A few days ago, AS wrote that 35,000 batty Basques would be making the trip down to Valencia for WednesdayâÂÂs Copa de Rey final.
Not the first time - and almost certainly not the last - the paper was quite wrong with its prediction.
La Liga LocaâÂÂs own reliable sources - the hopeless cases who claimed last season that David Albeda had played his last game for Valencia - are murmuring that up to 45 million supporters from the unpronounceable lands of the north have made the trip to Mestalla by donkey, bike, car, bus, train, plane and boat.
Unfortunately, only eight of those actually have tickets to see Spanish footballâÂÂs big night. But itâÂÂs two more than the visiting Barcelona fans have got.
In its attempts to model the tournament on the English FA Cup final, the Spanish authorities have decided to keep a good 99.99 percent of the tickets back so that federation suits along with families and friends and anyone who fancies buying their cast-offs for 500 euro can enjoy a nice night out.
And because making a quick buck and Spanish football go hand-in-hand like La Liga Loca and Penelope Cruz, Mestalla should be jam-packed with thousands of less than royalist supporters all ready and willing to boo and barrack the national anthem and the King for good measure.
âÂÂThese are two teams that represent a very important social mass in their countries,â notes the independance-declaring King of Catalunya, Joan Laporta.
So worried are the FAâÂÂs bigwigs at embarrassing catcalls aimed at the royal family that the stadiumâÂÂs speaker system has been pimped up by a group of mullet-sporting ché chavs to such an extent that even readers in England will be able to hear the KingâÂÂs theme tune being blasted out at chant-covering, bat-exploding volumes.
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