Yeah, it's going to be like this from time to time, on the move, jumpy frame.

But this Monday's roundup of La Liga is about grief, penitence and culpability.

Sounds cheery, doesn't it?

But it's to begin with a serious subject. In fact, it's the very serious subject

that I began this series of substack video columns with

the Dana or isolated high pressure depression that caused flooding in the Valencia region

and meant that nearly 300 people were killed and there are still seven missing.

It's caused football in Villarreal and Valencia to be postponed until this weekend

and saw Mestaya that grand, creaky, old, antiquated home of Valencia,

was full of 44,000 people as Los Che hosted Bettis.

And the scoreline, the result, aside, Balencia aside Balencia 1 4 2 they climbed to third

bottom first win since mid-September really is if not irrelevant it's dwarfed by the

way in which the ceremony of silence of mourning was stunningly observed and moving.

It had been preceded by solemn cello and violin music.

There were tributes everywhere hung from the stands.

Amongst the players and the fans, there were were 400 supporters all members of the club

socios bust in by Valencia at their cost from some of the 72 communities that

lost those nearly 300 people all in all it was an occasion that I wish Spain

didn't have to do well, but they do do well.

They pay honour.

They know how to mix the fiesta with the ultra solemn.

Almost every week there's a stadium morning somebody's absence.

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