Comments on: Barcelona 2 – 2 Espanyol: I’d laugh if I weren’t crying

By: Rupert

Rupert — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:52:35 +0000

The tradition is that you don’t celebrate DURING a match. What you do afterward, after your guests (the other team’s president) has left your box, is fine. But I’m hoping Calderon’s celebrations will be proved premature. Now about that chicken …

By: Ibaad

Ibaad — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:38:54 +0000

Like Isaiah I didn’t get to watch the Barca match as my cable service was only offering the Madrid one, but certainley like Calderon I did a lap of honor too, when Pablo Aimar made that superb run and Milito briliantly finished it. It really was a great move, but damn… Madrid’s equilizer wasn’t all that great. I don’t get it!! How come Nitelroy’s always waiting at the right place for rebounds, just to execute an ugly little tap in. He has done it so many times that now i am beginning to believe that it must be some sort of an anticipation quality of his and not just incredible luck and also the ability to get ahead of the defenders…Ahhh!!! I dont know.

By: Isaiah

Isaiah — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:57:56 +0000

Well, if you are correct, then Barcelona have already won the league since Calderon did a “lap of honor” after the Zaragoza match ended…and relative to that, Laporta’s celebrations can be seen as merely a nod and a smile…

By: Rupert

Rupert — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:35:02 +0000

Well, we really choked, didn’t we? For me, the moment my heart began to sink was when I saw the club president celebrating the second Messi goal (or should I say the first goal, since the other one was, well …). Call me superstitious, but there’s an ancient tradition in La Liga that presidents do not celebrate goals — they are meant to sit stoically, out of courtesy to the rival president, who is usually sitting next to them. Our man broke the rule by celebrating too early. From that moment on, I knew we were doomed.

(Perhaps I should sacrifice a chicken for a Mallorca victory next Sunday?)

By: Isaiah

Isaiah — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:13:29 +0000

It was an amazing match. I was in section 103 behind the goal that no one scored on…Big Honduran section. I was sporting my Mexico jersey and cheering loudly for anything and everything.

I’m praying the US plays Mexico on Saturday in Boston. Going to that one too.

By: Mac

Mac — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:51:02 +0000

Haha, you were at the Mexico-Honduras match?

It was f’ing incredible (Section 127, I was in), the energy, the thunder, Honduras fans trash-talking the “potencia que no existe” (power that doesn’t exist) Mexico fans. I was rooting for Mexico too, had my own flag and everything but the seleccion fell apart after the Blanco red card.

“Ole`! Ole`! Ole`! Ole`!”