The RFEF's Competition Committee joins the anti-Barça campaign
The statement released by the RFEF is as surprising as it is shameful, says Lluis Mascaro
The Royal Spanish Football Federation’s Competition Committee (RFEF) has joined the shameless anti-Barça campaign. In a statement as surprising as it is intolerable, the organisation criticises “the less than exemplary behaviour of some of the players from FC Barcelona which discredits and ridicules only themselves."
How can they dare belittle the Blaugrana players in this way? It’s absolutely out of place and inappropriate from a Committee which is supposed to be impartial.
It seems the pressure from the Madrid media cavern (and the Valencia one, which also exists) has had an effect. The campaign against Barcelona’s players, which began as soon as the match on Saturday at Mestalla ended, has got to the Competition Committee. A Committee which only punished Valencia with a €1500 fine for the objects which were thrown when Barça celebrated their winning goal.
Barcelona’s players were the victims of physical and verbal attacks during and after the game. And thanks to the Madrid media campaign (and the digs from Valencian politician Ximo Puig and LFP president Javier Tebas), it seems the victims have become the provocateurs. What a disgrace.
FC Barcelona should not allow these indiscriminate attacks. They must officially protest. Jordi Mestre’s strong words are not enough. They must act. This campaign is as disrespectful as it is repulsive.
