Frog and scorpion – La Galerna

Within the campaign to reinvent soccer, or reserve it, which on this case is similar, we have been informed that it was essential to collaborate facet by facet with the Barcelona Soccer Membership. In entrance of the pictures of Laporta, the opposite day within the Camp Nou field, leaping and singing to the unanimous cry of “Madridista the one who does not bounce”, I considered the well-known fable of the frog and the scorpion.

Everybody is aware of that the frog helped the scorpion cross a river beneath the promise that the scorpion would chorus from stinging him. A number of days earlier than, good previous Jan confessed earlier than his Barcelona viewers that for his membership, a membership accused of bribery and beneath judicial investigation for very critical indicators of adulteration of the competitors and corruption of the Spanish refereeing institution for many years, to outlive, he needed to sleep with the enemy. He mentioned it like this: enemy.

Bribery comes from the Latin confectus, cousin of infectus and each family members for facere, which implies to do: there are issues that aren’t doable, like making a brand new world with those that rotted, contaminated and contaminated every little thing previous. And that elementary error is maybe Florentino’s biggest fault, a person who at all times made the lengthy view and the long run his greatest strategic advantage.

I, who right here in La Galerna wrote, a number of summers in the past, that Laporta’s return could possibly be stimulating in a Madrid manner, as a result of it represented one thing much like an opposition to the pax Florentiniana, which might agitate it and keep away from the inevitable stagnation of laurels, I didn’t consider it was doable, after all, that due to Florentino Pérez himself the nemesis could be fed to the purpose that, as soon as the specter of technical chapter had been eliminated and even with the large suspicions of fraud that grasp over her, as a substitute of displaying gratitude, Barcelona spit within the face of the one who prolonged her hand.

The cost to the efforts of Pérez’s rumored inheritor, Vizier Anas, to acquire the monetary oxygen that Barcelona wanted to not fail, was the newest betrayal earlier than UEFA in relation to the Tremendous League. Which, from what we noticed on Friday within the draw for the Champions League qualifiers, has begun by opening up for Hansi and Lamine’s crew a draw, within the present version of the match, typical of the Europa League.

It’s typically mentioned that one’s enemies communicate of the standard of oneself. I hope that’s not true as a result of, then, Madrid’s enemies couldn’t inform a worse story about Actual

Within the fable, as is thought, the scorpion doesn’t preserve his phrase and ended up giving the frog a deadly blow, since that was his nature. As a Actual Madrid fan it’s simple to come back to the conclusion, no less than for me, that if to save lots of soccer it was important to go to mattress with such a slob, it might have been higher to go away soccer because it was. Or that it might disappear.

Laporta jumps and ought to be cautious, given what we learn about his cardiovascular fragility. In the meantime, in Madrid, the grasping service provider who as soon as served as central defender, Piqué, walks within the footsteps that Jan left in advertising and marketing, masking the town with tarps through which he intends to ridicule Arbeloa. The one reality is that in massive 2026, As they are saying in Twitter language, Arbeloa trains the Actual Madrid Soccer Membership and Piqué, what’s Piqué? Only a good instance of avida {dollars} Dalinian however, God lives, with out the grace of the genius of Cadaqués. Properly, on the finish of the day, somebody additionally being judicially investigated together with the well-known former president of the Spanish Soccer Federation for enterprise corruption, unfair administration and cash laundering on account of taking the Tremendous Cup to Saudi Arabia whereas he was captain of Barcelona, ​​and making her a feminist, has no time to domesticate the salt shaker: all his time can solely be devoted to invoice.

Laporta and Piqué are what they’re, precisely the devoted reflection of the worldview known as Fútbol Membership Barcelona, ​​of which they’re matter, kids, blood of the identical blood and flesh of the identical flesh. These are the good windmills that Madrid encounters on its countless path by the labyrinth of La Mancha. Which, as in Borges’s poem, has no starting nor, it appears, any finish.

Why does Madrid exist? You could possibly say that to disclaim, with its very existence, the evil of the alternative.

It’s typically mentioned that one’s enemies communicate of the standard of oneself. I hope that’s not true as a result of, then, Madrid’s enemies couldn’t inform a worse story about Actual. And I’ve grown up believing that Madrid is a significantly better factor than the envy of the lice born from the corpse of the world’s corruption. Madrid should aspire to be that, after all, and maybe that season will solely have which means in exercising justice within the method of the errant knight Ser Duncan the Tall in The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: breaking his arm and face for the harmless with all of the laportas and piqués beneath the solar.

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