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Drop by drop, Tsunami Democràtic is giving clues about the actions it hopes to carry out during the league match postponed in October which will bring Football Club Barcelona and Real Madrid face-to-face in Camp Nou next Wednesday. The movement in favour of independence and condemning the sentences issued by the Supreme Court against the Catalan political prisoners, after various statements calling for an agreement with the clubs to be able to display visibly in the stadium the motto "Spain, sit and talk", has called for a large gathering around Camp Nou from 4pm. Very likely, the demonstration will end up meaning the collapse of the whole Les Corts area and, who knows, maybe a serious hindrance to members of the two clubs being able to enter the complex as in a normal match.

According to Tsunami Democràtic, some 18,000 people have already signed up on their application, and have offered to block the four main entrances to the stadium, and a proportion of this group will be in the stands, with precise instructions as to what they have to do. Beyond these details, everything is speculation, although it's obvious that the scale of the match in sporting terms is very significant worldwide, reflected in television audiences which in recent years have approached 700 million viewers.

The fact that the prior experiences of protests organised by Tsunami Democràtic should have taken place peacefully and achieved the sought after media impact to amplify the injustice of the Supreme Court's sentences leads one to think that it won't be very different in this case. It's clear that the right to protest protects the demonstrators and that Camp Nou has always been a megaphone for Catalanist identity. The club wouldn't be understood without this harmony between claims and the defence of rights. For a long time, at 17:14 in the first and second halves, fans have expressed themselves with shouts in favour of independence and, immediately afterwards, called for the release of the political prisoners. It's not a unanimous shout, certainly, but it all takes place with exquisite normality.

From what can be interpreted from Tsunami's statement, it doesn't seem that the objective is to prevent the match from being held, rather to take advantage of its global impact to make visible the conflict between Catalonia and Spain. Because we shouldn't kid ourselves, what bothers the Spanish government the most is the idea that "Spain, sit and talk" might end up being not a request from the independence movement, but an international demand.