[CL] Champions League 2010/11 (13 Viewers)

am0110

Senior Member
Jun 5, 2005
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I hate Manure, but Bartha has been absolutely disgusting in the last few years. The only team that is more disgusting is Inter.
yes, Barselona is disgusting because they are the best and very dominant right now, like we were in late nineties, when we were "cheating", "using enhancing drugs" etc etc, same shit we went through because we were the strongest and most competitive
 
Jul 1, 2010
26,352
yes, Barselona is disgusting because they are the best and very dominant right now, like we were in late nineties, when we were "cheating", "using enhancing drugs" etc etc, same shit we went through because we were the strongest and most competitive
What I hate most about them is their fanboys who believe that the tiki-taka is the impersonation of beautiful football when the repetitive passing is as boring as any other style of plays.

And Guardiola saying that they have many Wilsheres in Barcelona B. The arrogance...
 

am0110

Senior Member
Jun 5, 2005
5,829
What I hate most about them is their fanboys who believe that the tiki-taka is the impersonation of beautiful football when the repetitive passing is as boring as any other style of plays.

And Guardiola saying that they have many Wilsheres in Barcelona B. The arrogance...
yes they have, English tend to overrate every player from their country,thats why they are always favourite to win the World Cup and yet they always fail, interesting
 

Gian

COME HOME MOGGI
Apr 12, 2009
17,860
It was interesting to see cristiano ronaldo midway through first half raising his hands at the real bench as he didnt seem happy with the tactics mourinho had deployed. Mourinho ignored it, knowing what exactly he had to do. It was all about how Real came out to play and paid their own price.
Probably because Real were thinking about the second leg and knew Barfa's arrogance to dominate the match anyway. In most aspects Real were playing a better game and Mourinho did a fantastic job, having a nutcase like Pepe to play such an important role in midfield and to do it without losing his self like usual shows to me how much Madrids players have improved under him.

It doesnt matter how you look at it, Barca's reputation with the general public, Pepe's reputation with the general public and Barca's acting school all influenced a ref which I thought with respect of. I still cant swallow Van Persie's sending off after Arsenal made the 1-1 in the Barcelona match but this is just as bullshit in my eyes.
 

j0ker

Capo di tutti capi
Jan 5, 2006
22,892
What I hate most about them is their fanboys who believe that the tiki-taka is the impersonation of beautiful football when the repetitive passing is as boring as any other style of plays.

And Guardiola saying that they have many Wilsheres in Barcelona B. The arrogance...
:agree:

What annoys me most is that many of them supported some other team pre-Ronaldinho and now act like Barca was always the best team and forget than just a few years ago they were struggling like us now even without "help from Moratti".
 

Osman

Koul Khara!
Aug 30, 2002
61,577
Let me put it this way:

In an ideal world where the rules are interpreted and enforced exactly as they could be by a very strict referee, on every single occasion, this would have been the result:

Studs up tackle - red (Pepe)
Intentional elbow - red (Messi)
Stomping a player on the ground - red (Marcelo)
Playacting - yellow (Pedro, Busquets, Di Maria, Dani Alves etc...)
Repeated playacting - red (Pedro, Busquets, Di Maria, Dani Alves etc...)

Players remaining on the pitch: 15

Out of all this above, only Pepe was punished. And now, I decided to not award yellow cards for complaining and shouting to the referee.

So why is this the case? Biased refs? Poor, but objective refs? The player's behaviour and/or reputation?
Reckless studs tackle on someone's leg > sissies acting like sissies to get ahead. The former is violent and gets punished most of the time (red or yellow, either way), while the latter shouldnt be part of football, its litterally happening on almost every football game. The day a ref hands out red/yellows on every case, is the day football becomes more tolerable, but its totally unrealistic (he needs a commity of actors to read every sitaution).
 
May 22, 2007
37,256
He had no intention to harm Alves, it's obvious in all replays but teams who play against Barca must end up with 10 or 9 so football could win :touched:
Doesn't really matter does it? Clumsiness should also be punished. But I don't think it was a red card, yellow card because of the position the referee was in (behind Pepe if I remember correctly). Shame that such a fantastic player will be absent from the second leg.
 

Flamez

Senior Member
Feb 7, 2011
1,991
Reckless studs tackle on someone's leg > sissies acting like sissies to get ahead. The former is violent and gets punished most of the time (red or yellow, either way), while the latter shouldnt be part of football, its litterally happening on almost every football game. The day a ref hands out red/yellows on every case, is the day football becomes more tolerable, but its totally unrealistic (he needs a commity of actors to read every sitaution).
I agree the tackle was agressive, but just check the link I posted here. Pepe didn't even touch Alves' leg or foot.
 

Raz

Senior Member
Nov 20, 2005
12,218
Great video :D

I know all players tend to act, even DP does it. And the higher the stakes the more acting we will see, but barca is taking this to a whole new level, half of their players are so disgusting that even if you enjoy possession football you tend to vomit during their games, several times. I think it comes down with a blessing from top coaching level in their club, because the intensity, frequency and the will to act on any slightest chance doesn't happen by chance, it is a well planned tactics. And the fact that it seems their at least to 9 people out of 10 they get favors and is even more disturbing.

Look at the Krasic incident, he acted a lot, the referees got pissed and now he doesn't get foul calls even when he is fouled. So what is the difference with barca situation then? From what I can gather it is not first game or even a year when this consistently is happening, why don't referees make a stand, why do they let them play like dummies? Because we are not seeing them just diving for a foul they are diving in the most theatratic way possible, to ruin a game for all, to get a player sent of. All they would need to do is consistently give yellows to incidents which make them doubt if it was a dive or not for some matches and the acting would drop considerably since they would not feel so safe acting, and now we just see them dropping like flies from a slightest touches.

For me it was one of the most disgusting games I have seen in a while, because I saw more playacting and facegrabbing than the actual football. It makes me wonder if barca is football like some claim, why do they need this non football activity to win games, because it seems they need it very much or they would not practice it so much. Something doesn't add up here.

Edit: my longest post in 5 or more years and it is about barca :lol:
 

Osman

Koul Khara!
Aug 30, 2002
61,577
Its one thing to say if it was enough for red or not, but no touch? Direct contact with his studs on Alves leg, Alves exaggerated it totally and moved away with his leg (reduced the aggressiveness of the tackle), but the clip you posted shows as much still, followed through recklessly and contact with studs.

As I said in previous posts, players playacting and making sitautions seems worse then they are is simply routine in football now. Everyone does it. Its so routine that one has just learned to ignore such sissy behaviour.
 

Bozi

The Bozman
Administrator
Oct 18, 2005
22,749
ahh nice to see Pitbull doing the cowardly thing and giving out -rep for not banning people here last night

but just a quick aside dumbass,as a mod I CAN SEE who gives out rep
 

Raz

Senior Member
Nov 20, 2005
12,218
Its one thing to say if it was enough for red or not, but no touch? Direct contact with his studs on Alves leg, Alves exaggerated it totally and moved away with his leg (reduced the aggressiveness of the tackle), but the clip you posted shows as much still, followed through recklessly and contact with studs.

As I said in previous posts, players playacting and making sitautions seems worse then they are is simply routine in football now. Everyone does it. Its so routine that one has just learned to ignore such sissy behaviour.
barca is on a whole new level of playacting. And them getting away doesn't help. How many times did they really got down and covered their face without any contact? And if we try to previous matches? How many do you think, then think how many times were they shown yellow cards for it? And then look how many times did they got people sent off? This is out of proportion it's too low of a risk considering rewards for them. I bet you to find me a team which dives so much et gets no yellows. You just won't find any, because others don't do it as ofter or are just afraid that to them it very much will end up in yellow or no red. It's that simple.
 

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