Conspiracies Gone Cuckoo - The Tale of FC Barcelona & The Syrian Rebels

Conspiracy Theories are not everyone's cup of tea.  There are those out there who will attempt to find a hidden message in the most blatant of news stories, there are those who can't stand the idea of not knowing the exact truth behind everything that goes on.

Of course, we never know if everything we have been learnt via News channels and Media outlets are genuine.  Who knows who shot Kennedy? Has man ever truthfully set foot on the moon? What really happened on the fateful day of 9/11?  There are the general answers - then there are ideas created by 'out-there' individuals who claim evidence leads to monumental cover-ups.

A particular comment summarised perfectly exactly what I'd read; "I can find a conspiracy in a church bake sale. But this is nuts."

Spain's current World and European Champions, FC Barcelona - have been hysterically accused of sending secret signals to Syrian Rebels during a televised game with arch-rivals Real Madrid.

Pedro just before burying his terrorist goal.

While most sit back, admire what they are seeing and acknowledge they could be witnessing one of the greatest Sports teams of all time - there are those who would rather pick through a classic Barcelona-style flowing goal and suggest it was subject to some sort of terrorist movement!

Seemingly suggesting that the entire of the Camp Nou squad are not satisfied with their pay-roll and thought they'd earn a bit on the side mixing with some Asian freedom fighters.

A real worrying insight into
Barcelona's contacts in Asia.

While the rest of the world scratches their heads in sheer bewilderment - I attempted to unnearth that link, that catastrophically concrete evidence that fixes Lionel Messi and co with the Rebels.  Now I'm going to be honest with you - in about 10 minutes worth of thought I came up with their oil grabbing sponsers 'Qatar Foundations' but didn't get much further.

On a serious note - Has the world gone bonkers?  The thought of Pep Guerdiola instructing World Cup Final winners Andres Iniesta to collect the ball in that exact central midfield spot and then to lay the ball into the Argentine Messi who shoul then beat four Madrid defenders to mark the drection in which the Rebels used to smuggle guns from the Lebanese border - is beyond comical.

We can clarly see Messi receiving the arms -
sorry ball on the border before travelling
through Homs and feeding Pedro who was coincedently
waiting at Dayr Al Zawr who then perfectly slotted to Al
Magadin - sorry the net!

Finally the ball was slotted into Pedro, who ignored 80 odd-thousand capaticy stadium - the countless million fans right across the globe and reminisced back to his Syrian pay-cheque, and finished the ball under Iker Casillas - making sure the ball travelled the exact same route as the Syrian arms.

The atrocity that Syrian national television was able to air the following "Here we see the first stage where arms are loaded from Lebanon. Then they pass through Homs and are delivered to another terrorist. We also see how they warn that they will face some obstacles until they reach Dayr Al Zawr" - is gobsmacking, the idea of the thing has thoroughly blown my mind.


Perhaps it genuinely explains to the world just why Syria have found themselves in the situation they have.  Their Government was so intent on catching a bit of Spanish football on their local network that they allowed their proposed work in catching the Rebels slip - 'Why not kill two birds with one stone!?' they must have thought.

Here is the actual news clip from Syria TV Station 'Addounia' -

admittedly it's all foreign, yet the analysis and work is so painfully thorough,

the message is soundly drilled through.

I'm not sure about all you out there, but this has to be one of my favorite footballing stories of recent memory - for sheer outrageousness and levels of desperation - it's a genuine classic!

Read the original breaking story here: http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2012/03/21/lionel-messi-accused-of-sending-secret-signals-to-syrian-rebels-during-match/