Gosh, the world would be so much funnier if all the politicians were club presidents instead.

refernce number 5- Should be "Or build houses on ground next to your house causing up to 3 years of disruption to your everyday life without him giving a flying one. Despite the fact that the local community voted overwhelmingly against it".Visca "the People's Club"

By the way this is their "community" plan for the Mini- Stadium. Private housing as well none of that cheap public rubbish.Locals wanted a park.

Oh yes and the renaming of every Metro station. So they are called Camp Nou,Then ,One stop from Camp Nou,You get the idea.

Poor old Joan, it's been at least two days since he was last in the headlines.What's a president to do when things are going well and it's only November, meaning nobody (apart from the press) can get too excited? I'd like to see Joan and Daniel "Dani" Sanchez Llibre do a duet of "happy talk" at some point. Now that would be worth watching and Espanyol would get more turning up for that than they did for their game against Osasuna.

Paul, we've only requested that one metro station which has yet to be built be named "Camp Nou". Fair enough really considering the amount of people that come from far and wide to visit our stadium, which is why it has attraced widespread support. Maybe you could petition the Ajuntament of Cornellà to name a bus stop after your club?

The planning application has yet to be heard or accepted but since when have any local residents ever approved of any building project? If you left it up to local residents then nothing would get built thanks to the "Not on my doorstep" mentality. Funnily enough there isn't a lot of money in park land and Barça need the money from the sale of the land to finance the modernisation of the Camp Nou. You object to the housing being private but you'd be moaning like hell if the city council bought the land to build public housing.  

Yeah, Pablo Perico aside (and I luvya, man, what's life w/o a nemesis), I have to say Barça would be so cool without this ... Catalan thang. Doh, I said it! I really do get tired of the political melodrama. Not that no one else is doing it, but it just detracts from the real issue: the game. On the other hand, I grew up in a place where gossip and political melodrama were the community's way of entertaining itself, so maybe I'm biased. The good news: the Blaugrana are on a royal tear on the pitch. You think a flooded field's going to make your game any easier against FCB? Think again, mi amigo. And, the whole spitting thing? When I was playing as a youth in the 70s and 80s there were some games I used the ball as a convenient alibi for doing a roundkick at an opponent's head. And, of course, they deserved it.

So according to Adam ,Barça are more important than Local people.

You made some fair points but yet again the "community club" shafts the community. Do you honestly believe they won't get their way ?

By the way i think cheap affordable housing would be giving back to the local people who suffer enough on match days. As long as the council built the houses i'd have no problem with that,Honest.

they can't exactly lower the tone with your mob there can they.

"Now that would be worth watching and Espanyol would get more turning up for that than they did for their game against Osasuna."

there was only so few fans becuase it was raining. we are usually the greatest fans in spain for atmosphere and loyalty but you can't expect us too go to the crap stadium in the rain when it doesn't have a roof

I think you have to look at Gijón for loyal fans. Look at how many travel to away games. I don't think any other club can match them for this.

Paul, I don't think Barca are more important than the local people but the project in question could be of benefit to the city and "local residents" are never the ones to listen to because in every planning project the "local residents" have objections. That's why there are planning committees to decide on such things.

I don't believe for a minute that you wouldn't be screaming "corruption" at an annoyingly loud volume if the city council bought the land.

Who controls Barcelona city council ? they are members of which "Sporting Club" ?

This project is only of benefit to one group of people who also happen to have more than half a dozen property developers on the board and local council members too.

The raining thing. You lot are the worst. Watch their attendences when it rains. It drops by about 20,000.

remember the champions league match against Newcastle. It P***** it down and the total attendance was 20,000 including 6,000 from Newcastle.

110,00 season ticket holders - 14,000 = 96,000 people missing.

Barça wins again

Paul, when it comes to Barça-Espanyol, we nearly always win ;) At least you'll be the biggest club in Cornellà.

By the way, you're inventing "facts" again (like the theory that Barça had more Nike logos on their strip than any other side - simply untrue). We don't have 110,000 season ticket holders, our stadium only holds 98,000 and we have 70,000 STH's. That's still a lot of no-shows and there are few if any excuses for their poor attendances whilst thousands who would show up every week are made to buy tickets they can little afford every week (the discount on ST's is massive at Barça).