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la liga three-way title race.

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Reyes is good but he is a thug. He should have been sent off after a stupid tackle and then he purposfully stood on another the kid is bad news.

Still glad Madrid won though. Good send off for Becks and his kids.
 
Rocky Top Blue Mike said:
Reyes is good but he is a thug. He should have been sent off after a stupid tackle and then he purposfully stood on another the kid is bad news.

Still glad Madrid won though. Good send off for Becks and his kids.
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Reyes, A thug??? He is about 4 stone pissed wet through.



I understand what you mean though mate. ;) ;)
 
It is Real Madrid who are over-rated. The amount of money and talent spent on the team means they should win the title 6 times EVERY season (I know that's not possible ok). In addition to all that Bruce pointed out. I just generally dislike them. Barca have made it the hard way. Sure they didn't live up to their promise this year, but they are still more of a team than Real are.

Then there is the matter of the shirt sponsor. Barca don't have one and then decide to give up that tradition to give a CHARITY the primo advertising space for free. That says a lot in my book.
 
i think reyes is good, i havnt seen him in detail, but looking at some compilaitons of him he seems to be great...

So is he a worse diver than gerrard?
 

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It is Real Madrid who are over-rated. The amount of money and talent spent on the team means they should win the title 6 times EVERY season (I know that's not possible ok). In addition to all that Bruce pointed out. I just generally dislike them. Barca have made it the hard way. Sure they didn't live up to their promise this year, but they are still more of a team than Real are.

Then there is the matter of the shirt sponsor. Barca don't have one and then decide to give up that tradition to give a CHARITY the primo advertising space for free. That says a lot in my book.
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Exactly, they have a class that Real will never have if they try for 100 years. As the saying goes, Barca are more than a club.
 
ahhh whats all this about barca, come on guys!

I bet that charity sponsor thing brought in loads of money, business is business and barca and football is all business.

Gratz to madrid for winning the title, half way through the season it looked like barca would walk it.
Thing about barca is they are starting to turn into galacticos themselves, players like ronaldinho and messi are starting to believe their own hype and not playing as a team but as individuals.
 
You should have seen them last night Rob. Sure they were playing the bottom team but they destroyed them. I think their posession stats were something like 70%. You simpy don't get that unless you have exceptional team work because keeping posession is all about movement off the ball. Sure in the final third the likes of Messi and Ronaldinho run riot but that's where you want them to do their stuff.

Personally I would love Everton to get to that kind of position.

100,000 stadium, complete with tradition and history - check
Owned by the fans - check
One of the best youth systems in the world - check
Capable of signing the best players in the world - check
Play arguably the most attractive football in the world - check
 
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You should have seen them last night Rob. Sure they were playing the bottom team but they destroyed them. I think their posession stats were something like 70%. You simpy don't get that unless you have exceptional team work because keeping posession is all about movement off the ball. Sure in the final third the likes of Messi and Ronaldinho run riot but that's where you want them to do their stuff.

Personally I would love Everton to get to that kind of position.

100,000 stadium, complete with tradition and history - check
Owned by the fans - check
One of the best youth systems in the world - check
Capable of signing the best players in the world - check
Play arguably the most attractive football in the world - check
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but bruce, you can say that bout any of the top 4 teams in England, ok not for the 100k stadiums but that won't be long coming.

I'll be honest, I don't know alot about barca, when you say owned by the fans what do you mean? do the fans send a hat round to buy a new player?
 
oh, and lets mix in some childish logic.

the [Poor language removed] beat barca in the CL, and we beat the [Poor language removed] (over 2 legs if you see what I mean) in the PL.

Therefore, we are better than barcelona. :D
 

The club have around 100,000 members. Every four years those members vote for a chairman and a board who then run the club for the following four years. Those members have a distinct voice and say in how the club is run.

It's perhaps also worth noting that the club also run teams in other sports. Winterthur FCB (From 2007/8 AXA-Winterthur FCB), FC Barcelona, FC Barcelona Futsal and FC Barcelona Sorli Discau that compete at basketball, handball, futsal and rink hockey respectively.

There are also a number of prominent amateur sports teams that compete at rugby union, women's basketball, women's football and wheelchair basketball. These include FCB Rugby, UB-Barça and FC Barcelona-Institut Guttman. Other amateur teams represent the club at ice hockey, athletics, baseball, cycling, field hockey, figure skating, and volleyball.

Back in the day Sir John Hall tried to build something similar at Newcastle with rugby teams, basketball, ice hockey etc. all under the Newcastle brand but it never took off there so it's testament to Barca I think that they have made such a success of them all.

Jimmy Burns has written a decent overview of the history of the club http://www.amazon.co.uk/Barca-Peopl...6649233?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182164898&sr=8-1 only a couple of quid if anyone fancied an interesting read.

On comparisons with the leading clubs in this country I think only Man Utd are of the same scale and they too are a club who's management over the past 20 years I have much admired. Arsenal have established a style and identity under Wenger that will no doubt make Gooners proud of the club. The other two are nothing imo.
 
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Good post.

So, the fans kinda appoint a board which then gets all the money deals done and hires a manager to buy the players?

So, lets talk about the list of things you mentioned and compare them to Everton, a new stadium seems to be a dead cert now only a matter of time, so thats a check.
Owned by the fans? well, we are partly owned by A fan (kenwright)

best youth system in the world? hardly, but we do produce good solid PL standard youngsters every now and then, new training facilities are being built as is youth academy I believe?

Not capable of signing anyone, no money no reputation, no CL football.

Play arguably the most attractive football? well, only twice a season against villa and fulham :P
 
That's along the right lines yeah. It's traditional around 'election' time for presidential candidates to suggest players to be signed. Laporta made a big play on signing David Beckham, but of course he went to Real and they signed Ronaldinho instead.

It's perhaps also worth noting that Barca have a stadium for their reserve and B/C teams, the 15,000 Mini Estadi next door to the Nou Camp and an indoor arena for the other sides. There's an interesting piece on their website about their youth facilities http://www.fcbarcelona.cat/web/engl...i_barca/ciutat_esportiva/ciutatesportiva.html
 
Your right Gaz what a diver forgot about that. Oozes talent but not the brightest kid on the block. But I suppose he the hero for the day.

Hey what was the deal about Tom Cruze and Katie Holmes wearing sunglasses at 10 o'clock at night watching all the pomp and circumstance?

Still can't get over La Liga being the only league were goal difference thru the year doesn't give you the advantage. Seems stupid to me.:mellow:
 

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