Villarreal’s Global Rebellion: How a Spanish Town of 50,000 Keeps Humbling Football’s Oligarchs
**The Yellow Submarine That Won’t Sink: Villarreal’s Quiet Rebellion Against Football’s Natural Order** Somewhere between Valencia’s orange groves and the Mediterranean’s indifferent tides lies Villarreal, a town of 50,000 souls and one football club that insists on behaving like a nation-state. While the world’s superclubs conduct their annual oligarch pageant—Qataris buying Paris, Saudis purchasing Newcastle…