Terrible night for football...?

The fact is that this sort of behaviour is becoming the culture of football everywhere, including in the UK. Recent 'old firm' games in Scotland have been as volatile as we saw tonight, not to mention sending bombs to people!

The media is not blameless in this as every tiny incident now gets blown out of all proportion.

I would urge you to watch the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLCZZAheNSU

The days of gentlemanly conduct are not coming back!

I agree completely. Shocking night for football and Spanish football in particular.

All the talk was that the game would be a great display of football, skill, passion, flair, etc but all it had was cheating, diving, and abusing the referee. If it wasn't for Messi at the end of the game then it would have been much worse.

English football has problems with certain players diving and disagreeing with every foul etc but last night proved that our league is much better in every way when compared to Spain. The football that Barcelona play is superb but I'd rather watch Arsenal, who play in a similar way but don't dive, cheat, and abuse the referee unlike Barcelona.

Very disappointing night.

Agree. The performance from arguably the two best clubs sides in the world was nothing short of disgusting. The first half was like watching compost rot while the second, Mesi's goals apart, was jusy a series of playacting, bad temper, poor passing and idiotic behaviour.

The Old Firm game in Scotland last week was a far more entertaining and, believe it or not, a much better footballing spectacle than this.....that's simply how bad my buddies and I thought of it.

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they surely did not give good example to young athletes (both teams) however, Messi's goals were amazing especially the second one :D.

anyway i was shocked by Mourinho's behaviour really bad example for many people or when Adebayor pushed Busquet's face. It surely doesn't promote RESPECT towards another player. There were flaws from Barca as well e.g. Pinto got red card for a fight. Huge disappointment :(

Oh well at least Messi scored two spectacular goals.

It's all because of the mean genius called Mourinho.

His tactics and his attitude sparks the violence.

But then again, it's El Classico and it's mostly violent. Pretty obvious if you know of the differences and tensions between Catalonia and Castillia. It's not just football.

You are absolutely correct. If that is the best Spain can offer, i say keep it. It was a disgrace to football.

By the way, Jordan is a muppet.

I stopped watching football ages ago for the reasons you have stated.

ya too violent. they think theyre so cool when they do that kind of stuff. they want to be seen by the public

I knoe , they get got up in the game