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Tuesday 08 May 2012 - 13:21:06
Excerpt from Spanish Shilling: '...Sometimes I think of the Europeans living in Spain as a group of people a million and a half strong. That’s more than the entire population of the cities of Málaga, Córdoba, Almería and Alicante combined. Yet, beyond (apparently) all being readers of a white-bread weekly free newspaper, there’s no cohesion, no unity and no identity. Not apparently a group after all. Our few famous companions are known for things they did before they moved here – whether robbing the Glasgow train in 1966, acting in a few movies, being a gun-runner or a bank manager, a pop star or a racer – yet no one has raised our game while being a fully-fledged resident in Spain beyond a few who seem to have found a calling by ripping off their fellow Britons...
...but we really need a top-notch champion I think, someone with whom we can identify and vicariously be proud of – Guirilandia’s version of Arnie or that footballer with the underwear adverts and the tattoos.
Until we do, we shall remain as a faintly embarrassing blip on Spain’s history, which, like the Visigoths, will leave no trace when we pass...'.
...but we really need a top-notch champion I think, someone with whom we can identify and vicariously be proud of – Guirilandia’s version of Arnie or that footballer with the underwear adverts and the tattoos.
Until we do, we shall remain as a faintly embarrassing blip on Spain’s history, which, like the Visigoths, will leave no trace when we pass...'.
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