A great week to be Spanish in the UK, when they don’t spoil it for us.

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We immigrants from time to time have joys and moments to cherish in our new countries.

If sport is usually the main cause of joy, it will be equally important that we suddenly learn to show our chests to the many Spanish creators who also succeed in many fields away from balls and rackets.

We know all the sports stars, most of whom are male for obvious and totally unfair reasons, and their names. Olmo, Lamine, Nico, Rodri also Merino It has had a great and deserved resonance these days but perhaps We should start meeting other stars. Which have had a greater or greater impact on industries such as cinema, television, music, literature, or the visual arts… In the world of comics that many do not know, we have great artists such as Ana Miralles, Paco Roca, Raul Allen, Julia Madrigal, Jordi Lafeber, Alvaro Ortiz, David Aja, Ferran Delgado, Juanjo Guarnido, Juan Diaz Canales, Patricia Martin Who also ‘win finals’ with every work they publish and whose international influence means I can find their work translated into English in my comic shop in Leeds.

We immigrants from time to time have joys and moments to cherish in our new countries.

Let’s go back to this week and how with one little ball you can make millions of people happy and make our week easier…

If England had won last Sunday, you would have been better off taking this week off work instead. bear your arrogance It was bound to turn into silence and disinterest in talking about football after Mikel Oyarzabal’s goal.

Last weekend, in another chapter of the English version, titled “Selling the Bearskin Before the Hunt,” there was talk of a possible “bank holiday” or extra day to celebrate his possible victory. As Sunday approached, just as the Spanish commentators seemed to be hyping up the English team’s capabilities and strengths, the opposite seemed to be happening to their English colleagues. As the match drew closer, They got smaller and smaller. To our choice.

There is only one Gary Lineker, and his continued respect for our team is not common in the rest of the English media, an attitude largely facilitated by the fact that many of the immigrants this country welcomes cannot share any sense of belonging or interest in their sporting successes.

Alcaraz’s sporting victory at Wimbledon, repeating his success from 2023, gave us some peace of mind and started what could be a spectacular afternoon with a red win.

The current team without big names, with young players and without making much noise, makes itself popular without much effort and fortunately we do not have in the team those former leaders with whom we did not win anything and who had to play on their own. Decree and cover the fees imposed by some teams.

It seems that many athletes in our country have a great interest in losing what they gain off the field with embarrassing statements.

England have some of those ‘divas’ in the current squad and we’ve seen that with the attitudes of some of those ‘Balls of Gold’ that seem to have already been awarded in March.

It was won fairly in the countryside, and gave those of us who lived in England immense joy and magical power to silence many a mouth in our neighbourhoods or workplaces.

This week we can decide whether we want to talk about football or not and everything seemed perfect… but we cannot ask footballers, or at least not all of them, to also know how to behave and not step out of line.

It seems that many athletes in our country have a great interest in losing what they earn off the field. Embarrassing statementsWhich shows the lack of training that many have.

We all know who has spoken, for example, about positions like that of Rubiales, or those who have put themselves in a position by whitewashing salary differences, or those who, while some governments are applauded and smiled at, others are vilified.

The attitude at the reception at the Moncloa Palace for one of those “Golden Balls” already awarded and who likes to take pictures with the leaders of the far right says a lot about what he represents from his position as captain of the national team.

Spain is not perfect and will not be until there is respect for those who are different and we do not become Neanderthals who can only celebrate something at the expense of offending the rest of the world.

The same person who says that football players They don’t have to talk about politics. After listening to his new teammate Mbappé stand against the far right coming to power in France, he made it clear to us that he will never be able to represent a country and only wants to represent a faction of people and brothers who are nostalgic for the past. In law.

This shameful internal image was made worse externally shortly after in the Plaza de la Cibeles with childish and ridiculous songs that, although they could be sung by 13-year-old children or 46-year-old men, should never have filled television screens and reached the world’s media.

I have never heard songs about Ceuta and Melilla from Morocco after the World Cup, and in nearly fifty years of my life I have never seen them at any other event with a similar impact to Friday’s celebrations.

There are many armchair historians, the same ones who told us about vaccines in 2020 or the global economy with their IKEA Masters in Economics and Political Science, who are telling us these days that Gibraltar is not Ceuta And Toro de Vega does not suffer…

…and how good it would have been to celebrate a football match and not the rise of populism?

…and how nice it would have been if there weren’t Cayetanos singing that Lamine Yamal eats pork, and trying to impose that if you are Spanish you can’t be Muslim?

Spain is not perfect and will not be until there is respect for those who are different and we do not become Neanderthals who can only celebrate at the expense of offending the rest of the world, or maybe when we win we continue to celebrate like backward and ignorant hooligans led and motivated by mediocre and stupid people outside the football pitch.

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