http://barcelona.theoffside.com News from FC Barcelona and the Nou Camp Tue, 21 May 2013 09:12:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our yearly dose of despair thanks to the Nike designers is here! [caption id="attachment_10002" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="No wonder the players didn\'t want to go out in daylight wearing those..."][/caption] Fore more pictures, look under the jump! The home kit is a boring, sort of dusty iteration of the blaugrana stripes, with the ... http://barcelona.theoffside.com/team-news/news-of-the-day-20132014-fc-barcelona-home-and-away-kits-revealed.html [caption id="attachment_9996" align="alignnone" width="640" caption="Tito and Abi lifting the trophy. I just need to wipe my eyes, don't mind me."][/caption] Yes, Barça still have a few more matches to play before the league is officially over. Yes, they will probably all feel completely pointless. At least Barça have a target to ... http://barcelona.theoffside.com/team-news/match-review-fc-barcelona-2-1-real-valladolid-aka-the-match-with-the-trophy-celebration-barca-babies.html I know, I know. No one gives a damn about any more. The Liga is safely ours, and all that's left to do is to show off the trophy, which the team gets to do tomorrow. And since Atleti managed a surprising win against Real Madrid in the Copa del ... http://barcelona.theoffside.com/preview/la-liga-preview-fc-barcelona-v-valladolid-do-it-for-the-100-points.html [caption id="attachment_9978" align="alignnone" width="640" caption="The guard of honor from the Atleti players"][/caption] Probably one of the strangest matches of the season. Ten men and three injuries later (or "discomforts"/"precautions", who can be sure?), Barça manage to stumble home and add three more points to their overall total. But most importantly - ... http://barcelona.theoffside.com/team-news/match-review-atletico-de-madrid-1-2-fc-barcelona-cliche-title-alert-weeee-are-the-champiooons.html Wake up! Wake up, I say! La Liga is not won yet. 'But Ade,' you say, 'maybe Espanyol will take points from Real Madrid tonight and..." And I can't hear you over how loud I'm scoffing. Even if Espanyol managed to score a manita over RM tonight, they would proceed ... http://barcelona.theoffside.com/la-liga/la-liga-preview-atletico-de-madrid-v-fc-barcelona-can-we-or-can-we-not.html This is a very disconcerting decision. Should this be a brimming, positive piece on how the team is so close to winning its fourth Liga title in five years? Or do we throw in sufficient despair & doom predictions owing to the scoreline-that-must-not-be-mentioned vs Bayern Munich in Champions League semis? ... http://barcelona.theoffside.com/team-news/of-transfers-form-and-key-learnings.html Three points and the 2012/2013 Liga title is so close I can smell it! Those are the nice things we should focus on, because if we focus on the actual football played by our lovely team, well, then things get depressing. [caption id="attachment_9939" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="You know it\'s bad when Piqué\'s ... http://barcelona.theoffside.com/la-liga/la-liga-review-fc-barcelona-4-real-betis-2-a-messi-in-shining-armour.html [caption id="attachment_9931" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Today is Cesc\'s birthday! Happy birthday!"][/caption] "Leroy Jenkins", I hear you say. "What does this have to do with Barça? Looks like the folks at Barca the Offside have well and truly lost it." Well, if you've never heard of Leeroy Jenkins before, here's the video, watch it! ... http://barcelona.theoffside.com/preview/match-preview-fc-barcelona-v-real-betis-lets-do-this-leeeeeroy-jenkins.html "Dissolution and Despair!" said the Pins and Needles. "Defeat and Disaster!". Is this a quote from Edward Gorey's Inanimate Tragedy or the after-match comments from Barça fans? It's all doom, doom, doomity-doom as far as the eye can see... [caption id="attachment_9915" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="''Pride. Barça.'' Words we need to remember in ... http://barcelona.theoffside.com/champions-league/champions-league-semifinals-fc-barcelona-0-bayern-munich-3-0-7-aggr-defeat-and-disaster.html [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Image by: George Christakis"][/caption] Thrown to the lions' den at the Coliseum to entertain the crowd. With audience hailing the melodrama of the unfortunates, screaming their terror and trying to roll themselves in their arms seeking survival for another minute, hoping for a miracle to come true ... http://barcelona.theoffside.com/champions-league/champions-league-fc-barcelona-vs-fc-bayern-when-you-put-titles-aside-and-play-for-your-pride.html