They may have lost to Osasuna over the weekend, but don't blame it on lady luck, por favor! Here's a snapshot of Barcelona's 'girlfriends club' at the Nou Camp last week during Barca's Copa del Rey semi-final fixture.

From left : Antonella Rocuzzo (Lionel Messi) Daniella Semaan (Cesc Fabregas) and Julia Vigas (Thiago Alcantara) all cheered their men on from the stands.

Vaya polemica que ha desatado esta fotografia con los supuestos uniformes de Nike para este 2012 por parte de sus equipos insignia : el Arsenal de la premier league,el Barcelona de España y los red devils del Manchester United.
Al parecer el que menos ha gustado de los tres es el de los diablos rojos, tal parece que es un mantel de picnic hecha camiseta.

By Chris Wright

Watch, mere mortals, and weep as the slightly more 'agricultural' 50% of Barcelona's central defence pulls off not one, but two 360° roulette tricks in a row as he maraudes his way through Valencia's midfield during last night's Copa del Rey semi-final first leg.

By Chris Wright

The following photo has just landed on Pies' doormat in an unmarked Manila envelope, and professes to be the new Nike home kits for Arsenal (featuring the gruesome black collar and cuffs that Arsenalinsider alluded to a few days back), Barcelona (replete with Corel Draw 3-style colour gradient) and Manchester United (seven shades of ugly Gingham tablecloth).

Barcelona came back from conceding a 9th minute goal to beat Valencia 5-1 on Sunday. Lionel Messi scored four of those goals just because he can, but with Barca up 3-1 in the 77th what seemed like a routine substitution of Thiago for Cesc Fabregas got a little frisky. Fabregas gave Pep Guardiola a hug as he made his way to the bench, but after the two exchange a few calm words, Guardiola shoved Cesc by the back of the neck.

Full credit to Osasuna who played like they had nothing to fear against their vaunted opposition. Pep Guardiola resting Xavi, Iniesta, and Fabregas on the bench for the Bayer Leverkusen CL first leg sent in Thiago Alcantara, Pedro, and Sergi Roberto. The latter breaking into the first squad, all of four games old, completed the rejiggered midfield.

Welcome to the Friday Crackovia Club, amigos! If you still haven't heard about the best football sketch show from Catalonia (what?!!), click here. In this week's episode, Florentino Perez builds a statue of Jose Mourinho outside the Bernabeu to convince him to stay at Real Madrid.

Barcelona vs Valencia 5-1 Highlights 2012 Lionel Messi Xavi Goals Piatti Video is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Barcelona vs Valencia 5-1 Highlights 2012 Lionel Messi Xavi Goals Piatti Video is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Barcelona vs Valencia 2012 ( Barca Valencia 2012 video below) Final score and result:- Barcelona vs Valencia 5-1 ( Lionel Messi*4, Xavi/ Pablo Piatti) Camp Nou, Barcelona- 19 February, 2012- 20.

Welcome to another late edition of La Liga Lunes! Many of the Spanish League matches took place earlier in the weekend (with Real Madrid's 4-0 defeat of Racing, Bilbao's 3-0 mauling of Malaga and Barca's 5-1 merciless demolition of Valencia last night- no comments), so in place of the post-match updates, here's something on football's own Jolie/Pitt couple.

FC Barcelona took a good step towards proceeding to Copa Del Rey final with a 1-1 draw at Mestella. Considering how tough we have found recently in Valencia, this draw is as good as a win - especially because of the away goal. In the 27th minute Jonas put Valencia ahead, but Carles Puyol equalised for Barca in the 36th minute.

Valencia vs Barcelona Copa Del Rey Highlights 2012 1-1 Goals Jonas Puyol Video is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Valencia vs Barcelona Copa Del Rey Highlights 2012 1-1 Goals Jonas Puyol Video is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Valencia vs Barcelona 2012 ( Valencia Barca video below) Final score and result: Valencia vs Barcelona 1-1 ( Jonas/ Puyol) Estadio Mestalla, Valencia- 1 February, 2012- Spanish Copa del Rey ( [.

Inter's wheels are coming off. After such a strong push to within sniffing distance of Milan and Juve, they have lost to lowly Lecce, drew Palermo and yesterday, Roma took the lumber to them. Juan gets the Giallorossi on the board, Fabio Borini's lovely brace follows, and the Bojan Krkic finishes emphatically to give Roma a thumping 4-0 victory.

UEFA Power Rankings 7 February 2012 - The 90th Minute Soccer Blog

Below are my weekly power rankings for the top (8) clubs teams in UEFA. These rankings are a combination of their play in domestic and UEFA competitions.

The rankings haven't changed from the last (late January) as the top three remain the same.

Co-hosts Gabon looked like it was going to be headed to their best showing in any ACN when Eric Mouloungui shot them into the lead in the 55th minute. But Mali had other ideas as Cheick Diabate equalized in the 84th minute. At the end of extra time, with the two teams deadlocked, the fate of the match was decided on PK shootout.

Some areas of the press are suggesting that it hasn't been such a stellar year for Gareth Bale in comparison with last season. Those reports tend to just point to the winger's hat trick in the San Siro but they conveniently forget that this has been a much more consistent campaign for the Welshman.

Barcelona vs Valencia 2-0 Copa del Rey Highlights 2012 Goals Fabregas Xavi Feghouli Red Card Video is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Barcelona vs Valencia 2-0 Copa del Rey Highlights 2012 Goals Fabregas Xavi Feghouli Red Card Video is a post from Soccer Blogger.

Barcelona president Sandro Rosell is optimistic that manager Pep Guardiola will put sign a contract extension soon.

Guardiola is known to prefer signing rolling one-year deals and with his current contract expiring at the end of the season, the former Barca skipper has yet to give any clear indications on his future at the Nou Camp.

Barcelona's shocking away form resulted in another loss last night, and with it any chance that Barca has of retaining their La Liga title this season.

Barcelona have now dropped a staggering 16 points away from him in the league this season. As incredible number. And a number that will cost Barca a chance to retain its La Liga crown.

FC Barcelona stumbled in their quest for a fourth successive Spanish La Liga crown by falling 2-3 to Osasuna on Saturday. The loss was Barca's second of the season and...

Barcelona sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta concedes it will be difficult for his club to win a fourth straight La Liga title but insists they will not throw in the towel.

Barca slipped 10 points adrift of arch rivals Real Madrid this weekend and, with Jose Mourinho's men having won 19 of their 22 league matches this season, the prospects of the Catalan side retaining their title are not looking great with 16 matches to go.

FC Barcelona has virtually assured themselves off a Quarter Final birth in this Season's Champions League competition with a 3-1 away victory against Bayern Leverkusen. This is the first time Guardiola has managed to win an away leg of the last 16 knock out stage in Champions League. Two goals from Sanchez and one from Messi was enough for Barca to see the German side off at their home.

Barcelona put one foot into the quarter finals by beating Bayer Leverkusen 3-1 away in the first leg of their Champions League knockout fixture last night. A brace from Adriano and a goal from Messi was enough to hand Guardiola a much needed victory after a tumultous few weeks.

Once again, it's Barca star Lionel Messi who is making all the headlines.

Well, that wasn't much fun was it. A few thoughts as follows:
* In some respects, I disagree with Arsene when he said that tonight was 'our worst night in Europe'. There have been much more painful defeats than this during his tenure: Chelsea in 2004, Liverpool in 2008, Barca in 2006.

Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta played the 2009 UEFA Champions League final against Manchester United with a two-centimetre tear in his right thigh muscle it has been revealed. The news was made public by Spanish football expert Graham Hunter in his recently published book 'Barca The Making of the Greatest Team in the World'.

Lionel Messi shone his magic once again as he leads Barcelona in demolishing third place Valencia 5-1 at Camp Nou by scoring four goals and providing an important contribution for Barca's fifth scored by Xavi Hernandez.

The Argentinian's quart-trick also improved his goal scoring tally into 27 already this season in the league, one behind current top scorer, Cristiano Ronaldo, staging the set for a potential El Pichichi battle for the two top players by the end of competition.

Lionel Messi starred in Barcelona's 5-1 home over Valencia on Sunday as he scored 4 goals to take his tally in the league to 27 just one behind leading scorer and arch rival Cristiano Ronaldo.

Despite winning, Barca still find themselves 10 points behind Madrid in the La Liga standings and with 15 games left to play, it would take more than a slip up for the Catalans to be crowned champions once again.

Messi dominates in four goal performance against Valencia (Photo: AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

A sensational four goal performance from Lionel Messi saw Barcelona rally from a goal down to demolish Valencia 5-1 at the Camp Nou on Sunday night.

The Catalans turned in their best performance of the season, eviscerating La Liga's third best side with a relentless display of attacking football, outshooting the visitors by an astounding 32-3 margin en route to a resounding home win.

El piloto aleman Sebastian Vettel visito el Camp Nou para ver el partido Barcelona Valencia, el cual el futbolista argentino Lionel Messi anoto 4 de los 5 goles del Barca y demostro una vez mas quien es el mejor jugador del mundo en la actualidad.

German Formula 1 and Grand Prix driver Sebastian Vettel takes a photo of the match during the Spanish league football match between FC Barcelona and Valencia CF on February 19, 2012, at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona.

All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award-winning Dirty Tackle...

Sporting KC defender Aurelien Collin is making a run for Dimitar Berbatov's title of...The Continental. [YouTube]

Run of Play is in exile. On Tumblr. Some lovely bits already.

Real Madrid's coach, Jose Mourinho, warned his players not to taken things lightly ahead of their weekend clash against Rayo Vallecano, as the Portuguese tactician considered them as a tough opponent to face.

Having another potentially difficult pitch to play on doesn't really bother Mourinho as just like against CSKA in the Champions League last midweek, the ex-Inter Milan coach doesn't want any complacent from his squad and simply play their usual game.

Barcelona's coach, Josep Guardiola wasn't in the mood in commenting about his future as his mind is simply focused on the Catalan's upcoming clash against Atletico Madrid, which could potentially be another troubling game for the defending champion.

Guadiola acknowledged the improvement that Atletico made under the new reign of Diego Simeone and urged his team to play their best game in order to get three points at Vicente Calderon.

Where there's Ronaldo, there's Sami Khedira (not usually) and where there's Khedira, there's Ozil (usually). In the name of Bromance, Sergio Ramos temporarily took over the "duties" of the robotic-speaking German in Real Madrid's 1-0 win over Rayo Vallecano yesterday, which explains the photo above.

Having a wonderful season along with faith and support from his team apparently gives lots of joy for Manchester City's star midfield, David Silva, who revealed that he has no intention of leaving England as just yet.

Silva admitted that he has been received wonderful treatment in City at the moment and with around two years left on his contract, the midfielder see it out before considering about his future, adding that returning to La Liga is not on his mind either.