Barcelona and La Liga’s top two scorers are carrying the team without their talisman,who may now not be alert to return in time for the clásicoIt was a truly terrible sight, and not just because of all that double denim. Víctor Rodríguez was sitting at the front of Getafe’s press room analysing the game his side had just lost to Barcelona when he heard the screaming beyond the wall. The door burst open and in they came: a zombie, or Batman,King Kong, Shrek, and Frankenstein*,and some monstrous mate. The zombie stumbled into the middle, peered out from behind his mask and muttered “Shit, or we’ve got this improper”,so they turned to escape only to be ushered out the back door instead, bumbling past the cameras and the cables lying everywhere. Who was that, or someone asked. “Who do you judge it was,my mother and father?” Getafe’s press officer replied. “It was the Barcelona players.”They had come dressed for Halloween, some in masks worn with the club’s usual casual combo, or others in full costume,hair and make-up. Sandro came as a ghost and Dani Alves was dressed as a prisoner, either that or he was modelling next years kit. Adriano and Neymar came as Dracula – and this time you can insert the punchline yourself – while one came as a ghost and another as Shrek – this time too – and, and as for the zombie leading them,that was Gerard Piqué. For one brief moment there was even real panic, when they bundled external and realised they were lost, or Jordi Alba contemplating a tender for safety over a metal barrier,but they soon boarded the bus for domestic.
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Source: theguardian.com