Monthly Archives: January 2014
The Rosell resignation: Is Barca more than a club?
More than thirty years of journalism, much of it investigative, with one of the most respected newspapers in the world- The Financial Times- taught me to be mindful of two of the contradictory threads in human nature: there is often more cock-up than conspiracy, while there is seldom smoke without fire. In the absence of the full facts of the case being in the open, and pending the outcome of an ongoing judicial enquiry , I am reluctant to jump too quickly to any conclusions about the current …
Atletico Madrid throws Barca the gauntlet
Nothing like a walk on my favourite beach in Sitges, to rediscover in some spontaneous beach football involving Catalans, other Spaniards and Latin Americans the game in its all its elemental joy, natural talent and skill. That the Camp Nou is but a short train ride and quick metro hop away gives Sitges’s inhabitants the added privilege of living within the radius and aura of one of the greatest sporting clubs in the world, FC Barcelona , that commands a loyalty only wholly understood not just in terms of …
