Starting saturday Barça will meet Real Madrid, their arch rivals from political beef of the Franco regime to the contemporary spending wars of la liga, in four games to be played over the next 18 days that will determine the titles both teams are still playing for.
The only out and out cup final will be the Copa del Rey match played on 4/20. Then the two champions league semi-finals to see who will advance to the European championship.
First, come saturday will be the second clasico to be played of la liga's competition. This one in Madrid, the previous was the Blaugrana's outrageous victory in Barcelona. The cup matches still to be played, Barcelona will have to figure out how to construct a solid arc of victory over Madrid in the next few weeks as they have already shown themselves to be the better of their rivals over two and a half seasons.
Barça have won every one of the last five games with Madrid, outscoring them 16-2. Four of those games have been shut-outs. Now they will play eachother as many times in three weeks as they have gotten to in two years.
All of the big euro spending to assemble neo-galacticos teams, the ravenous press speculation and cult of personality that has been blown up to gladiator status. Thoroughbred and bio-genetically engineered. Fút-bots for professional play in the greatest spectacle of team sports. That machinery has invested into creating this next stretch of games; the vintage of which has been blown up to the world as the master display of now.
They want you to grip close to the game as its being played. To watch enrapt and give of it your attention fully. To engage it's petty dramas and outrageous fruition. They are paying so you'll do it.
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