Real Madrid and FC Barcelona are the problem and the solution of Spanish football. No one overshadows them, no one generates as much income as them and no one is able to act with the arrogance with which they react when things go wrong, which is the case in these hectic days.
To hear a sane and seasoned guy like Carlo Ancelotti sowing doubts about the VAR lines causes astonishment. Do you feel so challenged? Did the defeat at the Camp Nou cost him so much? Maybe he trusts that populism – and not the titles – can save him from the pillory, where the most aristocratic heads of France rolled during the revolution?
The senseless departure of the VAR is accompanied by a campaign of smoke – fueled by some media in the capital, not all – which aims to attribute the defeat at the Camp Nou to the refereeing decisions. With Benzema on the sidelines, Real Madrid lacked everything that usually makes them great on Sunday: belief in victory, punch and quality.
When they make big mistakes, Real Madrid and FC Barcelona overact in a big way. There are no more differences or nuances, signs of lordship or great values. Zero self-criticism, all propaganda. Thanks to the rivalry, both limit themselves to imputing their own mistakes to the other. Never in the history of football have they been needed so much (arbitrations are the least important).
If we focus on FC Barcelona, ??there appears an irreducible current of opinion able to maintain – without blinking, unlike Ancelotti – that the Enríquez Negreira scandal is an extension of Operation Catalunya. Wow, that FC Barcelona is, in reality, the victim of a conspiracy. Conspiracy theory, as always. If everything is so simplistic and we are the best, what does president Laporta expect to offer explanations and defend the shield, how is the coach and the squad doing? Operation Catalonia! What we need to hear…
Real Madrid and FC Barcelona financially support the League, increase the television rights and maintain the box office of Spanish football. Both of them are being misled by this superiority: they react like ill-bred children when someone or something reminds them of their mistakes. Not even caught in the act do they have the humility to accept mistakes.
It is not very difficult to imagine what the remaining 18 Primera teams and their fans feel about the latest defeats of the young men. I suppose indignation and astonishment, especially because they are – season after season – the ones harmed by the arbitration that, today for you, tomorrow for me, consents and serves the interests of two clubs that are more and more alike every day. Two pampered children.
