Goal of the week: Messi
To be fair any of Barcelona’s four goals against Racing on Tuesday night could have made the grade but Messi’s second effort wins the golden letter opener this week.
Watching it back again, the defending does look suspect, but with the little Argentinian it’s not always what he does, but how fast he does it.
Racing know [...]
Football loses a true gent
Holding out his hands, palms turned upwards, a look of resignation on his face, Bobby Robson once delivered the line;
“It’s the drug… …football is a drug.”
It was his simple way of answering a journalist’s question in the mid – 1990s, when he was already into his sixties. Something along the lines of “why do you [...]
Barca go ego swapping
A few people, hopefully more than the current number of genuinely talented German centre forwards, but perhaps less than the number of strikers at Manchester City, may have noticed that the blog has been down for a month or so. Notably all you Manchester United fans who came for an ogle at our Gabriel Obertan [...]