Congrats to Barca, great team and a great performance this evening.
By contrast, I have been depressed by the performance of my team, Arsenal in recent weeks and also more than a little concerned by the fact that our main rivals will likely spend more money than we will in the coming months - Man-U, Citeh and Chel$ki will all spend more and Liverpool are looking good too.
However, what I have seen tonight has given me renewed hope: We are much more like Barca than any of those other teams - we even beat them in London this year, and in a 'fair and square' contest. We can, with our footballing philosophy and style compete with Barca where many others simply cannot and whilst we do need to fix some problems (much discussed so I won't go there again), we do retain the style that has just been acclaimed by the footballing world as being the best they've ever seen. We're close at least, and closer than anyone else in the EPL.
The problem, it seems to me, is not competing with Barca or Man-U or Chel$ki or Citeh or Spuds - we can do that - it's beating the likes of Stoke and Bolton who don't show any respect for the Beautiful game we are trying to play. We almost need two teams - one for the top quality matches and one for the long-ball slogs. We have the former - I truly believe that we do - but we don't have the latter and that is really what's costing us.
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