For years football has been a regular congregation point for some of society’s most irrational and violent individuals. Amongst the thousands who attend every game, there are all types of people. I reckon that if we were able to group together the most educated, helpful and generous amongst the attendees, this frequent contact would generate great initiatives for mankind. Instead, we assemble the most violent, we let them have their fixed areas in the stadium, help them financially and give them high profile.
Sooner or later, the inevitable happens, an ongoing contagious chain of events that lead to undesirable incidents or tragedy. Violence feeds violence and this permitted gathering of ultra groups prevalent in all football grounds apart from Barcelona (Laporta led the way) is, frankly, lunacy. Under the pretext that they generate atmosphere and colour to the ground with the hope that they can be controlled with a few inducements. But that doesn’t work. What worked was the Laporta method. By the way, Barça won six titles in the very year that the club got rid of this ‘animation’.
No, the ultras are not needed to create atmosphere or to win games and even if they were, the price is too high. The Calderon crowd experienced a strange game yesterday, a match that should have been a celebration quickly transformed into a repulsion tinged with collective culpability. When ultra group, Frente Atlético tried to start their chants the rest of the supporters told them to shut up. A decent gesture, but we can’t ignore that in the past the whole crowd consented and even laughed at distasteful chants such as ‘Zabaleta, was a member of ETA’, ‘Illa, illa, illa, Juanito ended up as mush’ or ‘The Retiro park is Spanish not for Ecuadorians’. Too much condescension.
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