Barca - Blog Posts
I want to watch one match without ripping my hair out and screaming but I am a Barca fan 🥲🥲🥲
Ansu injured
I don't know what is up with Pedri (hoping he isn't injured)
A penalty
I thought Araujo broke his arm there again (thank God he didn't)
I AM SO PROUD OF BARCA ❤💙❤💙
As someone that hasn't watched a game since 2017 when we were like at our prime- this tonight reminded me of them. The few games I did watch in those years we were struggling and I heard all kind of insults and hurls thrown at Barca. To see them coming back makes me happy.
People: stick with your clubs it is worth it. 🥰
I love this club.
I love Xavi as our coach.
I love the youngsters and I am thankful for our seniors.
I WANT TO SCREAM AND CRY
Somewhere along the river Tiber
Barcelona vs Man City today... Prediction, 3-0 #barca #fcbarcelona #championsleague #laliga #PhotoToaster
The Modern History of FC Barcelona: Masterpost
Barca is a club of extremes. The good moments are like nothing else - playing football of the gods, sweeping up every possible trophy, ticker-tape raining down from the sky and a million people partying on the streets. The bad moments are mindbogglingly moronic and self-destructive. Players will tell you it’s like nowhere else on earth.
Through my posts on the recent history of the club I have attempted to put its present into some sort of context. History tells us why things happen the way they do. But really, these ups and downs also make for some bloody amazing stories, and I wanted to share them.
The current installments are as follows:
Part 1 - The Dream Team and the Bad Break-up (1988-2001)
Part 2 - The Little Genius and His Brazilian Bros (2001-2008)
Part 3 - We Wanted to Eat the World and We Did (2008-2012)
Appendix A: A Presidential Break-up that Defined a Decade
Appendix B: The Betrayal of Eric Abidal
Leo Messi: the story so far (written on his 21st birthday)
An Eulogy for Tito Vilanova
Winter Has Arrived (a post on the January 2015 crisis)
On reaping what we sow (the February 2020 crisis)
Defining Matches
FC Barcelona 3 Gothenburg 0 (3-3 agg, 5-4 (pens)), European Cup semi-final [1986]
FC Barcelona 1 Sampdoria 0, European Cup final [1992]
AC Milan 4 FC Barcelona 0, European Cup final [1994]
[to be continued]
Here are a few other primer posts for topics I haven’t covered in depth:
a general primer, covering among other things the Baby Dream Team/Class of 87 and the BroT3 (Cesc Fabregas, Gerard Pique and Carles Puyol) [also has fic recs at the bottom if you like that sort of thing];
Xavi and Iniesta, footballing soulmates;
the brief but amazing reign of the Messi/Villa partnership;
a discursus on the epic, pure and true love of Victor Valdes and Andres Iniesta;
the brothers Alcantara;
Bojan, Ibra, David Villa and Victor Valdes;
my own Pep Guardiola picspam/primer, covering his playing days, pre-season 2008 and some of 2008/09.
Much of the above list is the work of the wonderful meretricula. If you know of other relevant primers, please drop me a message with a link.
Read on for footnotes and such.
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