Liam Mackey: It’s time for Barca to shout ‘stop’

No knee slides, no leaping and punching the air, no elaborately choreographed hand-shake routines. Just a little fist bump here, a fleeting palm slap there or maybe a passing pat on the back. 

And then it’s straight back to business.

Most of us who fell in love with football at an impressionable age did so because of the goals and the goalscorers and, for all the faults of the game in the modern age, we continue to keep the faith for much the same reason.