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I’m still walking on a cloud right now. I have an extra spring in my step. To see Jose Mourinho and his Inter team beat the best team of the last decade is an amazing achievement. In a one game elimination anything can happen but over a series of two legs just didn’t see a way for Inter or any club for that matter to beat Barcelona, especially with the second leg at the Camp Nou.
With that I want to get some things off my chest. The next time I hear about Inter playing “anti-football” my eyes may pop out of my head in anger. You know what is anti-football? Doing what Sergio Busquets did to get Thiago Motta sent off. That is anti-football. What Inter did was a tactic, one Barcelona could not break through.
Everyone knows how Zlatan Ibrahimović rarely shows up in big games, just look at the fact he’ll be watching the World Cup this summer. This is nothing new but after the World was calling on Messi to have a new chapter in the bible solely devoted to him, Mourinho, Dejan Stanković, Javier Zanetti, and Esteban Cambiasso did a pretty good job in making him human.
Happy as I am about Inter winning I’m equally as angry over the way Barcelona have acted during the last 48 hours. For a team that prides itself in class they sure looked like a bunch of hypocrites lately. From the club on down to it’s fans this is what Inter had to deal with.
- Bus being attacked on way to hotel
- Fireworks being set off until the middle of the night
- Luis Figo being given a “warm welcome.” It’s been 10 years now, let it go. Figo helped put Barcelona back on the map in the mid 90′s. Move on.
- Spanish tax police wanting to question Samuel Eto’o if all days.
- Victor Valdes racing over to Jose Mourinho and grabbing him.
- The kicker being the person who turned on the sprinklers at the end. Talk about sore losers but there is no rain on Inter’s parade.
What bugs me most about Barcelona is how they pride themselves on being the oppsite of Real Madrid yet they are a lot like them. At least Real Madrid knows they are the bad guy, buying up some of the World’s greatest players. They don’t make excuses for how they operate.
Barcelona on the other hands keeps pointing fingers at Real Madrid and shaking there head over the money spent buying Kaka and Ronaldo. Yet Barcelona are not signing free transfers with the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimović (The Marian Hossa of Football) and Dmytro Chygrynskiy. I’m sure a lot of clubs would love to be able to spend 60 million plus Samuel Eto’o on two players. Barcelona goes on about Cesc Fabregas the same way Real Madrid went on about Cristiano Ronaldo. Yet Real Madrid are the evil empire and Barcelona are everyone’s second favorite team?