Rayo Vallecano had waited all season for this Saturday. Three home games exiled to Butarque, seven points taken from nine, then finally a return to Vallecas for matchday eight of LaLiga against Athletic Bilbao. The match never reached a conclusion: at 0-0, paper planes landed on the pitch, the referee sent the players to the dressing rooms, and the game was definitively abandoned.<\/p>\n
Referee S\u00e1nchez Mart\u00ednez first halted play and warned the stands: one more throw would mean an indefinite suspension. The planes kept coming, the players went inside, and the stoppage became final. On what was thrown, accounts differ: L’\u00c9quipe describes mostly paper planes, Foot Mercato reports planes packed with plastic balls.<\/p>\n
This was no spontaneous outburst. Rayo supporters want president Ra\u00fal Mart\u00edn Presa out of their club. The federation of supporters’ associations calls it a \u201cpeaceful\u201d protest, \u201cthe inevitable reflection of the exasperation, frustration and anger of thousands of season-ticket holders after years of disastrous management\u201d by Presa, and traces the trigger to 28 July, when the club lost the Vallecas concession. One supporter told Foot Mercato: \u201cIt’s a complete disaster. They can give us the win, but this is the only way to show that we want this man to leave the club.\u201d<\/p>\n
LaLiga \u201cfirmly condemns this type of behaviour, which endangers safety and makes the proper conduct of the competition impossible\u201d and will announce a new date \u201cshortly\u201d. Nothing comes out of the afternoon: no goal, no point, both teams stay on eight points, Rayo 12th, Athletic 10th. For the bettor, this match does not exist yet; it has to be replayed first. Athletic, travelling without Nico Williams, Oihan Sancet and Laporte, made the trip for nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rayo Vallecano’s first home game of the season at Vallecas never finished: paper planes landed on the pitch in protest at president Ra\u00fal Mart\u00edn Presa, and the referee abandoned the match at 0-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image-id":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-image":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-image-id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ba_sport":[],"class_list":["post-6868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n