Real Madrid & Barcelona: the Making of a Rivalry

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There is so much morbo festering between these two sides that they would have to employ a very powerful priest to exorcise the phenomenon, always presuming that they wanted to.

It's not merely that they hate each other with an intensity that can truly shock the outsider, but that each encounter between them always has a new ingredient. This is the essence of morbo. It feeds off itself and keeps growing until it becomes a self-regulating and self-perpetuating organism.

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Spain is something of an unforgiving country - one that, as the writer Jan Morris once put it, dedicated itself to the art of the self-inflicted wound and that is committed to acts of cruelty against its own kind rather too often. While there are people still around who fought and suffered in the civil war and whole swathes of the populace who lived under Franco and either hated or loved every minute of it, you have a recipe for a very spicy soup indeed. The cat-and-dog synergy that has always existed between Barcelona and Madrid, even before the Catalans began to get assertive, is the basis of the morbo , but the Spanish are most adept at stoking and fanning the flames.

The football tabloid Marca is the unrivalled expert in the art of creating the new season's spice between these two great clubs. Based in Madrid, although it originated in the Basque Country, it makes no secret of its allegiance to its local heroes, nor of its antipathy towards the Catalans in general and FC Barcelona in particular.

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In July , when the Portuguese midfielder Luis Figo became the world's most expensive player on being transferred from Barcelona to Real Madrid, the paper went into a frenzy. The transfer was perceived by the Barcelona faithful as an affront to their image and their soul.

There, were few precedents. Only the Dane Michael Laudrup and Bernd Schuster in recent years had dared to make the move and while Laudrup, like Figo, was popular with the supporters, he had fallen out publicly with Johan Cruyff, then Barcelona's manager. Schuster's move in was greeted with derision in the Catalan capital, but few were sorry to see him go. When he returned to the Camp Nou on 22 October , three months after what was probably the most notorious transfer in Spanish football, Marca , proud of its reputation as a troublemaker, published a simple picture of Figo's ear under the headline Figo: Te van a calentar la oreja Figo, they're going to make your ears burn.

And they did, Figo, famed for his consistency, was unable to function. Every time he ventured near a corner flag he was met with a barrage of abuse, angry gestures and various objects - including three mobile phones, several half bricks, a bicycle chain and a shower of coins, all meticulously noted in the referee's report. Figo will not be playing in Tuesday's first leg because he is suspended. Three years earlier Luis Enrique, one of the most consistent and affable Spanish players of the s, moved from Madrid to Barcelona.

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Marca - just in case the player's appearance was not going to be greeted with sufficient abuse - decided to remind the Spanish public the day beforehand that he was a traitor. Unlike Figo, Luis Enrique scored when the two sides met, and has subsequently continued to add value to his own particular morbo quotient by such simple acts as kissing the Catalan shield on his shirt whenever he scores against his former club he is not a Catalan - no matter or telling the press how happy he is to live in such a vibrant and open city as Barcelona - the implication being that Madrid is exactly the opposite.

Laudrup moved the other way in and ended Barcelona's so-called Dream Team sequence of four consecutive titles by linking up instinctively with the Chilean forward Ivan Zamorano and helping to return the title to the Bernabeu in his first season there. A more decent and modest chap than Laudrup it would be hard to find, but his reception at the Camp Nou that season was so astonishingly hostile that the player, like Figo six years later, simply could not function during the game.

All cultures must possess their version of morbo , but in Spain it has been the driving force behind the public's relationship with football for years. Alfonso XIII, already a patron of the fledgling game, was to be crowned that year, and Carlos Prados, the new president of the Madrid club, hit upon the idea of organising a football tournament to coincide with the coronation's festivities in the capital. Five teams turned up: A History of the World Cup.

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