I've waxed poetic about his words before, back right before the Mallorca match, in relation to the rest of the team, but it feels necessary right now to do it again in relation to Raúl himself. And of course that means in relation to the club because it is his club, because they are intertwined and inescapable. Because his team loses and stays ( Read more... )

The rewrite. It came out so similar to the other one, just with (slightly) less references to Madrid; redundant, but I'm posting it because it took time. I loathe it now, but I feel as though now that it's been written... well, there you go. (Reposted - slightly edited.)


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