#pepmou

[shanghai-gp]

he wants to wear his skin sooo bad

[reijndeers]

what year am i in

[endofbeginings]

let's work it out on the remix

[elise-51-blog]

We've all seen the hug at Rotterdam in 1997 (Barca win over PSG in the UEFA Winner's Cup Final). The pointing, the full embrace, the shaking up and down of Pep in pure joy, it has everything.

But I also found another cool moment.

Kind of wild here, footage from earlier in Nov. 1996. Barcelona vs. Athletic Bilbao. Bilbao's manager, Luis Fernandez, threw out some intimidating words towards Barcelona's assistant manager, a young Jose Mourinho. After the game (Barcelona lose) Barca's talented midfielder, Pep Guardiola, beelines for Fernandez, nothing friendly was said.

TL;DR Young Pep gets defensive over young Jose!

((Any input from any interested spanish speakers out there would be especially welcome.))

[zingaplanet]

I have just spent countless hours beta'ing the shit out if this old fic of mine.

So if you're in need of some toxic enemies to lovers, old men in sports who've been in love and denial for 20 years, a shitload of angst to steal all your sleep from you, and some nostalgia for those old european summer nights, then wallow in tears with me.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Here are a few of their old photos because any chance we got to remind them of this era needs to be seized

[hermywolf]

[yudgefudge]

pep guardiola x josé mourinho | "the 1" by taylor swift

“With Mourinho, so many things happened. So many things.” - pep guardiola

“Yes, I still have a photo of that embrace. We were close.” - josé mourinho

[storyshark2005]

who is going to write the "jose calls pep on his birthday ( aka his sad post-divorce mid-season-flop era) ?