Let there be no mistake about it—it doesn't get any worse than this for Barcelona fans. After last night's 4-0 defeat to Liverpool in the UEFA Champions League semi-final, resulting in a 4-3 aggregate loss, the front page of Diario Sport, one of Catalonia's two sports newspapers, went all black. Writ large across the page in yellow font was the damning verdict: "The biggest embarrassment in history".
Barcelona have endured many nights of pain in European football. For decades, they were a big club that struggled in Europe, unable to match, for example, Real Madrid and Liverpool's multiple wins in the European Cup.