125 years of Barcelona's football club

The people, places, goals, and games that have defined FC Barcelona's history.

The first time I saw Camp Nou on TV was on November 2, 1994.

Johan Cruyff's FC Barcelona toyed with Manchester United, the reigning English champions, before truncheoning them in front of 114,273 spectators. Gary Neville, watching from the sidelines, later told Andy Mitten, “It was the only time in my career where I didn’t want to be on the pitch.”

Passes with angles and movement with purpose propelled Barcelona’s attacks, pulling and stretching United like flabby bread dough, Stoichkov and Romario delivering the daggers.

Throughout the rest of the nineties, I might have seen the men in blue and garnet three or four times a season. Thirty years later, living in Spain, I have to make an effort to avoid FC Barcelona, such is the hold of the big two football teams on daily life here.

But for the club’s 125th anniversary I’ve gone out of my way to immerse myself in the club history to bring it to you.