Keep politics out of sport? Don’t make me laugh | Richard Williams
Barcelona’s decision to play last Sunday’s match against Las Palmas in an empty stadium smacked of choosing points over principles, and overlooks the fact that sport has always found room for protestWhen it came down to it, FC Barcelona – mes que un club, remember – could not bring themselves to go all in. The threatened loss of six points – three for the defaulted match, three more as a penalty – was enough to persuade them to stage their match against Las Palmas behind locked doors in a deserted Camp Nou, while outside the streets of the city rang with the echoes of violent confrontations between police and voters in an independence referendum ruled illegal by the national government.The...