Osasuna vs Rayo Vallecano: A 1-1 Draw that Explains the Entire 21st-Century Economy
The Coliseum of Pamplona, a.k.a. El Sadar, was staging its weekly miniature Roman circus last Saturday night: twenty-two millionaires in neon boots chasing a ball while 17,000 locals pretended, for 90 sanctioned minutes, that nothing else mattered. Osasuna versus Rayo Vallecano—fixture 34 in Spain’s La Liga—looked, on paper, like a modest mid-table shrug between two…