Hello everybody. This broadcast is brought to you by these two European stars that

Aberdeen, the only club in Scotland to have two of them. Thank you very much. For the last

20 years one way or the other, in written or broadcasting form I've been covering

Joanne Laporta. Today he gave one of the most extraordinary press conferences,

nearly two hours of it that I've ever seen him give.

And there aren't many in my reporting lifetime that match up to the

undulating, coruscating, volcanic highs and lows

of this eruption from Barcelona's president.

The situation is that they won the Super Cup in Saudi Arabia

on Sunday night, but there's been all the Danny Almo

and Powell Victor arguments, deregistration, re-registration,

the government interference, the L'IGA now taking Barcelona and the government to court to say,

this is not right, these two players can't be re-registered.

But it's also now irregular that the porter comes out and speaks at length

if you'd like to know a little bit more about the background to this man who when he was at school

nick the answers to a test to distribute amongst all his classmates because they all believed the teacher was being unfair

Hey teacher leave them Catalan kids alone

He got kicked out of school from that he was often sent home from school

He's about the same age as me and therefore when he was young there was still obligatory military service in

Spain when he was conscripted to the army there were various things including hunger strike

amongst fellow recruits because they were being forced to eat camel meat apparently anyway the

food wasn't good enough there was a hunger strike they moved him

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