Xavi v Ancelotti: Supercopa Clasico preview
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 11 January 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Here comes a peculiar Clasico - Real Madrid v Barcelona ... in Saudi Arabia.
Here's what I think about the circumstances around the Supercopa clash and then, as I wrote for ESPNFC, a little something about the connections between the two men in charge, and the power balance between these two titanic rivals.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, you crazy wonderful people. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to 2022. Yes, yes, I know we're 11, 12 days in to the new year and yes, I know you've already been feasting upon the big interview with Mark |
| 0:26.2 | Hatley an interview which took place in Fratelli Sarti, a wonderful venue in Glasgow, but it was recorded in 2021. There's no |
| 0:39.1 | point in trying to pull the wool over your eyes. This is the first bumper voice you've heard in |
| 0:45.1 | 2022 which was recorded in the new year. I'm gonna set aside my jovial tone, habitual |
| 0:51.0 | jovial tone, it's a quote from the judge in the intro to porridge. |
| 0:55.6 | To point out that this column I'm reading now will be published today on the 11th of January |
| 1:02.2 | and ESPN FC's site. I'm really proud to work for them. It's been now about, |
| 1:10.5 | I don't know, 11 years and I enjoy it and given free reign to put forward ideas |
| 1:16.7 | there's a range of very interesting writers they can find on the site, and I'm grateful to James Martin for having said that he's cool with me |
| 1:27.6 | recording these columns for you to listen to. I thought it was unavoidable to write about Wednesday night in European terms, Wednesday night's |
| 1:38.6 | match between Rheelma did in Barcelona and the Spanish Super Cup semi-final. But I can't be here amongst friends |
| 1:47.2 | amongst people that I respect and not note that while there's a separate debate raised recently by Raal Garcia of Athletic, |
| 1:56.0 | whether a nation's Super Cup should be held abroad or not, |
| 2:01.0 | I find that a different debate and it's not one I feel is vital to go into right now, but I must |
| 2:07.0 | register a distaste and objection to the idea that Saudi Arabia's money was good enough to host this tournament. |
| 2:15.1 | Again, for the second time, it was kept domestic last year in Seville because of the |
| 2:20.1 | pandemic, but this is the second time that Saudi Arabia has hosted this |
| 2:24.2 | tournament not because in any way the people of Saudi Arabia shouldn't be the |
| 2:30.3 | ones to use their their windfall wealth to tempt a federation to play big games there. |
| 2:39.3 | That's something that I think has multifaceted arguments about whether a country can raise |
| 2:48.6 | their expectations, raise their flag, their identity via money paying big athletes to come there in some |
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