great posting, informative and stuff! cheers, Eric
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Brendan McWilliams <brendan_mcwilli...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hmmmm, i have to disagree slightly. > > FCB and RM are both sides of the same coin: enormous, big histories, huge > support, devour the majority of the tv rights from La Liga making it evermore > uncompetitive and neither are true businesses - at least if we consider the > debt they carry. > > I came to Spain as a neutral and in fact went to the Bernabeu 2 days after my > arrival in Madid for a cup match with an entirely open mind and without > prejudice....now several years later, the lesser of the two evils by any > measurement is FCB. RM are tedious beyond belief. > > This week apart, this present FCB team and squad are the best I've seen at > any time and i'd like to know of what team has ever played with style in the > modern era. Their squad has been in large part developed from their youth > teams and surely that is the aim of all clubs? > > RM on the other hand dominate EVERYTHING in Spain, you'll find more coverage > regarding them on the main news (i.e. equivalent of BBC1) than you'll find on > e.g. Syria, Afghanistan, you name it. Their fans are wildly disloyal and > expect Harlem Globetrotter levels of performance and see conspiracies > everywhere when a team has the temerity to put it up to them and shock horror > beat them. > > The atmosphere in both grounds is usually pitiful - but that's more due to > their being all seating - and if anything you'll find that in the Bernabeu > the fans will quite often start whistling or booing at half time if they have > not scored. > > The common charge that RM were "Franco's XI" is not strictly true as other > teams won just as much domestically - although di Stefano mysteriously went > to Madrid and not Barcelona... - but it's a charge often levelled due to > their main competition at the time being Athletic Bilbao and FCB - both > nationalist strongholds. > > Anyhow, i was disappointed that FCB were knocked out by Chelsea - a club that > is the anithesis of all that football should be about.... and whilst i wasn't > too disappointed last night when RM got knocked out, it's impossible to say > anything bad about Mou this year (poking his finger in the FCB coach apart): > great powerful football and CR7 is only a whisker behind Messi. > > Mario Gomez will charge through Chelsea and Bayern should easily win it, plus > it's in their stadium. > > >> To: p...@cundell.com; wiscole...@hotmail.com >> From: seanscr...@aol.com >> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:24:04 -0400 >> CC: leedslist@gn.apc.org >> Subject: Re: [LU] 2-1 >> >> Yeah, but no Leeds supporter can support Barcelona either. Whining sods, >> always getting favour from the refs and UEFA. I will never forget how >> somehow they managed to get FOUR MINUTES of injury time at Elland Road in a >> half when the physios hadn't come on once (not to mention getting Gordon >> McQueen sent off in 1975). And I can't stand how so many folks in the news >> media just fawn over them, not to mention the way people all over the world >> who've never been to Spain, let alone Catalonia, declare themselves >> "Barcelona fans." Good riddance. > > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org > > PETE CASS (1962 - 2011) Rest In Peace Mate _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org PETE CASS (1962 - 2011) Rest In Peace Mate
