The Barcelona v Real Madrid thread

[Rudo]

The irony from Adebayor!

"Their manager, fans and the players on the bench are always crying. Barcelona is a fantastic club, fantastic players but they have to stop that."
Emmanuel Adebayor

Real Madrid striker

He's got a point tbf. Barca are a disgrace to the game in terms of the complaining they do, the harassing of the refs, the rolling over, the diving...i dare say their worse than Madrid in that respect.
Certainly had more players that were behaving like utter cunts last night.

[Shaggy]

It's funny as **** watching Real & Mourinho fans bleating about Barca. They can act the cunt constantly (just like Jose's Porto, Chelsea and Inter teams did) but as soon as the other team do it they don't like it one bit.

The biggest feature of the Copa del Rey final was the huge swarm of white shirts all over the referee for every single little decision or tackle. They set the tone there and then. In fact Mourinho did with his laughable pre-match narrative about referees and the pressure he tried to impart on the official that night. They supplemented Mourinho's pressure by swarming all over the ref from the first whistle.

Barca merely responded in kind last night - if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Real should take their medicine for once.

[Rudo]

Lol Barca have done it many a time over the years, whether it be against Madrid or not - they've done it against Arsenal and Chelsea in recent years, can remember it well
- they have a dark side which is often overlooked because they play the best and most exciting football in the modern game.

If they're this 'more than a club' an example for all other teams....why do they feel the need to stoop to big bad Real Madrid's level?

Can't blame Madrid for everything.

[Roboklopp]

Barca...Something Something Darkside...

[Shaggy]

Barca gave them a small dose of their own medicine - Real weren't ready for it, weren't prepared for it and it worked. Bye bye.

[G]

The full contrite bullshot he spouted after the game

"if he (the referee) says that he’s sorry to UEFA, I will end my career today. Why can he not, I ask. Why? How can we have Obrevo, Bussaca, Stark? Why? Every semi-final, it’s the same thing. We are speaking about a FANTASTIC football team. So why is what Obrevo did at Stamford Bridge two years ago necessary? Why what happened against Inter last year? You need a miracle to beat them.

Not let us try and finish the tie when it could have gone on for three hours and ended 0-0? With our strategy we were not going to lose. So why did we? Maybe it’s because advertising Unicef gets you sympathy, maybe having [Spanish Football Federation chief) Villar on UEFA gets you sympathy, or some form of congratulations for being a great football team? I don't know why. All I can do is leave this question and wait to see if there'll be any response.

I should not have to be here, and it should not have been a red card. Let's see if somebody will explain why because I don't understand. A foul, yes, a free to Barcelona and then? Miraculously, a red. So, next week we'll play in Barcelona in the second leg. If we were talking about something difficult in sporting terms, after what happened tonight it's simply impossible. They have to get to final... and they will get to final. Full stop. Why does such a great team need something every time, something so obvious for all to see? Obervo, Bussaca, and now Stark...

Football is a game that should be played with the rules applied equally to all. And at the end, it should be won by the better team, the team that deserves it most. It would have been better today if we'd drawn nil-all, and if in the second leg Barca had beaten us, we would accepted it is 'fair-play'.

Why in a game that was so finely balanced at 0-0, did he [Stark] have to do what he did? Only the referee can answer that one; but he won’t. Last year, at Inter we had a miracle to to progress with 10 men, but another miracle this year simply wasn’t possible.

Yes; Real Madrid is now eliminated from the Champions League. We will go with total pride and respect. At times it disgusts me to live in such a world, to earn my living in this world that is football. We will to to the Camp Nou proudly; without Pepe, who did nothing, with Sergio Ramos, who did nothing wrong, and without a coach… And if, somehow, we go there and score and perhaps open this tie just a little bit- they’ll kill us all over again. We have no chance no matter what we do. Is it because they are better? Is that why they will win? Or…? They should by football, and football alone. So why not? It must taste different to win, and to win fairly.

I know what people felt about that that Chelsea game, what happened to Inter last year, and now I feel it with Madrid this year. It’s not hypocrisy, I am trying to be honest. It’s not a drama to me, I feel too sad and frustrated by what has happened. Tomorrow is another day. All that matters to me now is to go back home, where my wonderful family awaits me.

I’m sure they’re not bad people, so they must have this feeling in them; to know that win in this way has a bitter taste. We beat them last week in the Copa del Rey final. We know what it feels like to win properly, to celebrate with peace of mind, and this is why Real Madrid is a great team.

Yes, I commented on Josep Guardiola’s words afterward freely, but the atmosphere was charged. And Guardiola in turn replied to me freely, with a little bit of politics. I believe that politics should not come into football. But today’s referee was something else!

I’ve won two Champions Leagues; one with Porto, the other with Inter. Both were won ON the field. We won both through had work, struggle and sweat. Guardiola is an exceptional manager, but if I was to win the Champions League the way that he won his, I would be embarrassed. And now, if he wins it this year, the win will be tainted by the scandal of the Bernabéu. I hope that maybe one year he will win a Champions League that will have been totally deserved. I thought that I could address him as ‘tu’… Well, now I see that I’m not allowed to. Okay then. I will call him ‘Señor Josep’. Well Señor Josep, I hope that one day you too will win a clean Champions League, not yet another one sullied by scandals.

He's an utter,utter cunt of a man,with no dignity,no respect and plays ****e moronic football with a squad of players worth hundreds of millions.Even Ronaldo is sick of it which is hilarious.Great to see the 2 of them get some nice come uppence

Special one my arse.

I would never want that cunt anywhere near LFC




waits for somebody to say "yeah but he's a winner"

http://backpagefootball.com/europe/exclusive-jose-mourinhos-translated-interview/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[Rudo]

[elrichio86]

Peek-a-boo!

[Craig_H]

[Shaggy]

That was ridiculous and hilarious ...he's one of the biggest cheats going. Which is crazy, the lad's a Rolls Royce of a footballer.

[S-RED]

http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-co...axefo1_500.jpg

Whilst i agree it's a bit farcical; are you pretending that none of the special one's players have ever done this........... Drogba, Robben, Ronaldo, Di Maria, half the Porto team, half the inter team, half the current side, etc, etc.

[PTP]

Barca...Something Something Darkside...

[Rudo]

Whilst i agree it's a bit farcical; are you pretending that none of the special one's players have ever done this........... Drogba, Robben, Ronaldo, Di Maria, half the Porto team, half the inter team, half the current side, etc, etc.

I don't think i am, no.

That pic was taken against Inter last season btw. Suppose Mourinho was Inter manager at the time and he made Busquets do it.

[Shaggy]

Real Madrid v Barcelona: the curse of Jose Mourinho strikes again

He strutted away from the technical area, banished to the stands, but still could not resist milking his own disgrace. He disappeared haughtily, after offering sarcastic applause to the officials as if somehow he ought to be the aggrieved party.


By Ian Chadband, Chief Sports Correspondent 10:00PM BST 27 Apr 2011
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And when Jose Mourinho finally disappeared into the night, it was a pity because we could not see how he then reacted on the evening when he was well and truly hoisted by his own ugly petard, the evening when his cynicism and mind games meant Real backfired like a spluttering second-hand Robin Reliant, the evening when, frankly, the Special One got found out.

We could not see his reaction to Lionel Messi’s genius, his response to the realisation that, even with the riches of Croesus at his disposal, he could not fashion a team remotely in the same league as this magnificent Barcelona side.

Ah, but we could hear his whines and they were empty. He was, he reckoned, disgusted at the world we live in. Of course, no mention of any disgust about his own polecat approach to the football world we live in. “The Scandal of the Bernabeu” he called it, though the real scandal was his tactical approach.

So, oddly, amid all the scuffling and diving and ugliness and post-match recriminations scarring what should have been an occasion to treasure, was it not time to celebrate a victory for football here? Beauty downed beastliness this time. Excellent.

And to think the Madridistas had praised Mourinho to the heavens all night. “Puto Amo” they sang raucously, reprising Pep Guardiola’s sarcastic comment 24 hours earlier that the Special One is “the ------- boss”.

Well, he did prove himself the “------- boss”. In this quite wretched third chapter of football’s most hyped tetralogy, he proved himself the boss of cynicism, the chief of stifling and strangulation, the Prince of risk aversion.

Yes, it had to be all about him, him, him again. We knew he would once again moan to the high heavens about Real being reduced to 10 men for the fourth time this season against Barca. We knew he would somehow absurdly try to take the moral high ground after Pepe’s dismissal.

Yet does the man ever ask himself why so many games involving his sides degenerate? Because Mourinho knows the only way to beat them is to smack them out of their princely stride.

He failed to dare and deserved to fail. Zillions of pounds worth of talent to play with and he sets them up to spoil, not enchant. Thanks to Mourinho, instead of the beautiful game of fond imagination, we got a street fight instead.

So we had Lassana Diarra all over Messi like a cheap suit and we got Emmanuel Adebayor’s swinging elbows - Real were lucky they did not end up with just nine - and Sergio Ramos and Pepe niggling away at anything that moved.

Okay, Barca were hardly angels. Pedro feigning serious injury under an innocuous Alvaro Arbeloa challenge was a fairly dismaying example of the diving and absurd theatrics.

But when it all ended in an almighty melee at half-time, and Barca’s substitute keeper Pinto ended up being the one sent off for slapping Arbeloa, Mourinho’s aggravating fingerprints were all over it.

For make no mistake. Only one man was responsible for setting the agenda for a poisonous Clasico with his unworthy wind ups of Guardiola the previous day.

The game was just as dismal as the prelude with most of the attractive, ambitious fare being conjured by Barca, making the neutral yearn for Guardiola to have his day.

And what a day for Pep. It was easy to believe he had lost the plot with his eyeballs out response to Mourinho’s barbs 24 hours earlier but, in fact, the Real boss had only fired up his counterpart and hardened Barca’s resolve to this time make the supremacy they had displayed during large chunks of the previous two Clasicos properly count.

You sensed even Cristiano Ronaldo, Real’s most positive influence, was as frustrated as hell with the approach, at one point barking petulantly at teammates as he stood helplessly like piggy in the middle while three Barca players passed the ball around him in a teasing triangle. He needed attacking support but Mourinho had eschewed the idea.

The real ‘puto amo’ out there? Little Xavi Hernandez was the man, being his usual dazzling puppeteer self. And then there was Messi, whose killer second was the sort of masterpiece only he can paint. Astonishingly, again and again.

But football deserved something so much better. Even Spain’s World Cup-winning coach, the former Real manager Vicente del Bosque has been left wondering aloud whether the atmosphere surrounding the matches is now becoming so poisonous that it might “seep into the international team dressing room”. Well, blame it on Portugal.

And there is the ultimate sadness. Mourinho is a great coach, we all know. He is the nearest thing to a winning machine the game has seen. He is colourful, endlessly interesting. Yet as the likes of Johan Cruyff and even Real’s own great Alfredo di Stefano have not been shy in telling us, winning at all costs isn’t everything.

So let’s now look forward to a Barcelona-Manchester United final, a final Wembley will cherish. And if Mr Mourinho, a destroyer more than an inventor, is not there, well we can probably do without him.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/champions-league/8477846/Real-Madrid-v-Barcelona-the-curse-of-Jose-Mourinho-strikes-again.html

[Vermilion]

Pity he did'nt save some of his disgust for the Madrid fans who constantly made monkey chants at Danny Alves!

Maureen is a ****in joke when he behaves like this, lets himslef down so badly.