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That's it, you're staying now. (sorry if I just cursed it)

GTFI

FlashScores do f*** up with their formations here and there so I wouldn’t take that as true. Yeah he was part of a back four so I'd guess it was more likely he was holding midfield in front of a back three. He was playing CB.

I don't think I've ever seen a person dish so much abuse towards a fellow human being as my Argie missus is doing to Higuaín.

9 games to go and still unbeaten. No team has ever managed an unbeaten season in La Liga (Guardiola and Real Sociedad in the 1980s both came close, losing 1 game). We probably will rotate for the CL, and thus slip in one of the coming games since we can afford take our eyes off the league, and there's also the Clásico which will be tough, but it would be a great record to achieve. Still not changing my avatar though.

Love how PSG have dived straight into the decadence phase of any great team without having a success phase first.

The Ordinary One.

Boring-ish quarters, but cracking semis if there are no upsets.

We were quite ordinary in the 1980s. In the late 1980s in particular, the club was going nowhere pretty fast until Cruyff came. But as others have said, we didn't achieve our current status until relatively recently. Our glory era before the 1990s was the 1950s. During the 1960s-1980s we would like, win the league once in a decade. We were a pretty good cup team though. Early 2000s was certainly dire, as we were dangerously close to slipping back to the second tier after our growth in the 1990s, due to mismanagement on and off the pitch. We were below NUFC in the money league at some point, IIRC.

Yeah. There's also this Arthur dude we're supposedly signing in the summer, but he's an unknown quantity. Aleñà also being promoted to the senior team next season.

In other news, Iniesta very likely to go to China at the end of the season. Wish he retired being Barça's captain, but can't fault him for wanting to cash some Chinese silly money in his last contract.

Under our law, private security watching sports events can use violence to subdue problematic individuals - but it has of course to be proportionate. Chelsea fans can certainly sue Barça if that's not the case. There's no police in Spanish football stadiums, clubs are responsible for security inside them. Police is responsible for security outside the stadium.

There was bother between both sets of fans after the game, that's what got the stewards in baton mode. We'll need to know more I guess.

Happy for Dembelé. He needed an impact in this kind of game after all his injury issues. Take Iniesta off and we're ordinary. We need to de-age him somehow.

Marcelo is too much of a liability at the back. Luis is more balanced. It's a matter of what you want more in a FB, but I don't think there's much between them tbf.

Alba and Pique, too. Nah, not Piqué. Alba I have him on the "really good" tier, but granted there's few LBs I'd rate above him.

To be honest I think Barça's only WC players are Messi, Suárez and Busquets. Iniesta still has it but can't perform every game.

Man Utd used to run deep in the CL with the likes of Phil Neville, Park, Welbeck, Fletcher, Butt etc. hard working players who are tactically good and physically strong but with perhaps limited ability has always had a role at Man Utd. Difference is they helped the best players to shine. Lukaku did this thing tonight and continues to improve.... the rest? Awful. That's the football of 10+ years ago. Nowadays - for better or worse - big clubs stockpile so much quality you really need more edge on the pitch to compete. That ManU lineup is something I'd expect for playing WBA at home while resting your top players for a CL tie. Not the starting lineup of an actual CL tie.

What I don't understand is how ManU have spend such absurd amounts of money in transfers since Mourinho came, and in 2018 they are starting CL knockout games with the likes of Lingard, Valencia, Smalling, Young...

Mourinho is a lie.

Get in

Pard's run with WBA has been the stuff dreams is made of. Enjoying every moment.

You guys got an option on Kenedy or something? I've been impressed since he signed. Been sweating until you scored the 3rd. Damn that Bournemouth game.

The Catalan SuperCup has been a 0-0 thriller, with us winning on pens. The English kid did get a sub appearance. Why does this even exist. Absolutely nobody gives a f***.

We bought him from Arsenal this January window. What's the point in that? None. I'd say it's a glorified friendly, but nobody even bothers to try to glorify it.