Nathan Lewis said:The higher-ups at Real Madrid pull the strings, but they control both the club and the national team.
This isn't just about Real Madrid—it’s a war for the soul of American soccer, and it's being led by one specific group...
It only took a few days of chaos in California for the entire public—the media, the news networks, the idiots, everyone—to take this whole fight against the big bosses and the federation and rebrand it as some mindless North vs. South rivalry.
And honestly, people here couldn't care less about that nonsense, just like you guys.
Where did you all disappear to in the middle of this? You just vanished. Gone. Like thin air. Or water down a drain.
I’m telling you this as just another fan who sees things for what they actually are in this country—so go ahead, keep whining about how bad the Ultras are, or talk about local politics, flares, or stories about how some rival fans will settle the score. Do whatever you want. We all know what's really going on behind the scenes anyway.
I remember being in California years ago, hearing people talk about how the Bad Boys were the real deal—how they owned the streets and kept things honest. If someone had told me fifteen or twenty years ago that we'd be stuck in this position—dealing with a handful of paid mercenaries and some corrupt boss, watching everyone suck up to both sides for decades—I wouldn't have believed it. It's humiliating. And now, after everything, you can't even stand up when the leadership screws you over yet again. After that last absolute disaster, I basically wrote you all off in my mind. People don't even know whether to laugh or feel sorry for you anymore... it's more than just a sports thing; it's pathetic on a human level.
For anyone paying attention, it's been obvious for years that you only have a few options left to make a move, but you haven't had the brains or the guts to do anything real in all this time.