— The Podium

Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World by Graham Hunter is The Podium’s book for February.

The results are as follows: Barca with 83%, When Pride Still Mattered with 9%, Beware of the Dog with 5%, Bode with 2%, West By West with 1%.

A friend of mine told me recently that he’d read a few chapters of Barca and his verdict was that Graham Hunter was ‘in love with Barcelona’.

Hunter moved to Barcelona in 2001, he speaks fluent Spanish and Catalonian, and, more importantly, he is the only English speaking journalist to have interviewed Pep Guardiola during his time as Barcelona coach. It’s quite clear from the breadth of work produced by Hunter about Barcelona that he’s got the inside scoop.

At the moment Barca are at the top of the La Liga on 59 points, 9 points clear of Atletico Madrid in 2nd place and 16 points clear of their primary Spanish rival Real Madrid. On 20th of February Barcelona play AC Milan in the Champions League. It seems as though even after the departure of Guardiola, business has continued as normal for the unstoppable club.

Are Barcelona are the greatest football team in the world? Is Graham Hunter right? Let’s find out together. I hope you enjoy The Podium’s February Book, Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World.

I will be reading the updated edition which includes the departure of Pep Guardiola and Spain’s victory at Euro 2012.

Here’s Graham talking about Barca