever'?

The passing that Barca do around the halfway line may seem useless at times (I know I've complained about it), but it's actually very effective because it means that the opposition spend the entire game trying to run around to mark men AND close passing lanes. It's draining and dispiriting for the opponent.

Mirth

Caligula wrote:
Lol. The Invincibles didn't piss anyone away in Europe, so why would they suddenly beat 'the bestest team ever'?

Inter Milan send their regards.

Famousno10

Caligula wrote:
Lol. The Invincibles didn't piss anyone away in Europe, so why would they suddenly beat 'the bestest team ever'?

The passing that Barca do around the halfway line may seem useless at times (I know I've complained about it), but it's actually very effective because it means that the opposition spend the entire game trying to run around to mark men AND close passing lanes. It's draining and dispiriting for the opponent.

Bullshit. We hammered Inter for a start, and anyway, I'm talking about that team THEN vs Barca NOW...we'd murder them. Lets face it, we beat them at home and were a Bendtner fuck up and an RVP sending off away from going through away.

Of course, it's all a matter of opinion, or at least, a measure of how most peoples opinion has been brainwashed by the media. I don't really give a fuck. I only really care about Arsenal, even when we're shit.

Claudius

Should've been clearer. We can't talk about beating a team that triumphed 3x in 6 in Europe, when we have never won in Europe, and were their victims on two of the ocassions they won in Europe. That Invincibles group won a couple of domestic titles, had some memmorable games against the likes of Inter, etc, but they never won Europe. To compare that to a team that has an amazing streak in Europe is ludicrous.

I love Arsenal, but not to the point of losing my senses.

Qwiss

We only lost to them twice and both times they were cheating scumbags who had the ref onside.

Claudius

We can't spend all our time talking about being cheated. That excuse only works in isolation. At the end of the day, we need to look internally as well, and wonder why the world's best player cannot finish a simple chance that's been put on a platter for him by Wilshere, and why our Catalan prisoner was busy passing to his Barca friends outside our penatly area in the 48th minute of the first half. The repitition of this type of foolishness is why trophy engravers have forgotten how to spell A-r-s-e-n-a-l.

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