As he pauses a moment in the contemplation of why most of his goals are scored two at a time, Bojan wants everyone to excuse our lack of updates lately, and hopes that we can get things back on track during this international break! We'll have to do without the match report for Barca's 5-0 trumping of Cultural Leonesa, but here is the match-related aftermath. Click to continue reading...

First off, a happy Eid to all who celebrate it, and particularly to Barca's muslim players, Keita, Yaya and Abidal! Right now we're running late and you'll have to excuse us the match report for Barca-Atletico; but we've rounded up all the post-match tidbits:
- This was the fiftieth Liga match for Gerard Pique (having played 27 with Barca, 23 with Zaragoza) and he played hella great. Click to continue reading...

The team's celebration in Rome stretched on till morning, three o'clock in fact for most of the players, and Messi, Puyol, Pique, Bojan, Botia and Muniesa partying on until five.
The team was on their flight back to Barcelona the next day, where they landed at the El Pratt airport in Barcelona at five in the afternoon following the Champions League victory. Click to continue reading...

The treble is OURS! Barcelona have done it, we've defeated Manchester United 2-0 to claim the Champions League and, subsequently, the first treble in the history of Barcelona and even Spain!
Manchester United? Setting Cristiano aside, they weren't even there! Our boys totally shut them down, and even our patchy defense was able to thwart what attack there was from them! Click to continue reading...

There's not much to be said about last night's match itself... it was another annoying loss resulting from the crap playing style of get-the-ball-to-Eto'o which simply does not work in any way or form. It holds the team back, so they don't do well, and Eto'o doesn't even take advantage of the chances given him. Click to continue reading...

Well, we've won the Liga so last night's isn't of much importance, however we're still a tad annoyed that the boys lost.
.Why? Good question. Well, Pep fielded a team of substitutes and B-teamers, looking to rest the starters up for the final in Roma, and perhaps not much is expected of a team of youngsters up against a Mallorca side who are still taking things seriously. Click to continue reading...

We're simply overjoyed! The match was spectacular, performance was spectacular, the result was spectacular and the boys celebrating was the loveliest thing in the world to see!
What does this victory mean for Barca? Well, oh so many things. It marks the club's twenty-fifth Copa Del Rey title. Click to continue reading...

We're simply overjoyed! The match was spectacular, performance was spectacular, the result was spectacular and the boys celebrating was the loveliest thing in the world to see!
What does this victory mean for Barca? Well, oh so many things. It marks the club's twenty-fifth Copa Del Rey title. Click to continue reading...

We're a bit miffed that the lads came off with such a draw, thus postponing Barca's La Liga victory, but in the end, it's only putting off the inevitable. A win or draw in the next match will secure the title for us, for the nineteenth time in Barcelona's history; there's not a chance we won't claim it. Click to continue reading...

Though we can hardly believe what happened last night, it's slowly sinking in... we're gaining full realization that no, it's not all a dream, and it did actually happen: Barcelona are in the Champions League final.
This was always going to be a tough match, even going in to it, but it wasn't until Chelsea scored that we really started to panic. Click to continue reading...

Can there possibly be words to describe last night's match? We'll give it a try...
It was simply unbelievable, to say the least. No one, not even us in all our elation and optimism when it comes to Barca, ever even thought we'd achieve this result. The score in itself is incredible, and Barca have achieved it over Real Madrid on the Santiago Bernebau in a match that was infinitely crucial for the Liga. Click to continue reading...

It's not the result that worries us so much as the performance. A draw is okay, even if Madrid don't lose tonight, because we still maintain a fair point difference, and have the chance to widen it in the coming Classico. But that won't happen if the boys play then the way they did last night. The match was simply lacking effort. Click to continue reading...

Xavi's grip on Iniesta's thigh: distracting? Alright, we'll go on to the important: Barca beat Sevilla 4-0 with Messi on the bench! If that's not awesomeness, we just don't know what is.
So, shall we begin gushing about how wonderful Barca is? We've been doing that a lot recently, and in the end, it's enough to say that this is just a perfectly complete team: the boys are hot, they play great, there is beauty in their football, their team chemistry is spectacular; and there's a lot of camaraderie between the players, on pitch and off. Click to continue reading...

First off, we would like to mourn the loss of Gerard Pique's splendiferous hair. He's now sporting that annoying buzz cut he had at the start of the season, which we were able to forget once those lovely locks grew out into perfection... and then he went and hacked them off again. He's tall, blue-eyed, and perfectly gorgeous, and yet he always seems to find some way to mar that brilliant appeal with hideous shirts, the most deplorable shoes, and even, on occasion, that abysmal thing called a man-bag. Click to continue reading...

Okay, so we didn't destroy Bayern again, but then, that's expected. The German team really put forth an effort last night, so they could leave with some pride; and perhaps they did, for 1-1 is much more merciful than 4-0.
And it wasn't any slacking off on our part, either, for the boys did quite well given the circumstances—here being three things: the fact that we'd as good as qualified since the fist leg, the tight match schedule plus traveling and playing away, and the fact that Bayern were determined not to lose this one. Click to continue reading...

Well, you can't always thrash em.
Barca came away from the match against Recreativo with the comfortable score of 2-0. Not flashy, but still comfortable. Given the fact that it was just three days after the last game, we can factor in the element of fatigue. And given that the next game is just three days after, we can factor in the necessity to bench some of the starters. Click to continue reading...

Knockout competitions can be very tough, especially when we're playing the return leg away, but after this match Barca is as good as qualified.
The team barely scraped past Valladolid with a single goal just a few days before, but the quarter final of the Champions League was much different. Click to continue reading...

Barca's back! After the run of disappointing results and poor performance in Barca's last five matches, finally, against Bilbao, it was the old Barca again. And not just because of the result, and not just because we won, but because the boys were playing so wonderfully, and truly are backing to their old ways! Click to continue reading...

Barca still hasn't managed to come off with a win for the fifth match in a row now, but things did look a bit better for this one.
Iniesta is looking great following his injury, and did a good job in leading the attack line where Bojan and Hleb just weren't as hot.
Behind the frontal three, Sergio did manage to go through a match without getting booked for once, despite his poor form, and what with Keita barely doing anything all match long (again), our pillar of strength Yaya Toure was holding up the midfield on his own. Click to continue reading...

Despite scoring three goals, the team just couldn't manage a win last night. The team's results lately have been very distressing, but we still remain at the top of the Liga by four points, so there isn't too much cause for worry, as long as things get better soon...Henry scored a wonderful brace, and Leo's goal was equally lovely, but Athletico still managed to net one more than us. Click to continue reading...

It's not an entirely satisfying result, but we'll take it. Sure beats losing to Espanyol, anyway. We're not going to lash out on the team for this one... the draw is acceptable given the circumstances. And the circumstances here being the fact that this match comes just three days after the last one, a derby which didn't exactly leave the lads in the highest of spirits, plus the fact that they were playing away, and had the whole trip from Spain to France to make. Click to continue reading...

We're not just upset by this, we're angry too. This was undoubtedly the worst match night we've had all season, and it really shouldn't have been. It's the first time we lose at home and only the second Liga loss since the very first game against Numancia, and there was never a more unjust outcome.
Barca did not play a full ninety minutes for this one. Click to continue reading...

The international break has got us again as Barca gave a generally crappy performance last night. This is our third draw in the Liga this season, and we'd like to stop and point out that in all three cases, said draws came directly after the players got back from international matches. So yeah, we're putting that on our blame list. Click to continue reading...

Eto'o may have scored two goals, but the star of this match was most definitely Dani Alves. He's always great, but last night he was just brilliant. Darling Dani was all over the place, linking the play, creating the chances, being his usual phenomenal self, only better. Add to that a simply amazing goal, and there's no denying that he was our man of the match. Click to continue reading...

The first leg of the Copa semis went along very smoothly... our lads secured a comfortable 2-0 lead, which takes a lot of pressure off of the second leg now, and a good performance came along with it. Teamwork was very prominent in this match, as the boys were working together just beautifully; could there be anything more lovely than Bojan's cross for Henry's goal? Click to continue reading...

What can we say, except for this: Lionel Messi is the King of Football. The entire match was a mess before he came on... we were down by one goal, the attack was asleep, scores of yellow cards had been drawn on our players and everything was terrible. Then, magical Messi steps onto the pitch, and within minutes he scores the equalizer. Click to continue reading...

It's all about the youngsters! Bojan, Pique—Pique, Bojan—we just can't choose between them. Both of them were just equally amazing last night.
Bo was mind-blowing, incredibly determined and incredibly dangerous as he played out his best match this season, leading Barca to victory. He scored Barca's first and second goals, and the second one was so amazing, Messi himself couldn't have finished it off more beautifully. Click to continue reading...