"Oh no, anyway." That isn't just Jeremy Clarkson when he heard that the Dacia Sandero's release had been delayed. It was most of the footballing world as Barcelona edged towards the abyss once more.
After drawing with Inter Milan at Camp Nou, Xavi's side are all but doomed in the Champions League. They need to win their two remaining matches, one of which is against Bayern Munich and hope Inter don't get three points from their remaining two fixtures. How the mighty have fallen, but nobody seems too bothered.
Juan Laporta's insistence that by pulling economic levers over the summer or selling commercial deals, TV rights and a bit of the club's soul in advance for some cash to pay for Robert Lewandowski would keep the club alive has backfired. It always looked like it would come back to bite them, but not in the middle of October.
