In Barça remember Santa Barbara

Tell me what you brag and tell you what you lack

Wisdom saying

One of the phrases that a player, coach or manager of a football club should never say is we do not talk about the referees. It is impossible to enforce such a claim. Impossible. Sooner or later you will find at the end of a game in which the only thing that will take your head is the arbitration proceedings and end up cracking more or less politely, more or less euphemistically, but end up cracking.

We've all heard in recent years Guardiola, some players and several managers of FC Barcelona talk and, depending on the case, claim to their respect for arbitration work. (By all appearances, this alleged restraint is one of those values ​​that always boast Barcelona and Madrid, as if other teams were barbarians devoid of virtue.) Since Guardiola took over this boat has had a legendary positive balance in the arbitration field. Is that so far impepinable refereeing errors had helped rather than hurt. Villaratos and other conspiracies aside, the club has been unquestionably benefited at peak times, like that of Stanford semifinal Iniestazo Bridge game that Howard Webb no longer beep various penalties for Chelsea who may have left out of the final in Rome to the Blaugrana.

This season has changed the wind. It is unquestionable that the club has been hurt by some refereeing decisions which have contributed to the difference of points they have with the leaders Real Madrid. There are characteristics that squeak, as is the fact that the same arbitrator who ate two clear penalties in the tie to two with Valencia, has been swallowed up three potential maximum penalties in the game this weekend against Sporting. But in the report outlining the inadequacies and persecution is a long way. And here is where it all gets out of hand.

Some of the fans, some staff members and directors and the sports press in the middle of Barcelona have started to handle the idea that refereeing errors are hurting them are part of an orchestrated plan to move away to Barca's league title. What does this sound like us? Exactly, everyone knows the answer to villarato of Relaño.

So the crux of the matter is this: The first implication of claiming that there is a conspiracy against Barca is precisely recognize the existence of collusion. Therefore say that now there is a conspiracy against Barca implicitly recognizes and reaffirms the existence of what has been called villarato Madridismo. So much so that even in Catalunya there who does not even disguise and uses the same term, villarato to denounce the persecution alleged arbitration suffers Barca. Acojonante ...

On the other hand we talk about the loss of power at the institutional level, lamenting that the policy that leads Sandro Rosell enjoys no certain ascendancy in the relations between Barca and RFEF yes it was in times of Joan Laporta. So once again, it is recognized implicitly that, in effect, the club enjoyed certain benefits in the recent past. So how do they complain at Barça and especially from the sports media if despite being more than a club, in the end, like everyone else, just remember to Santa Barbara when it rains?

With protagonists like Villar and Sanchez Arminio think is inevitable in a world of prevendas and chain favors. One issue would be resolved only by cutting the two tumors root of our football. While these two birds still there will always be room for doubt and mistrust. But declaring war, or simply turn them loose cannon, is of little use and, instead, one inevitably ends up stained. Now it seems that Sanchez Arminio wants sanctions Piqué by his statements on Velasco Carballo . An absurd if we pull periodicals and see how incensed not in similar cases and / or comparable, but a real possibility of punishment if the Competition Committee wants to use this case to show that also dares to put hand to a club that on other occasions, has inexplicably gone scot-free.

PS. Regarding Pique's words, I think there is a point where many, so treacherous, have distorted the reality: when Piqué speaks of the premeditation of the arbitrator referred to the referee it was saved by protests he did nothing but whistle the rest, and not to the college and come predisposed from home. The severity of both cases is very different.