we are all Barcelonese
with the lacklustre play of Arsenal and Ajax nowadays, Valencia's horrible defending undoing all the good work up front, and my praise for Barcelona's football, you may be forgiven for thinking i have switched allegiance.
i haven't.
liking a city does not mean supporting the football team as well.( Munich is the best example)
but all neutrals should stand behind barcelona, because the football Barcelona has been playing is out of this world. only their self-destruction will lose them the la liga. and looking at pep guardiola, i don't see that happening. with mallorca never really believing they can beat barcelona anyway, only sevilla or bilbao stand in barcelona's way for the copa del rey. either way, it will be tricky, but perhaps just 90 minutes will be all that decide if the copa del rey goes to barcelona as well or not. the hardest competition to win would be the champions' league.
if barcelona can reproduce their play in the champions' league, i won't mind them romping to a treble, because they have thoroughly deserved it thus far.
teams come to nou camp already half a goal down.
what will win things for barca this season is guardiola's character. i am most impressed by guardiola. you can say with a team like that, how can you not win? well, they didn't last season. and with barcelona notching win after win, people easily forget that after the first two games of the season, they had only one point and people were calling for guardiola's head.
full credit to him, because he sets high expectations and has refused to get carried away with the team's success. he doesn't talk as if la liga is theirs, as if they have won anything. he finds faults even when they win 3-0. and his players don't shout their mouths off, unlike some idiots we know.
normally, i espouse freedom. but freedom has to come with a responsibility. i feel that what they are doing in barcelona is just being sensible and focussed on the task at hand. telling the press you are going to win everything has nothing to do with freedom; it is simply being naive and immature.
if i were barcelona, i would go all out this season, go all out for the remaining 4 months or so, win everything possible, break every record possible, because if there is a best time to do it, it is this season. you don't know what will happen next season, so don't wait till next season.
i haven't.
liking a city does not mean supporting the football team as well.( Munich is the best example)
but all neutrals should stand behind barcelona, because the football Barcelona has been playing is out of this world. only their self-destruction will lose them the la liga. and looking at pep guardiola, i don't see that happening. with mallorca never really believing they can beat barcelona anyway, only sevilla or bilbao stand in barcelona's way for the copa del rey. either way, it will be tricky, but perhaps just 90 minutes will be all that decide if the copa del rey goes to barcelona as well or not. the hardest competition to win would be the champions' league.
if barcelona can reproduce their play in the champions' league, i won't mind them romping to a treble, because they have thoroughly deserved it thus far.
teams come to nou camp already half a goal down.
what will win things for barca this season is guardiola's character. i am most impressed by guardiola. you can say with a team like that, how can you not win? well, they didn't last season. and with barcelona notching win after win, people easily forget that after the first two games of the season, they had only one point and people were calling for guardiola's head.
full credit to him, because he sets high expectations and has refused to get carried away with the team's success. he doesn't talk as if la liga is theirs, as if they have won anything. he finds faults even when they win 3-0. and his players don't shout their mouths off, unlike some idiots we know.
normally, i espouse freedom. but freedom has to come with a responsibility. i feel that what they are doing in barcelona is just being sensible and focussed on the task at hand. telling the press you are going to win everything has nothing to do with freedom; it is simply being naive and immature.
if i were barcelona, i would go all out this season, go all out for the remaining 4 months or so, win everything possible, break every record possible, because if there is a best time to do it, it is this season. you don't know what will happen next season, so don't wait till next season.
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