Well done Professor T! I didn't know that the view from Madrid extended this far
Regarding the view from the Catalonian Fraction, as
de facto representative-of-the-day I just have to point out that here the news was ecliped by Joan Laporta's (president of F C Barcelona) very public political presence among the ranks of the
Esquerra Repubicana de Catalunya (ERC), clearly left-wing and er, replublican, but not
quite so clearly, in support of complete independence for Catalonia!
Here's the independently minded*
La Vanguardia's 'take' on the events (in Spanish as always). An interesting contrast of focus to that of El Pais!
I particularly liked reading this article after the event because of Alicia Sanchez-Camancho's ** (the Catalan PP leader) comments:
La presidenta del PP catalán, Alícia Sánchez-Camacho, no está nada de acuerdo con la creciente proyecció política de Joan Laporta. En declaraciones a TVE, señaló que, como presidente del Barça, representa a miles de personas y muchas de ellas no comparten sentiminetos independentistas. Sánchez-Camacho recurrió al refrán para aconsejar a su amigo Laporta: "Zapatero, a tus zapatos".
Well, apart from that quiet side-swipe at JLR-Z, it's a good job A S-C' second name isn't Pastor
I also leanred an ace new word, '
rifiraffe'!
I think this will definitely be a frequently used item in my vocabulary!
* That's independent in the sense of no political affiliations rather than
independence the 'sovereign' issue!
** I see that when they made your friend
La Espe they didn't throw away the mold!
