Determined for the club to remain neutral, Bartomeu allowed a scheduled match to go ahead on the referendum day, at the very moment when Spanish police were storming polling stations and beating voters with truncheons. (fortune.com)
The historical references give the play extra bite, with more than a little shade of Blair Peach - the protestor killed by a police truncheon - in one of the characters. (politics.co.uk)
Mariano Rajoy, Spain's prime minister, defended police actions - which included the use of truncheons and shooting of rubber bullets - and praised officers for their «firmness and serenity» in upholding the rule of law. (aljazeera.com)