So the referee handled the club

At the time that Jose Luis Gonzalez Gonzalez and his assistant grandstand banda Pinto did not see taking the ball to Roberto Soldado hand beyond the line of the area, Barcelona singing victory. He had his reasons, and because I got an immediate performance rather than its change in strategy regarding the arbitration work, orchestrated for days since Xavi Hernandez declared open season a few weeks ago, when before two quarterfinal matches against Madrid said feel hurt, "I have the feeling that this year hurt us more than others." The day before the party, the president and Barca coach agreed to launch a Machiavellian the message that the club Catalans until now felt hurt and it was time to repay. At the cost in this case of Valencia.

Came the week of Valencia-Barca and harassment started it's own Leo Messi in the mixed zone of El Madrigal, where Pep Guardiola's team equalized to zero and yielded two more points you away from Real Madrid in La Liga. The Argentinian star also broke the unwritten rule of the Catalan club. The mixed zone appeared eager to talk with the press, something quite unusual for him, of course, but it was with the sole intention of launching a clear and direct message also against the collective arbitration. These were his exact words: "I do not like to talk about the referees but sometimes they are arrogant and threaten you with a high card draw."

First was the captain and then the star who launched two separate critical messages, but coming on game day and with it the time of the heavyweights. On Tuesday morning, the president Sandro Rosell took the floor in an act of the FC Barcelona Foundation and launched a hard time qualifying message: "There are days that referees make mistakes in your favor and some against. So far this year does not bode well for Barca, but I would answer that question at the end of the year because these things usually end up swinging. " That is, balance. Sometimes even very fast, as in this case because only a day after the club was clearly benefited Mestalla in a game that can give the ticket to the final of the Copa del Rey and the chance to win a title. More complicated what would have played more than an hour outnumbered.

Rosell said, last but not least, who did not speak on behalf of FC Barcelona, ​​"but the sport" because "we are human and errors and what is sought is that the competition all have the same treatment." His pressure made little impact on an arbitrator experienced in this type of matches to achieve exactly the opposite effect: making the Valencia did not have the same treatment as Barcelona in the major decisions.

Guardiola, on line

Sandro Rosell's words were echoed by all means after dinner on Tuesday and, as in the afternoon, they asked for them to Pep Guardiola in the press conference before the game was going to be played in Mestalla. Barcelona coach theorized about what is and what is not talking about the referees, which is complaining and what not, if it's good for football or bad for the referees. He spoke also of the media power of Real Madrid ... But the bottom line at the end left a piece very similar to that hours before the president had declared: "By all means, it is normal that I get angry when the referees make mistakes against me but then I think and say, ' will have been wrong. " I am representative of a club and I know that in another game, another decision will favor me. " And just 24 hours after favored him in a move that coach himself called "the party that condition." "In the end these things are balanced," "in another decision will favor me." Is it a mere coincidence or answer a perfectly planned strategy?

Everyone was

Yesterday, all the press in Valencia, Catalonia, Madrid and global agreed unanimously by the error of Gonzalez Gonzalez, who clearly benefited Barcelona in a key moment, when a title is at stake. As Manuel Llorente said after the game, sometimes benefit from Barcelona to Madrid and other, others do not exist.