
CL Preview: Arsenal – Barça, Wednesday 2:45pm FSC, Fox Soccer en Español
Before you read this, read this, an interview I did with Just Football.
After all the hype, all the vituperation, all the awesome iReports, the hand-wringing over injuries (Iniesta out, Cesc doubtful, I hurt my hamstring on Saturday as well), and the various opinion pieces here, it’s time for the real preview. I hope you can survive an extra 24 hours with only Frenchies surrendering to each other and Bayern attempting to deprive ManU of a third consecutive finals to get us through these moments and to our beloved. [ed note: I'm writing this while watching the second of those two matches and listening to Rufus Wainwright, so apologies if this is an absurd preview--actually, no I don't apologize, it's Arsenal Week!]
It’s London for us, with its torture-chamber towers and falling bridges, nice metro system, and, of course, it’s rich history of football. There are something like 84,234 first division teams in London, but fortunately we only have to play against one of them at a time. And, really, if we’re to play any team from London, I would like it to be Arsenal. I like their style and I think matches against them are generally really good or at least have the potential to be so.
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