What's a monument to the International Brigades doing on an amateur football pitch in East London? Football may always be political, for example, when Barça and Madrid play a Copa del Rey final Or when three ministers, from the PP or the PSOE, appear in the Bernabéu box? Probably. Football, moreover, is also personal memory and emotional ties between fathers, mothers, and sons and daughters. And it is also, of course, a collective history.