A lament for Catalonia

Whatever your own club allegiance, if you loved football, you had to love Barcelona

Serial winners, invincibles and other types of footballing untouchables are great fun for the faithful, much less so for the neutrals and the also-rans.

You only have to think of that delightful feeling of collective schadenfreude when the mighty are humbled, to appreciate just how much merriment can be derived when champs are made to look like chumps.