The Classic of Lies: José Ramón Fernández and His Critique of America

Alonso Quijano In one of his most incendiary statements of recent times, veteran sports journalist José Ramón Fernández unleashed a storm in the program Fútbol Picante by calling Club América a “boy” team, whose supposed greatness—according to him—has been manufactured by Televisa's media machinery and propped up by years of arbitral favoritism. “America was always a small team, only that it wanted to arrive in the shadow of the champion and Gua…