Joe Haslam: Why Real Madrid, too, is more than just a club
My father was on the board of Cuspóir, a forerunner of the Irish Sports Council. He had studied Spanish at university and had visited the country many times as a young man. In 1981, he travelled to Madrid as part of a delegation that was looking at building a national stadium. After a tour of the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, he came back with a Real Madrid pennant, a poster and a key ring. I still have all three. While coverage in Ireland of La Liga Española back in those days was between slim and none, I did know something of…
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