Viva la Revolución

There is a revolution going on in La Liga, especially with the TV Revenues renegotiation and the pervasiveness of the duopoly of Real Madrid and Barçelona. The other clubs, fans, and players are speaking out about disparity, three leagues, the referees, and the predictability of the league.

I recently read on a Real Zaragoza forum an article in reaction to the 0-8 thrashing by Barçelona on Alméria. It's called the Antidote in the Face of the Madrid-Barça Duopoly.

Barça just won 0-8, the opponent is not important. I resent a league that is so lopsided, so uncompetitive. We have endured many years where the title is won by either Real Madrid or FC Barçelona. We are mere extras in this pantomime league, which serves as vehicle for TV news reports to drool and recount the exploits every Monday on the super teams. For them, the other teams do not exist.

Having said that, it is impossible that this will ever change, as they have the best players, best coaches, biggest budgets, biggest sponsors and the national press love them.

But there is something that we can do, for the sake of football and the other 18 teams in La Liga.

Each time a team goes to the Bernabeu and the Nou Camp, play your cantera:

1) This will take away the joy and merit of winning for the super teams

2) People will lose interest in these games

3) Less people will attend the match

4) The big two will lose revenues, stop attracting the big transfers

5) It is a method of protest and maybe just maybe, the super teams will get frustrated and form a super league.

In truth, if the big two are excluded from our league, it would become more competitive, equal, fair, and more exciting.

The title really has no meaning for them anymore.

Crazy no? Do you agree? What do you think?

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