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This isn't the first time I've concluded Spanish football to be better in theory than in practice.
Dire game in so many ways.
What a bunch of charmless nerks.
Barcelona, with the exception of Messi, lack something.
The world certainly needs surgeons, but I want to see rock stars.
If a team is claiming to be the best, I want arrogance not conceitedness. Impudence not petulence. Chutzpah not pomposity.
Yes, they pass it well. Probably better and more clinically than any team I've seen.
It's more that they have no swagger to their game.
The great Brazil teams had swagger.
The great Dutch teams had swagger.
The great Ajax, Real Madrid, Milan and United teams had swagger.
Plenty of teams less glamorous had swagger.
Only Messi exhibits this, along with joy, fun, love of playing. The rest of them are almost bureaucratic in the practicing this supposed purists' game. And their cynecism undermines their whole enterprise.
Sure, you could date Claudia Schiffer. She has the beauty, the tits. But you just know that Kate Moss would be the wilder night out.
(*this analogy may be ten/fifteen years out of date. Other models are available)
For all their talk of the beautiful game, Barca lack sexy football.
As for the game, not much to say other than a wrong red card. Plenty of pathetic behaviour from both sides.
Some greatness from Messi and some gamesmanship from his team-mates.
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This isn't the first time I've concluded Spanish football to be better in theory than in practice.
Dire game in so many ways.
What a bunch of charmless nerks.
Barcelona, with the exception of Messi, lack something.
The world certainly needs surgeons, but I want to see rock stars.
If a team is claiming to be the best, I want arrogance not conceitedness. Impudence not petulence. Chutzpah not pomposity.
Yes, they pass it well. Probably better and more clinically than any team I've seen.
It's more that they have no swagger to their game.
The great Brazil teams had swagger.
The great Dutch teams had swagger.
The great Ajax, Real Madrid, Milan and United teams had swagger.
Plenty of teams less glamorous had swagger.
Only Messi exhibits this, along with joy, fun, love of playing. The rest of them are almost bureaucratic in the practicing this supposed purists' game. And their cynecism undermines their whole enterprise.
Sure, you could date Claudia Schiffer. She has the beauty, the tits. But you just know that Kate Moss would be the wilder night out.
(*this analogy may be ten/fifteen years out of date. Other models are available)
For all their talk of the beautiful game, Barca lack sexy football.
As for the game, not much to say other than a wrong red card. Plenty of pathetic behaviour from both sides.
Some greatness from Messi and some gamesmanship from his team-mates.
- dave 4-27-2011 10:30 pm