hat’s fair. I don’t know your politics, and as a member you have every right to disagree with something that happens at Castalia. But I don’t believe every expression of solidarity is automatically “political.” Sometimes there are things happening to ordinary people that are more important than football, and if showing support for those people makes you uncomfortable, I can’t control that. Ceuta’s courts opened 37 sexual-assault proceedings between July 30 and September 14, involving 39 victims. Fourteen of those victims were girls under the age of 18. Ceuta’s hospital activated its External Catastrophe Plan on July 31, and it remained active into September. Even six weeks after the initial crisis, the special migrant-health operation was still handling roughly 250–330 additional medical cases every 24 hours. More than 72,000 people crossed into Ceuta during the July surge. Spain was forced to deploy more than 1,600 police officers and introduce additional border-security measures. This is not an abstract political debate for the people who live there. It has affected their hospitals, their public services, their security and their everyday lives. Castalia is a football stadium in Spain. We displayed the Spanish flag and a message of support for the people of Ceuta, who could sorely use some support right about now. If that is something you disagree with, that is well within your right. But I’m not going to apologize for showing solidarity with fellow Spaniards who are going through an extraordinarily difficult period, nor do I believe a Spanish football club should have to pretend that what is happening around us does not exist.