I mean sure it can be slow with low scores and shit..

but we don't care..

What makes it interesting to us is the symbolism and the values...



Naively offensive Barça gets slammed by Cynical Mourinho's tactics ?
heartbreak

Brave, courageous Liverpool kills Milan's winning machine ?
worldwide orgasm

1999 Cl final ? boring as hell.. until the last seconds.. then.. then.. Who wouldn't enjoy seeing arrogant and apparently undefeatable Bayern get slammed ?

who ? may be Liverpool fans.. lol


Roma-Lazio derbies are boring matches in general.. as far as the quality of the play on the field...

but yo. intensity ?
the noise ?
the division in Roma ?

priceless.


and yes.. it's a masochist sport..

Holland's defeats ? 1974, people ?
Germany's voctories ? 1974, people ?

and sometimes the good guys win.. thank god we all have Brazil (well Argentina may be the only ones mad at that)


then there are the rivalries...

Celtic-Rangers in Glasgow: catholic-protestant
Roma-Lazio : left-right (or fascist-communist)
Lyon-St Etienne : the bourgie town vs their blue cloor neighbourg
Real - Barça / Real-Bilbao / Real-FC Sevilla / Real-Valencia : well.. you know the story..;

most of them predate the sport
and are bigger than the sport

and the sport can be a metaphor of real life.

Didn't Barça slam Real 4-0 AT BERNABEU for the last derby before Franco's death ?
Didn't Real get slammed by Bilbao and Barça last year ? just when the PP was losing the country ?

or we can talk about the Beatles on a field (aka Ajax early 70's)
or we can talk about the Bayern revolutions
or we can talk about Juventus's rules
or we can talk about Napoli, Maradonna and its symbolism


that's why shit is great
that's also why it sucks sometimes





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*TWINNING*