The Anti-HAB

Ok, so you know the idea that you can’t really know what it is to be happy unless you know what it is to be sad? If it helps, I think that it was probably the moral of a Star Trek episode… Or maybe I am thinking of the Brady Bunch… Well, whatever 70s sitcom the idea featured in, it immediately sprung to mind when I saw the picture below. Surely, this picture is the exact antithesis of all that a HAB is (whatever that may be):

Carles, Carles, Carles, I dont even know where to begin with you.

Carles Puyol may be a perfectly capable defender for Barcelona – arguably the best team in the world right now – but, well… He is so not a HAB. Especially in this shirt and this pose. Oh god, and the HAIR. In fact, I think this may be the single dorkiest picture I have ever seen of a famous football player from a top-flight club. Especially as it was taken earlier this week. I mean, everyone looked a little dorky in the 70s or early 80s (even I was subjected to the dreaded poodle-hair in 1982), but this picture was taken three days ago. Yikes. I submit it here only so that we may all better understand what a HAB is by knowing what it it not. Whatever else Carles Puyol is, he is not a HAB.

Now that we have that settled, how about a little pretty pretty to wash all that Puyol out of our eyes? Well, they dont come much prettier than Fernando Torres – even when he was going through his butch phase:

See, we can all appreciate Torres a little more now that we know Puyol.

Category: Hot Ballers

Tags: Anti-HAB, Barcelona, Carles Puyol, Fernando Torres, Hot Ballers, Liverpool

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