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Barcelona (Messi included) is a team of diving shithouses. In fact I can't think of worse offenders of the things you listed. That's why for all the beautiful football they play I can't really enjoy watching them. The way they acted in the Clasico despite being utterly dominating was disgraceful.
Too much exaggeration to take seriously. Worst offenders - ever watched Man Utd (rio in the face of refs/terry), divers such as Juventus players/The whole Italian league and players like Fab calling for cards. Holier-than-thou vis-a-vis football describes Wenger perfectly (although he is a nice guy by all accounts). His arrogance and calling out wolves players for tackling hard, not shaking Phil Brown's hand ater the Hull (after Fab reportedly spat) was shocking. He asked his players not to shake hands with Sheff United after they held them to a draw by playing hard-hitting football.
You can't enjoy watching them? I don't really know how to respond to this.
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And I haven't even mentioned their constant talking in the press about players that should join them and their general houlier-than-thou attitude.
This doesn't affect me either. As a city fan it would be slightly hypocritical. Not every player is perfect and I couldn't really defend Balotelli's attitude for instance.
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Arsenal v Barca will be nice game of spot the non-cheater. Can't wait.
As opposed to last year's match which was one of the best performances in history in the champs league by Barca? - I didn't see too much cheating/bad sportsmanship..
Apologies for the tone but you cannot hate/slag off Barca. It's really that simple. My post didn't really demand any footballing knowledge but I can tell you've i've watched almost all their matches as it's part of the job. Anyway, don't feel like an argument (check the christiano ronaldo thread which was fun) so gl!
Btw if anyone is interested (probably not!), I could write a full statistical breakdown of Arsenal Barca which I've been planning - player vs player match-ups, passes, shots on target, goal expectancy etc etc
Last edited by Astyanax; 02-07-2011 at 09:35 PM.