There's football and there's football.
It's hard to encapsulate just what sport can do for people sometimes. In its purest form, it is a magical place where we can all escape to. It's a place where you can go to believe that anything is possible. You watch these warrior-like athletes rise above themselves and touch greatness and, when they do that, they remind us all that we can do the same.
(As long as it's not kicking the football the same way as they do...)
We don't need to go into how good that match was between Barcelona and PSG. We can ask a question though, a very reasonable question:
The football-loving world of Ireland and Britain lost their shit at what unfolded at the Camp Nou on Wednesday but imagine - God almighty, imagine - you were a Barca fan.
Or imagine you had some sort of money riding on it.
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Well, the commentators at Moguts Pel Barca earned their money with how they called that iconic Sergi Roberto winner in the 95th minute. They earned their money and all the fulfillment they could ever need following Barcelona.
This is a club that has produced some of the greatest teams of all time and won everything there is to win. But very rarely would these fans have found themselves 4-0 down to any side. More seldom would they have found themselves needing three goals with two minutes of normal time remaining.
They've hardly experienced adversity like it. They've not needed to come through those circumstances.
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With seconds on the clock, Barcelona needed to find their third goal in seven minutes. They found it in the most spectacular of circumstances and the scenes that unfolded on the pitch were spine-tingling.
The scenes in the stands were even more special. Look at the passion, listen to the joy, feel the emotion.
This is football.
The way it should be.
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