Copa del Rey: Alcorcon 4-0 Real Madrid
I could pile on when the club is down, and usually I don’t spare the rod when ridiculing what has happened to a bloated, over-hyped monstrosity like the Super-Galactic Fortress Real Madrid (by the way from now I shall be referring to them according to this their Japanese anime name), but you have to feel sorry for them. Don’t you?
I realize that glamor signings Kaka and fake-Ronaldo were out. Benzema and Xabi Alonso have been out. You would think that it wouldn’t mean much if you were facing a third tier side like Alcorcon, with an operating budget 1/400th of yours, against cast-offs and neer-do-wells, in the meaningless first leg on your opponents’ 4,500 seater home stadium, even if you were starting your subs. These are players who are already in the same division as your youth team Real Madrid Castilla. It might even be acceptable to lose in a one-goal shocker, but to lose like this: a “goleada” as they say, a 4-0 embarrassment.
I realize that it is a “derby match” as some websites were calling it, as I guess Alcorcon is a suburb in the megalopolis that is Greater-Madrid, but come off it. It is the ultimate in all embarrassments (as As and Marca are calling it) but this isn’t Manuel Pellegrini’s fault so don’t be looking for scapegoats that way. The blame should fall squarely on the heads of Raul, Guti and all the other spurned divas who were forced out at the beginning of the year when the Super-Galactic Fortress Real Madrid launched.
