2% Villa: what we have in common with Barcelona (after seiing the Superclasico)

[Archie]

Two things:

1 - we are Villa, they have Villa (to be or to have: this is the problem).

2 - we both are claret and blue. 

[pauliewalnuts]

I honestly don't think we, or almost every other club, are playing the same sport, after watching that.

[timeoutbigbar]

We both play a game called football, typically played with 11 players a side (unless sidwell and/or carew are on the pitch), involving a pair of goalposts and a round object.

Think thats the similarities done, anyone for pimms?

[Holtenderinthesky]

Two things:

1 - we are Villa, they have Villa (to be or to have: this is the problem).

2 - we both are claret and blue. 

Barcelona play in claret and blue?  Really?

[Archie]

Two things:

1 - we are Villa, they have Villa (to be or to have: this is the problem).

2 - we both are claret and blue. 

Barcelona play in claret and blue?  Really?

Why not? They are called the blau or azulgrana, that means: claret (grana) and blue (azul or blau).
Even if their blue is a proper blue, our is a pale blue.

[nick harper]

Breathtaking football - they have risen the game to a new level. The passing and control in unbelievably tight spaces.

Even better is their work rate on the few occasions they don't have the ball.

[nick harper]

Breathtaking football - they have risen the game to a new level. The passing and control in unbelievably tight spaces is incredible.

Even better is their work rate on the few occasions they don't have the ball.

[Chris Harte]

Why not? They are called the blau or azulgrana, that means: claret (grana) and blue (azul or blau).
Even if their blue is a proper blue, our is a pale blue.

I think in English their colours are described as "maroon and blue." There is a passing similarity but on balance I'd say the likes of West Aam and Barnsley are closer to our colours.

[Archie]

Why not? They are called the blau or azulgrana, that means: claret (grana) and blue (azul or blau).
Even if their blue is a proper blue, our is a pale blue.

I think in English their colours are described as "maroon and blue." There is a passing similarity but on balance I'd say the likes of West Aam and Barnsley are closer to our colours.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I have always had difficulties to understand the various shades of the colour that we call, after the wine, "bordeaux", in English.
But I thought that maroon was a darker colour,  the colour of Heart od Midlothian and the Arsenal farewell to Highbury shirt.
Claret is a red dark more purplish than brownish.
And if you compare the shirts, you can see that our claret is quite similar to Barça's.
Or not?   

[Chris Harte]

Perhaps I'm colour blind then because I would have said that that Arsenal and the Hearts shirts are more like the colour of Barcelona.

Ultimately, I just don't see shirt colours as something we have in common with Barcelona.

Perhaps we need a poll adding to get the views of people here?

[Merv]

We've got pretty scuzzy, small-time neighbours (with apologies to Espanyol, who I quite like).

[The Man With A Stick]

I bet they haven't got more canals than Venice.

[LeeB]

We're in the second city, and have spent years being stiffed by the facist pig-dogs from the capitol.

[darren woolley]

I would like to think that Barcelona's colours are claret and blue and i just wish we was as good as them.

[richard moore]

I honestly don't think we, or almost every other club, are playing the same sport, after watching that.

As ever, I agree with you PW. I sat there thinking this is actually a completely different sport to the one I saw Villa playing against Arsenal or even Leicester v Forest over on the other channel. Must be fantastic to live in Barcelona and watch that every week...