—by Garrett Dittfurth

An entertaining war of words is playing out in Spain right now between Real Madrid's Jose Mourinho and Barcelona's Pep Guardiola.

A little history. Real Madrid won the Copa Del Rey trophy for the first time in 18 years. Sergio Ramos promptly dropped their coveted trophy underneath the team bus. Literally.

Guardiola, who is Portuguese, was being sarcastic with the media and stated his preference for a Portuguese referee for the next match rather than the German already chosen. Jose Mourinho promptly started in with the mind games saying saying this about Guardiola, "Up to now we have had two types of coaches. A very small group of coaches who never speak to the referees. After that, there is a bigger group, of whom I am one, who criticise the referees when they make huge errors. But it is also a group who are happy to highlight the good work of the referee.

And now, with the declaration of Pep the other day, we are entering a new era with a third group, which for the moment includes only him, who criticise the correct decision of the referee.

This is something I have never seen in the world of football."

I think that got stuck in Guardiola's craw a little bit...