Mourinho's comments were totally justified (photo from flickr)
When is this going to end I wonder. Barcelona are at it again. Don’t know what there problem is after all. What did Real Madrid do this time?. I think even though Barcelona have won the two major trophies this season, in their heart of hearts, Barcelona know that in all fairness it should have been Real Madrid.
It should have been Real Madrid with the La Liga Title and it should have been Real Madrid with the Champions League crown or at least the Champions League final appearance. Otherwise it just does not make any sense as to why Barcelona would show such shameful behavior.
Bad words coming from a players mouth, though ugly, is understandable as sometimes you say things you do not want to say in the heat of the moment. But Barcelona have gone one step further and now their president is maligning Real Madrid’s name.
Sandro Rosell is they president of Barcelona and he gave his views on the acrimonious encounters with Real Madrid last season in the league and in the Champions League and said that Barcelona will cut all ties with Real Madrid if Real Madrid “cross the boundary of sportsmanship ” again.
This is just outrageous. Did not not look at those matches. It was the Barcelona players who were theatrically taking dives and forcing the referee to reduce Real Madrid to ten men, which he did and Barcelona won. Where is the part where Real Madrid did something unsportsmanlike?
Sandro Rosell was pointing to the interview made by Jose Mourinho after Real Madrid lost 0-2 at home to Barcelona in the semi finals of the Champions League. A match which saw one of the worst refereeing decisions ever made when the referee sent of Pepe for a challenge deserving of a yellow cart at worst.
Rosell said :
“Madrid made accusations and conspiracy claims without any ground. They’ve tried to win off the pitch what they couldn’t win on it. We want to turn the page now, but if Madrid cross the limits of sportsmanship again, we won’t hesitate to break all relations.”
Rosell also then responded to Mourinho’s comments in which he said that Barcelona received special treatment from UEFA and that too in big Champions League games.
The news conference that the Real Madrid coach gave after the Champions League semi-final first-leg at the Bernabeu shamed anyone who considers themselves an athlete,” he said.
He was also really pissed off at the remarks made by one of the senior directors at Real Madrid who apparently claimed that Barcelona players use performance enhancing drugs last season.
“I can assure you that if someone, in the name of FC Barcelona, had made an accusation of this kind we would have acted with firmness, denying it immediately and taking those responsible to court,” Rosell said.
Now, in respond to that , Real Madrid have released an official statement which had denied all the wrong accusations put forward by the Barcelona president.
The statement says:
Real Madrid C.F. regrets the unfortunate statement made today by the President of F.C. Barcelona, nonetheless understanding said remarks respond to the pressure felt by its Board of Directors coming from a particular sector of the media close the club and demanding a more aggressive attitude towards our entity.
The grave and false insinuations in the speech relating to certain reports on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport, that have nothing to do (neither in origin nor fruition) with Real Madrid C.F., are incomprehensible to us, given that everybody knows our club immediately and categorically denied said reports on the media platform they were published in.
It is important to remember that, facing the aforementioned pressure, F.C. Barcelona lodged an astonishing formal complaint against the coach of Real Madrid C.F. at UEFA, something unprecedented in the relations between both clubs.
Despite this unprecedented event and the statement made by the President of F.C. Barcelona, and for the good of football, Real Madrid C.F. will continue to work to have the best relations with F.C. Barcelona, as it always does with every other club from Spain and the rest of world.
Finally, Real Madrid C.F. once more reiterates its commitment to sportsmanship and the values inherent in football, especially those regarding fair play and the unequivocal battle against racism. The club regards these as essential elements in sport that set a valuable example for children around world
I do not know when this rant of Barcelona’s is going to end. They are the Spanish Champions and the European Champions, so it does not befit them to act in such way. Last week it was Pique and now it is Barcelona’s president. It is just getting a bit ugly now. Barcelona should at least let the season start and then make comments like this so that everyone is in full flow to respond to them.
Right now its the off season. Somebody should tell Barcelona that.
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