Deportivo and Fuenlabrada dismantle the coronavirus league
#WorldExample
Spanish football was boasting a historic season finale. The coronavirus league ended in First Division. A competition in two acts, confinement by, that put to the Spanish soccer like world-wide example of organization. No positive for COVID-19 in 40 days of competition. Vinicius' famous "inconclusive" was resolved in hours by removing the player and repeating the test. Everything was in order... until on the last day of Segunda Fuenlabrada the alarms went off.
#Sport-Fuenla
The Madrid team was playing to be in the play-off for promotion in Riazor. Deportivo didn't depend on winning that match to save themselves. It was a life-or-death match that brought too many ignorant people to the surroundings of the stadium. But three hours before the match 12 positives were known in Fuenlabrada, seven from players and five from club members. And this is when all the protocol of LaLiga, the RFEF and the CSD collapses. Nobody makes a coherent decision and the destruction of football can be legendary. At the same level as that summer of 1995 when Sevilla and Celta were on their way to the second division and were kept in the first division by popular pressure. Two seasons of 22 teams that ended in the relegation of four clubs to a Second Division that took up two new places. And that it maintains until today. And that the season 20-21 can be two more and turn the Second into an endless marathon of football of 44 days.
#SoccerAdulterated
Someone in some office decided that they should play the rest of the day and finish adulterating a season finale that is already quite vicious. The clubs involved in relegation and promotion were not giving credit and issued statements complaining about the lack of equality. The day was played. Deportivo went down mathematically without playing and Fuenlabrada is left with an uncertain draw to fight for a place in Primera.
#Ridiculous
The Depor-Fuenla is scheduled for July 30th. Once the Madrid players pass the quarantine in Coruña and their tests are negative. If that match is played - which it will be - the organizational ridicule of Spanish football may weigh heavily on the good roster of the Spanish Second Division. The draw of Fuenlabrada would take Elche out of its way to First Division. Deportivo would play for the history of Spanish football as the second team to win a league (2000) and be relegated to two categories. The other was Betis in 1947 after having been champion in 1935.
#Tribunals
Teams like Rayo, Numancia, Elche and Deportivo de la Coruña themselves want to go to court to ask for the last day's suspension and to play on equal terms again. The common sense that someone did not put at six o'clock in the afternoon can be put by a judge in months when everything has passed. A nonsense that can not afford the best league in the world. The toad that made that decision has to be swallowed by the RFEF or LaLiga. One of football's two bodies will have to take responsibility and provide solutions.
#24teams
A Second Division with 24 teams is an imprudence in today's football. Matches and more matches. Teams that may not play at all months after the end of the competition. Lost inertia. Injuries due to the accumulation of matches... but it's an option. Logroñés, Cartagena, Deportivo and Numancia. Two promoted and two relegated teams sharing the same category.
#Play
To leave everything the same is the most likely and fastest option. You have to play for promotion in a few days. When the parts cool down and the waters return to their course it will be necessary to remember what Fernando Vidal, president of Deportivo said when he found out that the encounter would not be disputed, "neither it benefits nor it harms to us, we had to play equal. When the day ends we will know how it looks and there are key matches. If Lugo and Albacete win we will be relegated. Playing or not playing, if they win it would be the same. In this case we recognize that the League has acted correctly and protocols have been applied strictly. At eleven o'clock at night and from the dark well of the new Second B of 100 teams, he changed the speech and said that he did not contemplate Depor as descended. But it was true that they did not depend on winning to save themselves.
#Solutions
A few meters from the finish line LaLiga has stumbled on the easiest straight. In the most likely cause of their protocol. That of the positives. In his Sunday appearances Tebas predicted that there would not be five positives in a team and if there were, they had skipped the rules. Will they dare to sanction Fuenlabrada? His road book had a solution to this problem and with empty stadiums it was easy to postpone the day to another day, postpone the end of the season and relocate the promotion play-offs. But someone decided to play and certify the embarrassment of a rare July afternoon.
