Barcelona fans are furious with their club for congratulating Real Madrid on their Champions League win

Football is a game of kindness, positivity and mutual respect.

Wait, let's try that again. Football is a game of tribalism, anger and bitter rivalry. After Real Madrid won the Champions League final against neighbours Atletico, rivals Barcelona decided to be the bigger men and opted to provide what seemed like a sincere message of congratulations. https://twitter.com/FCBarcelona/status/736678406570541056 You'd expect the Blaugranes to get on board with the sentiment, right? After all, Barça are mes que un club. Guess again.

Some tried to rewrite history

https://twitter.com/Valdez627/status/736678598208192513 https://twitter.com/maIiksqueen/status/736678592118202369 https://twitter.com/lucianavee/status/736679452042625025 https://twitter.com/fcbnadiaa/status/736679388616523776

Still, others chose to rise above it and go outside for some fresh air.

https://twitter.com/TimSwan_/status/736680174511611906

There was a suggestion that the congratulations hadn't gone far enough

https://twitter.com/jcfrempong/status/736686376993882113

At least some fans of the Catalan club were proud of the sentiment

https://twitter.com/SubahAhmed/status/736679907493826560

Hey, we said some

https://twitter.com/ArashBahmani/status/736863368238227456 https://twitter.com/ParadiseZustin/status/736678983098458112

At least the victorious Madrid fans remained humb...no sorry, we can't even type it

https://twitter.com/YungKollz/status/736682073801523201 https://twitter.com/_RA80/status/736681591410438144 We miss the football season already.