Postponing the most political game in football

Not mixing sport and politics is difficult at the best of times, and impossible when it comes to La Liga’s Clasico, probably the most politicised game in world of football.

So it was always likely that Barcelona would not be able to host Real Madrid this Saturday, as the first game at the Camp Nou following Spain’s Supreme Court jailing nine Catalan separatist leaders last week for their role in a failed 2017 independence referendum.