Of course we understand it

Wow, we do understand.

Of course we can understand it. What it gives us is sorrow. With so many comebacks, Champions nights, 90 minutes and stuff, it seems that everything happened 200 years ago.

On April 22, a little over two weeks ago, I did the league accounts and predicted that the 35th league and the Wanda had a pending chapter: alirón or pasillo.

Then everything came crashing down.

Wow, we do understand. Of course we can understand it. There are two ways to live life, essentially: The desire to win, never giving up, minute 92.48. The search for excuses, the pride of being second, mediocre envy. We understand. We can understand it. And we are sorry.

I've searched Atleti tagline in case we all had made a mistake and they had publicly congratulated Real Madrid, discreetly, without us finding out, beyond the carrier pigeon or the private message on Filmin that Cerezo sent to Florentino. In his absence, let's put how they were in their last game https://twitter.com/Atleti/status/1520506598816460802 < p style="text-align: justify;">Atleti can stay out of the Champions League, both in boys and girls. And it's funny... because the same thing ends up depending on the desire that Real Madrid has on matchday 38 to stick their leg against Betis... as in the women's where they depend on Barcelona wanting to make their league record -of all games won- over the desire to leave Toril team without the UWCL.

When did Atleti lose class? Not from nowadays, not because Cholo. The Cholo spirit endowed them with a competitive gene, but it has been insufficient to remove all their ghosts. Winners, somedays, but not so much: just enough so that we cannot understand it. Ramos prevented it first, Oblak later by making the statue while all the goals went through his left post.

And why don't they fix it? It is partly the fault of the cavernesca, the rogue cavern, full of atleticos supporters delighted to always find an excuse not to analyze their frequent defeats. It is the exaltation of the "almost" that we understand perfectly, but obviously do not share. Because with so much almost, with so many excuses, Atleti for years has not been second, it is third.

They can always correct it. They could, for example, have posted the tweet, made the pasillo. Shake hands and say "we will fight you more and better the next league and the next champions".

A secret, Atléticos: you don't have to follow in the footsteps of Barcelona. You should never have done it, but now less than ever. They are in economic bankruptcy, Barcelona is no longer the engine of anything. Madrid is strength and it is future: Atlético must be, once again, it never should have ceased to be, the second team in Spain.

With honor, with pride, grow, compete and above all wanting to win. Winning the important things, the limit cannot be the Europa League.

Pasillo? I would do it to Atleti in honor of the previous league, as a sign that we take the baton from them. And I would smoke a Carlettonian cigar