Gerard Pique fears Stoke and thinks Barcelona wouldn’t win the Premier League

Could Leo Messi do it on a cold Tuesday night in Stoke?

Gerard Pique fears Stoke and thinks Barcelona wouldn’t win the Premier League
Wed, 11 Nov, 2015 - 00:00
Larry Ryan

Andy Gray is often credited as the originator of that great philosophical puzzler.

Gray’s original thesis, posited when Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona were in their pomp, went something like this:

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