Breakin’ Legs & Stopping Barcelona: The How-To Guides.

By: chris | September 29th, 2009

Lionel Messi gets kicked. We know this. Some are even trying to earn the Hack-A-Messi term global acceptance and use. Didn’t really work out all that spectacularly last year though, did it? Nay. A historic treble in the rear-view mirror and a jaunt to the podium for his first Ballon d’Or in short time. So Malaga, their opponents on the weekend, expanded their scope to the entire Barcelona squad. Television cameras were wrapped up in this visionary attempt to blockade the seemingly unstoppable juggernaut that is FCB.

Slight problem:

Malaga 0 – Barcelona 2

With that not working out so well, we head off to another compilations involving physical violence which bends the rules involving another big club. Excuse: the other big club. These odes to footballing brutality are, if wild guesses at Spanish are any indication, in honor of Royston Drenthe, who was kind enough to break Marc Bertran’s leg with a studs up ankle high challenge on Saturday (0:15).

Real Madrid giveth and Real Madrid taketh.

Unfortunately, of the two guides this one worked while Malaga’s clearly did not. But maybe that’s a matter of perfecting the art, something Real Madrid has been doing since the Figo days.

Barcelona beware for the next Clasico.

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Jose22

(To clarify, I mean that Barca should not be getting special treatment against opposition, not that they should be given privileged consideration. The rough play here would have been sanctioned had Malaga been playing a team in the bottom half of the table.)
Jose22

Hopefully these shenanigans over the weekend convince La Liga refs that, no, it's not alright to let the champions "rough it out a bit" versus bottom-half opposition.

The fact that Weligton isn't getting some punishment for intentionally stepping on Messi when the ball was in the other half of the field shows one aspect in which the Barclays Premiership seems to have done better than La Liga...