re: The Mou and Pep Show, 1st installment, Santiago Bernabeu

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"Does no blame go to Pepe for putting himself in that situation?"


"It was certainly a foul and IMO a cardable offense. Yellow, not red. The problem is Alves goes off on a stretcher and less than two minutes later is running like a deer down the wing. ."

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Yes. It's precisely the antics of everyone on the team working harder to get a red card on the other side than play the game that has so many neutral observers getting so sick of Barca...


I understand WHY they do it: they're small and the more their opponents must fear a likely red card instead of a yellow for a mis-timed tackle it's a HUGE advantage to Barca.


In La Liga play, they don't do this as much because they don't have to. They're just that much better than everyone else and when that's not enough they already get those calls anyway.


Again. It's clear as day why Barca uses this strategy but that doesn't mean it's not embarrassing that EVERY time we see Barca play a huge CL match there's the same faking getting hit in head, faking degrees of injuries, all 11 players in the refs face constantly.

And it works! Against Real, Arsenal, Inter, Chelsea there's ALWAYS a questionable to highly questionable call that goes their way and often determines the match more than anything they do on the pitch.

Real and Inter have much much more of their share of BS but it's just all the old fashioned shite that everyone does.

Barca's full-on 90 minute, all 11 in, whine fests just seems a level apart. Though perhaps, I have this impression because it's only for Barca recently that these tactics always decide matches.

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Does no blame go to Pepe for putting himself in that situation?

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he shouldn't have to worry about a situation like that. dani alves very well could have pulled out of that challenge, but alves shouldn't have to do that either

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made that an abomination of a game

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FIFY

I like abortion much better.

Dunno if this is germans but watch the video.

LINK


Pepe didn't even contact Alves' leg.


Wow.

I used to like Barca (and still like messi, villa to some extent, puyol, xavi) but now both of these teams are pretty much dead to me.

frick them both in their stupid asses.

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Pepe didn't even contact Alves' leg.

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agree

per uway

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Alves does flop, but he didn't flop on that red, unless you count rolling on the ground afterward as flopping. Pepe kicked straight through his leg. Do y'all really think Alves could do that mid-air 360 on his own?

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Apparently he can do midair 360s on his own.

And when I said abortion, I meant abortion. A UCL semifinal between two of the biggest teams in the world, so much potential there for a great game. No, the diving and playacting acted as the wire coat hanger in the hands of the third world doctor in a back alley aborting all that potential while scarring the game forever. Like I said, I hope man u skull fricks whoever wins in the final.

something to make everyone laugh away the anger and disgust
if it continued on dirty tackle