Sabotage and the typical bunch of idiots

Last night he could not dispute the Rayo Vallecano v Real Madrid because of sabotage in the lighting system Vallecas Soccer Field. With the players warming up on the grass and wait for news, vallecano club employees tried to fix the problem, but the saboteur (or saboteurs) had done a good job, and the party could not dispute. The referee, contact the LFP and RFEF , Decided to adjourn the meeting.

Around that decision formed a splash of confusion and dismay that any news or information should be picked with tweezers. The sports media, whether television, radio or newspaper, began a stupid race to see who gave the scoop on what would be the time for which the match was postponed. Too bad they must walk all if something becomes a much desired news. Not surprisingly, most stuck a few blunders until you find the truth: the party is being held from 19:45 this afternoon.

As usual in these cases, they soon make an appearance the croakers and profiteers. It's amazing that we have in Spain tendency to throw stones at our own roof, to find pleasure turning in our own shit. No matter the medium consultases last night in every corner you could find someone ready to shout from the rooftops how bad do things in Spain, we are sloppy and shame we give. According to this school of thought all the events in Vallecas much harm the image of Spanish football, which would be severely judged by the rest of Europe, as if our neighbors to the north did not have another thing to worry about, or as if, unfortunately, not had other things to criticize Spain.

They can not be more wrong. The first thing a foreigner with half a brain would come to mind when thinking of Spanish football is the great quality of our players: Casillas, Xavi, Iniesta, Silva ... Cavilarán Then, of course, on how well we play football and, above all, the beauty that is the style we practice. You can then think of the supercomputers with Madrid and Barca, or how well you paint the Atleti. Surely you can not help the image of Mourinho are crossing their thinking because today its media figure is even more powerful than any player in our league.

Willing to think something bad about our football, before any other matter, meditate on what is unbalanced our championship, won by Barcelona or Madrid in 13 of the last 16 seasons, including the past eight years in a row. Probably the next thing will take its reflection unfair distribution of television revenues, which also affects the big European teams, who are economically disadvantaged with the two tyrants of our football. So last night it seems clear that the image of Spanish football was not damaged, at least no more than it already is for a number of reasons much more disturbing than a simple sabotage.

What no one seems willing to think about is what it means to sabotage. Quite simply, with little effort anyone can do great harm to another or to a facility, building or whatever. Again, it's very simple. Do the test: seek a stone or a stick and look for a target. Is easy to assemble. What is more difficult is to stay calm and control what you say.

I do not know if Martin Dam, highest representative of Rayo Vallecano, yesterday it was too large or is not directly known to rise. Had not be justified at all. Yes should apologize on behalf of the institution, to all concerned: beginning with members of his team who had spent money to attend the game (yesterday's had been named as "day club", so the Subscribers must also pay admission) and ending with the Real Madrid, especially with players and fans.

But there was no need to justify because neither he nor anyone he Rayo blame for what happened, at least until proven otherwise. Not even to blame for a security breach, because I repeat that sabotage is much easier to do that to avoid. And in any case, sabotage caused no physical harm to anyone, it would be something he would be really important. Suspend a football game is far from being the end of the world.

A dam was was force by mouth to qualify the incident as an "act of terrorism football." One theory endorsed by Diario As director, Alfredo Relaño, in an editorial entitled New crime: terrorism football . These two bocachanclas should not have no idea what the term terrorism. The unfathomable pain that tears with the same invocation of the word. What happened in Vallecas was sabotage, an act of vandalism, but by no means terrorism.

In Spain we have suffered (and still continue to make a certain level) the scourge of terrorism. And while most of us have been fortunate to never have affected us directly, we should all be aware of the seriousness with which the decision must be taken to qualify something as a terrorist act. It is a term that has to be used lightly. Unless, of course, that one intends to aggravate a minor problem because he prefers playing the victim instead of handling the situation, or get someone to buy your newspaper, not by quality, but by the lewd and selling mud.