El Clasico: Barcelona v Real Madrid

different today compared to then. Long

written instructions to a lieutenant

Montalbán once wrote that FC Barcelona is, for Catalan nationalists, ‘the symbol of St George that periodically goes out and slays the metaphorical dragon of Real Madrid on our behalf – so we don’t have to.’ And as this book brings us up to date, we see how Mourinho has been more than happy to turn up in Barcelona playing the role of dr