If Barça are awarded a penalty because a ball hits Balde's arm in Mallorca, it's a well-awarded penalty. Iturralde said: "He had his arm in an L shape, making himself bigger." If a goal is disallowed for Güler for the same reason, it's a robbery against Madrid in the filthy league.
Yet, the Federation has left Florentino with a Referees Committee tailored to his needs, changing everyone except his employee's wife on the payroll.
More penalties than anyone and they complain about Negreira
But Madridists go from tantrum to tantrum when something is called against them that they don't like. They're used to, without VAR, errors that added up to titles, so having an image shatter their illusion is hard for them to handle.
They even complain about an offside called on Mbappé by millimeters. Of course, before, without VAR, when it was a matter of millimeters, it was always in favor of Real Madrid. That's been lost with technology and gives them plenty of reasons to rage.
They continue to enjoy more penalties in their favor than anyone and fewer against them than the rest, but they keep complaining. They complain about everything. Before and after matches.
Tomás Roncero already intimidates the referee of Rayo-Barça
They'd like referees to step onto the field singing Real Madrid's anthem and, since they don't, they're considered anti-Madridists. That's how the propaganda business works. Anyone who doesn't cry over Real Madrid's successes and failures is a heretic anti-Madridist.
Tomás Roncero is deputy director of a national newspaper like AS (and then they say sociological Madridism doesn't exist). After shedding his tearful dose over the "filthy Negreira league" (he's been gone for years, but it doesn't matter), he harasses the referee with another of his frustrated fortune-teller predictions:
"Poor Rayo, what's waiting for them with the refereeing" (against Barça).
It's the mechanism of the propaganda apparatus at Florentino's service. Everyone is involved in this task; it's not about isolated media outlets. Sociological Madridism isn't universal, as Florentino says, but it is from Madrid and the capital.
Spain has to belong to Real Madrid from Portugal to the Pyrenees, and anyone who doesn't understand that isn't thinking straight.
"This is scandalous," says Roncero. "Spanish refereeing is in its greatest free fall in the history of European soccer. Two goals disallowed in a pitiful and terrible way.
The same day Atleti are gifted a point with an offside goal. Poor Rayo, what's waiting for them tomorrow with the refereeing."
Memory is selective. The propagandists of the white cause don't remember the non-existent penalty awarded to Mbappé in the first matchday against Osasuna.
Nor the penalty called against Barça in Mallorca. Nor the uncalled foul by Tchouaméni in Mbappé's first goal in Oviedo. They remember what suits them.
Alfredo Relaño: from the Villarato narrative to Negreira and rolling the dice
Alfredo Relaño, more objective than his colleague Roncero, nevertheless insists in As on the Negreira issue. He was the inventor of the term "villarato." He can't allow such a practical resource as Negreira to fall into oblivion, even though he's no longer around.
"Bernabéu doesn't forget Negreira. Madridism has the impunity of Negreira's 17 years as a Barça employee stuck in their minds." By resorting to Negreira, they'll keep covering up in the coming years all the outrageous refereeing decisions in their favor.
Although, of course, not a single piece of evidence that this "filthy league" has been fixed. We're already in the third year searching for it.
Then they're surprised by the chants at Bernabéu about Negreira. What else are they going to sing if in the media they only read, hear, and see references to Negreira?
But about Yolanda Parga and her husband on Florentino's payroll, not a word. They can't, they're not allowed.