Sport
A brutal but necessary farewell to Barca’s greatest era – The World Game
“The hottest love has the coldest ending”, opined Socrates. For FC Barcelona, and those who loved watching them over the past 12 years, that ending was even colder than the Greek philosopher could have imagined.
Close followers of the Blaugrana can pinpoint various slip-ups in recent years but this is the one time everyone can acknowledge that the affair is over.
It ended as it had to: brutally. Bayern Munichs 8-2 demolition job of Barcelona was so striking and so severe that it has obliterated the last refuge of the football scoundrel: hope.
There had remained flickering embers of that kind. Any team with Leo Messi, Luis Suarez, Gerard Pique and Arturo Vidal remains surely competitive with any in the…
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