Birdy has some good football takes, but like a few others here, he is simply incapable of accepting an L when there is one to be accepted gracefully
The man professes to believe in scientific rigor/impassioned objectivity etc. and routinely and unironically attributes RM's CL dominance of the 2010s to voodoo and black magic
The man has spent the last 3-4 years trying to convince everyone Messi is a washed up bum who is a detriment to all teams, including 2022 Argentina. The same 2022 Argentina who were routinely backed by fivethirtyeight (a pioneering data science/analytics website) to be the deserving champions and who Birdy routinely uses in his arguments for teams (but conveniently only when fivethirtyeight's assessment matches with his preconceived notions)
Any opinions to the contrary are labeled trolling or delusional (dude call me a delusional or troll when I said Argentina were among the contender for the 2022 WC)
Having been through academia previously: He's one of those who considers himself the smartest man in the room/ someone privy to some higher understanding on matters simply because he was trained in scientific methodology. Meanwhile, actual geniuses over the years (Einstein, Feynman, Bohr etc.) have all routinely emphasized that they key to scientific exercise/endeavor is to not be as absolutely sure about things as you think you are.
TL;DR: Don't pay him much attention in THIS thread.
), they have to pretend to support Barca to save face. 
There's a difference.
I don't secretly wish for Barca to win because RL9 plays for them(actually the opposite). Just watch the games which RL9 plays if I can.
And I'm an LFC fan. There's never any conflict of interest. LFC always comes first in every situation. Not a glorthunter who latched on to the Barcelona bandwagon in their golden age when they were winning everything playing tiki taka.
Also, almost every international (i.e., not Catalan/living in Barcelona) football fan got introduced to Barca through one of their star players.
For me, it was R10. And then Messi, Xavi, Iniesta. Obviously, I'm going to follow those players around if they're playing at relevant clubs/competitions
There's some who follow CR7 around religiously (down to Portugal) - while being "diehard LFC fans". That's A LOT more strange than supporting an ex-Barcelona legend with 1000 G + A for Barcelona
"real" Barca fan with posts like thesethe goal scoring GOAT
top real madrid scorer
top CL scorer
top CL KOs scorer
top EURO scorer
joint top and soon sole top international scorer
oh and, as a bonus: reliably scores the penalties his teams need him to.
There's a difference.
I don't secretly wish for Barca to win because RL9 plays for them(actually the opposite). Just watch the games which RL9 plays if I can.
And I'm an LFC fan. There's never any conflict of interest. LFC always comes first in every situation. Not a glorthunter who latched on to the Barcelona bandwagon in their golden age when they were winning everything playing tiki taka.
