Rubiales vs the algorithm of X. Berlanga, Almodóvar, Jenni, FIFA, UEFA, Fiscalia... These are just some of the thousand and one complicated ways to get to the kiss-gate from tweet to tweet. We have even encountered the Church. The dismay of Rubiales increases nine days later with the mother of the suspended president of the Spanish football federation locking herself in the church of the Divina Pastora in Motril on hunger strike. Reading it on the BBC website or Der Spiegel adds intensity to the blush caused by the case on the front page of The Financial Times.
Ángeles Béjar, the new version of mother courage, was already last week in the assembly of the federation with her husband and her three granddaughters. Those "real feminist" girls who have miraculously been protected despite their father's exhibitionism. The woman must have thought that the applause from the federative corral was sincere or frank, something that Rubiales has made impossible in his mandate; and now, far from thinking that his son's behavior is, to say the least, questionable, he appeals to the highest divine authorities.
The rector of La Divina Pastora has a problem and the brotherhood, with its stall at the door, has received a blessing. A horde of journalists ready to buy the Christmas lottery...
The woman asks for understanding "as a mother" and cousin Vanessa, also in Motril, stands in front of the microphones to ask Jenni Hermoso "to tell the truth". Rubiales has taken to the field his families, the blood and the federative, in an incomprehensible battle against the 21st century.
Looking elsewhere is the surprising recipe of compulsive Twitter commentators like Isabel Díaz Ayuso or José Luís Almeida. When the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, speaks out in favor of Hermoso, the president of Madrid wonders why the international press is not talking about the "boycott" of the Vuelta by the pro-independence "partners" of Pedro Sánchez. The right-wing media is capable of pedaling even further and the equation is indigestible: Rubiales, the Catalan separatists and ETA.
Faced with parish closings, noise and resounding silences, the journalist Paloma del Río competes with the Rubiales clan in her Twitter dismissal and beats them in dignity. "Would you like them to do that to your daughter?", he said to a boss who put his hand on her. It says goodbye after 37 years of artistic broadcasts with a pavilion shouting Paloooooma, Paloooooma. And Rubiales still doesn't know why they don't call his name.
