Monday, 29 May 2023

THE EYES OF SERGIO BUSQUETS: words to celebrate his retirement from FC Barcelona...

 The Eyes of Sergio Busquets…

(Words to celebrate his retirement from FC Barcelona...)


Hangover eyes, bleary.

A gaze unreadable,

Like a priest’s during Confession.

Seemingly weary,

Lean, infallible,

Comfortable in possession…


Hypnotic eyes, shrewd.

A passing craftsman,

Like an artisan with great creativity.

Intelligent, astute,

Tall, a helmsman,

Schooled in reliability…


Hawk’s eyes, intuitive.

An unhurried architect,

Like an artist with an innovative mind.

Feisty, aggressive,

Slim, circumspect,

Simply one of a kind…


Pete Ray



Busquets has an uncanny and mesmerising ability to draw in opponents, then escape their attentions by turning away from them and distributing the ball to a colleague most of the time. 


Maybe it’s his half-open eyes which bewitch opponents…


He fouls up convention. 


He is like a defence lawyer finding loopholes in a prosecuting counsel’s evidence. 


He will fall under a slight challenge, of course, writhe on the ground like he has been wounded in a First World War trench when a stray boot touches a sock but he can also be adept at dishing out some unflinchingly cynical challenges of his own, without so much as a blink from his gazing eyes…  


He can squander possession, he has only scored very few goals for Barca, he destructs, he is a hatchet-wielder, he gets in the damned way. 


He doesn’t bother to sprint but rather lopes in a languid fashion, moving rather like the stick-insect a zookeeper once shoved down the front of my t-shirt at Newquay Zoo in Cornwall, England.


And best of all, he involves himself in bouts of short passing with team-mates and despite the fact that he is supposed to be marked by opposition team-players, one invariably notices that attention elsewhere frees 5 metres of space around him and that is all it has needed to feed the wands of Messi 

or Iniesta…


Brilliant… 


Those eyes see it all…

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