Richie McCormack

It's no, you know, those things are inextricably linked.

Barcelona had been, up until that point, the more successful of the two clubs.

that begins to trail off after the Stefano heads.

They do have a couple of league championships between the arrival of Cruyff in the late 80s and this period here in the late 50s.

But it tapers off and Real Madrid are off into the stratosphere because of this thing.

Yeah, and the Franco regime did begin to have a further impact on Barcelona and Catalan efforts for their own recognition, etc., etc., during that interregnum between Real Madrid's success initially and that Cruyff period, and there's a bit of neuroses creep into it, into Barcelona, but you're kind of asking yourself how much of that would have been cured if they had assigned to Stefano, or if the Stefano signature and move had actually gone ahead, because,

it was as good as done.

So, hence the episode.

I'm going to have some super moon waffles now.