United chase the blue and red carousel shadows.

This Champions League final was no mere matter of football, this was sheer artistry.The Catalan legends mesmerised their opponents from Manchester in what was billed as the ultimate showdown this season and then turned IT into one way traffic.

There will be comparisons drawn between the carousel at the fairground as Barcelona spun and passed the ball, retaining possession for lengthy periods leaving United players shell-shocked and dizzy.
Passing the ball the way they do Barcelona don’t make many more passes than other teams, they just make sure that the ones they do make hit the mark about 86% of the time.

Wizardry does not describe the effect on their opponenets as Barca played patiently and waited for the minutest gaps to tear in the United ranks before taking advantage. Picasso or maybe Duchamp might have made something abstract from this perpetual motion but for the viewers it was one of those, “I was there occasions”.

Chasing carousel shadows seems to arty and abstract a portrayal of what was just a simple game of football but if you’d watched it you’d understand the poetry in motion, the ghosts of artists long gone participating in a whirlwind on a kaleidoscopic canvas. Football might just never be the same again.

Earlier in the season, I had a prophetic moment when I posed the question as to whether there was a team that could beat Barcelona. The answer is, going on last night and it’s tutorial in abstract football, no club team and very few national sides.