Get over it. Barcelona is way better than you guys as a team, in fact, you've been performing very poorly for the top standard that you think you belong to for a while. Was Robin van Persie's card undeserved? It was twenty times more deserved than a victory for arsenal, both in the home and away game.
God the English football fans leave a bad taste in my mouth. Everyone across the world sees that there's a team that's far better than anything your league has to offer, and suddenly you all band together in hatred against them because heaven forbid anything beat the premier league. Not that the premier league is anything but rugby-lite, anyway. I wonder if Mourinho learned his tactics from you guys kicking everyone into oblivion, since that's what your entire league is known for.
Barcelona is the best team in the world. Madrid knew it and started playing so anti-football to break apart the entire game as a whole, that Barcelona had to react somehow.
They didn't want to either, but Madrid left them no choice. Besides, I'd rather support a team that dives than a team that tries to break people's legs. But maybe that's why you guys in England have players like De Jong in your league, huh? Never been so ashamed to be Dutch as the World cup finale. I bet you all loved that move.
what i don't get is that you acknowledge or assume that this forum is predominantly English and then whinge about them. no-one is forcing you here, you're more than welcome to leave.
Just because English is the language used here does not mean this forum is predominantly English. You aren't English, US citizens aren't English, Canadians aren't English and neither are a ton of European countries just because they speak the language.
This thread is filled with EPL people crying over how Barca dived and cheated and what have you, because the EPL is a much more physical league where heavy fouls go unchecked because that's just the way English football is played. There's also a good amount of people crying crocodile tears over the fact that Barcelona has the referees on their side. You can single me out like the bad guy because I reply in the same aggressive tone to you guys all you like - but perhaps you should look at your own posts first. The rest of Europe generally does not welcome this style of play and is far stricter about what constitutes a yellow card as well as a foul in general. Real played, in the opinion of almost all of Europe, ridiculously vile toward Barca. And not just once, this was the third game in a row where they came in with this intent. Barca tried to play them genuinely twice - and got undeserved results both times.
There's also a good amount of people crying crocodile tears over the fact that Barcelona has the referees on their side. You can single me out like the bad guy because I reply in the same aggressive tone to you guys all you like - but perhaps you should look at your own posts first, because yours was just as aggressive as mine, just more underhanded.
They responded with a strategy to put Madrid in their place. The fact that you guys don't like it because you think Real Madrid played better/less "cheating" football does not mean you're correct. Real Madrid forced this, and if you want to blame anyone, blame them.
On May 03 2011 23:57 AngryLlama wrote: Isn't it fortunate that Alves saw the dangerous tackle coming? Imagine what would have happened if Alves had swung his leg without pulling back... Just because he pulled back at the last second doesn't take away the fact that Pepe made the dangerous play with cleats up.
the rules are clear, if there is no contact it is just a "Dangerous play" and deserves a yellow card, if there is contact it could THEN be called a Serious foul play (a violent foul) and it deserve a red card:
On May 04 2011 00:18 Ayush_SCtoss wrote: I hear Pierluigi Collina is the ref for today's game. Hopefully there won't be any foul play from both sides.
If only. Unfortunately he is retired, however he will be supervising tonight's game for UEFA. Normally this doesn't happen, so I'm guessing this is somewhat of a reaction from UEFA to Madrid's claims.
Oh, I must have misread it lol. No wonder it felt weird having him be a referee >.>
The ref this time is the same gentleman who oversaw 10-man Inter 0-1 Barca last year. I wonder if Mouriinho has a speech prepared ;p.
From BBC: 1831: "Good evening. The game you are about to see is the most stupid, appalling, disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of football, possibly in the history of the game."
K I missed the next bit which was:
1834: Not my words, of course, but those of the quite remarkable David Coleman (who is, appropriately enough, the subject of a tribute programme on BBC Two tonight). He was talking about the infamous 'Battle of Santiago' between Chile and Italy in the 1962 World Cup, but he could easily have been referring to last week's 'Battle of the Bernabeu' between Real Madrid and Barcelona, where football definitely wasn't the winner. Let's just hope they put things right tonight...
Higuain? Interesting. I suppose Higuain might have better workrate than Benzema. But he seems to have slowed down a fair bit having just recovered from layoff of like 4 months...
i hope we can see a real football game instead of diving fouls and unfair play. Of course mourinho is accusing barca from dope, partiality ore a bad ref for there loss.
On May 04 2011 03:11 TonyL2 wrote: From BBC: 1831: "Good evening. The game you are about to see is the most stupid, appalling, disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of football, possibly in the history of the game."
K I missed the next bit which was:
1834: Not my words, of course, but those of the quite remarkable David Coleman (who is, appropriately enough, the subject of a tribute programme on BBC Two tonight). He was talking about the infamous 'Battle of Santiago' between Chile and Italy in the 1962 World Cup, but he could easily have been referring to last week's 'Battle of the Bernabeu' between Real Madrid and Barcelona, where football definitely wasn't the winner. Let's just hope they put things right tonight...
Madrid has come out looking okay, they look like they can score today but the problem is also that they look like they can easily concede aswell, considering the away goal rule, if Barca score 1, Madrid will have score a whooping 4, good luck with that at Nou Camp.
On May 04 2011 03:52 TonyL2 wrote: www.adthenet.tv is working for me
If a manager gets banned are they not even allowed half-time talks?
As far as i know it depends on the rules of the competition, Alex Ferguson got a 5 match ban for calling a ref shit and he had a phone line down to his assistant and went into the dressing room at half time.
On May 04 2011 04:03 Tyree wrote: Madrid has come out looking okay, they look like they can score today but the problem is also that they look like they can easily concede aswell, considering the away goal rule, if Barca score 1, Madrid will have score a whooping 4, good luck with that at Nou Camp.
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