Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
“We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.”
“I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.”