Acute Barcelonitis and selective amnesia

The fact that Barça president Joan Laporta held his first major campaign rally during the club's Christmas dinner is beside the point. A president is always campaigning, and besides, any Barça fan agrees with what he said about Real Madrid: that they have "acute barcelonitis".The reasons are clear: Barça outplayed Real Madrid last season as many times as they wanted, despite signing Mbappé; in the summer, Real Madrid changed coaches and are now second, four points behind Barça; and the Real Madrid president needs to downplay the fiasco of the new Bernabéu and the future sale of part of the club's ownership. But beyond these immediate reasons, the day Barça abandoned the Super League project and returned to UEFA, Florentino Pérez and Laporta stopped working together. That's why we're back to a free-for-all for presidential hostilities. Nevertheless, Barça members should be more demanding when it comes to clarifying what happened in the Negreira case. No referee has admitted to having acted in a way that favored Barça. Coaches like Luis Enrique and Valverde have testified before the judge that they never saw a report, but the reports existed, and according to all reports, Barça paid Negreira almost eight million euros between 2001 and 2018. It's one thing for Real Madrid not to be in a position to lecture on refereeing neutrality or to want to distort history; it's another for us not to question the path that money took, if, as it seems, it didn't influence the competition. Who benefited?