Comments on: Farewell, R10, a.k.a. “The Good Old Days”

By: Kxevin

Kxevin — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:57:49 +0000

And Clarence Seedorf, a.k.a. S10, current holder of the number 10 shirt at AC Milan, sez Ronaldinho will have to pick another number if he brings his ass to Italy.

“I had to wait for Rui Costa to vacate it, so suck it up, party boy,” Seedorf muttered at a press conference.

And Inter is saying “Hey, we might be in on this deal, but first we have to fire our coach. Or not.”

Man, this would be funny if we weren’t part of it.

By: Kxevin

Kxevin — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:45:08 +0000

Egg-sactly, Bobby.

By: Bobby G

Bobby G — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:23:17 +0000

A French friend pointed out to me yesterday that this is EXACTLY how Ronnie ended his days at PSG. He had the same arc there — great at first, then losing interest, his brother goes looking for a bigger payday, Ronnie begins to party hard, loses his shine on the pitch, loses the fans and the coach … and ends up with a lucrative transfer.

He won us two Ligas and a Champs League. That’s earned him a place in the Blaugrana hall of fame. But his departure will be for the benefit of all parties — club, player, player’s brother (especially him), fans, maybe even the coach.

Farewell, Ronnie. We knew thee well … too well.

By: JC

JC — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:48:47 +0000

I can’t believe we are letting go of a player who’s last goal was that amazing overhead kick against Athletico Madrid.

By: munichsoul

munichsoul — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:18:24 +0000

Goodbye Ronaldinho… I watched the AC Milan-Barcelona semi-final two years ago, and that pass for Giuly just had me watching the replays again and again… I was also a Milan supporter, but the Ronaldinho circa 05-06 was THE real Ronaldinho…

It has been a tough time for Ronaldinho recently, and I hope that the “NEW AC MILAN” next year will surprise everyone else… (but first, realistically, Milan are headed to the UEFA Cup, and it should be the tournament of atonement for them…to win it and charge in the UCL in 2009…

By: Isaiah

Isaiah — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:28:58 +0000

agreed catherine-lucia. heart = dangling on the end of a linesman’s flag. Not only did that same linesman make a terrible call allowing a non-goal be scored, he called Victor Sanchez offside when he was clearly not. Wow. That would have been 3-1 but instead it was 2-2.

The ref, though, is ulitimately to blame for the first goal. There was a foul in box against Barca (against Zamby, I believe) and it went uncalled even though it was obviously a foul. Directly from there they scored. Of course they did, it wouldn’t be our season if they hadn’t.

By: Catherine-Lucia

Catherine-Lucia — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:18:11 +0000

RECRE-BARCA LINESMAN = MY ENEMY

that was just cruel, dangling the dream and then ripping my soul out. and giovani coming out before ezquerro finished off the damage. that was just cruel.

barcelona was great in that game, and i’ll credit recre for being a fairly good opponent as well, but the linesman robbed us, and valdes for all his heroics failed us in the one moment (as in ruben’s “2nd” [1st!] goal) we really needed his help…

and now the blaugrana, the gorgeous, classy, blue and claret, the amazing, the WIZARDS, are behind some prissies in white and some yellow submarines.

that right there says it all.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:43:30 +0000

I like Marca’s analogy. All aboard on the train to winning La Liga, anything less than a win today and Villareal and Real Madrid ride it alone.

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:38:32 +0000

Thats the dagger in the heart for our La Liga quest.

By: Colin

Colin — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:11:44 +0000

Tough first half, Barca probably deserved the lead even though they took the foot off the gas (I guess the Ronnie news didn’t correct that problem after all).

This seems like the cycle with Barca and Brazilian players. Rivaldo, Ronaldo, and no Ronnie. Maybe it is just a cultural thing, it seems like if players did have a problem (and we know that at least Messi and Eto’o did not), it was the Catalans.