The Figo Affair: Intrigue and darkish comedy make star’s story successful | Sport

Consider essentially the most venomous environment in sport, amplify it by a thousand, stir in a palpable sense of betrayal and add a soundtrack of screeching jeers and you continue to don’t come near the anger of a uncooked, rancorous Nou Camp in October 2000. It appeared days earlier than my ears stopped ringing.

This was not the pantomime booing you usually hear at video games. Even within the warm-up, greater than 100,000 Catalans turned all their deeply wounded pleasure on Luís Figo any time he dared to the touch the ball on his first return to Barcelona since he did the unthinkable and departed for Actual Madrid.

“You’d promote your mom — if you happen to knew who she was,” was one in every of a whole lot of banners to