Let us recall that Mundo Deportivo opened Saturday with a cover featuring the headline: “Dismantling ‘Negreirato’ – a report showing that from 2001 to 2018, during the disputed era, Barcelona suffered from numerous referee performances filled with serious mistakes. The newspaper lists 100 matches in which Barça was disadvantaged or its direct rivals were heavily favored.”

On the newspaper’s website, we learn that these 100 selected matches involving Barcelona, Real Madrid, or their direct encounters were divided into three chapters: 2001–2006, 2007–2012, and 2013–2018. Among the errors against Barcelona or in favor of Real Madrid are situations such as missing yellow cards for fouls by opponents, not adding even a minute to El Clásico that ended 2–6, or Guardiola’s accusation that the referee lied in the match report regarding a password for which the referee had shown him a red card. Other mistakes include reminders that José Mourinho and Tito Vilanova did not serve sanctions for their actions in the Spanish Super Cup (the Portuguese received a 2-match suspension for poking the Spaniard in the eye, and the Spaniard 1 match for striking the Portuguese in retaliation), because before the next Super Cup the Federation president decided to grant amnesty for all sanctions in Spanish football in celebration of the national team winning the European Championship.

On the other hand, obvious mistakes against Barça are also shown, such as the almost mythic disallowed goal in the match against Betis, when the ball clearly crossed the goal line, which referees [then still without VAR] failed to see. There are also situations like the very first one listed by Mundo Deportivo, where the thumbnail of the embedded video suggests an inexplicable referee error for an offside, but it turns out the thumbnail actually shows a legitimate goal, and only inside the video do we see the situation with the disallowed goal.

Many situations in the material would likely be judged differently today thanks to VAR, such as noticing a goalkeeper handling the ball outside the penalty area or a foul leading to a penalty occurring outside the box. There are also highlighted situations in already decided matches or single actions extracted from a match that, according to the newspaper, could have been judged more harshly. Actions where the opponent was sent off while Real Madrid was already leading are also analyzed.

Additionally, here is arguably the best response to this entire Catalan material, issued by the portal La Galerna, run by madridistas:

100 DAYS IN WHICH HE DIDN’T KILL

Good morning. No, today is not December 28, today is not the Day of the Holy Innocents. Paid lies do not recognize holidays. However, we would appreciate it if they were not so crude and poor. Take a look at Mundo Deportivo’s cover.

They title it: “Debunking ‘Negreirato’” and add: “MD lists 100 matches in which Barça was disadvantaged or its direct rivals were heavily favored.” We clarify that MD stands for Mundo Deportivo, not “muy deficiente” (“very poor,” or in another translation, “very impaired”), which is a grade one could receive in the past in Spanish schools.

The Godó group newspaper, part of a major Spanish conglomerate, decided to “debunk Negreirato” in the same way one could acquit Jack the Ripper, listing the days he did not kill anyone. A sophism that only brainless mammals or individuals with no detected intellectual activity could buy. The logical falsehood is so stupid and pathetic that it is almost a waste of effort, and even embarrassing, to refute it.

Negreirato, i.e., the Barça–Negreira case, is not a series of individual on-field situations judged one way or the other. Negreirato, the Barça–Negreira case, is a crime of the act itself (in Spain, an act can be considered a corruption offense based solely on the attempt, without evaluating its effects) consisting of paying the vice-president of the Referees’ Technical Committee at least €8.4 million over at least 17 years, which is proven with INVOICES.

Negreirato, the Barça–Negreira case, is considered “systemic corruption” of the refereeing environment by the investigating judge. The judge stated: “The referee evaluation system supervised by Vice-President Negreira, who could allow favorable referees to oversee important league, cup, and international matches, and even maintain their category, thereby significantly increasing their earnings.” He added: “Barcelona would not have paid Vice-President Negreira millions of euros since 2001 if it had not benefited from it.”

The only way to refute Negreirato would be to prove that the INVOICES did not exist, which is impossible in our universe, as the past cannot be changed. No matter how false a narrative they want to implant, the INVOICES will remain forever. Mundo Deportivo limited itself to vomiting a subsidized, emotional alibi that will never hide the truth.

It is worth remembering that the truth came out because someone clever—or a group of clever people—decided to deduct the purchase of the refereeing apparatus from taxes. The matter was uncovered, and the tax authorities asked Barcelona about the reason for these million-euro payments. Even the most foolish amoeba would not think of such madness.

Moreover, this fact was officially accepted in writing by Barcelona itself in 2021, during Joan Laporta’s second term, by signing an agreement with the Tax Office, in which the club, as part of a tax audit settlement, recognized payments to companies linked to José María Enríquez Negreira as expenses lacking normal economic or market-based justification.

In this document, the club accepted—in writing—that payments to the number two in Spanish refereeing were expenses without objective reason or reciprocal service connected to actual activity.

This means: the club, the involved presidents (all living plus Núñez), its fans, its entourage, and its parasitic media deny what the institution itself recognized and signed. To complete the picture, all this occurred during Laporta’s presidency, who quadrupled Negreira’s salary.

One small “detail” to add: when José María Enríquez Negreira stopped receiving money from Barcelona (2018), he began receiving funds from Mundo Deportivo. Coincidentally, at the same time, FC Barcelona started paying Mundo Deportivo significant sums [photo of Barcelona payments to media in the Bartomeu era].

Today Mundo Deportivo woke up with this peculiar cover, which makes no reference to verifiable facts, primarily the INVOICES, resorting to the childish argument that since there were 100 actions in which we did not benefit, we are innocent. That is: since Jack the Ripper did not stab anyone on 100 nights, he should be acquitted of all crimes.

On February 16, 2023, the day after the public outbreak of the Barça–Negreira case, Mundo Deportivo woke up with a front page, which can be found in this article. Try to find any mention of the biggest scandal in sports history.

One does not need to be Poirot to connect the facts.

Mundo Deportivo tries to confuse symptoms with crime. As repeated countless times, it is not necessary to prove that every match was manipulated. It is enough to show that there was a financial relationship—again, INVOICES—between the Spanish club—Barça—and a person from the refereeing environment—Negreira—who had direct influence over referees’ careers: through evaluations, promotions, demotions, or international appointments, which meant hundreds of thousands of euros per year in referees’ salaries.

Since we woke up in excellent spirits, we propose the Godó group newspaper ideas for future days:

• Dismantling Al Capone: 200 days in which he intimidated no one.

• Dismantling Watergate: 100 speeches in which Nixon did not lie.

• Dismantling Bernie Madoff: 10 weeks in which no one lost money.

• Dismantling the Stasi: 25 letters they did not open.

• Dismantling Al-Qaeda: 100 days without attacks.

All share the same trap: the attempt to suggest that the absence of crime in specific instances nullifies the existence of structural crime.

Ultimately, today Mundo Deportivo, unknowingly, proved Negreirato: a medium receiving money from Barça whitewashing the fact that the club paid millions to the referees’ vice-president.