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Hangover Recovery

// July 20th, 2010 // Uncategorized

Hopefully, Liverpool shirts aren't One Size Fits All

And what am I left with now? Ooooh, Joe Cole signed for Liverpool. Snore. My team Barcelona got rid of one of my favorite players, Yaya Toure, and replaced him with a guy who looks like he’s wearing a wig. Sigh. And I’m having mixed feelings about being a Barcelona fan these days. We are just too good. I preferred them when they were the slight underdog. The late 1990s Barca, which won a couple leagues but self-destructed in the Champions League was my ish. They got your hopes up on the weekend that they were wonderful and then got hammered by teams like PSV Eindhoven on Wednesday nights. Then there were some horribly dark years when I poked pins at my Patrick Kluivert voodoo doll every time he missed a sitter from six yards out but didn’t look to sad, because hey!, he was out in the Barcelona clubs every night and living it up anyway. And don’t even get me started on Fabio Rochemback.

Head down, ready to hoof it into oblivion

Extended digression: For all of you new fans who loved Ronaldinho and love Messi, just know that we once had to suffer through a disaster named Fabio Rochemback. I was once visiting the part of my family that lives in Barcelona (the reason I’m a fan) and we were watching an already-eliminated Barca play their final CL group game against Newcastle in around 2002 (you know you are a real fan when you watch a meaningless Barca-Newcastle game on TV when you could be out and about at night in Barcelona) when Rochemback blasted a ball in the 79th row, when my cousin’s boyfriend Marc screamed “!Pero ese tío es el anti-futbol!” (“That dude is the anti-soccer!” – it’s funnier-sounding in Spanish.)  But the horizons are beginning to brighten up a bit. I passed by a replay of a Barca-Sevilla game from last season on GolTV last night and forgot that the quality of play of top European teams is a LOT better than anything at the World Cup. And this Sunday I’m accompanying Cass and others to see his beloved Man City Oilers against Thierry Henry’s Red Bulls, with some Sporting Lisbon v. Tottenham Hotspurs (mmmnn, Luka Modric) sprinkled on a double scoop of soccer friendly action. And in a month, everything will be back to normal.

Posted by Lazar