Manel takes his blue and red scarf hanging over the head of his bed. He looks once more at the poster of the FC Barcelona footballer Xavi Hernández hanging on the wall over the desk where he does his schoolwork. It is late for him; Wednesday, 8 in the evening. Tomorrow is a school day but his father, who takes his hand leaving the house, will make an exception today. Fútbol Club Barcelona is playing to stay in the King’s Cup against Real Madrid, and the event is the peak of rivalry in Spanish football and one of the greatest classics in world sport. They live very near Camp Nou, so they go to the stadium on foot. Almost as soon as they leave the house they b