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[Cule Angles]

LOL, you're a madridista I suppose it's natural.

[Super Pippo]

Plus in Anoeta you can put your feet up because it's only ever a third full.

How does that prove the people aren't friendly?

While i'm at it, San Sebastian is nicer than Bilbo anyway.

[Cule Angles]

It doesn't Pippo, but the Sociedad fans barely ever wake up long enough to cause trouble so I don't think it's a reasonable comparison. Osasuna on the other hand, now there's a nasty bunch of fans. Yeah Donostia is nicer than Bilbao, but Bilbao's okay.

[Gnegneri]

Kev singing against your rivals is a common practice , if that's what they asked for every game will turn to a war .. this a pathetic excuse

I know I know. But:


The pissing inside the stadium by the players on the other hand is just retarded and as provocative as it can be. Combine that picture with songs ilke that and, yeah, you know the cause.

[Super Pippo]

It doesn't Pippo, but the Sociedad fans barely ever wake up long enough to cause trouble so I don't think it's a reasonable comparison. Osasuna on the other hand, now there's a nasty bunch of fans. Yeah Donostia is nicer than Bilbao, but Bilbao's okay.

Well you are talking about atmosphere now, which Athletic have, but it is an atmosphere of intimidation. I really wouldn't say they are friendly at all.

I like Bilbao, but SS is the same + has a beach, so it's better. + it doesn't have that stupid Guggenheim building sticking through the middle of it.

[Cule Angles]

What games have you seen at San Mamés Pippo? Anyway, I like the Guggenheim, it's really innovative and the renovated water front is nicely done.

[Super Pippo]

I went to see Barcelona play there last year, I didn't go there specifically for the game, but for work. But because my office were involved in design of the new stadium my boss was able to get me in.

I hate that Guggenheim, it's a prostitute of a building, just crazy shapes for the sake of it. Did you go in? It's like an Orwell play inside, really nasty place + expensive.

[Beast]

I know I know. But:


The pissing inside the stadium by the players on the other hand is just retarded and as provocative as it can be. Combine that picture with songs ilke that and, yeah, you know the cause.

still no excuse , many players do this.. now the result that the Bilbao fans were attacked in Beligum (AS claims )

[Cule Angles]

I went to see Barcelona play there last year, I didn't go there specifically for the game, but for work. But because my office were involved in design of the new stadium my boss was able to get me in.

I hate that Guggenheim, it's a prostitute of a building, just crazy shapes for the sake of it. Did you go in? It's like an Orwell play inside, really nasty place + expensive.

I didn't go inside because it was expensive and I don't have much of a taste for art.

[Super Pippo]

I didn't go inside because it was expensive and I don't have much of a taste for art.

You wouldn't need to, there isn't much in it. They make you go through security like in an airport, you even have to check any bags and jackets until you go out again. Cameras follow round everywhere, and armed guards to stop you taking photos of the inside. I hated it.

It did have a nice arty movie about Zidane showing, he gets sent off, so it has a happy ending.

[Beast]

Spain’s woeful week in Europe

Wednesday 24 February 2010 16:01

If Spain’s leading sports dailies were to remove their noses from Cristiano Ronaldo’s groin for just the briefest of moments - especially in the case of Marca, Wednesday’s edition boasting a disturbing upskirt shot of the forward posing in his skimpies - then they'd notice that most of the country's teams are walking the tightrope of doom in Europe.

Indeed, matters are so mouldy that it’s the more-off-key-than-Cheryl-Cole Barcelona who are in the best position to move through to the next round of European competition.

Although the Catalan club got the ‘vital away goal’ against Stuttgart, Pep’s Dream Boys were lucky to come away from Germany with more than a Tokio Hotel bootleg CD. Little more was deserved.

That’s certainly the message from the Barcelona press, who admit that Pep is the luckiest of bunnies after his side suffered a first-half tonking by their Teutonic rivals.

“The champion of the Champions were on the ropes in Germany,” admits Josep Maria Casanovas in Sport. “Guardiola’s men were under par, without spark, lacking depth and without an attack.”

“Ibra scored a golden goal,” was the sigh of relief from Mundo Deportivo's Santi Nolla, who reckons that Barcelona’s performance was the worst of the trio of tripe that includes the clashes with Atlético Madrid and Racing.

And this has left La Liga Loca feeling a tad sorry for the Cantabrian side, whose 4-0 thrashing on Saturday night has been widely seen in the Spanish media as a terrible result for their opponents.

Marca and AS have gone nuts by attributing Barça’s draw to... (drum roll...) the referee, who apparently missed two clear penalty claims for Stuttgart that the blog can’t for the life of it remember.

The worst game for ‘Pep Team’,” tutted Marca, forgetting that even when Barcelona suck, they still manage to score goals. Unlike a certain other team, for example.

“Barcelona went into the break losing just 1-0 thanks to the referee,” tittered AS editor Alfredo Relaño, who complains that Bjorn Kuipers’ “incompetence was irritating.”

Due to mighty Real Madrid’s incompetence against Lyon, Sevilla are left as the only Spanish side that could pick up a victory in the current elongated phase of European competition.

But hopes are not particularly high considering Manuel Jiménez’ side are facing CSKA Moscow on Wednesday night, without Luis Fabiano, on artificial turf and in -10˚C conditions.

The Spanish teams in last week’s Europa League matches were a complete waste of space and couldn't muster a victory between them.

Athletic Bilbao fans will be enjoying Thursday’s game in Brussels from the confines of a metal cage in the stadium - holding umbrellas, no doubt, due to last week’s wee-wee-gate business - whilst their players hang on to the 1-1 draw from the first leg against Anderlecht.

NEWS: Bilbao fan urinated on supporters


Atlético Madrid share the same perilous situation as their Basque comrades but must instead travel to Turkey to face Galatasaray. So that’s that for the Rojiblancos then.

Villarreal at least managed to score one more goal in their Europa Cup clash with Wolfsburg than the previous Primera pair. Unfortunately, so did their visitors to El Madrigal in a 2-2 draw.

Valencia completed what was a pitiful period for Spanish football with a 1-0 defeat in Bruges. And as in the film, there could be a very messy ending to this particular affair.

Of course, all (counting on hands) six teams who have already had their first legs could turn things around in the days, weeks and months to come. However, La Liga Loca has a feeling that only one of them will manage it.

But, as AS complain, “that’s the luck of the Champions.”

[Cule Angles]

You wouldn't need to, there isn't much in it. They make you go through security like in an airport, you even have to check any bags and jackets until you go out again. Cameras follow round everywhere, and armed guards to stop you taking photos of the inside. I hated it.

It did have a nice arty movie about Zidane showing, he gets sent off, so it has a happy ending.

Maybe the etarras share your taste in architecture.

[Super Pippo]

I know that is why they did it, but really, is ETA ever going to attack Bilbao, it's the safest city in Spain. I don't think they need such things there.

[Cule Angles]

Didn't they attack the ETB studios?

[Super Pippo]

Don't know, did they? I wouldn't think they would attack a museum that is the only international landmark of Pais Vasco, and is full of tourists - they prefer the families of policemen if i'm not mistaken.