Barcelona To Get Booted?

[Gene]

http://www.foxsports.com/soccer/sto...ce-push-barcelona-espanyol-100714?cmpid=tsmfb
Good luck with that! Looks like an article right out of The Onion.

 

[einwindir]

LOL WTF. Clickbait at it's finest. They should've just gone with '5 REASONS SPANISH FOOTBALL WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!' or maybe 'MESSI'S NEXT BIG MOVE: THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE?! IT COULD HAPPEN IF SOME WEALTHLY CATALONIANS HAVE THEIR WAY!"

 

[Falastur]

It's not clickbait. It's a Spaniard attempting to use sports to manipulate politics, and an American source reporting the story but failing to pick up on the nuances of European geopolitics.

 

[einwindir]

FoxSports using a sensationalist title used to attract viewers.

 

[Falastur]

FoxSports using a sensationalist title used to attract viewers.

So do all media sources. My point wasn't that it was a sensationalist headline, it's that the original quotes were just as sensationalist, because the guy who made them is trying to manipulate popular opinion against the Catalan referendum.