El Clásico: where football died (the prequel to the epilogue)

Just a quick update

I forgot to post these other videos in my previous post. A family of Real Madrid fans is accosted in the Reyno de Navarra during RMA's 5-1 drubbing of Osasuna and a Real Madrid fan is beaten up in the Nou Camp in last Saturday's El Clásico. Why do I post them? Only to show that everybody hates Madrid for the reasons I mentioned previously. However, it is a sorry sight when grown men bully a little kid and his family simply for displaying his team's colors.

Again, this behavior is symptomatic of the way the socialists, who have ruled Spain for all but 8 years since 1982, deal with the electorate. If you've read my earlier posts about Spanish pride, you'll realize there is no unity in Spain. It's "I, me, mine" first and the country second. Therefore, as a democracy, socialists believe in freedom of expression but only if your opinion jibes with theirs. Otherwise, don't even bother to express it.

Don't believe me? This is the best proof of all. A few weeks ago a local football TV program, Punto Pelota, decided to try and get some information on the renewal of Pep Guardiola as Barça's head coach. To obtain the information they recruited the help of Miguel Garcia, president of the L'Hospitalet de Llobregat football team, a second division team, at a Barcelona awards ceremony. Together with the Punto Pelota cameraman, Garcia went about asking several club directors if they knew anything about Pep's renewal. Josep Maria Bartomeu, vicepresident of the club, answered he was "fucking clueless" (ni puta idea). The full video is here.

Big deal, right? Not so Barcelona. The club swiftly rescinded Punto Pelota's press accreditation and banned the show from attending any of the club's press conferences. Why? Because it put Barça in a bad light. Can you imagine if politicians could do that to members of the press that weren't exactly sympathetic to their platforms? This is further proof of that Spanish pride and arrogance I mentioned previously. No one is exempt from making mistakes but it appears that some are more perfect than others.