El Classico

[SLAMMED]

5-0 ft. Ramos sent off for trying to break Messi's legs

That's disgusting, I hope they throw the book at him. Lionel Messi races forward again and two Real players do nothing more than try to break his legs - Ramos catches him, then in the ensuing melee Ramos shoves Carles Puyol to the floor. He's sent off, the idiot. Pathetic end from Real Madrid. What a shame.

[Royalee]

Fantastic football on show, Row Z Royal might learn something if he watched it instead of the shit we're served up on a Saturday.

[winchester_royal]

LOL.

I dread to think of the consequences if we tried to get Karacan, Tabb and Long playing the kinda stuff Barca do....

Oh wait, now i remember.

[sandman]

5-0 ft. Ramos sent off for trying to break Messi's legs

That's disgusting, I hope they throw the book at him. Lionel Messi races forward again and two Real players do nothing more than try to break his legs - Ramos catches him, then in the ensuing melee Ramos shoves Carles Puyol to the floor. He's sent off, the idiot. Pathetic end from Real Madrid. What a shame.

And how else are they supposed to stop him?

[SLAMMED]

Was it really worth it at 5-0 though?

[frimmers3]

looking forward to the spurs/barca champions league final at wembley.

[sandman]

Was it really worth it at 5-0 though?

Taking out the heartbeat of the Barca team for six months would give Madrid a big advantage for the rest of the season. Horrible? definitely but there are plenty of defenders that would think about a Goikoetxea like challenge on Messi.

[Row Z Royal]

Fantastic football on show, Row Z Royal might learn something if he watched it instead of the shit we're served up on a Saturday.

The day I take footballing advice from you, etc...

[Jackson Corner]

That was a fantastic performance by Barca the special one is not so special now.

[No Fixed Abode]

That was a fantastic performance by Barca the special one is not so special now.

One result! Jose has done well so far. They're only two points off top and in the next round of the CL. You can only really judge Mourinho after next season. Remember this isn't entirely his team and the players brought in need a bit of time to settle.

[BR2]

Good to see that at least some on here appreciate that football can be played on the ground rather than so much in the air that we see in the English game.
My hope is that little kids will have watched last night and realised that
(1)You don't have to be a giant to be the best
(2)You don't have to kick the ball away and give the other side a chance
(3)You won't get far in football without learning ball control (well you might in England)
The sad thing is those kids probably weren't allowed to watch it because the parents thought it was just foreign rubbish.

Arsenal are the only club in England that try to play this way but they lack the steel to make it really work.
I'm not saying that this is the only way to play football but I do believe that the England coaching staff need to look at how and why Spain won the world cup.
If we don't believe that there are players good enough to play the intricate passing game then let us go completely the other way.
Let's play real long ball stuff,clearing our lines early,to big strikers and hard-running athletic midfielders and batter the opposition into submission-nobody else plays that way anymore and as we find with Arsenal their foreign defenders find that approach difficult to deal with.

At the moment I feel that England is caught between the two methods-at club level our lads are playing with silky smooth foreigners who have a passing game mentality but when they come to play for England their colleagues are less skillful but are big on effort and hard-running (Milner,Barry etc.).
To have any chance of winning a world cup I believe that the coaching staff have to choose one of the two methods and until our young English players are brought up to play the Arsenal way or the Barcelona way (it's no good just having a token player like jack Wilshere with nobody else playing the same way)I think they should revert to how we have always played the game in this country and play to our strengths because let's face it the method of imitating others has failed dismally since 1966.

I thoroughly enjoyed last night as did my colleagues here at work and I am pleased that some of our other posters on here did too.
Birmingham v Villa on Wednesday night will be a bit different.

[handbags_harris]

Only nine different winners in the entire history of La Liga...

Only eight since the Eredivisie was introduced in 1956: Ajax, FC Utrecht, Sparta Rotterdam, Feyenoord, PSV, DWS (Door Wilskracht Sterk - a club from Amsterdam), AZ and FC Twente.

[who are ya?]

Out of this world! It almost seems fake at times.
About as close to perfection as you'll see on their day.

[handbags_harris]

Out of this world! It almost seems fake at times.
About as close to perfection as you'll see on their day.

Was watching Barca demolish a running scared Almeria after the Watford game the other weekend with a friend. His analogy was that it was like watching someone play Sensible Soccer

[soggy biscuit]

Those that claim the EPL > La Liga can keep the Bolton, Stoke & Chelsea cloggers. That game was something special.

[who are ya?]

Those that claim the EPL > La Liga can keep the Bolton, Stoke & Chelsea cloggers. That game was something special.

You mean that team were something special?

[Once were Biscuitmen]

Those that claim the EPL > La Liga can keep the Bolton, Stoke & Chelsea cloggers. That game was something special.

But, like the SPL, La Liga more often than not comes down to the results between these two teams. There are at least four teams in with a chance of winning the Prem this year.

If you all watched more than two La Liga games a season I don't think many people would rate it above the Prem. The majority of games are far more tedious comprising players you have never heard of for some pretty good reasons.

The vast majority of La Liga games are not nearly as exciting as the Prem, lack of technical skill and a tendency to view effective defending as akin to latent homosexuality actually makes for a far more entertaining league!

[Maguire]

The Prem >>>> La Liga in terms of entertainment

La Liga >>>> The Prem in terms of quality

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

Those that claim the EPL > La Liga can keep the Bolton, Stoke & Chelsea cloggers. That game was something special.

Something tells me the same people loving last night's game wouldn't be so enthusiastic about watching Hercules v Levante though.


I've seen a number of games overseas though, and it is staggering how poor our basic ball control is compared to most nations. It's all very well saying we should try and get our teams playing like Barcelona or Arsenal, but without the ball control, it just isn't possible. You see our players play, and it's like we think there's some basketball style shot-clock running, and going 20 seonds without putting a ball into the box is considered failure.

[rabidbee]

And that is why England will never win the World Cup again.