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Changes demanded by the WNT have started to happen - RFEF General Secretary Andreu Camps has been sacked and nine other officials within the RFEF have be told to resign or they will be sacked. Player power is bringing at least initial changes to the RFEF.

Yes it was an assault - if Rubiales grabbed you by the face and kissed you on the lips you would be screaming assault. Furthermore - the Spanish prosecutors are investigating Rubiales for assault - so they believe an assault happened.

I think there is far too much national and international pressure on the RFEF not to make some changes - whether these changes will be profound is a different story. The slight of of the RFEF sending tourist class train tickets to the Barcelona players to travel to Valencia has caused outcry -...

The members of the Spanish WNT have agreed to drop their boycott after 7 hours of talks between the players and their union and the RFEF. The players were threatened with fines of up to €30,000 and being banned from playing football for Spain and for Spanish clubs for between 2-15 years under...

The RFEF have threatened to ban any Spanish WNT player who refuses to report for international duty, from playing in internationals and from playing for their Spanish clubs for two years and to impose fines. The reality is that nothing has changed within the RFEF towards women's football, apart...

While an odd individual may transition upwards in social class - far more tend to move downwards (particularly for middle-class to working class). Money breeds money - and those who claim to be self-made rarely are (e.g. Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos). Sunak's family (both paternal and...

Yea - here is the difference - his family are rooted in British colonialism, part of the mechanism of British control in East Africa - the British took members of reliable wealthy Hindu families who were part of British rule in India and used them to administer British rule in other colonies...

Oh - come on - you are not trying to suggest that Sunak is the product of poor Indian Immigrants - his father is a doctor and his mother a pharmacist - he was education in a posh fee-paying school - went to Stanford ( - $80,000 a year - do you really think he had to get a student loan for that...

Where you like it or not - we live in a class-based society where extreme (and obscene) wealth dominates and controls society. Inequality permeates through all aspects of society, from politics and economics, to culture, to personal relationships - and all based on the exercise of power. It...

On the upside - Rubiales is gone - hopefully the prosecutors continue their criminal investigation and bring him to trial.

Of course I have - it depends on the context - and in the Spanish context it is possible that a fascist party could form part of the next Spanish government (just like there is a far-right party leading the Italian government at the moment) and the Vox party are intent on attacking women's...

Lot's of people do - including me - and yes for the individual victim it is about how they deal with the trauma. But on a societal basis the reality is that it is political. It is the political establishment that refuse to act in the interests of victims and reinforce the traditional oppression...

Misogyny and macho culture is part of a mechanism of control by the right-wing - just as racism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia etc. - at the end of the day it is about limiting the rights of women and oppressed minorities for political purposes. The RFEF is riddled with people who have...

Spain is in the middle of a political crisis and the issues in the RFEF and their response to the assault on Jenni Hermoso is just one manifestation of that. Remember that Spain's fascist dictatorship is only roughly 40 years in the past and many of the leading elders of the PP (Spain's...

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The law is on the statute books, but I am not aware of any case where it was used in the last 40 years. The RFEF were threatening to take a civil action against the women's squad and using the law as the basis of the lawsuit.

Latest is that Jenni Hermoso has lodged a legal complaint with the prosecutors. When the prosecutors launched the criminal investigation against Rubiales - for it to proceed the victim had to lodge a complaint within 15 days. I suspect that if Rubiales had resigned or been sacked that Hermoso...

Yes - against Jenni Hermoso and against the entire women's squad for refusing to play while Rubiales is still in his job. Hermoso was threatened with a lawsuit for 'telling lies' about Rubiales. As for the team - there is a sports law in Spain that is a legacy of the fascist dictatorship of...

Just as an update - The Spanish men's team have issued a statement condemning Rubiales. The players called an impromptu press conference to read out their statement of support for Jenni Hermoso. Miguel Ángel Galán, the head of the National Training Center of Football Managers in Spain, has...

It should be noted that the RFEF regional presidents called on Rubiales to resign, not because he assaulted Jenni Hermoso - but because Rubiales had 'seriously damaged the image of Spanish football'.