Beyond the embarrassment, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) faces a sanction from FIFA after the Islamophobic chants at the friendly match against Egypt in Cornellà-El Prat. The punishment ranges from a match for the senior team "with a limited number of spectators" and "a fine of at least 20,000 Swiss francs (21,600 euros)," according to regulations in cases of discriminatory chants in the stands. And it could even mean prohibiting "la roja" from playing at Espanyol's stadium again.

For the Spanish Football Federation to reprimand Barça for starting medical treatment at Lamine Yamal is absurd. If Spain has made any impact on the European and world football scene in the last two decades, it has been thanks to the players, both men and women, developed at Barça, capable of playing a technical, brilliant, and winning style of football that put an end to all those years of...developmentalismfootballing so well summarized in the expression "the Spanish fury", invoked with a glass of Soberano in hand, that"It's a man's thing."A club that has contributed a list of players that could start with Puyol, Xavi, and Iniesta, and end with Pedri (whom Real Madrid didn't want) and Lamine, deserves gratitude, not this nonsense. But seeing that the Federation has had presidents like Luis Rubiales, the nonsense is understandable.