http://i.imgur.com/AcE9F8K.jpg
Illarramendi: "There is a disciplinary code so players avoid doing anything dangerous. It's the first time I've seen a player run with bulls. He has apologised and I don't think he'll do it again".
― Thanks in anticipation of your opinions (nakhchivan), Sunday, 9 March 2014 01:58 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31XjJjdZb-w
messi breaks paulino alcantara's barcelona goals record and is warming up nicely for the season finale and world cupthe lightning fast but slightly dumb tello scores with an impressive finishosasuna's flueorescent tabard-like strip enhances the training session ambience
― nakhchivan, Monday, 17 March 2014 02:04 (ten years ago) link
Kinda assumed (without watching much) that La Liga was broken, but 3 teams in CL quarters and 2 teams in EL quarters ain't too shabby.
Really need Barca to win tmrw for maximum interest in the run-in. Would leave RM behind in the head-to-head vs both Barca and Atleti.
― pandemic, Saturday, 22 March 2014 10:44 (ten years ago) link
this is another ridiculous game
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 23 March 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
neymar diving again
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Sunday, 23 March 2014 21:35 (ten years ago) link
surely the worst game to referee
― ogmor, Sunday, 23 March 2014 21:45 (ten years ago) link
yeah
ronaldo pk was outside the area so it sort of evens out the iniesta one
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 23 March 2014 21:57 (ten years ago) link
the weight on the pass to neymar for the first barcelona penalty was exquisite, ronaldo has been better for the last year because of messi's injuries but the disparity in talent is the same, now he is playing slightly deeper and he is a better #10 than riquelme ever was
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 23 March 2014 22:09 (ten years ago) link
if they play two of pedro neymar and alexis, it is a 4-3-1-2 during significant phases in the game and messi's vision, close control and weight of pass is emphasized (not that this is anything he wasn't capable of in prior seasons)
it takes a special kind of pedant and fitba illiterate to think ronaldo's physicality and directness makes him nearly as dangerous as messi
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 23 March 2014 22:18 (ten years ago) link
also good work to whoever at the liga bbva found mikhail kalatozov to do the tv direction
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 23 March 2014 22:27 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/lOnaYI8.jpg
― nakhchivan, Monday, 24 March 2014 21:54 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/4KfBfkY.jpg
Real Madrid suffered another blow in the title race, falling to consecutive defeats as Carlos Bacca's double saw them lose 2-1 to Sevilla at Wednesday.
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link
another one of colombia's half dozen or so talented centre forwards
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 23:15 (ten years ago) link
valdes crocked, that's barca fucked.
― pandemic, Thursday, 27 March 2014 11:18 (ten years ago) link
significant problem in the champions league, in the league their run-in isn't that difficult apart from that final game
pinto is awful though, surely the worst second goalkeeper at a major team
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 27 March 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
kind of want atleti to win now. not quite a Montpelier situation,but the nearest to definite underdogs.
― Rave Van Donk (jim in glasgow), Friday, 28 March 2014 03:43 (ten years ago) link
don't know what that last sentence was meant to be.nearest thing to an underdog winning la liga maybe
― Rave Van Donk (jim in glasgow), Friday, 28 March 2014 03:45 (ten years ago) link
bilbao vs atleti 1-1 at 50 mins is worth watching
― maxresdefault.jpg (nakhchivan), Saturday, 29 March 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
oh shi-
― Number None, Saturday, 29 March 2014 20:10 (ten years ago) link
ah right, I thought Bilbao were in yellow. Confusing
― Number None, Saturday, 29 March 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
barca betis 1-0 messi pk after alexis shows messi level close control and drops a leg
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 5 April 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
not hugely fond of 34 y/o xavi, messi and iniesta playing at home vs worst team in league before the cl qf
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 5 April 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
2-1, ruben castro takes advantage of typically risible adriano defending
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:26 (ten years ago) link
messi still fucking playing at 70 mins
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
75 mins, granada 1 barca 0
only half watched about 20 mins of this but it's grim viewing from a barca pov
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 April 2014 19:37 (ten years ago) link
and so it finishes
barcelona didn't seem to lack 'passion' or whatever, they just couldn't get past a solid defensive line, liverpool's lightning fast on loan cb tiago illori was creditable and the cameroonian rb nyom whom was brilliant, locked down the right side of defence and at 6'2 nearly outpaced jordi alba over a short sprint, which virtually never happens
everything with barcelona is as cristiano ronaldo used to say, 'polemic' and happens against the backdrop of idiot entitled fans and emotionally incontinent sports-press but i'd like to exculpate
i) tata, who landed his first european job at the last minute and has been dignified and mostly competent
he was outwitted by simeone and he will probably narrowly lose la liga, but neither of those is a disgrace
ii) messi, who for the second year running was tasked with rescuing their entire season as soon as he came back, and who has done that until the last two games -- took them past manchester city, kept their faint hopes in la liga alive with a hat-trick at the bernabeu
no idea what happened to him lately, but he took them to a position they would not otherwise have got to
the whole club has been traduced by cunts and idiots, the rossell administration
i) alienated guardiolaii) tried to neg messiiii) humiliated the club with the corrupt neymar payments disasteriv) mismanaged the squad renewal by (eg) failing to give thiago the contract he deserved and thereby let a gold plated successor to xavi leave for scarcely more than they wasted on the very clearly inadequate alex songiv) may well have given them a two year transfer ban, and even if this is eventually defeated on appeal, they will have to plan for this summer on the presumption that it stands
they urgently need to get their shit together now
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 April 2014 20:17 (ten years ago) link
two /window/ transfer ban
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 April 2014 20:19 (ten years ago) link
gr8 posts. i shall add the simplistic & plebeian notion that should results now proceed as expected, we may be faced with real madrid needing a title-excluded barcelona to get a result against atletico on the last day, and the consequent pressure on barca to not play 11 teenagers
― halber mensch halber keks (imago), Saturday, 12 April 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
hopefully that doesn't happen
atleti would win the title on the penultimate game if they win the rest of them, though they have valencia away and a couple of other tricky games
if not and barca are out of it then they owe it to themselves & everyone else not to be cunts about it, no youth teamers and no transparently shitty play like gerrard's assist to drogba in may 2010
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Sunday, 13 April 2014 00:47 (ten years ago) link
Be fair, that was the purest most genuine shittines on Gerrard's part.
― tsrobodo, Sunday, 13 April 2014 01:05 (ten years ago) link
everything with barcelona is as cristiano ronaldo used to say, 'polemic'
:)
― Number None, Sunday, 13 April 2014 11:47 (ten years ago) link
Furious Barcelona fans surrounded the team's bus and hurled insults when the players arrived back at the Nou Camp following the 1-0 defeat at lowly Granada in La Liga.Full story: Marca
Yeah have at them current champions who have had a rough year and could still win the league.
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 14 April 2014 08:47 (ten years ago) link
should buoy them up for the copa del rey final on weds
― pandemic, Monday, 14 April 2014 09:58 (ten years ago) link
they ranted at messi for supposedly conserving his energy to prepare for the world cup, and racially abused neymar
you can be sure that football supporter logic also holds neymar personally responsible for the irregularities of his transfer, and for not being maradona in his first season in europe
great football players must hate the fans and their inchoerent 'passion', not that they have much to do with them but if messi finds himself approached by people in barca shirts what is he likely to think? fawning sycophancy, aggressive requests for autographs or pictures, unless he has one bad game played on the right wing for the first time in half a decade, in which case he is suddenly a traitor and a disgrace
in spain the worst tendencies of the very worst fans are given license by the general febrile and political atmosphere
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Monday, 14 April 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link
spain is in a state of deep sociopolitical sickness yh
― halber mensch halber keks (imago), Monday, 14 April 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
there is a terrible recession but catalunya and barcelona specifically are probably the worst affected areas of the country, which has intensified the secessionist movement because catalan nationalists take umbrage at subsidizing the rest of spain
it doesn't help that from laporta onwards they have fused the pseudo-collectivist ethnic pride thing with a parallel identity as unicef branded evangelists of the one and only right way to play football, and the mourinho era worsened the tensions between the teams
football supporters don't need any of this superstructural nonsense in order to be cunts though
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Monday, 14 April 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link
/least/ affected
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Monday, 14 April 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
copa de ray final between you know who and you know who else at 830, please may tata obey reason and not play messi or neymar on the right
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 18:05 (ten years ago) link
del
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 18:06 (ten years ago) link
looking frwd to seeing a alex song/mascerano CB pairing tonight seeing as the rest of Barca's CB's are injured. Pedro better fucking start and maybe Alexis too.
― pandemic, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
Ho hum it's the team that played last Weds vs Atleti I think.
― pandemic, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
nothing but scorn for whichever wastemen bought alex song play in order to play at least some of the time at cb
he played there occasionally for arsenal only because he was the only other > 6' tall outfield player they had at the time but it was obvious that his best qualities were never defensive ones, even as a defensive midfielder his most obvious assets were more to do with his playmaking ability than conventional defensive skills
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
Only Barca would buy a DM that didn't like playing DM and wanted to play further frwd and turn him into a CB
― pandemic, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
they underestimated how good seydou keita was, if they wanted to buy a player to do replace everything he brought to the side then they needed to spend more than £15m, and they needed to buy a dedicated centre back as well rather than attempt to buy one good but not great player to do both
not hugely enthused with the prospect of another attempt to buy david luiz in the summer
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
barc bought a dungeon master?
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:35 (ten years ago) link
thought that was offside? shit from pinto
― pandemic, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
is modric now better than the current versions of xavi and iniesta?
― pandemic, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
pinto is a disgrace
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:44 (ten years ago) link
fulham can have david stockdale as a reserve goalkeeper, west ham have jussi jaaskelainen and barcelona have that shithead
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:46 (ten years ago) link
iniesta left neymar right is sort of painful to watch
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link