No football? Who cares? Madrid & Barça still fight


âÂÂGood effort, pats on the back and hip, hip, hooray!â is Friday's message from LLL, with Barcelona and Real Madrid proving that they donâÂÂt need football to have an unseemly cat-fight and keep everyone momentarily diverted from pretending to be interested in U-21 football all of a sudden.

Just when hostilities had died down in the siesta-inducing summer sun one month after the Clásico craziness, Barcelona president Sandro Rosell decided to stoke the embers of this particular footballing barbecue with a full-on, take-our-ball-home, not-fair strop aimed at evil Real Madrid.

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