What is it with London?
What is it with Madrid?
In your centralised loci of power, in your stratospheric fake, you assume that your goals may always be purchased on the non-level playing field of life.
Take football and the purchase of illusory glory.
Take your Performance Enhancing Substances (PESs), bribe your match officials, bend the rules of the game, and the nationalistic and non-functioning mainstream sporting media plays along.
Then, when your spoilt mardiness surfaces in the aftermath of further failed criminalisation of the sport, only a biased and nuanced perspective is offered.
Drogba is correct.
It is "a fucking disgrace" but it is all a fucking disgrace, and not just when some shady oligarch gets his comeuppance.
Neither Madrid nor London is able to deal with the Reality that the best and most successful football is played outside the capitals - in Barcelona and Manchester - in the Second Cities.
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Barcelona v Chelsea
Over the two matches between Barca and Chelski, the refereeing errors balanced out to an extent - Chelsea via ##################################### controlled the event in the Camp Nou, while last night the tilt was the other way.
Yet, the overall balance of decision making remained in Chelsea's favour after the tie was completed.
The outbursts were merely selective memory and a public display of the impotence that Mr Abramovich is not yet powerful enough to buy all of the toys he chooses.
The hissy fits were invalid.
Barcelona played football in both matches against Chelsea and hammered the Madrilenos in the middle. Chelsea tried to spoil throughout.
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Stop your cheating.
Stop your bleating.
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Manchester United v Arsenal
Les Hommes contre les Bébés.
The Super Outsiders morph into the Super No-Hopers.
Manchester Men against Arsenal Adolescents.
Kroenke or Usmanov - who cares?
Was the sale of Fiszman's shares to Kroenke legal or should they have been made available on open market?
Whatever, Wenger misjudged his strategy by ending the title race at Anfield.
Wenger misjudged his strategy by spending £14 million on a player who could not play in the club's primary focus competition.
Girlie screaming and the waving of pseudo-flags does not ring true when half of these self-same people showed the true depth of their support by leaving the stadium after 60 minutes.
At Middlesbrough on Saturday, Manchester United fans sung over 30 different, largely club-specific, chants including the poetic "you're going down with the Shearer".
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What a load of old tosh.
The Dream Final is Manchester versus Barcelona.
Messi v Ronaldo or Malouda v Walcott?
Get Real.
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