Copa Del Rey Second Leg - El Classico - Camp Nou 25th January

Great article here..
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/andy-mitten/why-madrid-fans-remain-restless-201100565.html#more-id

Des wrote: »

I hope Madrid win. By any means necessary.

They will try...


Can't stand the thuggery of Madrid and Mou when compared to the class of Barca and Pep.

Quote fro Pep when quizzed last night about his thoughts on Pepe and Madrids robust approach "“Since I was a boy, I was taught that if there is kicking in a match, it’s because you are playing too slowly. We have to play fast to avoid contact,” Guardiola said. “Let’s leave Pepe alone. He’ll play if Mourinho so decides. Let’s hope for a beautiful game. You have to forget the past.”
Legend

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

They are equally classless, you just can't process that fact for whatever reason.

Nah mate you really have to stop thinking you know Barca when clearly you don't. Watching 10-12 of their games through-out a season doesn't give you the right to come onto these classico threads and call Barca what you like. Well actually, sorry you do have the right. But by only using diving as an example your looking hideously bitter.

Fact of the matter is, Barca beat most teams comfortably, and that's because most teams do not go out to kick Barca off the pitch, they come to play football and obey the laws of the game.

When Madrid come out and start kicking out, Barca dive.. We've been through this a million and one times. Diving is not some thing we see from Barca week in week out, it's almost only in games against a Mou ran team (Chelsea back 4 or 5 years ago, then Inter and now Madrid)

I remember all this talk going on before the United game last may.. Then Barca went out and spent the game playing pure class football and all they haters and nay-sayers seemed to vanish.

Both clubs bring out the worst in each other, but Madrid as a footballing institution, it is starting to become nothing more than a cauldron of jealousy towards Barca and the world, heck even their own fans have started to acknowledge the errors in their ways with Pepe and Ronaldo coming under some heavy criticism over the past few weeks.

Oh and @ Lloyd did you read the quote at the end of that from Pep? Can you honestly tell me that Mou, or Madrid have have the self respect, modesty or integrity Guardiola has? NOT A CHANCE

Any way, I am going to ask everyone to keep this about the game, possible line outs, score etc.

Lets leave the prejudice any one may have out... until after the game at least

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

And when they dive, they lose all pretensions of class.

How about their pursuit of Fabregas? Classy bunch all told.

Ah come on now this again.. really? grave digging much?
Cesc wanted to leave Arsenal, and Arsenal would not budge. Barca added pressure, by a few bizzare statements and moments from close friends of Cesc's, who indeed done the Barca colours. But what I find ironic about it all is just how happy Cesc is now at Barca. You could see it from his first match in the Barca colours, he is now where he wants to be. Surrounded by the friends he grew up with, in his home city. Not stranded in a London club that's gone from the sublime to the ridiculous in a few short seasons.

And as for the diving, do you read my post? do you read any body elses but your own? I have accepted that it is a problem with Barcelona, with some players more than others. But it goes on every where in the sport mate. And as I have tried to make clear.. Barca never roll around the way they do against Madrid, against any other team! Hence we are back to whole Madrid approach to the game. Did you see the second leg of the super cupa last August? Up until the 78th minute Madrid had come to play football, they did superbly and the game was unreal! As soon as they started kicking out the game descended into the type of classico we have come to know.

In a nut shell it comes down to this, the Classicos were always a heated affair, but since Mou has arrived he has really taken the biscuit.