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Barcelona Football Blog
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Barcelona players as jazz musicians, aka “Give the drummer some!”

Music. When it comes right down to it, the only real parallel that can be drawn with FC Barcelona is music. For four years, this club, under its coach Pep Guardiola, made music. I don’t want to...

1 day ago

What would YOU do this summer, aka “To hell with Football Manager. Let’s get cray!”

"Id sell his butt, too. Like THAT!" Silly Season is upon us. There are those who grab the bottle of Hector Pills and head for the hills, coming down only when the season starts and there ar...

3 days ago

Carles Puyol, the aging Visigoth of F.C. Barcelona

"All I need is my captain's armband to whip your ass!" This a guest post by Conor P. Williams. Many of you probably know his work already. If you don’t, you should. More info abo...

4 days ago 1 person likes this

blitzen awards, the fruity cocktail edition

Here is your last lot of blitzen awards for the season. I hope you enjoy them, and thank you for all the positive feedback. This is definitely mes que un blog! My Heart Exploded Award: This was one o...

5 days ago

The Revolution Was Partially Televised: A Tribute to Pep Guardiola

‘[Guardiola] faces the task of changing Barca’s destiny with scientific rigor, the passion of a lover, and with the severity and empathy of a professor. And with the sentido tragico of th...

6 days ago

Athletic Bilbao 0, Barca 3, aka “Going out in grand style”

Ultimately, there are no words. For the first time ever, I am sitting down to write with no notes, fresh off watching this amazing team play an amazing match for its amazing coach, for the last time....

26 may 12

Copa del Rey Final Liveblog

Here’s to hoping we send Pep off with a trophy. Starting XI: Pinto, Montoya, Pique, Mascherano, Adriano, Xavi, Busquets, Iniesta, Pedro, Messi, Sanchez Bench: Valdes, Bartra, Keita, Fabregas, T...

25 may 12

The End of Just the Beginning: Barcelona – Athletic Bilbao

The first time these two teams played in the Copa del Rey final was 1920, in Gijon’s El Molinó with Barça winning 2-0. They next played in 1932, match in Real Madrid’s old stadium of Chamartín which ...

25 may 12

This Is Not A Preview, or, The Copa del Rey Prematch Comments Post

Hey! There’s some kind of match happening tomorrow, I hear! There might be a proper preview coming, but in the meantime you can post your thoughts here. This being a cup final, Pep will want to...

25 may 12

Job Application

Nike – call me – I wanna work for you. I think that my design skills are exactly what you’re looking for. (These are stock standard Photoshop gradients – the Orange/Yellow one...

24 may 12

Barcelona Kits 2012-13

Because there’s no better place to unveil a jersey that a team of sweaty men wear, Barça unveiled their 2012-13 home and away kits in an art museum. I mean, er, what, yeah? Okay, I guess. I ima...

22 may 12

Champions League Reactions

Didier Drogba won it with a well-taken penalty and you could basically hear the collective groan from around the world. Let’s get this straight first, though: there is nothing wrong whatsoever ...

21 may 12

The Kids Are Not All Right, or, What Hath Eusebio Wrought?

It’s been a while since our last look at the Barcelona B team, so let’s check in and see how their season is going, shall we? With 38 games played, the team currently sits in 9th position...

18 may 12

A War of Weasely Words

There are a lot of ways to read a statement. There are certainly more than twice that many ways to read two statements. In Wednesday’s El Mundo, Salvador Sostres wrote a very interesting article. It ...

17 may 12

The Battle is Won. The War is Not Over.

Agony and Ecstasy: polarized ends of the pendulum, between which swings that fickle thing called “hope”. That powerful glimmer of what could be – or maybe not – as it flirting...

14 may 12

Drumroll, please ….

So. Everyone recalls the ongoing season contest, kicked off in this post here. Well. We scored 115 goals in La Liga this season, a number that nobody accurately predicted. Four readers (in chronologi...

13 may 12

Barcelona vs Betis-Match Thread: Pep’s Goodbye to La Liga

Barcelona play their final match of the Liga season. More than the result the match is noteworthy for being Pep’s last La Liga match as manager. Enjoy the way this brilliant side play. It’...

12 may 12

And now, the end is here.

The last game of the season. The last Liga game for Pep before he leaves for a life of not being bear-hugged by Pinto, or being tossed in the air each time the team wins another damn trophy. What the...

12 may 12

Of meteors, fandom and Yoda

A quick one, on migration, from casual viewer, to fan, to lover, to cule. I can imagine some long-time FCB fans, making this speech that Yoda made as he dismissed a young Luke Skywalker: Ready are yo...

08 may 12

blitzen awards, the antepenultimate edition!

You didn’t think I could let this game pass without handing out a few awards, did you? Only two more games to go this season, though. I’m going into withdrawal mode already. Pintocalypse ...

07 may 12

Barca 4, Espanyol 0, aka “Now THAT’S how you throw a party!”

You’re having this party, right, and you’re thinking of every possible thing that can happen, every permutation that can go into making your party a memorable one. You have all the right ...

07 may 12

Barcelona – Espanyol Liveblog

It’s Pep’s final home match. It’s a derby. Who said there was nothing left to play for? Starting XI: Pinto, Montoya, Puyol, Mascherano, Adriano, Keita, Busquets, Thiago, Pedro, Mess...

05 may 12

Cinco de Pepo: the Peptucky Derbi, a Match Comments Thread

It’s that once-a-year thing, where Barça hosts Espanyol in the derbi Barceloní and horses are run in an American state in honor. In México, they go one farther and have themselves an awesome fe...

05 may 12

Reconsidering trophies, aka “Every one is sacred when seeking perfection”

“I didn’t come here to become part of history, just to do the best I can, like everyone does in his job.” I don’t mind saying that I have been pretty silly over these past few...

05 may 12

Me vs Malaga: Match Comments Post

We take on Malaga at home in what, as always, is a must win game. The league hangs by the tiniest of threads (come on Athletic!), but no matter, to play and play the Barça way. Let’s do it! Bar...

02 may 12

The Burden of La Senyera

[This is a guest post by reader NZM. Do make her feel welcome. -ed] As well as the strain of being the manager of one of the best football teams in the world, something that isn’t often spoken ...

02 may 12

Sportsmanship and Dancing

In October 2008, Naples High School in Florida defeated a rival 91-0 in an American football game. In case you’re unsure, that’s a lot of points to score in a game and it’s indicative of an extremely...

01 may 12

blitzen awards, the “It ain’t over till it’s over” edition.

I wasn’t going to do any blitzen awards as I am feeling a bit disgruntled today, but if the team can pick themselves up after the week they had and put in a performance like they did yesterday-...

01 may 12

Check Your Local Listings

So, yeah. Well. *sigh*. It’s just. You know. I don’t know. Not that it’s all been … of course. That was sorta funny. And that turned out o.k. Yesterday was all right. I guess....

30 apr 12

Rayo Vallecano 0, Barca 7, aka “The post break-up breakfast”

So many of us have done it. You break up with someone on good terms, and you decide to have a meal in the aftermath of the event, because how bad could it be, right? And it’s brilliant. You lau...

30 apr 12

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