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UEFA located last week some guys with Nazi symbols and fuss inside the Etihad Stadium, in the sector reserved for visiting fans, that of Atlético de Madrid, and now points them out for, a euphemism, their “discriminatory behavior.” Easily identifiable despicable subjects thanks to the set of cameras and modern technology that are in all football fields, combined with the supposed registration prior to the acquisition of seats or tickets for the trip, to which, however, he has no intention to punish Far from that, the highest body of European football intends to settle scores with a kind of indiscriminate or arbitrary shooting that takes 5,000 followers ahead. Anyone, no matter his conduct or his background, whether he was in Manchester or not, has ever traveled in his life…
to whom it touches. But don’t let them go into the Metropolitano tomorrow night.
A way to make Atlético pay as a club, which is not the embarrassing performance of some of its fans, as if it were their responsibility to ensure the safety of the stadiums they visit. As if that, moreover, were easy or possible. An issue that is supposed to be up to the local club, Manchester City, or the local police, as was established when the Calderón was closed not long ago due to incidents caused by hooligans at Olimpique de Marseille. ‘You are the owner of the field, you pay’, he said to himself then. Not anymore.
But it is not only what squeaks the comparative grievance with other inappropriate behavior that UEFA has sanctioned in another direction or has yet to resolve, such as the exercise of bullying by Al Khelaifi, owner of PSG and patron of European football, against referee and employees in the dressing rooms of the Bernabéu, or the rain of objects that Simeone received 15 days ago on his other visit to Manchester, to the home of United. Although it was the first time, the distribution of guilty and condemned would be contradictory.
Even if in the background of the punishment you want to show the collusion or permissiveness of the Madrid institution, or its managers, with this unpresentable type of fans, the shot would also be diverted. If it is proven, that the sanction, and a forceful one, be for the directors, but not for 5,000 spectators at random. And also a few hours before the game, with all the tickets already sold and in hand. Who is taken away now? To the English? To those of preference tribune? A nonsense.
The despicable nature of the facts that are denounced, nor their reprehensible and prosecutable condition, is not minimized, what provokes indignation is who is intended to be held responsible or made to pay the price for them. Taken to the extreme, the sanction finally sounds as xenophobic as the practice that is trying to be condemned: ‘since a Moroccan has committed a crime, let not another Moroccan enter Spain’. What the partial closure of the Metropolitan is achieving is not criminalizing the Nazis, but all athletes. And that is not fair or presentable.
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