A “Spanish” “National” Team?

I find it hilarious when people (clueless and naïve people mostly) claim to be offended whenever someone, anyone, makes a suggestion that “Catalonia is not Spain”.  Whether it’s someone simply speaking Catalan, like Andrés Iniesta is doing now on Facebook (the Spaniards who are upset about this make me laugh more than anything else; he can use as much English as he wants, but  he use Catalan which is a similar language to Spanish and therefore not that hard to decipher if you’re reading it on the internet), with the case I mentioned back in my “Visca Catalunya Lliure!” post in February with the coach who walked answer a question in a press conference because he refused to answer a question he was asked in Catalan in Spanish, or, more recently, with the comments that Gerard Piqué, a player for FC Barcelona, allegedly made after the clàssic two Saturdays ago at the Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid claiming that on Wednesday (last Wednesday) Barcelona was going to win “your King’s cup!”

I’ll concede that, if the statements were true (Piqué denied them over Twitter, and it was Madrid paper Marca which printed them, and they’re not known for being discerning when it comes to the content of their paper, but Piqué could have easily just made the post to save his own arse), they were certainly not made tactfully.  But at the same time, why are people offended?  Is it because of how he said it…or is it because of what he said (allegedly)?  Are people offended at the fact that he addressed the crowd at the Bernabéu telling them that Barcelona was going to win a title which they didn’t even believe in (Barcelona, as Catalunya as a whole, was on the side of the República during the Spanish Civil War and thus did not believe in instating any kind of monarchy), or is it because he was being an ass about it?  Maybe it was both?

My apologies for not being around here much anymore.  I guess I'm using Tumblr more again for what I'm "supposed" to be using this blog for.  And after finding out that a certain group of people (or at least one in particular) is still obsessed with me and stalking me on the internet after two years of me being oh so over the drama, I might as well bring back the lovely Blogspot.

Nah, I really do miss it over here.  Truth is, I've had a couple ideas for some posts.  Even one that I typed up but didn't end up posting because, well, it wasn't supposed to be read.  And now it never will be.  Mwahahahahaha.

Ahem.  At this point I'm just trying to get through two more clásicos since the previous two weren't exactly favorable to my team (well, the second one more so, the first wasn't too bad).  I'm just hoping that the tide turns this time and we can finally get a good result against one of the football clubs I hate the most on this planet.  They're still not number one on my hit list, but they're climbing up in the rankings, that's for sure.

Anyway, I'll try to have something with an actual point to it to post next time.