From Brendan : Barcelona / Suarez
Suarez?
If you ask me, he shouldn’t be playing football. He is a chronic, untrainable, ineducable cheat, who is violent, abusive and cynical. Again and again.
To me, it makes absolutely no difference how good he is at playing football.
It is fairly obvious that UEFA needs Barcelona in the Champions League, right to the end. It’s comical how they are protected. They get that everywhere it seems, in Spain too.
Barcelona is not the ‘nice’ and moral club it is stupidly held up to be.
Under Guardiola, when Suarez wasn’t around, it was better, it seems to me. I don’t recall them stopping the match and grabbing their anatomy with the look of tortured rabbits every time an opponent touched them. And then when Suarez kicks the hell out of an opponent, no reaction,
Watch – the same will happen until they get into the final. Because they have to be in the final.
Myles says :
Referees in every club league favour the big clubs. Because they want to ref the glamour games.
Barca are burned out at the moment.
Conceding an early goal to an 18-year-old playing for Real Sociedad, they could not come back and equalise in the following 85+3 minutes, let alone win the match.
The team seems to have hit a wall.
Which puts my prediction that Barcelona can retain the Champions League in jeopardy.
Playing the way they are right now, Barca won’t retain it or even get to the final. They’ve got too many games in their legs. Bob Paisley said air miles are like sand in a footballer’s petrol tank.
From Joe Kelly :
Myles, never mind Payet.
Iwobi was the stand out offensive player in that game.
The trick will be keeping up his current form.
Myles says:
It’s in the genes. His uncle Jay-Jay Okacha won 75 caps from Nigeria between 1993 and 2006.
Iwobi is Paul Merson without the boozing & gambling.