Nicholas Mead

Posted in Blog, FC Barcelona | Tagged barcelona v chelsea, Champions League, FC Barcelona, fcb, iniesta, iniesta goal, iniesta goal youtube, youtube barcelona | 6 Comments

6 Responses

1. on May 8, 2009 at 10:40 Tom

   Hahaha brilliant!!!

   
   
2. on May 8, 2009 at 17:01 Irene Tomlinson

   Hi Nick

   If that’s not another, arguably far less productive version of the ‘religious mania’, that I was ostracized for by many and ‘one in particular`’ when full of my evangelical zeal, may years ago, then I don’t know what is!

   `Annonymous`

   
   
3. on May 8, 2009 at 17:52 admin

   Well they do say football is a religion in Spain!

   
   
4. on May 9, 2009 at 10:09 Mike

   Great Nick,

   Just waiting on some clients at work and you have put a big smile on my face with that……great to be Catalans, no?

   
   
5. on May 9, 2009 at 14:12 admin

   Nice to hear from you Mike and hope all is well. I never get tire of hearing it both for what it represented and just pure entertainment value. I have to agree, it did indeed strike a Catalan chord inside of me I never knew existed.

   
   
6. on July 10, 2010 at 18:50 admin

   2010 Update: Eureka! I’ve finally realised why he says the “Gol de la gusiluz!” bit in this rant.

   Iniesta is sarcastically portrayed as a glow worm in the Spanish comedy show Crakovia because of his pale skin. “Guziluz” is Spanish for “glow worm” and the commentator was obviously referring to this brilliant sketch on the show:

   
   

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