In football we use the term pyrrhic victories to vitories which are for an alone goal, but a pyrrhic victory is, in fact, a victory with a cost so big that almost it does not compensate, this is what happened to Pyrrhus, general of the Antiquity, in two victories against the Romans who drove him to lose a war. Well, so this Cup that Madrid has gained has finally looked like a phyrric victory for me, in his academic meaning. It is the fruit that till now has given this new period, with Mourinho in Madrid at the head of everything or almost everything.
Without beginning to value today's sanction, it is necessary to admit that the tension that this man provokes is excessive. He travels in the eye of a hurricane that drives crazy everything around of it. It has been (well, it is, though to the practical effects it is almost finished) a permanent tension that has marked Madrid for a long time. A jolt to a club that we all were feeling little asleep, but with a thunder like that one does not wake anybody up without a risk that can stop a heart. And, certainly, it bothers to the whole vicinity. Madrid has done more than last year. They have won the Cup, and to Barça, but to what cost.
The question is if someone in the club can moderate this man, or if someone at least thinks to try it. And I am not talking about the old values of Madrid, because they were not at all so special. They were simply values, behavior, respect, selfcontrol, disguised firmness, permanent comity. Madrid cultivated them and they went fairly well. You also have an image to present and in football is more and more important. Now it is the opposite: Madrid has the distinction of being the 'hooligan' of the neighborhood. Probably the Cup compensates to some people, but I believe that the victory was never paid so expensive. Well, not never. Since the times of Pyrrhus.