Spanish article about Hibs and Rayo Vallecano

[Weej1875]

http://reyournal.com/poblafm/el-rayo-de-leith/ver

Interesting piece, if you can get a decent translation from Spanish! Comparing the writer's team, Rayo, with Hibs. Talks about the cup final, the history of Leith, George Best, Hands Off Hibs, Sunshine on Leith, etc. Also some chat from Antonio Reguero.

[QMU-1875]

http://reyournal.com/poblafm/el-rayo-de-leith/ver

Interesting piece, if you can get a decent translation from Spanish! Comparing the writer's team, Rayo, with Hibs. Talks about the cup final, the history of Leith, George Best, Hands Off Hibs, Sunshine on Leith, etc. Also some chat from Antonio Reguero.

Could you copy and paste please? When I visited Madrid I went to visit the Rayo ground, bought there home kit in the end felt a bit of an affinity with them ever since.

[Weej1875]

Could you copy and paste please? When I visited Madrid I went to visit the Rayo ground, bought there home kit in the end felt a bit of an affinity with them ever since.

Sorry mate, can't seem to do it. It's quite lengthy, think it must be too long to post.

[Moulin Yarns]

Google Translate part uno


The Ray of Leith




Choose a neighborhood. Choose team. A football field. Choose a passion. An acronym. A group of people with whom you identify. A song that summarizes what you feel. A lifestyle. Choose fight for what is yours. Choose Leith. Choose Vallekas ... No Mark Renton uttered but these words perfectly could be included in a reformulation of classical opening scene of Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996). The beginning of that film talked about something so simple but so forgotten in today's world, such as freedom to decide the path we choose. Although the choice opt for "bad life". Separated by about 2000 kilometers, an ocean and two countries neighborhoods of Leith are on the coast of Edinburgh, and the Vallekas, just outside Madrid. The two neighborhoods remain united, however, by the image that brings back the mirror and the historical situation have remained about the city in which their names are framed. Membership was always determined by the feelings across borders. On Easter Road and the Albufera are two of the last bastions of Europe barrionalistas. Hibernian FC and Rayo Vallecano, two teams crossed by their respective neighborhoods. Two neighborhoods, with similar profiles have in their squads a source of pride, a symbol of their warrior character and reaffirmation of the endless struggle of its people. Two examples of football are not always hitting eleven players kicking a ball. Sometimes there is a lot more if we delve into its depths.

On 21 May 2016 he returned to the Sunshine on Leith echo in the stands of Hampden Park occupying the Hibees. More exciting than ever. A few minutes earlier, in stoppage time, Captain David Gray had made infuriate his fans by scoring the goal that would achieve the Scottish Cup for the Edinburgh team. For the first time since 1902, the Hibs returned to win one of the two major national competitions with a neighborhood completely overturned the end. "In Leith Walk was no one to stop. Even in my area, which is quite far from Leith, you could even say it's area Heart, during Sunday kept hearing commotion in the streets. The truth is that it was all crazy, "said Victor Perez, a journalist and who lives in Edinburgh rayista swells. Fortunately the team won 2-3 at Glasgow Rangers, but it is to imagine that if the head of Gray had not kissed the meshes and the final result would have been different, the fans had also sung the song of the Proclaimers, which became the anthem not club officer. In the same way that fans of Vallekas remained in the stands, singing and cheering their players, a week before consummating the team after their relegation to the Second after five consecutive cycles in the elite. "My heart was broken, my heart was broken. Sorrow. Sorrow. Sorrow ". A kind. If something has a hobby that is not accustomed to triumph it is that hardly penalizes defeat. His faithfulness is not negotiable. For something really marriages resist step from health to disease, from success to defeat and keep the flame alive until the untimely ends up turning it off.



Neither Leith or Vallekas are used to overcome neighborhoods. Yes to fight, although the latter is not always guarantee first. But you can not lose anyone who does not fight. Perhaps his most legendary "wars" resistance were both held the last century before joining the municipalities of its two mother colean metropolis and still today in the minds of both. On the contrary, his greatest victories have to do with the dignity with which both defend against adversity. Historically, Leith was established as the main port on the East Coast of Scotland. For years it was a gray and full of narrow streets and yards industrial and port town, perhaps the most faithful incarnation of all combative spirit. This seaside term was independent until 1920, date in which was incorporated into the borough despite strong opposition from most leithers (the local people), who did not wish to lose their status of independence from the city.

The history of escapes Vallekas not far from the story of Leith. Even in the port city of Scottish character, as vallecana relationship with the sea it is rather narrow. Located in a strategic location due to its location on the road from Valencia to Madrid, the neighborhood Vallekas once was occupied by industry and rural immigration. Families came from the poorest areas of Spain with the sole aim of living. No more no less. Therefore, they did not care where to set your roof (caves, brick houses puny structure, etc.), as shown by the magnificent report by J. J. Mancha recently published in Vallecas Web. The region factories thronged incandescent lamps, plaster, cement or brick, including bakeries, very abundant in the area. All these "manufactured" occupied the district, located on the outskirts of Madrid, to the 60, where the industry began to decline. In the same way that Leith, Vallekas remained an independent municipality until 1950, in which a Decree Law annexed to the Spanish capital. The working condition on which the neighborhood turned it into a paradigm of the class struggle and the fight for the causes of the working classes rose reviled. A custody that despite the enormous changes, creeps to this day. If during the Civil War it was a highlight of the defense of Madrid and, later, one of the bastions of associations against Franco, Vallekas remains today one of the most combative barrionalistas bastions of all the Spanish geography and a place where solidarity has emerged as the only flag. With permission of the skull, tibias and black background hondea in the soul of almost every Vallecano. That under the values ​​of the neighborhood and the unity of its people remains today one of the most identifying features Vallecano people. And thanks to those same people, also the Lightning, a team that needs your social mass as much as the fans need him.


Vallekas stories and Leith walk down similar paths. As Victor Perez explains, "If the paradigm of working-class neighborhood in Spain is Vallekas in Scotland (or at least in Edinburgh) what is Leith. Vallekas grew emigration hit provinces around and Leith was no less, only the island next door, Ireland, being an area with a lot of labor possibility in the late nineteenth century as the port of Edinburgh. In fact you can notice the separation between Leith and Edinburgh noble area. There is no separation between Leith and New Town, and the difference is huge. The first, in architecture; while in the New Town all try to follow the same architectural pattern is crossing Picadilly Place Roundabout and start seeing buildings of his father and his mother. And the street Easter Road, home of Hibs, is full of tall, dark, workers' quarters own buildings. Also in terms of trade, foreign trade much, much immigration and occasionally symptoms of decay, solar, etc. "

So, directly or not result, in both cases annexation meant the beginning of a decline damped in recent decades. Although they have lost the vestiges of that past, which remain almost on every corner, as witnesses gold other stages or one or the other. The 80s brought winds thorny for both areas. In the case of Leith, there is no better chronicler of that twilight forced the writer Irvine Welsh. His characters are and will forever be the breath of an era. Few have been able to concentrate so well, in so few words, the basic pillars of an abandoned the sweet embrace of crumbling society. Football, drugs, sex, alcohol ... With these attractions can not be coincidence that the fractious and great George Best had just wearing green elastic. Even though his "problematic" Northern Irish ancestry being a club Hibs Irish character. The player perfectly could have been imagined by Irvine Welsh. The novelist was born and raised near Easter Road and writings has X-rayed the idiosyncrasies of a neighborhood creek as deep as heroin starring sleepless nights Sick Boy, Renton or Filth agent characters being born pen Madrid only a writer could have done on the docks of the Lagoon. Because despite the distance, philosophy of life is similar. And the eighties was also a depression Angelus for the Madrid neighborhood, which saw its streets heaped drugs and crime and offensive showcase boxing and fighters struggling to get ahead thanks to the ring. And they succeeded, in some cases reaching Vallekas walk the name of Europe and the world successfully. Perhaps the then emerging figure of Poli Diaz, pony Vallekas, there has been the best scar collected all these wounds drug, boxing, crime, success and fall. Pure neighborhood.

[Moulin Yarns]

Google Translate part dos

Fight, fight, fight ... Maybe it's the words that more identify these two clubs and their neighborhoods and swollen. Or vice versa. Some fight for others, and fighting for each other. In 2010 he joined the crowd rayista to unpaid employees and the threat of disappearance in which the Ruiz Mateos family had plunged the club. Vallekas could not let the red stripe was wiped off the map. With it a good go pillar of the neighborhood and the fans could not afford it. Later, in November 2014, the club and the fans became a topic when the ghost of eviction grabbed by the neck Carmen Martinez, an old woman of 85 who looked like his whole life he was rapt. Hobby, people and staff came forward in defense, giving visibility on the one hand and paying reinstatement ultimately. In turn, Carmen gave half the money for the children of former goalkeeper Wilfred rayista could visit his father, sick with cancer. This is the soul of Vallekas solidarity. They are just a couple of samples of something that goes far beyond. A connection between computer and neighborhood, taking into account the history and social section of the same, it was practically necessary. However, they are not alone. Another example of the face warrior Valley and defense identity could be seen in 2000, this time outside the strictly rayista field, when neighbors created the so-called Marinera Brotherhood of Vallekas (Vallekas, sea port!) To defend traditional Vallecas Naval Battle of the constant attempts to ban, discrediting and obstruction that was subjected for years by the government of the Popular party in Madrid. Today, the festival is still celebrated "religiously" and the Brotherhood continues successfully organizing the festival each summer and also has become a cultural landmark for the area. Small, but huge victories.

Leith has also lived their little big battles. And sometimes also they have had to do with the team in his neighborhood. Sometimes one confused with the other. And as Antonio Reguero, a former Madrid goalkeeper Hibs in Leith Walk, which would be like the Albufera connecting the port with the center, The Shore and of course Easter Road can not not be the Hibbies explains: "The people are identified with the club, not a day walking around there and see people dressed in green shirt. The match day the whole neighborhood is dyed that color and you can see the pubs in the area crowded with people waiting to get game time. " Victor Perez transferred this idea to the local rivalry: "Heart and Hibernian are each at a point of the city and the area is more affluent Heart. Maybe it's something sector, although it seems that if you're from Leith and Heart ... something does not fit. " Precisely with hearts you have to do what is perhaps the most relevant case and protection of communion between people and organization in recent years. Ran 90 when then president of the neighbor and rival of Hibs proposed a merger of the teams. Hibernian FC then went through a bad economic patch, mainly due to an appalling management during the turbulent years 80. The Leither swollen offer as a hostile takeover was taken and created a platform of defending the interests of the club, Hands Off Hibs ( "hands off Hibs"), which holds abundant similarities with the ADRV platform that looks after the interests of the rayista Group.

There is no doubt that the passage of time has made life different from that of the eighties. The modernization of neighborhoods has led to its streets alternates traditional identity with a sort of globalization phenomenon. For example, traditional pubs alternate with bars new concept. If Vallekas the bottles, calamari, garlic mayonnaise and sawdust alternate with the big chain tapas, kebab and caramelized onions in Leith happens the same with the seafood restaurants and tea rooms occupying the ships anchored in the port and alternate with traditional pubs football, pints and customers in the door. However, neighbors have been responsible for keeping alive the flame rebel, that grayness full of joy and color and the constant defense of principles. The vallecanos and leithers have become guardians of their own identity. And in this case, the squares representing the districts have also witnessed and involved part of this safeguard. "That combative and warrior philosophy of not giving up, humility and work of a team that knows that is not the best in the league, but that will always fight to win." With these words Antonio Reguero equates to both teams. Hibbie former goalkeeper, now at RoPS Rovaniemi Finnish, knows both neighborhoods, so his statement could serve, without changing a single letter, to also define vallecano breaths and Leither and attitude towards life. An eternal and incessant rush.

Unfortunately, even something as pure and primary as football has been able to withstand the challenges of modernity. It is no longer what it was, much less, and it will be impossible to return to its previous state. In the same way as in Leith Walk or at the docks we can witness how Leith has become an area of ​​contrasts between modern (spacious parks, widenings, businessmen) and traditional (alleys, prevalence of history, spirit worker), football has changed and is no longer the representation of two cities faced by a balloon. Memories of seafaring past Leith now join the contemporary art galleries or large corporations, the rock grandmother Vallekas coexists with the opening of new commercial spaces and football has been fleeced gradually its romantic component, invaded suits and ties by pushing it to the total commodification. It is therefore vital action of hobbies. Therefore it is essential that after teams like Hibernian FC are always people in Leith and in the stands Rayo can a hobby, led by the revolutionary irreverence Bukaneros, is responsible for stimulating the humble identity, working and struggling all environment.

So not so much the division as inheritance and the pride of knowing you were part of something so big that transcends the results. The real defeat would leave him to die so valuable. For as Reguero says himself, "Scottish football is a religion," something that goes beyond football itself. One might add that it is almost anywhere. Then the goalkeeper gives the key to what that should mean love for the sport, "there is not worth be Manchester United or Real Madrid. If you are from a village with a third team, you're on that team. Same with Hibernian, they have all that in the shield and feel it as something very sacred, "he says in reference to harp, boat and castle, which represent the basic and fundamental pillars of the club: Ireland, Leith and Edinburgh. The same could be said of Ray, whose supporters maintained a firm idea of ​​defending and representing Vallekas above all and lays the foundation for their unconditional support in the integrity of their values: solidarity, the constant fight and dignity as flag . "Honor the strip" it is the inscription are painted on the floor the rayistas players just before leaving the lawn Vallekanfield (Carlos S. Blas dixit). Whether in first or second category in which militate two teams next season, that is important. The dignity of the symbols will be the pride of their bearers.

It will dawn in Leith and Vallekas. Insurance. The sun always comes out for people who battle to behold. And if you fail to appear, the wait will be less harsh if you are in the company. The team and the neighborhood, as diverse as united in both cases, always above all adversity. Of course, in sports it seems difficult to repeat the feat. "If we complain Spain Madrid and Barcelona ... here is the same. You can look palmares of leagues, cups ... and are always the same two. Nevertheless, the amateur Hibernian is quite faithful and very numerous in quantity. Currently it has failed to enter the promotion by the ascent and continue one more year in Segunda. A Cup champion is second in Spain? I It seems complicated. Perhaps in Scotland it is achieved because the difference between the means teams first and the other second not so marked, and just stay with Rangers and Celtics, and we know that one game anything can happen, "concludes Victor Perez. So why be Rayo or Hibernian in times of empire of Barcelona or Celtic? At this juncture it is precisely where everything comes into play extradeportivo; the pride of defending yours above all. There are countless reasons to encourage fringe and Hibs. And while there are no reasons. But, to paraphrase Renton, who needs reasons when you have a team that proudly boasts of scars in your neighborhood?

[Weej1875]

Cheers paco and fleece

[pacoluna]

Cheers paco and fleece

Fleece pipped me to it :greengrin

[SunshineOnLeith]

Opponents for Lewis' testimonial?

[cam2644]

Fascinating. It's good to see us as others see us to paraphrase Burns.

[Weej1875]

Opponents for Lewis' testimonial?

that would be cracking

[Weej1875]

Fascinating. It's good to see us as others see us to paraphrase Burns.

Absolutely. I was thinking while I was reading it that I couldn't imagine a similar article being written about Rotherham, but maybe I'm wrong...

[Stax]

Great read, although the phrase George Best playing in the green elastic of Hibernian will now live with me till the day I die :greengrin

[Moulin Yarns]

Great read, although the phrase George Best playing in the green elastic of Hibernian will now live with me till the day I die :greengrin


It gets worse, the caption below the photo of George reads




Best he defended Hibernian FC between 1979 and 1980. The lockers quadrupled.

So now we know Petrie is the keeper of the lockers :greengrin

[Forza Fred]

Thoroughly enjoyable...thanks for taking the time to post.

[Jim44]

Great read, although the phrase Gieorge Best playing in the green elastic of Hibernian will now live with me till the day I die :

That's stretching the imagination a wee bit. :greengrin

[heretoday]

Great read, although the phrase George Best playing in the green elastic of Hibernian will now live with me till the day I die :greengrin

I didn't know he was into that but it doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

[Weej1875]

I didn't know he was into that but it doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

Hahaha!

[Malthibby]

Very cool article, guys. Cheers.

[adhibs]

Opponents for Lewis' testimonial?

that would be no a bad opponent. enjoyed reading that