If there was some other team instead of Cruyff Barca, BBZ would go on to claim how much of a never-give-up attitude they had to fight until the end for the league and win it. It was like that back then, titles were won on narrow gaps most of the time. It was still 2 points for win and 1 point for draw IIRC.
That's what media does.
For example, we have whitnessed RM's titles in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
And we do know that they weren't even winning La Ligas, that they were lucky in some seasons, that their opponents had insane brainfarts, that CR7 was never injured, that they have scored lots of late goals etc.
While we could say that they had a huge mental strength, there was also a lot of luck involved.
A lot of people would say that team was good, but nothing special.
But do you know what will happen in 20 or 30 years?
= RM's side which won 4 CLs will be hailed as the greatest side who has ever played football.
Not on our forum though, but everywhere else in the world it will.
That is my point.
When the memory is fresh, we know the real story behind the titles.
But over time, luck, injuries, refs mistakes and easy draws are forgotten and people remember only titles and records.
And this is why RM will turn into GOATs in 20 years.
Now apply the same recipe for Cruijff.
A very, very good team, but over time their play and results were romanticized and "improved".
Bad results, humiliations, lucky La Ligas and similar are forgotten and all we hear are legends about an amazing beutiful football which were winning titles left and right.
Add into the story the fact that people/clubs/nations who aren't used to a lot of success usually overhype their rare successful stories even more.
For example, imagine Olympic games and two countries, let's say Usa and Bosnia.
And Usa wins 100 medals while Bosnia wins a gold in female handball.
Usa won't make movies about a random gold medal (1 out of 100 which they won this year), but a small country will write books, make thousands of commericals, winners will be eternal national heroes and symbols of a nation.
Now apply the same principles to Barca.
For 100 years we weren't winning anything neither in Spain nor in Europe.
We were always behind Madrid, sporting wise and politically wise.
And then comes Cruijff, wins 4 La Ligas and the first CL ever, and of course that no one questions in which way those titles were won.
And a guy and his football turned into eternal symbols and legends.
Even though, when you dig deeper, the story is overblown.
And then you have million of Barca's fans who live in a bubble and overrate all of their players, trophies and heroes.
And then pair Pep's era which has roots in Cruijff's football.
And then, for majority of fans (you included), Pep is the greatest thing which has ever happened in football and till your death you will want to go back to Pep's style.
And then, if Pep's football has roots in Cruijff, how can majority of fans say anything bad or question Cruijff?
And that's it.
1. you have a reality, a team who was very lucky in La Liga and even in their only CL title
2. yet in Barca's bubble, the legend is closer to as if we had 20 points advantage in La Liga, dominating matches, winning 8:0 against everyone and fans were dying from orgasms in the crowd due to beautiful rondos during those 8:0 wins
So, don't believe everything you hear in closed bubbles/forums of any nation, football fans, movie/band fanpages.
Everything is overblown 200-300%.
