Los Negreira is not a folk music group – The penultimate Raulista alive

Perhaps it is good to remember that, contrary to what some may think, The negreira is not a folk music group like La orquestina del Fabirol or Nuevo Mester de Juglería but a former referee and former vice president of the Technical Committee of RefereesJosé María, who received 7,300,000 euros from Barcelona Football Club over 17 years, and his son Javier, who acted as collegiate coach, whatever that is. I say this, more than anything, because among so much noise of comings and goings, there may be someone who gets carried away and loses perspective of what has been, without a doubt, the biggest scandal in Spanish sport. Today, without going any further, it has become known that the UEFA is investigating Osasuna for the sentence by the Supreme Court that the rojillo team received for rigging in the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 seasons. That did not prevent Osasuna from continuing to compete normally in Spain but, as the team led by Arrasate has qualified for next season’s Conference League, UEFA has opened, as with everyone, a Investigation process by default to clarify whether or not it complies with point 4.G of the regulation, which reads as follows: “Not having been directly or indirectly involved in any activity aimed at organizing or influencing the result of a match at a national or international level and confirm it in writing to the UEFA administration”. With these data, it is most probable that the highest body of European football will take Osasuna out of the third continental competition and his position is occupied by Athletic Club de Bilbao. With the other data, the most logical thing would be for Fútbol Club Barcelona to suffer the same fate and its candidacy to play in the Champions League would be rejected. Because no, Los Negreira is not a folk music group.

I would qualify what Benzema said the other day: IThe internet is not all of reality, but there is plenty of reality in the networks, and sometimes it is very interesting, you just have to know how to dive in it. For example, I follow a Twitter profile called Futbolgate.com which is very interesting, I recommend it to you, and which from time to time has done the job for me. One of his latest threads refers to the figure of Celino Grace Redondo, the referee of the League of Tenerife. This Aragonese referee was confirmed as Primera referee in the 1992-1993 season, which was surprisingly resolved in favor of Barcelona in the last day of the league. In June Gracia Redondo, despite his pipiolez, was designated for the most important match of the year, the one that pitted the leader, who was Real Madrid, against the island team at the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium. Who appointed Gracia Redondo in June? Well, the recently renovated, specifically in March, Technical Committee of Referees, whose presidency came to hold Victoriano Sanchez Arminio, who elected a certain Enríquez Negreira as first vice president and the Basque Urízar Azpitarte as second vice president. These three gentlemen chose the referees for each day through the complex selection process of the whistle, whistle, gorgorito.

The youngest may not remember that game but Gracia Redondo stopped whistling at least a couple of clear penalties in favor of Madrid in the first part and sent Zamorano off very rigorously in the second after showing him a direct red card. Despite the disastrous arbitration, which he delivered the League to Barça on a platter, Arminio came out the next day to defend Gracia Redondo: “Leave him alone. He is quite upset. He, like me, is sad because he had no luck. Agustín’s possible penalties against Zamorano in the field are somewhat confusing. Another thing is Toni’s hands inside the area from a header from Iron”. Despite the accumulation of errors, the CTA decided not to penalize Gracia Redondo, on the contrary, he was awarded internationality. With only twenty First Division matches directed, the Aragonese referee received the award that all referees seek. This same Gracia was the one who sent off Hierro in a match against Real, the one with the famous “You don’t know how to screw us!” and, after a classic, Lorenzo Sanz went so far as to say of him that he whistled premeditated after recalling what happened in Tenerife, which was without a doubt his great masterpiece, the icing on the cake.

Today it has been known that without VAR, Real Madrid would have been league champions instead of Barçawhich has immediately served for the periobarcelonismo to come out in a storm to say that the referees continue to benefit Madrid and that the VAR has arrived to correct its mistakes when it is just the opposite because the VAR is controlled from the VOR Room and, in said room, there is a referee, whom I do not trust. The VAR has only subtracted points from Barcelona in the last day, inconsequential, against Celta, but of the twenty-five interruptions suffered by Madrid, four cost them points… until it cost him another League. I insist, I trust VAR technology, with whomever runs the VOR room I am not even going to inherit. Because, although many do not remember now, Los Negreira is not a folk music group.