A football club does well not to take sides. This does not prevent football from being inseparable from politics. Like everything, actually. We parrots know what those who declare themselves “apolitical” are and what they represent. They are like the bloodthirsty dictator our parents suffered: “Do like me and stay out of politics.“. A character more present than ever in these elections, by the way. Because never before had their purest and most genuine heirs reached an election with a chance of being part of the government. That is why today it would seem frivolous to waste this space of opinion writing, only, about football. There are many rights at stake on Sunday, individual rights and collective rights. And gentlemen who want to eliminate all these rights in the name of the Motherland and Natural Law. We must avoid it.
I take advantage of the opportunity to ask Vox to remove his dirty staples from our club. A few weeks ago they led a proposal to the Parliament of Catalonia to do I don’t know what on the grounds of the old Sarrià stadium. Luckily, they lost the vote. But the damage was already done: they had linked the party with our club. We don’t want to know anything about them. Nothing. We are a Catalan football club that represents the common denominator of a democratic society. That’s why our stadium is dyed purple or with the colors of the rainbow when it comes to expressing commitment to feminism or the rights of the LGBTI group.
And it is from this democratic commitment that I am very sorry – and even indignant – that no top political representative (with the honorable exception of Núria Marín) regretted Espanyol’s relegation and stood by the white-and-blue supporters to accompany them in their trance. Neither the Government of the Generalitat (the same one that lacked time to express, through its spokeswoman, a ridiculous indignation at I don’t know what video made by Madrid), nor the then mayors of the three Spanish cities (Ada Colau, Lluís Mijoler and Antoni Balmón) nor – and this is even more strange and significant – none of the three leaders of the Catalan parties who declare themselves parakeets (Salvador Illa, Gabriel Rufián and Jordi Turull). But now is not the time for reproaches. Now is the time for responsibility, the time to prevent those who do not believe in democracy from coming to power.
2023-07-20 17:48:16
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