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Hello friends! It's been so long since my last column that many of you no doubt thought I've retired from this writing business. Well, no such luck. I wanted to write earlier, but we spent the last few days reeling from the shocking draw against Espanyol ("Wait, how did we manage that?!"). And then flew to party at the Leo Messi Annual Award Ceremony (also known as the Balon d'Or to the uninitiated). And then spent the remaining days after that sinking into a stupor as Pep waxed on eloquently about Betis. More on that later, but first of all, a very belated Happy New Year!
So, moving on to the Case of Pep and his curious fascination with Betis, it all started with the impending Osasuna Cup game. Actually it started off on the flight back from "Let's All Gather Every Year and Give Leo a Giant Golden Ball" event. "Well done boys" said Pep, "But remember you got all these by not playing like you played against Espanyol (clearly the draw still rankled). And as for the upcoming Osasuna game, just remember Betis". He was looking very ominous indeed. Not wanting to ask the mister about what happened against Betis, we deemed it prudent to google it on Xavi's mobile instead. Turns out we might have complicated the 2nd leg of a Copa game a bit by conceding a few goals and almost surrendering 1st leg lead before we got things in order, haha, we remember nothing from that game!
This was apparently just what the mister feared. So we saw the game twice over the next two days, and heard about complacency and Betis every waking minute, and dreamed of Betis in our sleep. Barely did we manage to scrape through the Osasuna game and qualify for the next round in CdR, when guess who our next Liga game was against! Yes, Betis!! Really, what are the odds?! So some more talk of Betis this Betis that, and by the time we were done with the game yesterday, I was ready to pound anyone who mentioned Betis to me again! Except the mister of course, that wouldn't be prudent.
