"My team played some of the best football in history. But there are some luminaries who believe that only one type of football exists on earth. But these people only know football through Google. They swallow knowledge, but know nothing."
Oh, Jose, how can we set you straight? Are you projecting again? Feeling a little under appreciated considering that your club have scored the most goals that have ever been measured in the history of Spanish football? Your famous tridente, that record scoring attacking trident of Benzema, Higuain and of course Cristiano Ronaldo? You inherited it. In two years under your unquestioned leadership, with the greatest expenditure in world football history, you have two titles. One league and one cup. None of the players you have bought is a unquestioned starter. Again, you stand on the shoulders of craftsmen.
Oh sure, we can all point the finger that you've faced the black hand of conspiracy, the Barcelona-centric media or the idiotic cuento Chino of Villarato, invented by a frustrated and paranoid madridista by the way, but get a grip. Your club are the most decorated club in Spain, standard bearers of the regime, the richest club in the world, and yet again just like your employers, you can't just enjoy the win and enjoy the trophy, but you have to thumb your nose at critics, run through proverbial water sprinklers in your head and beat down the reporters, that you refused to meet with week-in-week out by the way, and you think we Google addicted football pundits should bow down at the altar of herr-translator and think that football is what Barcelona play and what Jose Mourinho clubs play are anti-football?
You are the footballing equivalent of Fox Executive Roger Ailes, who rails against the liberal-media bias and knows quite well that media is over-run by conservative, free-range wonks spouting obscenities at even the most moderate public service representatives. Your lot have won the debate, your brand of "anti-football" is what the modern game has devolved to. You're no revolutionary hero Jose.
That's the reason why FC Barcelona are hailed almost universally. They refuse to submit cynically to popular beliefs of what football is, what works in this modern setting, and what technocrats like Jose Mourinho would have us believe that an ancient game like football, codified by English upper-crust colonialists, is better served by disregarding the ball, taking advantage of an opponents mistakes, and pouncing on the handful of chances that you allow yourself during a match. The fact is Msgr Google-hater that there is obviously more than one way of playing football, that your warmed-over catenaccio is fruitful in spite of you rather than because of you, and it is you who have to learn that lesson.
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