Big debate in Iraqi Kurdistan
Mar 1st 2013 | 1:18 am
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Big debate in Iraqi Kurdistan
Who's better? Barca or Real?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21607705
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21607705
Noisy celebrations in the middle of the night, fights, even stabbings - this is the scene in one northern Iraqi city, after a match between Spanish football giants Barcelona and Real Madrid. Spain is thousands of miles away, but when the teams play - as they will on Saturday - passions in Erbil run very high.
Mar 1st 2013 | 1:28 am
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Re: Big debate in Iraqi Kurdistan
I couldn't possibly say, but f you´re a culé round here you have to keep a low profile.
When the merengues won the other night I could hear the cheers from the bar 2km away ... then the car horns as they did three laps of the village.
When the merengues won the other night I could hear the cheers from the bar 2km away ... then the car horns as they did three laps of the village.
Mar 2nd 2013 | 10:57 pm
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Re: Big debate in Iraqi Kurdistan
Another big game, another defeat for Barcelona. Billed by some as the world's best team, have they in reality become Big Game Bottlers?
Mar 3rd 2013 | 12:27 am
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It was very sad to see Adriano faking a dive though, that ¡s the sort of thing we expect from Cristiano!RM had their bad patch recently and have now bounced back. So will Barça I'm sure.
Mar 3rd 2013 | 8:09 pm
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Re: Big debate in Iraqi Kurdistan
It's generally accepted and rarely disputed that the Best Team is the one that ends the season on top of the league with more points than anyone else.
Barca have a 13 point cushion over Real and 11 over Athletico.
It would take almost total melt-down for them not to end up on top, with only 12 games to go,......... but there again stranger things have happened.
Barca have a 13 point cushion over Real and 11 over Athletico.
It would take almost total melt-down for them not to end up on top, with only 12 games to go,......... but there again stranger things have happened.
