Jaén, 'fan zone': "José Tomás only competes with himself"

• José Tomás, back (of everything): "You have to explore new formulas in bullfighting"

José Tomás had not set foot in a ring since June 22, 2019 in Granada.

The previous time was on June 29, 2018 in Algeciras.

In four years he has fought those two bullfights, because in a pandemic, with reduced capacity and bullfighting raw, nothing was known about the Galapagar phenomenon.

The last (re)appearances were settled with an earthquake at the box office and a success in the ring.

In the last one of Granada he already outlined a format so that the faithful would see him more and he acted with four bulls and a rejoneador ahead: "José Tomás only competes with himself", the unconditional ones usually say.

This has led the maestro to twist the loop of the formula and

.

From the same farms as the penultimate occasion: Juan Pedro, Victoriano del Río and Álvaro Núñez (the novelty is that Álvaro split from the mother house, rather father, of Cuvillo).

JT's narcissistic competition with himself begins with the clock, the time it takes for tickets to sell out.

, the company from the La Alameda bullring, could not withstand the pull and fell.

But it was very few hours (I'm too lazy to look at it).

The duration of the tickets and the fall, both things.

I think that even before the paper ended in Alicante, where it will be announced on August 7.

The Mare Nostrum website supported the demand and in two hours not even the mice were left at the box office.

One day José Tomás tickets will go on sale with everything already sold.

The new coming of the bullfighter of the eternal return does not enter or form part of any fair or any subscription.

The imminent bullfight in Jaén takes place on the weekend of the Virgen de la Capilla, when there used to be bullfights but not for a long time (I also get the information, ask Parrado).

It will mean JT's debut as a bullfighter in La Alameda, since his seasons' design never reached the San Lucas Fair, back in October.

He fought once as a novillero at a festival in 1995. From then until June 12.

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The caravans of public that José Tomás moves are not dragged by anyone.

The legend of him (already closed, better this way), the mythology of the god of Stone of Galapagar, the administration of his silence.

an individual who had defrauded numerous people with false tickets.

The crazy prerequisites for the resale will transcend, the equations - "for a liter of oil, I give José Tomás a ticket, 1,000 euros" -, the collapsed city, the overflowing hotels, the shortage of restaurants, the province forgets about revitalized Andalusia.

There are those who say that 143 euros for a low shadow line (plus management fees) for four bulls is deflation;

and others that it is more for more (see José Tomás more, without fillers).

works for JT

.

The businessman Alberto García defended it: "

. An exclusive event that will last as long as it has to last compared to the festivities that last up to three hours. You have to try things in bullfighting while respect the liturgy".

In the

area, the souvenir poster is sold for 20 euros, which is not the Barceló one painted for the occasion.

It was in 2016 when he fought in Spain on the penultimate afternoon -Valladolid, a tribute to Víctor Barrio- before Algeciras, before Granada.

The data of all the bullfights since 2018 should be expanded to three since 2016 (including one in Mexico: four).

On this day, the whole of Jaén will be a

.

We will find faces and faces that have not set foot in a bullring since 2019 in Granada, denying everything else.

An atmosphere of mythomaniac fervor.

in the towns in the 1960s. And then put a line of mothers and daughters at the doors of his room.

That José Tomás was,

is beyond any doubt.

A gifted for bullfighting.

No one doubts that he will give everything on Sunday, that he will not fail.

Like La Alameda overturned since I stepped on the sand.

I, who wrote in 2008 in Madrid "José Tomás is bullfighting" or in 2012 in Nimes "Marcial is no longer the greatest", I do not regret it, but I do feel disappointed, in a way.

The video images that will be edited to the media, thinking of open television -the three minutes of rigor- must be used in the following 24 hours, as stipulated in a clause to preserve the image of the myth.

Then, each

will destroy that mentality of the 90s and will act as a mobile unit, flooding the networks of José Tomás's afternoon practically live.

In good logic they would have to requisition the mobiles at the entrance or put guards like in my nephew Edu's communion, where they called you to order if you recorded the priest giving hosts.

If for this Sunday, the representative Boix would provide me with 5,000 characters of a chronicle made, I would be infinitely grateful.

Under the promise of publishing it within the next 24 hours.

The new formula of (re)appearance, coming as we do from 41 consecutive bullfighting evenings between Seville and Madrid, but above all coming as we do from a very crude pandemic with bullfighting,

: if it were up to José Tomas we would have closed the store.

Sounds like the return of Jaén to the signing of Pelé by the Cosmos, elephant graveyard, the last big check for the old football glories who could no longer compete in the big leagues: "José Tomás only competes with himself."

Forty-two degrees are in Jaén for Sunday.

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