Beren

Kaizero, cover your eyes/don't click:

Top quality post.

http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/1330054873516/noticia/Noticia/Television_images_show_that_Pepe_did_not_touch_Alves__leg.htm

Balotelli, but wouldn't touch the kid with a barge pole - he could easily get sent off, and likely carded.

Good, fair article posted by alpal. Only disagree about Barca not needing to cheat to win. Don't think it's that cut and dry IMO.

That's the daftest and most backwards post I've seen on here in quite some time.

Agreed really. People forget its part of the game. If a player manages to dive and get a foul successfuly. Good for him, what can you do about it? Stop supporting a team because of it? Fuck me, I hope we'll see more diving. My word, do you work for Fifa? How accepting can you be of an evil of the game, man Replace 'diving' with 'fouling' and it's probably an excerpt from the board minutes of a Fifa meeting from 40-50 years ago!

VI, you're a sensible Barca fan, are you not more embarrassed by both sides than anything else? It's great to beat your rivals, and make them park the bus from minute one of a two-leg time (and at home, no less), but given the previous two games - do you not feel sad that Barca had to playact like them to break the deadlock rather than rely on their undoubted football brilliance? Diving is really killing this game. It's got progressively worse over my lifetime, but it's beyond absurd now. Very little dignity left in the once beautiful game.

Would love to see a "Kick Diving Out Of The Game" style campaign launched (a la "Kick Racism Out Of The Game") and force Busquets, Drogba and Ashley Young to endorse/be the figureheads of it. Attend galas, get photographs with kiddy footballers and give speeches about not diving etc

Could you be more of a condescending dick?

Jesus.

Tbf, I think it's relevant because they only sunk so low when their footballing had failed in the previous 180 minutes.

Dempsey > Messi

Surprised Eufa are allowed to prevent interviews being given etc. Not right IMO.

That picture Surprise you didn't draw little horns on Pepe and stick a pitchfork in his hand before you posted it with a halo above Alves' head

Yeah, modern football feels shite sometimes.

Had to resort to... that...

MOTM Pedro and Busquets. Lead the Barcelona masterclass.

Incredible goal.

His shit header injured him

Great excuse for Real to continue to defend - not that Mourinho would care either way, but still.

This poor referee is going to catch so much shit, man.

I like what Adebayor adds to Real - feels very distinctively Premiership-y.