The ‘Marca’ wants to ban whistling the Spanish anthem

Demana el Marca in an editorial sense that teams whose fans boo the Spanish anthem be expelled for a year from the Copa del Rey. The newspaper recalls, in a separate piece, that Law 39/1981 includes the penalty for "outrage to the national flag" and recalls that in China you can get up to ten years in prison for crimes as vaguely defined as "causing trouble". An interesting reference, the one from China, comrades. They could also ask to execute them directly, and charge the families for the bullet, as the so-called zidan fei used to dictate in the past. What the hell, I would extend the punitive policy to everyone who doesn't cheer for the king. And to Florentino Pérez, since we're at it: this authoritarianism thing, it spreads quickly. It's funny that they say that booing is a goal for politics in sports and that, at the same time, a sports newspaper gets involved with this political proclamation, prohibiting a harmless act protected by freedom of expression.

In another order of things, or not, El Español publishes the piece: “Valentí, father of Pep Guardiola: «Here at home we call him José. Not Pep. He told his mother one day: At home I am José»”. Everything suggests that Guardiola's father – a Catalan speaker – explained that at home they call his son Josep, not Pep, but that when speaking Spanish with the reporter who was pursuing him, he must have translated the name. The news does not explain where the statements come from, but it turns out that there is a piece in El Mundo from 2017 in which they ambushed Guardiola's father and extracted this sentence from him. That is, they steal a news item from the competition from years ago and try to pass it off as current. To make it even more edifying, other media outlets have replicated the news, once they saw that it was (again) going viral, because Catalanophobia always sells. As they say in Spanish: He who steals from a thief, a hundred thousand clicks and a pardon.