I understand every team has instances where they have had disgusting behaviour on the pitch. I've never seen anything like last night though. It was constant. Horrible to see.
Pull the reins on that high horse for a minute.
The vast majority of the unsavoury stuff last night came from Real.
Yes, a few of the Barca players were play-acting...but Busquets and Alves have unfortunately been at this for ages so it's no surprise.
Pedro and Villa have plenty of form for that shit too.
But Real were a disgrace...their manager put them on the pitch to do nothing but disrupt the game.
Ramos deserved a yellow without question for his body check on Messi, Marcelo should have been sent off for his stamp on Pedro, Pepe was harshly treated but was so stupid to go in like that in the first place.
On top of this, Arbeloa was lucky not to have been punished and Marcelo could also have been pulled up for other persistent fouls.
Even Xabi was trying to kick them on the way past, all because that was part of Mourinho's 'masterplan'.
Then we had the Real diving...Di Maria is pathetic, refusing to stand up to the slightest challenge, while Ronaldo is now a veteran at this nonsense. Pepe was also at it and Marcelo showed his unsavoury side time and again, not just last night but against Spurs when he laughed at having gotten Crouch sent off with his outrageous leap.
To tar both teams last night with the same brush in some sort of attempt to elevate your lot to a higher moral plane is fucking laughable.
A team whose harrassment of refs is taken as some sort of unfortunate necessity, whose supposedly angelic midfielder has a career-long history of nearly breaking legs with reckless tackles that are then laughed off, whose manager blindly accuses everyone outside his club of bias while avoiding even the slightest meaningful sanction, and whose supposed star player has grown into one of the most contemptible, arrogant shithouses in the game.
As for the diving, out your own house in order first.
Nani is a joke, Hernandez is fond of it as well and the martian up front is far from innocent.
Every club has its divers, us included, and it's embarrassing to watch, but don't go throwing insults when you have no place doing so.