‘Barcelona’ Archives
Weekend highlights from Spain, Germany and Italy
AC Milan 5 - 1 Torino Filippo Inzaghi struck three times for Carlo Ancelotti's in-form side as they won 5-1. Hertha Berlin 2 - 1 Werder Bremen The Berliners haven2t quite given up on the league just yet. Per Mertesacker gave the visitors the lead just before half-time but a late comeback earned Hertha all three points. Josip Simunic [...]
Tuesday night Champions League fantasy
Chelsea 4-4 Liverpool Where to begin? Well, there were moments when Liverpool, leading 2-0 and then 4-3, were a mere goal short of triumph in the second leg of this Champions League tie. Liverpool scored a crucial away goal after 19 minutes, the Reds winning a free-kick 30-yards out and a quick-thinking Fabio Aurelio exploiting a gaping hole [...]
It’s as you were in Spain
The two top dogs both won, so no change at the top of la Liga. Barcelona 2 - 0 Recreativo Huelva Old French dude Thierry Henry sent in a lovely cross into the box which Andres Iniesta slotted home. Nasief Morris was unfortunate to deflect an Iniesta ball into his own goal in the 68th minute, while Lionel Messi had a piss poor 80th minute [...]
Spanish weekend
A fine weekend from one of my favourite leagues. Ten-man Valencia finally ended a run of six games without a win but are still in dire shape. Barcelona kicked the living shit out of Malaga 6-0 at the Nou Camp with an irresistible display of attacking football that reaffirmed their six-point lead at the top of the Primera Liga on Sunday after Real [...]
Wednesday night Champions League highlights
Here you go then, bye bye Italy: Man Utd 2-0 Inter Milan, (firtst leg 0-0) Manchester United needed a mere three minutes to stick the ball past Julio Cesar, Giggs whipping in a corner for Nemanja Vidic to make a fool out of Vieira, planting a header in the far corner. Inter got back into it a bit as the half wore on, but immediately [...]
Spain’s two-horse race: advantage Barca
Europe's next best league remains a two-horse race, with leading horse Barça nudging a little further ahead of Real Madrid's second placed, er, horse, thanks to a lively performance from city sidekicks Atletico. The Madrid derby was the best game I've seen so far this weekend. Barcelona 2 - 0 Athletic Bilbao Barcelona returned to winning [...]
Atletico Madrid 4 – Barcelona 3
To say the wheels have bloody well come off is a bit of an understatement. For the casual observer, this was an absolute belter of a fixture, what we could only dream of for a League Cup Final, however, I'm not a casual observer, I'm a Barça fan and tis was painful. Back-to-nearly-his-best Thierry Henry gave Barça the lead with young Leo Messi [...]
Champions League roundup
Anyone still doubting how bad the Italian league has got need only take a look at last night's match with Manchester United. So Inter are running away with their league? Crap league, I say. This was a walk in the park for the boys from Salford, who will be absolutely gutted if they fail to finish off this bunch of jokers in the second leg. This [...]
De la Peña… you git
I’ve always had something of an affinity for slaphead footballers, not so much because I’m bald myself (I’m not), I just see it more as a dedication to duty that long haired scruffians simply can’t match. Take the lad Beckham, for example… got a skinhead and started knocking them in left, right and centre. Living as I do in Turkey, [...]
The 1986-87 UEFA Cup Quarter Final: Barcelona 1-2 Dundee Utd
Dundee Utd & the Jim McLean era (1971-1994) Jim McLean, coach of city rivals Dundee F.C. at the time, took over from Jerry Kerr in 1971 and the most successful era in the club's history began. Up to this point, United was the smaller and less successful of the two Dundee football clubs. However, this would change as McLean (for a time with [...]
