The entire spanish press is justifying the bottle being thrown by leaving out critical facts, namely the players being insulted by these fans beforehand, in order to reframe their behaviour as an extreme yet 'human' reaction to being told to 'take it up the ass'.
Then there's Javier Tebas dropping the Barca players = divers cliché with his comments insinuating that Barca players are play-actors who shouldn't make such a fuss about having bottles thrown at them. His edgy remark: 'It looked like a game of ten-pin bowling' implies that the involved Barca players are wusses who drop to the floor at the slightest impact. His other comment, 'perhaps they fell because they felt the water' is meant to imply that the involved players are sissies. Not only does he justify the violence, he also humiliates the victim of the violence by implying he's not manly enough to take a bottle to his face. I have no words for this. And then he proceeded by somehow bringing 'the children who are watching' into this in a transparent attempt to take the moral high ground. Absolutely shameless, absolutely disgusting.
And then we have Valencia sporting director Suso Garcia Pitarch claiming: "All violent acts are condemnable. It's as condemnable to throw a bottle, which is something that should never be done and which the club will take the appropriate measures, just as Neymar provoking our fans, who after having to withstand deplorable officiating, then suffered a penalty in the last minute. We also have to evaluate the behaviour of certain Barcelona players, especially that of Neymar"
I don't even know where to start with this. Not only does he relativize and therefore justify the violence but actually makes further excuses for his fans who in his opinion were in righteous indignation over the the ref. So, according to him, bad decisions by the ref justifies throwing a bottle in the face of a player.
Neymar's behaviour was stupid. The behaviour of the other two and the spanish press is malicious.
EDIT: Forgot the best part:
http://www.espnfc.com/valencia/stor...wer-implies-barcelona-players-feigned-contact
The bottle thrower accuses the players of feigning contact, but is really, really, really, very deeply, completely sincerely sorry... probably for not hitting them for realz in his book. Fuck this guy. Fuck their president and their fans. Fuck Tebas. Fuck the press.