There was a lack of spectators in the King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah on Wednesday evening – but not of obscenities, both gestural and verbal, that filled the area with life. This was thanks to the president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, who, immediately before his team’s 2-0 semi-final victory in the Spanish Super Cup against Athletic Bilbao, relieved some of the tension that had arisen in recent weeks in the wake of the affair surrounding the non-registration of Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor had piled up. And through derailments.