Anything Rafa can do, Pep can do better
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- Created: Monday, 23 March 2009 21:52
- Written by Benjamin Cullen
Pep Guardiola's Barcelona manage to trump Liverpool’s 5-0 trouncing with a 6-0 victory of their own, whilst Juande Ramos gets the right foot but perhaps the wrong man?
Real Madrid were hoping to pile the pressure on Barcelona with a home win against Almeria that would take them, temporarily at least, to within 3 points of the league leaders.
A top Klaas Jan Huntelaar helped them do just that with yet another brace. The Dutch striker, a January arrival at the Bernabeu, has really made the lead striker role his own with some superb form of late. In fact his 8 goals in the last 6 games have left many Madrileños wondering if perhaps Ramos got it wrong by sacrificing Huntelaar instead of Diarra in their recent ill fated Champions League campaign.
When can a chest be mistaken for a hand?
Football is often about momentum. In the wake of the Raf-Rant episode, the title race impetus seemed to be behind Man Utd. Sycophantic pundits (that Ferguson tea-bagger, ‘Mr. That night in Barcelona’ Clive Tyldesley being at the forefront) were unabashedly drooling over a sequence of Man Utd victories that saw them not concede for 13 games and attaching grating little monikers such as ‘the untouchables’ to the team.
The holding midfielder is the darling of the modern game - the thinking man’s player of choice. Those ‘in the know’ will tell you that their intelligence, work rate and ability to read the game underpin any great side. 
Football is a game rich in tradition. It began somewhere, possibly a pub car park, possibly somewhere involving grass and roots.