40 years of the 0-5 in Santiago Bernabéu

It was the day 22 of a League that the Barça, with the Dutch star Johan Cruyff like figure stood out, dominated completely like leader stood out with seven points of advantage on the classified second, the Athletic of Madrid. The Real Madrid, in spite of the incorporation of the international German Gunter Netzer, did not work and found in the half zone, to nine points of the Barça.

Like this, then , a priori the group barcelonista was the favourite in this new edition of the Classical, but neither the more optimist of the fans culés imagined what happened afterwards.

In that period of an only half television, TVE transmitted invariably a party of the Spanish League each Sunday to the 20 hours. This day, clear, the meeting chosen was the Madrid-Barça. It was as well as all Spain could see a terrific demonstration of superiority barcelonista, with a Barça turned into a roller that crushed to a Real Madrid totally knock# down, until the point that a Madrilenian newspaper titled the day afterwards: "The Madrid in hands of the Barça. A pelele". The goals of Asensi (2), Cruyff, Juan Carlos and Sotil rounded a 0-5 that the barcelonistas never will forget.

As it could not be of another way, in the streets of the City Condal desató the joy in front of a triumph so apoteósico that preludiaba the conquest of the title of League after fourteen years of drought. It is necessary to say, however, that in those days the euphoria futbolística turned into an authentic balsam in front of the very taut political situation that lived in the group of the Spanish state.