Hello and welcome to this week's edition of the Spanish Football Podcast. I'm Phil

Kittra-Millides joined as ever by Sid Lowe. Hello Sidney. Hi Phil, how are you? I'm okay

mate. It's been a busy 24 hours. Let's put it like that. Spanish football making headlines

around the world. When I say for all the wrong reasons, it's a bit of an understatement. We've

got results from match day 35 to talk about. We could go in depth about the battle to avoid

relegation. There were some really interesting results and interesting performances this

week, but it just doesn't feel like the right moment to be talking about that. When there

is this massive worldwide story involving the Spanish League, two Spanish teams and a Spanish

player based in Spain who is Vinicius Jr. If you're not aware of what has happened, well let's

just remind you, I'm sure you are, but if you're not a Sunday afternoon, Real Madrid

were playing Valencia at Mystaya. A game in which Real Madrid's Vinicius had to hear abuse

throughout the whole game. At one point in the second half, he pointed pointedly to someone

in the crowd who had been racially abusing him and confronted him. I think we're very,

very close to seeing the players walk off in the game. In the end, they didn't. In the

end, Carlos and Shalotti said to Vinicius, who wanted to walk off. He said, you stay on.

It's not fair that you're the one who has to go off. I don't know where we start with

this. I don't know where we start for a number of reasons, not least because it's not

the first time we've got to talk about this. It does feel like something of a watershed

moment though, particularly with Vinicius calling that fan out personally. That's different

with not seeing that before. I think it was a courageous thing to do and if it happens

more in the future, perhaps it will go some way to accelerating the conversations that

need to be had about racial awareness in this country. I know you've been writing about

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