On the second of May, 2009, at the Santiago Bernabéu, in front of eighty thousand people who had come expecting a contest and received instead a sermon, Barcelona beat Real Madrid six goals to two. The scoreline is the least interesting thing about what happened that night. Real Madrid were not a bad team. They were not disorganised or unprepared or unfortunate. They had Sergio Ramos and Pepe and Iker Casillas. They had Arjen Robben and Gonzal…
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