source : totalbarca.com
its incredible....
Marca rewrites history – twice!
If you look carefully at the way Marca reported Leo Messi’s
record-breaking accomplishment on Sunday you will notice
an odd detail, apparently at odds with the way this story was
reported in the rest of the world. Even if you don’t read Spanish,
it is clear that the editors of Marca have a unique view of the
football world: in their alternate universe Lionel Messi has scored
85 goals in 2012, not 86.
Indeed, in every story about Messi that appeared since
Sunday, Marca has stubbornly stuck with 85. Under other
circumstances this would simply be annoying, but in this case one
goal is literally the difference between Messi equalling or
breaking the record in question. To add another element to the
puzzle, Marca is also reporting that Messi
broke Muller’s record on Sunday? And yet,
Muller is universally acknowledged to have scored 85
goals in 1972. Or did he? I dug a little deeper into this apparent
contradiction and discovered that Marca’s historical revisionism in
this case has reached nearly comical proportions. First, despite
the report of the referee at the Camp Nou last weekend, Marca has
officially decreed that Messi’s first goal against Bilbao was an
own-goal scored by Basque defender Fernando Amorebieta. This
explains why Messi has 85 goals and not 86. In order to be able to
report, along with the rest of the world, that Messi broke the
record on Sunday, Marca had only one recourse: they would have to
subtract a goal from Muller’s tally. And so, Marca’s editors
dutifully dug into the archives and uncovered a goal attributed to
Muller in June of 1972 in an international match against the USSR.
Video evidence, presented in the paper last week, indicates
“unequivocally” that this too was an own-goal
scored by the Soviet keeper and not the German striker. So in the
Marcaverse, Muller has scored 84 goals, Messi 85, and order is
restored. Sort of. In all likelihood, Messi will go on to
score more goals in 2012, effectively making this a moot
point. But it is fascinating to see the lengths to which Marca has
WTF ..... this cant be real....why does a newspaper like them who only loves real madrid and even dont report much on atletico and rayo can choose the pichichi ???? every other league in the world its the official league who get to chose the topscorer... and although marca voted for ronaldo at the european player of the year instead of iniesta ... even if they are a spanish newspaper .. guess who they voted for the ballon dor.... fucked up shit
