This Could Be My Last Clasico
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Barcelona’s players must form a corridor of honour for Real Madrid, the cate champions, much to Rijkaard’s distaste.
“It pains me to form the guard of honour because I wanted us to be champion,” he told Sport.es
“But you need to be sporting about it and it’s customary to form a corridor for the league champions, so there’s little point in dwelling on it.”
The Dutch manager admitted that this “could be [his] last Madrid-Barcelona” in light of recent rumours that he was to be sacked, and as such tonight’s Clásico takes on extra significance.
He said, “Our major objective is to win in Madrid for the club, the players, and the cate fans.
“Clearly we’ll come up against a buoyant Madrid side, given that they’ve won the league, and maybe against another side they’d relax, but against Barcelona they’ll surely give their all with the goal of cate showing their fans a great game.”
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