It’s all so normal now. Griezmann scored his second goal of the match in the… Read the postBarca 2, Athletic Club 3, aka “It was always going to be this”
Nostalgia is one of the purest human conditions. It’s unavoidable. The problem with looking back… Read the postHuesca 0, Barça 1, aka “We want what we used to have”
Have you ever assembled something from IKEA? It’s the easiest thing in the world, but… Read the postBarça IKEA, complete with screws and spare parts
Last week Carles Tusquets, the man in charge of turning the lights on and off… Read the postCadiz 2, Barça 1, aka “Same stuff, different day”
The weird thing about iconography is that it requires stasis. We like to freeze idols… Read the postMessi is declining. Has been for years. That isn’t the problem.
Given the different tenures of the Barça fanbase, it’s difficult to know how many were… Read the postAtleti 1, Barça 0, aka “We’ve been here before”
Barça put five past Betis, Messi scored twice, Dembele looked like the player everyone has… Read the postBarça 5, Betis 2, aka “The art of deception”
Lionel Messi is the most adored player ever witnessed in my years of loving this… Read the postThe psychology of Messi and adoration
This is shaping up to be one of those seasons for Barça, with another crazy… Read the postAlaves 1, Barça 1, aka “Don’t even start with the hashtags.”
Kids don’t care. We see kids doing all kinds of stuff, bombing down steep roads… Read the postJuventus 0, Barça 2, aka “An exorcism”
On my Twitter timeline the other day, there was a rousing discussion about Puyol, being… Read the postBarça 1, Real Madrid 3, aka “The problems to be fixed aren’t on the field”
It feels weird that the FC Barcelona season is only just now getting under way,… Read the postAnd now, after all of this, football