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What’s more humiliating than having to give your fiercest rivals the guard of honour as they walk onto the pitch? How about losing 4-1 to them straight afterwards. That’s what happened to the wayward Catalonians last night, who were thoroughly humbled by the new La Liga champs. Let’s hope you all followed chickendinner’s astute advice and made good from Barca’s demise.
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Posted: May 8th, 2008 by Ryan Bailey
Catalonian giants preparing for a mass exodus
Should you be wandering past a giant television set playing tonight’s Barcelona game, be sure to give it a quick glance and a nod, because chances are you won’t be seeing this group of players so spectacularly failing together again. It should never have been like this.
Taking their cue from the film Escape to Victory (Pele, Ardiles, Bobby Moore, Sly Stallone) or the Real Madrid “Galacticos” (Figo, Zidanne, Roberto Carlos, Beckham, Ronaldo, Raul), the Catalan side made big steps in building a superstar team, only to come hugely unstuck - realising that big names don’t always gel (Abramovich take note). Henry, Ronaldinho, Deco and Eto’o would be the star players at practically any other club in Europe, but Messi has seriously messed with their chi, and stolen their thunder… by being utterly brilliant. Hence, over the summer months expect to see them disbanding, all harrumphing off to different corners of Europe (mainly London) to be soaked in the kind of glory they demand.
Of the smaller names, defender Eric Abidal is rumoured to be Liverpool bound, Iniesta has been approached by Real Madrid – with gigantic figures like 60 million Euros being hurled around - and Zambrotta has failed to light up Spain regardless of his impressively sculpted mini-beard, and could be heading back to Italy where they love fashionably assembled stubble.
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Posted: May 7th, 2008 by Josh Burt
The best sports on the telebox tonight
After graciously falling out of this year’s Champions League, Ronaldinho-less Barca must now concentrate their energies on taking second place in La Liga from Villarreal. Tonight, they are 9/4 underdogs in their visit to runaway title contenders Real Madrid - but in the past five seasons, El clásico has been won by the away side four times, and there’s been a shedload of goals too.
Check out the best odds on the match right here.
Indian Premier League Cricket
Mumbai Indians/ Rajasthan Royals (Setanta Sports 1, 3.30pm)
La Liga
Recreativo/ Villarreal (Sky Sports 1, 7pm)
Real Madrid/ Barcelona (Sky Sports 1, 9pm)
Scottish Premier League
Rangers/ Motherwell (Setanta Sports 1, 7.45pm)
French Cup Semi-final
Lyon/ Sedan (Setanta Sports 2, 8pm)
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Posted: May 7th, 2008 by Ryan Bailey
