Rest in peace, Barça TV. May the earth be easy for him, as those who prefer the posturing of Greek paganism say. And after the good wishes, no matter how you formulate them, the same practical result: go away, Anton, because what remains is already composed. Affectionate obituaries today and back to normal tomorrow. Barça TV is now just a memory. The day will come when not even that. Mento, homo, quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris.
Barça has acted like the families that in the Middle Ages let the youngest members of the house die when times of famine came. In this way, the little that came to the table served at least for the survival of the older children, who were already old enough to lend a hand. This from Barça doesn't go as far as going hungry, but since even creative finances have a limit, we do know that scarcity has settled among us permanently. This is so, regardless of whether the club is executing, thanks to debt fuel and the sale of assets, mega-projects. Barça TV therefore had those to lose in the distribution of sacrifices, such as the sections. By killing it, Barcelona's pocket is lightened with fourteen million a year that can now be used to cover other expenses. Paying for dinners and lunches, let's say. Discovering poverty is this: screwing up against the reality that what used to be just trash is now a whole lot of capital. From poor to rich the journey is a wonderful epic poem. But on the contrary, it's just a very sad drama.
We understand sanitation plans. Hundreds of thousands of them are being executed in many homes, although less showy than Barça's. There are those who have stopped eating fresh food because of inflation. Everyone is forced to survive as best they can. But without ceasing to be aware of the damage and to regret it. The man in our example will live worse if his diet has degraded. Just like Barça, which without its television is a slightly worse club. Not because the culers were massively stuck in the canal, which they weren't. But yes, because of Barça TV's ability to act as a transmission belt for an idea of an entity that the trend of football in general, and the economy of Barça in particular, are putting at risk: to be more than a club .
Fortunately, not all decisions are irreversible. When the first season ticket prices for next year in Montjuic were set, with prohibitive amounts, the essence of Barcelona was betrayed. The idea of being something more than a club was being stabbed to become just a company with invoicing needs. Fortunately, reality forced me to rectify. The lesson is that being poor also requires learning. Because money comes and goes. But lost values become irrecoverable. It is worth remembering today as a grateful epitaph to Barça TV.
