@Voice of Reason are you mentally impaired? Obviously everyone occasionally kicks it long in times of danger. The difference is that Barcelona are known for lucrative passing football, whereas this league is known (very well) for kicking it long at every given possibility. E.g. Barca earn a free kick on the half way line and they play it short. In our league someone earns a free kick on the half way line and everyone charges into the penalty area to get on the end of a hopeless ball in. You can't compare the two on the same level. Kicking it long will win you nothing in professional football nowadays. Please don't dig a deeper hole for yourself than you already have. It's pathetic watching you defend route 1 football.
You know something. I think I must be mentally impaired to keep replying to someone who can't read, write, think or understand football at the most basic level. I hope you enjoy the rest of your life in weirdsville. Me, I'm gonna have a beer and watch Tech or Cavy win the league (again - unless the Plainsmen pull it off somehow) while Northern or whoever else it is in Dunedin you promote as the torchbearers of football achievement gets dawked every week from now until eternity.