Rest in peace Barça TV. May the earth be light to you, as those who prefer to postulate with Greek paganism say. And after the good wishes, whatever the way of formulating them, the same practical result: the dead man in the hole and the live man in the bun. Loving obituaries today and back to normal tomorrow. Barça TV is now just a memory. The day will come when it is not even that. Memento, homo, quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris.
Barça has acted like the families that in the Middle Ages let the smallest of the house die when famine came. In this way, the little that was put on the table served at least for the survival of the older children who were already of helping age. The Barça thing does not reach famine, but, as even creative guarantees have a limit, we do know that scarcity has been installed among us permanently. That is so, regardless of whether the club is involved, thanks to the gasoline from the debt and the sale of assets, in the execution of megaprojects.
Barça TV therefore had to lose in the distribution of sacrifices, like the sections. By murdering her, the Blaugrana pocket is relieved with 14 million dollars a year that can now be used to cut other expenses. Pay for dinners and lunches, let's say. Discovering poverty is this: facing up against the reality that what used to be small change is now capital. From poor to rich the journey is a wonderful epic poem. The reverse only reaches the category of a drama of the saddest.
We understand cleanup plans. Hundreds of thousands are being executed in many homes, although less showy than those of Barça. Some people with inflation have stopped eating fresh food. Each one is forced to survive however they can. But without ceasing to be aware of the damage and regret it. The man in our example will live worse if his diet has been degraded. Just like Barça, which, without its television, is a slightly worse club. Not because the culerada was massively hooked on the channel, something that was clearly not the case. But yes, because of Barça TV's ability to act as a transmission belt for an important idea that the trend in football in general –and the economy of Barça in particular– is putting at risk: being more than a club.
Fortunately, not all decisions are irreversible. When the first prices for the season tickets for next year in Montjuïc were fixed, with prohibitive amounts, the essence of Barcelona was betrayed. The idea of being something more than a club was stabbed to become just a company with billing needs. Fortunately reality forced to rectify. The lesson is that being poor also requires learning. Because money comes and goes. But the lost values become unrecoverable. It is worth remembering today as a thankful epitaph for Barça TV.
