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haveacuppatea:

Following the admission that the Unicef deal was essentially a trojan horse for sponsorship, we re-examine Barcelona’s wider hypocrisy:

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The opinions on Barcelona and Real Madrid differ in the transfer market, even though they act with the same lack of dignity. Real Madrid were rightly attacked by Sir Alex Ferguson and the wider media for their almost priapic pursuit of Cristiano Ronaldo over three years. There wasn’t a week that went past without a player or executive panting over his arrival. Far quieter is the criticism for Barcelona’s explicit tapping-up of Cesc Fabregas. This is possibly the first example of Chinese water torture being used as a template to secure a signature. The drip, drip, drip of Gerard Pique and Leo Messi in interviews, and the desperate spectacle of the World Cup celebrations, is even less edifying than Garry Cook retrospectively dismissing Kaka and his dad as bottlers.

In reality, Barcelona are brilliant, devastatingly handsome, hypocritical and deeply flawed. It might annoy them profoundly, but if Barcelona were a person, they would be Jose Mourinho.