It’s all a lie. Also in football, a deception, fiction. There is no longer anyone who believes in anything. Neither in the good faith of the referees, nor in the VAR, nor in the neatness of the clubs, nor in their accounts. Science is a scam, the offside lines are drawn by Jaume Roures from home, the matches are rigged. Everyone wants something or is willing to receive something in exchange for the end of the game being as they imagined. But if everything is a conspiracy, a hoax, what the hell are we fans left with?
Football, Trumpism forward the letteris already a dumping ground for post-truths, intoxications or inability to accept a result, as the tycoon did in the elections he lost in 2020 and as he would have done again if he had been defeated now. It is enough to not admit reality for it to slowly become poisoned. It has also arrived here. If the player does not win, the prize is unfair and the club does not attend the award. “The filthy Negreira league,” Real Madrid Television, the channel of a century-old club, bellowed on Saturday after harassing referees and exerting pressure before games. What does it mean? Is the League adulterated, corrupted? Is that what the club thinks?
Real Madrid’s most watched program is usually a Steven Seagal film (this month it triumphed Renegade Jimby Terence Hill), but their way of telling the world, when they are not showing a western, prevails everywhere. Barça spent decades tied to the mast of victimhood, the fault was always someone else’s. “This is how Madrid wins.” As well as? We didn’t know, of course, that it was Barça who was paying the vice president of the referees for who knows what job. Now Real Madrid, the most institutional club in football, the institution, becomes anti-system and rebels against the establishment. The league is going uphill, as it becomes entangled with doubt. He doesn’t like the European competition he founded: just abandon it and create a new one. That was going to be his particular Brexit.
Nástic de Tarragona has denounced a referee in court, following an investigation by Method 3, the agency that got involved with Villarejo, knocked down the Pujols in the Camargue and put the team in check. sursuncorda with Operation Catalonia. The truth must emerge. It is the first time that a club has sued a referee in the ordinary courts. And that uses tools of the most stinking politics of recent decades. They may be right. But, if this is a precedent, a storm threatens. The CTA “unequivocally guarantees the integrity of the competition and the ability of the referees to act with the maximum rigor and freedom.” It would be missing more. Berlusconi did the same with the judges, some other politicians have also done it lately. Justice is not blind and must be unmasked. It’s the wind that blows everywhere.
The truth is over. And those who try to defend it, be it a newspaper, a referee or science (the vaccine against a global pandemic), end up mired in the populist quagmire. That or, actually, it’s all a hoax, who knows. Because then 90 of the Spanish football assembly members go and elect Rafael Louzán, sentenced to seven years of disqualification for prevarication, as the new president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF).
