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The adept is an irrational animal. Shouts, shouts, insults, claps, jumps, howls, cries until falling with joy or disappointment in a puddle of fatigue, and then he is asked, from this enemy of logic and coherence, this cyclothymic animal, capable of raising rogues the player who seconds before had wished a slow and painful death in the third division of Indonesia, who considering the fact of membership, analyze with Cartesian rigor the proposals of the candidates for the presidency of his heart club and mentally decide his sense of vote. .
Ask me to make a Christ in the rings and the chances of success will be greater. The kingdom of the capricious ball that does not want to enter, of the supernatural failures of Bryan Ruiz, of the telepathic chickens and of the defenses of the other world is really from another world and it is in this that the adept feels at ease, incoherent and free. as a child, he to issue final sentences based on the outcome of the weekend. It is simply not equipped to convert the electoral language of the candidates into a language compatible with its emotional software.
Bet on rugby? Modification of the statutes? Adapted sports? Creation of a club history committee? Benfica train? Merchandising product range review? Busts in honor of the European champions? None of this will win over the men running for the presidency of Sport Lisboa e Benfica to dethrone Luís Filipe Vieira. In the elections of the big sports clubs, what counts is football and only football. The rest is just to compose the project.
I do not doubt that there are conscientious deputies who read the electoral programs in detail, took notes and could even raise their hands to clarify a doubt if there were any public clarification session and that they would need a Saturday of reflection to finally deposit the result at the polls. hard to ponder. But there will be at most three.
For the rest, they cheer on Vieira as if he were a Serbian “6” trapped by cables, a club talisman, and Noronha Lopes and Gomes da Silva say what not even the referees hear at Estádio da Luz, and vice versa, here is the possible summary of the candidates’ proposals, knowing that the heads of the partners think with the emotions of the ball.
In other words, “it’s football, stupid.”
