Perhaps Rangers-Celtic is a closer analogy

Though I think most people don't give a toss. You used to see those split YourTeam/Celtic or Rangers hats around in the 80s.

Posted By: yarmyyarmy on April 14th 2011 at 12:40:27

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The Sky advert for Barca v Real says (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 14, 12:32:21
- Barcelona don't consider themselves Spanish (n/m) (Other Football) - CB41, Apr 14, 12:42:35
  - There's a lot of that in Spain (Other Football) - yarmyyarmy, Apr 14, 12:44:01
    - Understandable when you see how the Catalans were treated under Franco (n/m) (Other Football) - CB41, Apr 14, 12:45:24
      - although I think that was because they didn't consider themselves Spanish... (n/m) (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Apr 14, 12:50:34
        
        They weren't (n/m) (Other Football) - CB41, Apr 14, 12:58:32
        
        Catalonia was an autonomous region in the pre-Civil War Spanish Republic ... (n/m) (Other Football) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Apr 14, 12:53:03
        
        yeah. my point was just that you shouldn't think catalan nationalism exists (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Apr 14, 12:58:08
        
        Ah, agreed (n/m) (Other Football) - CB41, Apr 14, 13:00:51
        
        And a bit like the Cravendale cows they want it back (n/m) (Other Football) - Dandy Highburyman, Apr 14, 12:55:07
- I remember when they had a "top 4/5" Now it really is just them 2 (n/m) (Other Football) - Alan, Apr 14, 12:34:34
- There meme is that all Spanish footy fans have a 2nd team that is either Barca or Real (Other Football) - yarmyyarmy, Apr 14, 12:34:13
  - Barca are one of my second teams... (Other Football) - Dandy Highburyman, Apr 14, 12:51:30
    - How concerned? (n/m) (Other Football) - CB41, Apr 14, 13:00:01
      - Very (n/m) (Other Football) - Dandy Highburyman, Apr 14, 13:07:08
        
        Good (n/m) (Other Football) - CB41, Apr 14, 13:15:27
        
        You? (n/m) (Other Football) - Dandy Highburyman, Apr 14, 13:33:00
  - I see (Other Football) - Charles21, Apr 14, 12:38:21
    - Perhaps Rangers-Celtic is a closer analogy (Other Football) - yarmyyarmy, Apr 14, 12:40:27
  - from my experience out there, it is (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Apr 14, 12:37:02
  - *The* (n/m) (Other Football) - yarmyyarmy, Apr 14, 12:34:31

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