Unfortunately you're right. If Chelsea do get through tonight, is there even any point in watching the semi-final? Barcelona will keep the ball for 70% of the game, not do alot with it, then wait for the penalties to come when needed.
Don't quite agree with this hypothesis, which undervalues (or ignores) the undoubted brilliance of Barca (and the "70% of the game ball possession - doing nothing with it" line is exactly the same one people trot out about the Spanish national side - and I completely don't agree with that either... they've been the bloody best!
). That said, I do understand why from a Chelsea POV, you're already feeling slightly embittered or whatever.
For me Fena, Barca are my "Spanish team" due to the fact I lived out there for a while as a young kid and that experience - the pride and passion and utter devotion that I was soaking up on a daily basis as a nine-year old - and this is well before their "glory years" and the mass marketing and global enterprise that is Barcalona now - well, something of that kind of seeped in, so to speak.
My slight dilemma is really a simple one, namely squaring the side I love to see and am more accustomed to seeing, i.e., Pep's ludicrously talented, beautifully set up, passing, flowing, unstoppably sublime footballing phenomenon of David Villa, Iniesta, Xabi, and of course Messi etc - with the diving, clutching for imaginary cards, feigning mortal wounds and maiming, amateur theatricals etc side who I've also seen on a few ghastly occasions (especially when Real are the opponents).
My big hope here is that the latter isn't what this year's Champion's League campaign is what Barca will be remembered for... please god, they manage to avoid Real.:wink:
