The Pride of Vallekas

After I posted yesterday's piece on Twitter, an interesting conversation with Rayo Herald's Twitter account ensued.... From the Bernabeu to unemployent....My piece on José Carlos and his injury-filled career https://t.co/aWDO4eSIzD pic.twitter.com/cop61HXLCb — Sarthak Kumar (@Vallecanos1924) September 16, 2017 When things were going good he never spent a single second to talk to us (media). Indeed, he does not deserve a single word of support now.. — Rayo Herald (@rayoherald) September 16, 2017 It's true he's quite eccentric. I remember his press conferences especially at AEK were absolutely stunning. — Sarthak Kumar (@Vallecanos1924) September 16, 2017 Recurrently declined to talk here in Vks, regardless of the situation (after training, after scoring twice,..). Why should we care? — Rayo Herald (@rayoherald) September 16, 2017 I understand. But I will always care about every player that comes to Rayo, even if they perform badly or brea...

Where no one looks is where the true story lies. The shame is not that this story is uncovered - the shame is that other stories - the one that are already ubiquitous - are. Looking for those stories often means looking deeper at obscurity. Staring it in the face - and often finding nothing. A trail here, a road there - but nothing. And then, after yelling at the empty trains of thought that no one sees or listens to, if you focus at just the right time, at just the right moment, with everything you have, the doors of the train open up for just a momentary second. For just a second, a ray of light enters. Mulhouse, in France, is a city nowhere near Spain - it lies just 30 minutes away from the point where the borders of France, Switzerland and Germany meet. The city lies deep down in Alsace, the local club is deep down the football ladder. So how is it that multiple Spaniards are here? I didn't understand it until I saw that the club website is available in English, ...