Playing at home (VI)

This week we saw, for the umpteenth time, most entrenched football journalism to be measured in one of his absurd battles. The excuse, no reason, this time was the yellow card he received one who can not play dumb on the part of another that it was thinking that everyone else are. But luckily for us, there remains a group of indomitable Gauls every week thinking that we write for readers, not consumers.

• We started with a beautiful ode, almost an elegy, dedicated to the best football that has ever existed: the one and only Etruscan. The manager of the tribute, is Carlos Vanaclocha on his blog Stop-and-goal . You not to overlook the small photograph that heads the text: Ode to the Etruscan

• The defeat of Barcelona in Getafe has been much talk, especially the false prophets of doom Barca, who had accumulated bile from the Super Cup. Moving away from the scrum, we found two very different readings on this track; one, from the dry humor of the people of modern football eternal hate : Lehman Barca or doomsday theory , and one from the tactical analysis by Marti's Perarnau: irrelevance to the castle

• We continue to Perarnau wise to emphasize that his blog is a must read for anyone who believes that football is hidden within the art of war and therefore there is nothing better than chess to define and explain the movements key to many victories and defeats. And chess is often the basis of that part when analyzing tactical Perarnau parties, and while it may seem otherwise, far from turning his writings into something too technical and mechanical, achieves the opposite: to humanise both coaches and players. To show, in addition to the above, a true marvel: Sandoval opens, closes Guardiola

• These little characters that surround us in stages, bars and talk shows that will not stop barking topic after topic gives me a perverse attraction, repulsion and I appeal to me at the same time. I can not help paying attention even knowing that I know what I'll end up smelling. Ramon Flores, Daily soccer , reflects on two of those topics bar at the Great in the small or large in the small

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