San Mamés passes sentence and sends the "mafia" of Barça "to Segunda"

"To Second! To Second! To Second", roared San Mamés after hundreds of youngsters from the animation stands threw

against the "mafia" of the Fútbol Club Barcelona.

The Athletic fans, divided by the initiative of part of their youth sector, demonstrated their contained indignation in three intense minutes in which the referee Gil

, an involuntary representative of the ghost of arbitration corruption, became the protagonist.

A yellow card to

in the 29th minute of the game after struggling with

and displacing the ball warmed up the stands.

The indignation that had been simmering throughout the week was transferred to the entire stands and to the imposing San Mamés.

's goal initially disallowed for offside

in the 45th minute ended up lighting up San Mamés.

Gil Manzano undaunted in the center of the field endured the indications of his teammate González González in the VAR and the confirmation of the goal (0-1) finished pissing off the more than 40,000

that packed the Cathedral.

A stadium always activated to push his team and in which the general anger against Barça became evident.

Already in the run-up to the match, the alley where a rubber ball from the Ertzaintza killed Iñigo Cabacas in April 2012 shouted in unison: 'Puto Barça, puto Barça, ehhhh, ehhhh!'

More than half a thousand young people dressed in red-and-white t-shirts and scarves, with katxis of beer and bottles of Estrella Galicia kept shouting enthusiastically during the long warm-up before covering the barely three hundred meters that distanced them from San Mamés.

At that moment, when there were almost two hours to go before the game, but Barça, once an admired club,

nationalist

del Ahtletic approached the Stadium pursued by the shadow of sports corruption.

Iñigo Cabacas Herri Harmailea (ICHH) imposed his chants against Barça around Corazón de María street while thousands of fans walked towards San Mamés.

Despite the fact that, as Koldo, 62 years old and with a gin and tonic in hand, pointed out, the football fan had just discovered the hidden face of Futbol Club Barcelona.

"Barcelona has done a disservice to the fair play that should prevail in football. I hope that many fans, including those of Athletic, have dropped their mask with respect to this club, I understand the explicit refusal to buy or not even try to buy arbitration aid", sentenced under the watchful eye of half a dozen fans.

The Athletic supporters clubs launch tickets with the face of Barça president Joan Laporta.Luis TejidoEFE

The almost unanimous rejection of the rojiblanco fans of the alleged purchase of arbitration favors in the Negreira case broke down in support for the launch of euro bills with the word "Mafia" proposed by ICHH.

"The Negreira case is nothing more than the door to the iceberg. In the 30th minute for Barça, show them your anger.

," ICHH spread in the first fan initiative after revealing the alleged plot of irregular payments from Barça to the former vice president of the referees committee.

The group of fans (more than 4,000) that populate the San Mamés entertainment stands urged their own to print the false tickets of the soccer "mafia" although the excuses were repeated in the moments before the game.

"It's that I told my

to print them for me but this morning he forgot and we don't have any," Aitor, 18, with a Villalibre shirt - the Gernika buffalo who now plays for Alavés - and with a face of circumstances before his gang.

Not all of Ahtletic's youngsters supported the pointing out

of

's squad .

"The fans of San Mamés are always the best fans in the world and that means having respect for their rivals. The Barça players are not to blame for what could have happened and enduring a bag of tickets with the word mafia on them," defended Mikel, 24 years old and an unconditional follower, before Gil Manzano entered the field escorted by

and

.

What did Barça get by greasing its relationship with the referees with the payment of up to 7.3 million euros between 2001 and 2018?

Luis, a Canarian from La Palma and wearing the Blaugrana shirt, outlined a smile before responding supported by his Barcelona faith: "There was something, although I don't think it was buying matches. Something was clear," he acknowledged before the watchful eye of Miriam, dressed with the red-and-white from Athletic but a Madridista at heart.

's promised explanations

to clarify what he has not yet recognized protected by silence.

Miriam, without the ties of her partner's soccer fandom, had it clearer: "

and it's good that scandals come out and that people react", Miriam corrected him, anticipating the verdict of one of the temples of Spanish football.

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