el clasico crazy

What do you mean you're not convinced by him? He hasn't really done it for Barca (17 goals i think) but his record speaks for itself

yeah should amend that tbf, not convinced by him as the spearhead of the barca possession machine more than anything else

"Villa is a great player. Youse are all fucking idiots"

lol

did this really have so little discussion? FICHT MICHT.

barca can only play one way.

madrid better with 10 men than with 11.

madrid plenty chances though with about 35% possesion (estimate).

penalty not given was a nonsense.

messi trying to decapitate a mandril supporter was funny and mad he didn't get yellow carded.

yeah but ref couldn't card him and continue to let pepe away with everything tbf

yeah the ref was fucked. generally in spain, nowadays anyway (obv no in the francoist past), the cry is for pro-barca ref bias. but i thought the ref was a total madrid nightmare. the penalty not given was a foul easy. barca ended with pique yellowed for dissent at it not being awarded.

feel like i was right predicting lacklustre league game. obv it wasn't total shit but hardly end to end. the penalty was the worst thing that could have happened to the game from the point of view of the neutral (for a while anyway). then real kicked in. still barca were better.

29% possession for Madrid

Who the hell is this Geordie twat on my stream?

Sacrilege.

Just read that now.the man is a genius.best commentator ever.

Well, being heretofore unaware of his work (though i had heard the name) i'm afraid he's not my cup of tea. It was the shouting that really did my head in.

you have to love him. there isn't a choice, sorry.

“The rhapsody of football continues. Even when they’re penalties, they’re painted with a beautiful stroke of genius. It’s framed beautifully by the goal and the Picasso of modern football that sees things in a different dimension to the mere humans. He lives not in the tactical book, not in anything that is painted from A to B, Riquelme doesn’t live there, don’t look for him with the simplicity of football because he’s an expressionist even on his penalty kicks.”

love ray, love riquelme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS6Np-g_h5w

everyone will have seen this but come on

oh man i missed el clasico pt. 1 and ray hudson? boooooooooo.

game wasn't a classic. there will always be more ray hudson. he is a benigni sculpture of a commentator.

lol were u trying for hudsonism or

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Benigni

haha i must admit i only knew of the director of that shit film who was called benigni, i just couldnae understand his pronounciation/didn't know about bernini.

pronounce an r english people

on reflection i've seen some of his work, in my defence i was 10.

yeah basically i assumed there was an artist called "benigni". i am chastened.

Real Madrid v Barcelona line-ups:
Real: Casillas, Marcelo, Carvalho, Sergio Ramos, Arbeloa, Pepe, Xabi Alonso, Khedira, Ozil, Ronaldo, Di Maria.
Barcelona: Pinto, Alves, Pique, Mascherano, Adriano, Sergio Busquets, Iniesta, Xavi, Messi, Villa, Pedro.

ozil, i think? just had the ball cleared off the line

how the fuck was busquiets not sent off for that?

my stream has no commentators and also i am eating cereal so these names might not be right.

well this game feels kinda shitty post-NLD

yeah what is this ballroom dancing chess hybrid shit

gonna just wait till et

this is elite football xp

as compared to kraatxi football

really? i just see dull.

someone hits it long, someone gets tackled, the ball gets intercepted, someone hits it long, some gets tackled and so on. occasionally there is a foul or a proper pass.

roffles. pedro offside the first time something happens.

everything about that last move was perfection, and as boring as fuck.

The Mestalla is pretty much my ideal stadium. Why Valencia killed themselves trying to leave it I don't know.

adebayor looks like a clogger in this context

Marcelo keeping Messi in check.

I'm sorry but this is fantastic football chess

gah this game is so boring

Beautiful save from Pinto.

I think it is more to do with the NLD being possibly the best game I'll see this year and not being able to follow that up. Chess may be a beautiful game, but it isn't an exciting one.

http://www.nataliedee.com/121202/ET.jpg

RAFA!

fuck. looks like i'm likening that bloody e.t. pic to rafa.

Chess is not exciting?! If you didn't support Arsenal I'd SB u for that

<3 messi

Soooo many chances for Ronaldo lately.. Would pay good money to see him cry again tonight tbh

awes from xabi tho