“The satiety is absolute. Anger and disbelief at such an expendable episode are the sensations that accompany the team to the hotel. There is nothing new than the absence of snow, a crazy contrast with what we have left behind.” It is the reflection made by an authorized voice of Madrid when the team landed in Pamplona after almost three hours blocked in Barajas, inside the plane, due to the storm. A few hours of waiting that were tense due to the lack of information. The entity blames LaLiga for what happened, which, according to its version, was the one who proposed the change of plans to travel on Friday, when Madrid had planned to do so this morning. The forecast indicates, at least a priori, that the snowfall in Pamplona is not expected to be strong until four or five in the afternoon this Sunday.
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Faced with Madrid's complaints that splashed the media last night, while the team was locked up on the plane, LaLiga slipped that it is no longer in charge of organizing trips to the clubs. Although he could have recommended making the trip on Friday to ensure it, he indicates that in no case did he set the departure time. After such a bumpy and long trip, Madrid's idea was to force today so that the game is played at noon, or at least before nine, when the snowfall in the Navarran capital is already more abundant. In this way, it aims to ensure that the meeting is not suspended at the last minute and thus avoid having to spend one more night in Pamplona. In this hypothetical case of suspension, LaLiga plans that it can be played on Sunday morning.
In this situation of high tension, with Madrid locked in a plane under an imposing snowfall, of crossed calls and reproaches, The RFEF released a statement announcing the creation of a crisis commission that met urgently to assess the weather situation and whether meetings should be postponed. And he invited LaLiga to participate in it. But the employer's association did not consider suspending the meeting of the Madrid, which was finally able to fly and landed in Pamplona at 11:12 p.m., more than four hours after boarding.
With the announced temporary situation, Madrid would have wanted the League match to be suspended directly. That is why he did not hide his anger when the uncomfortable situation broke out in Barajas. “It's irritating, a whole chaos, something inexplicable,” a club source told AS, from inside the snow-blocked aircraft. “They have us locked up here, like hamsters, without even knowing if we can fly, when we will do it or when we will arrive. The pilot is outgunned and nobody tells us anything …”. With Barajas now officially closed due to the heavy snowfall, the staff had not yet been notified of a solution. In fact, they would have had problems returning to the Valdebebas residence in case the trip was aborted, since the situation on the roads of Madrid, by then, was already critical. On the other hand, the work of the Barajas operators managed to enable a runway that hosted some operations with the airport still officially closed.
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