The Barcelona v Real Madrid thread

[Neil Young]

Barcelona seem to be UEFA's golden boys, I'd be very surprised if any action took place.

[ronanm]

Mourinho is anti-football. Hope they get hammered again tonight. All Mourinho can hope for is some of the Barca players don't play in the final, which will prob be the theme of his pre-match talk.

[Imy]

Yeah i know that was very Mourinho-esque

[lfcred]

Kennys words sum the whole thing up!!! Great article!! Real and Mourhino are a disgrace!! I think there aim tonight will be to go out and injure as many of the players as possible! The club manager or players dont have any dignity and I they wont be able to take another Barcelona battering!! Wouldnt be surprised to see 3/4 players sent off!!! I only hope that Barca dont try and play act to make this happen because it would happen anyway!!

[Chazza]

Managers queuing up to put the boot into Jose

Hitzfeld - Jose an arrogant boor

Ottmar Hitzfeld has accused Jose Mourinho of damaging the reputation of Real Madrid with his tactics against Barcelona.

The Switzerland boss, like Mourinho, is one of only three managers to win the European Cup with two different clubs, launched a stinging attack on the Portuguese.

The respected veteran tactician hit out at the negative football and gamesmanship employed by the Spanish giants as they suffered a 2-0 home defeat at the hands of Barca in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League semi-final.

Pep Guardiola's side are now strong favourites to reach the Wembley final on 28th May ahead of Tuesday night's second leg at Camp Nou.

"Luckily, Mourinho's destructive tactics, aimed solely at provoking and destroying the opponents' gameplan, did not work (in the first leg)," he told German magazine Kicker.

"Such a way of playing does not relate to the demands of Real. It's really shameful for Real Madrid. It harms the good name and image of this legendary club.

"I've met him at UEFA meetings and his behaviour is faithful to his image: arrogant, haughty, chewing gum and somewhat of a boor.

"Barca should make him pay on the pitch."

Hitzfeld won the trophy with both Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund. Ernst Happel and Mourinho are the only others to achieve the feat.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...910166,00.html

[Reece]

[Shaggy]

JamesHorncastle James Horncastle
PSG legend Daniel Bravo stokes #clasico fire: "Eto'o told me Guardiola is better than Mourinho on a tactical level."

[pondus]

But, but, he's the special one! Everybody is against him!!!

Oh well, at least he is a great translator

[Craig_H]

Busquets is an absolute disgrace and should be banned for that. It's clear. What is it with racism in Spain?

I might be being stupid here, but does he actually say the word 'monkey' there? It seemed like it, but i couldnt be certain.

And if so, it begs the question (and i'm in no way denying that he said it), why would he say it in english and not spanish? Marcelo speaks spanish so he'd understand it in spanish.

Seems a bit odd.

[Reece]

Apparently he says "Mono", which is Spanish for monkey.

[Craig_H]

Ah i see, makes sense now. ****ing disgraceful, it's bad enough when there's cavemen ****s in the crowd doing it, now we have players doing the same

I'd love to see a serious example made of him, something like a 12 game ban or the like.

Thing is though, if Uefa ban people for this and it stops the racism, it'll stop because people dont want a ban, not because they realise it's wrong.

Education is the key here.

[Shaggy]

Yeah as Reece said, he clearly says 'mono'.

[Craig_H]

In Spanish, 'mono' can also mean cute....

[Shaggy]

[PTP]

don't we have a member on here called Mono? *banned*