Real Sociedad vs Mallorca: Europe’s Polite Civil War Plays Out in 90 Commercial Minutes
The Basque Country and the Balearics—two Spanish regions that have spent centuries perfecting the art of polite separatism—met again on the pitch last night, and the world barely blinked. Real Sociedad versus RCD Mallorca: a fixture that sounds like the opening line of a shaggy-dog joke about two autonomous communities walking into a bar. Yet…