termninja 5,290 Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 What do you expect? From banks for dirt cheap.And of course that is ok, but what Roman does to Chelsea is not ok for UEFA.......Oh but this is Real Madrid, the greatest club in the world with god given right to win every trophy and sign every decent player available I used to love them but now I can't stand them anymore...Barca>Real but overall both are really going on my tits for a while now...Every player's dream to play for Real/Barca. El Classico...Messi vs Ronaldo, Guardiola vs Mourinho...oh just fuck of...They made football boring. Justin_3d, Sheva., Swedish House Mafia and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin_3d 1,140 Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Oh but this is Real Madrid, the greatest club in the world with god given right to win every trophy and sign every decent player available I used to love them but now I can't stand them anymore...Barca>Real but overall both are really going on my tits for a while now...Every player's dream to play for Real/Barca. El Classico...Messi vs Ronaldo, Guardiola vs Mourinho...oh just fuck of...They made football boring.Yeah they have amass too much power that the only way to challenge them is for some rich guy to come and buy a club.If it wasn't for Roman, I think the EPL would have been the same, Arsenal and United amassing power.Thanks to Roman that changed and brought another contender. Now we have another one which is City.I prefer new teams to come and challenge the establish order, then the same teams over and over again where we end up like the Scottish league. Rangers vs Celtic to infinity! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peace. 4,352 Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Mallorca 0 - 1 Barça. No, he didn't score lol, that was Alexis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomCFC 357 Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Barça and Madrid both win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDN Blue 7,903 Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 What do you expect? From banks for dirt cheap.And of course that is ok, but what Roman does to Chelsea is not ok for UEFA.......Exactly. It's things like this that make me so sceptical that Platini will kick out clubs like Real and co. He'd have no problem throwing us out or any English club for that matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike 12,049 Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 La Liga has so much more to offer than Barcelona and Real Madrid. But of course Péréz and Rosell don't want you to that, as far as they're concerned they deserve all the money, all the tv rights, all the media exposure. They are they only clubs in the world.It will be grande days for world football when Valencia win their seventh title, when Atletico de Madrid win their tenth and Athletic Bilabo win their ninth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Valencia lose again. :doh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHOULO19 24,332 Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Watching Zaragoza vs athletico and hoping courtois has a good game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Apparently, Shakira has broken up with Pique! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capriccioso 2,545 Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Exactly. It's things like this that make me so sceptical that Platini will kick out clubs like Real and co. He'd have no problem throwing us out or any English club for that matter.This absolutely disgusts me. The two Spanish clubs owe their government and their people tax money and they don't have to pay a cent!http://www.independe...ll-7576759.htmlIs the whole world bending over backwards to allow them to dominate football and the economics of the EuroZone forever? LDN Blue 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaretta985 131 Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Apparently, Shakira has broken up with Pique!I thought Pep has broken up with him! (because of her!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BosnianLion 232 Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 Anyone see the video of Casillas wiping a booger on a mascot's face before the start of the match?Disgusting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmax 9,219 Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 So fucking true. CHOULO19 and Spike 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin_3d 1,140 Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 All hail the reign of SpainAt a time when Spain's economy is causing global investors to break out into a cold sweat and bark furiously into their phones while wiping caviar off their braces, it is at least comforting that in football terms its stock has never been so high.Thursday night brought formal confirmation, if any were really needed, that the dominant culture pervading football is that of Spain: for the first time in the history of European football, one country provides five of the eight clubs contesting the semi-finals of the continent's two cup competitions.With Barcelona and Real Madrid progressing safely into the final four of the Champions League, and surely destined to meet in the final, Valencia, Athletic Bilbao and Atletico Madrid all did likewise in the Europa League.Atletico Madrid will now face Valencia in the final four, with Athletic Bilbao taking on Sporting Lisbon to ensure an all-Iberian affair. It is the second time in five years that Spain has had three of the four semi-finalists after Osasuna, Espanyol and Sevilla reached this stage in 2007.The goal of the night was even scored by a Spaniard, albeit for a German club as the wonderful Raul finished off a flowing Schalke move with a finish of timeless class to claim his 76th strike in European competition.As Marca put it on Friday morning in a phrase you don't need a degree in Spanish to decipher: 'Dominamos el continente'.Early Doors is not foolish enough to draw any hard and fast conclusions from such a small pool of data - after all, having a 100 per cent strike rate doesn't make David Nugent England's greatest ever striker - and only last year three Portuguese sides made the last four of the Europa League. No one then was confidently declaring the onset of a golden age of Portuguese football.However, spread across two competitions, this occurrence, though possibly coincidental, still provides anecdotal proof for what we all instinctively know: Spanish football is king.All major countries have these periods: most notably Germany and Netherlands in the 1970s, England in the late 1970s and early 1980s and Italy in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and now it is the time for Spain to enjoy the peak of this cyclical process.La Liga possesses indisputably the two best players on the planet and the two best clubs. Its supporting cast - frequently denigrated in the face of such dominance from Barcelona and Madrid - is also of high quality, as the thrilling Basques from Bilbao have demonstrated so memorably in Europe this season.ED knows England is fond of stubbornly declaring itself to have the best league in the world - Andy Gray and Richard Keys basically made a career of it - yet surely even the most blinkered of little Englanders would concede that is no longer the case.Not when England provides as many European quarter-finalists as Cyprus.Not when as team as average as this Manchester United side - torn apart in Europe by Bilbao, lest we forget - can sit atop the Premier League.That tells you all you need to know about those 'best league in the world' claims. They are as empty as ED's wallet after another trip to the newsagent to stock up on Euro 2012 Panini stickers. (Incidentally, does anyone want to take one of five Wesley Sneijders off ED's hands?)This is a more subjective claim, but it also true that Spanish teams play the best football; Barcelona triumph here of course, but Madrid have scored 100 goals in 30 games and Bilbao have also set high aesthetic standards. It is a good time to be a lover of La Liga.The international arena provides ever more evidence of Spain's vice-like grip on the game of football, with Vicente del Bosque's side having a very good chance of becoming the first European country to win three back-to-back major tournaments.Like Total Football and Catenaccio before it, Spain's hegemony has also firmly cemented a new concept in football's cultural lexicon: Tiki-Taka.The success of Xavi, in particular, in making possession into an art form in itself - allied with a growth in statistical and technological insight - has forever changed the way we view and interpret the game.As a young kid watching football, ED can't recall ever being assailed with stats about Bryan Robson's pass completion percentage, or the number of touches Paul Gascoigne had in the opposition penalty area.For better or worse, Barcelona and Spain's brand of football over the past five or so years has resulted in a fetishisation of passing statistics, perhaps to the point of no return. The Big Drog and Spike 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike 12,049 Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 Links, Justin? Or did you write that yourself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Drog 1,110 Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 Great find Justin, I agree with all of it and yes, it is a wonderful time to be a fan of La Liga. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmax 9,219 Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Valdes conceded a penalty but makes amends by saving it. 0-0 still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beirut_Blues 306 Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Barca just ate one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmax 9,219 Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Goalkeeping mistake, 1-1. Puyol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 4,400 Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 So.... it ended 1-4. Next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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