“Today is going to be the day (Today is going to be the day) / that they’re going to throw it back to you (in which they are going to return it to you). This is how Wonderwall starts, from the Oasis, from when the Gallagher brothers made it look like they were supporting themselves on stage, before ending up like Ella Baila Sola. I don’t know if it played at the Etihad Stadium before the game started. It wouldn’t be strange considering that Noel Gallagher is to City what Rudy Ventura to Barça Because the British will go to Salou with socks and sandals, but in music they always had good taste.
The song was prescient. City had been nailed for a year: two goals in the last three minutes at the Bernabeu. Madrid has had many eras: Madrid Yeyé, Quinta del Buitre, Los Galacticos… and last season: Esoteric Madrid. The Paranormal. The Madrid that was crying out for a special program by Iker Jiménez so that non-Madridistas could understand it.
On Wednesday, not even with the bath that City was giving him, no one gave Madrid for dead. You have to be a very special team to achieve that. And it was 4-0. But not like that. A friend told me: “I won’t believe it until I see them on the bus and on their way to the airport.”
Madrid fell with a bang in their fetish competition. It is as if Ayuso lost some regional ones in the Community. Guardiola de Ayuso has yet to be born. An invisible thread unites Real Madrid with the president. Because of his winning gene, because of his bad coexistence with defeat and because of the misgivings that both arouse. Whoever thinks that on Wednesday only the self-conscious culés enjoyed is wrong.
Anti-Madridism (just like anti-Ayusismo) is much more widespread in Spain than some think. Mainly in peripheral Spain. But also in Madrid itself. It is curious, because the current Madrid has one of the least hateful squads of all time, if we except the unnecessary nonsense of a football talent like VinÃcius. Not to mention Carlo Ancelotti. Does anyone dislike Carletto?
It may be because of its status as a State club, or because of the presidency of the almighty Florentino Pérez, with land reclassifications that turned the white debt into benefits. Pérez, one of the great Spanish builders of public works, among others, capable of turning the BOE into his leading magazine, while his name appears on papers that confirm the dubious financing of that party you are talking about.
The anti-Madridism that is breathed in depending on which environment (beyond Barcelona, ​​I insist) can be compared with antiguardiolismo, that antipathy towards the City coach who already comes from his time as a player and has found shelter even depending on which Barcelona currents .
Pep Guardiola is the best Spanish coach of all time. Nobody in our country had won Leagues, Bundesligas and Premiers before. Now you can lift your third Champions League. In addition, his teams have embroidered soccer, making it a beautiful game.
If Guardiola were not Guardiola, that is, from Barça, Catalan, pro-independence, a friend of Laporta, he would be one of the greatest Spanish athletes in history, on a par with Nadal, Gasol, Severiano or Indurain. She would compete for the Princess of Asturias Award for Sport every year. And the press and the public would acclaim him shouting “Guardiola, selectionâ€. Can you imagine Guardiola training the red?
By the way, the Gallaghers can get back together if City win the Champions League. That’s a promise and not to shave your head.