March 19, 2018 / Kxevin / Analysis

Barça 2, Athletic 0, aka “I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and … “

Questions, questions, so many questions when the answers are simple. What do we see? At…

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March 17, 2018 / Kxevin / Analysis

It’s Roma. Now what?

There is a line in the excellent Jonathan Wilson Champions League preview (in which he…

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March 15, 2018 / Kxevin / Analysis

Barça 3, Chelsea 0, aka “Master and commander”

A former colleague, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, woke every day to take a picture of…

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March 4, 2018 / Kxevin / Analysis

Barça 1, Atleti 0, aka “Atleti got Atleti’d”

It had to be this way. There was too much at stake for it to…

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March 1, 2018 / Kxevin / Analysis

Las Palmas 1, Barça 1, aka “Hay, Liga?”

Awful. Legitimately, truly awful. Barça came into Las Palmas, a crucial away match, and got…

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February 28, 2018 / Kxevin / Analysis

Barça 6, Girona 1, aka “That chopping block is pretty on you”

Football has a problem with the way it perceives events. Girona came to the Camp…

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February 22, 2018 / Kxevin / Analysis

The art of the pass and an uncertain future

Barça is headed for a difficult future. There was a Busquets v Chelsea compilation floating…

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February 21, 2018 / Kxevin / Analysis

Chelsea 1, Barça 1, aka “What a cruel thing football is”

Again it was Stamford Bridge, again it was chaos, again it was Andres Iniesta to…

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February 18, 2018 / Kxevin / Analysis

Eibar 0, Barça 2, aka “Illusion and calm”

Appreciating this Barça team is to appreciate a certain kind of luxury, an ease that…

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January 29, 2018 / Kxevin / Analysis

Barça 2, Alaves 1, aka “Mutants mess everything up”

Mutants mess everything up. The great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov wrote a “Foundation” trilogy,…

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January 21, 2018 / Kxevin / Analysis

Betis 0, Barça 5, aka “Businesslike savagery”

In thinking about this Barça team and why it works so well, dogs came to…

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January 14, 2018 / Kxevin / Analysis

La Real 2, Barça 4, aka “Curses. Foiled.”

If you say that you know what to do, how to deal with or how…

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