Comment of the week
This week’s comment of the week goes to KaushikG’s comment on Club to limit new memberships. Congratulations!
“In one of my first comments on this site there was a topic regarding financial troubles of Barca, just at the time when Rosell became the president. I analysed the financials as represented on the referred website (Some Switzerland Bank ) and found that Rosell was simply discovering a way to glorify himself and mudsling Laporta but I said that if he manages to treat people like Cruyff and others who made such great contributions to the club well then I will support him. It seems he does not want support. It seems he is turning a club into a country rather that representing one. A country where you can have your visa but u wont have your citizenship unless u were born in it.
Lets consider this for once what it will do to the club. Limiting membership will result in putting a stop to globalization of the club and will dent its reputation as a “Mes Que Un Club” unless u interpret it as “Its more than just a club so u are too ordinary to support it”. This will severely affect the goodwill that the club has garnered over so many years through its benevolent actions and lofty values. The code of conduct as drawn out by the board of members recently is also derogatory in the sense it aims at curbing freedom of players and making the club a dictator regime. I know these words make me look like a pessimist but the actions of our president of so loved club of ours breaks my unconditional trust in Barca. Not that I will love it any less just that these set of action unless reversed will begin a new Era at Barca, an Era where we (I am saying while I can say “we”) will be the Franco and Madrid will become what once Barca represented.
“Loss of a friend hurts but what shatters my heart is when he becomes my enemy”
he deserves it
well done KG!!
I respect TB admins' decision in picking this comment as the best of the week (although I don't know on what basis), but IMO, this poster, alongside sooooo many foreign cules, has misunderstood what 'type' of globalization that the Catalans intend to adopt for marketing the Barca brand. Please people, stop thinking that the only way to globalize a football club is by following the EPL marketing model (bringing in people from all corners of the world). I despise that model, because that model tend to be very result-oriented, with money-making, attention-seeking policy, without any feel of 'romance', like what we are seeing currently on that island.
I am also not a Catalan, I am a total Asian by birth. But I am not getting offended by the board's action, just because the FC Barcelona that I know for nearly 12 years now, is the club that represent and embody everything about Catalunya and its people. Their survival, their pride, their way of doing things, all are embodied by the way FCB is run. I can safely say that for Catalans, FC Barcelona is like what Athletic is for the Vascos. The only difference is that Catalans tend to open up their doors more to foreigners, while Vascos are more 'reserved', hence once in a time there are new 'honorary Catalans' being hailed by the Catalans. Most notable are Kubala and Johan Cruyff. But these people tend to be the ones who have contributed directly on the pitch, and the trophy cupboard. We fans should not compare the privileges they get to what we get, because, simply, we are just 'fans'.
You have a valid argument but look at this side. I for one have been FC Barcelona fan for eleven years, I have witnessed one of the worst trophy-less periods of the club, being a kid I could have been a gloryhunter and went out supporting the other more successful clubs in the EPL or Spain. being here in India doesn't help either where football means EPL. But I stayed with the club not only for the football, I was soo young to understand total football I tell you but I stuck with the club for the values it represent. The values of freedom, open-heartedness, and struggle against dictatorship.
I defended those values and carried the club in my heart. For me FC Barcelona is the most important thing in life and I mean it.
And one fine day the administrators wake up and tell me this club is not for me. I am just a second grade fan from outside. I don't accept it. Its okay that they would like to have a Catalan as the president for the sheer sacrifice they made with this club I really don't mind it. FC Barcelona was more than a club because it was the club of the fans, of us. And they have distinguished between the fans. I don't see a difference between Franco not allowing any other language other than Spanish to be spoken in Spain and this. For me both smell of Xenophobia.
totally agree with shekhu..it feel like all our effort all these year aren't apreciated..we were just born outside catalunya..nothing less..the desire as fan in our heart is the same no matter where we are from..
Not surprising, totalbarca picks an anti-Rossell comment as comment of the month, I guess it was just a matter of finding the most derogatory and hatefull?
But it is in keeping with the style of the site. I think it is fantastic when it comes to news and reports, but when it comes to politics, it is one long condescending smear campaign against Rossell.
I'm not advocating "love the president because his is the president", but I am disgusted with the seeming approach of criticising for the sake of criticism.
Thanks Guys, I am not much for a depressive guy and rarely does anything hurts me so much than this did. Looking to the sunnier side, this just gives all of us an opportunity to show just how much of a cule we are by still sticking to the club we all bear in our heart. The night is the darkest just before the dawn, I hope this is that part of night.
Thanks Guys, I am not much for a depressive guy and rarely does anything hurts me so much than this did. Looking to the sunnier side, this just gives all of us an opportunity to show just how much of a cule we are by still sticking to the club we all bear in our heart.
I am gonna support Bojan tonight. Come to chat if u wanna bear a testament to that..;)
I think you have a very valid point. We are trying to make a point of being less biased in general, or at least to present both sides of every argument. But every writer on the site does have a personal bias which does creep into their writing and choices, and that's something we can't really take away from each individual (as a volunteer group).
I am not a big fan of Rosell, but I didn't mention him once in the opinion piece I wrote on limited membership. And at least as far as the Laporta lawsuit went, the best pro-Rosell viewpoint was from Sid Lowe (http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/oct/18/barcelona-end-of-expensive-era) which was heavily anti-Laporta (and carries its own bias).
But in short, we're trying.