I know that as a football fan I'm kind of contractually required to say that if any team can pull back after losing the first leg 4-0 it's my team, but in this case it really is my team. Som i serem etc. See you all in three-ish hours.

ETA: Football is pain, highness. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.

What the hell, Barcelona.

While we’re kind of on the topic: Geri. Geri. Gerard Pique. I realise that you are not exactly the soul of rational decision-making, but whatever made you think that shaving all the hair off of the top of your head was a good idea in any way, shape, or form? Did you lose a bet? Inquiring minds ( Read more... )

Dear Barcelona,

I did not get up at four in the morning to watch you lose.

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ETA: I wish my commentary were in Spanish just to hear the “GOOOOOOOOOOOL”, just so I wouldn’t have to say it. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. I LOVE OUR FRONT LINE. DARLING BOYS.

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ETA the second: Holy carp Cesc Fabregas has a daughter. Cesc ( Read more... )

HOLY CARP, BARCELONA, GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER.

ETA: The football gods heard me, and sent their response via their vessel on earth, Lionel Messi. He and Cris are making deals and laughing at all us peons, just you wait and see.

ETA2: ANO BA YAN. ANO BA YAN.

We have: a three-man defense, Josep Guardiola, the Camp Nou, and all the cules in the world. Tots units fem forca- which feels strange, coming from me, but I believe it. Vamos Barca.

ETA: Okay, so as the Cant was blasting from Camp Nou's speakers and everyone on the pitch was shaking hands there was this shot of two cules singing their hearts out ( Read more... )

So nervous. So. Fucking. Nervous ( Read more... )

ESPN is a lying liar that advertises Champions League matches and then doesn't televise them. My stream is fuzzy and intermittent and in German but I spent twenty minutes trying to get one to work, so I'm not complaining ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure I had something else to say earlier this evening, only apparently my boy went and scored a hatttrick against Granada in the unholy hours of the day and became Barcelona's all-time leading goalscorer. Here's a video of all 234 goals, for those of you with fifteen minutes to spare. Several of these I saw live, on streams of varying ( Read more... )

WAY TO BREAK A GOAL DROUGHT, DAVID VILLA.

Congratulations, guys. And thank you.

Dear FC Barcelona,

( This is part an apology, part me trying to sort things out, and in no way a justification. )