BARCELONA will complain to Fifa and Uefa after they were forced by La Liga to play their home game against Las Palmas.
As tension rose over the weekend and violence erupted in Catalonia over the independence referendum, Barca requested to postpone their league game.
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But La Liga representatives threatened the club with a six-point deduction if they failed to play the fixture.
It led to the Catalan club hosting Las Palmas behind closed doors, with 98,000 empty seats on view.
Barca president Josep Maria Bartomeu told Catalunya Radio that he will take his complaint to the highest echelons in world football.
He said: “We will ask for explanations because it is incomprehensible that they did not agree to suspend the game.
“We will take this as far as we can and there will be consequences.”
Barcelona won the game 3-0, with Lionel Messi grabbing a double.
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Reports in Spain claim the dressing room “was split” over whether the game should be played at all.
The players who wanted it to be cancelled argued that the club should stand with the fans, most of whom were voting for independence in the referendum deemed “illegal” by the Spanish government.
Unsurprisingly, Gerard Pique, who was moved to tears at seeing the violence in the streets of Catalonia, was one of the players who wanted the game to be postponed, according to Spanish newspaper Marca.
Former Barcelona coach and captain Pep Guardiola expressed dismay on Monday at the violence that marred Catalonia’s independence vote.
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He said the club should have been allowed to postpone their match against Las Palmas.
Speaking to Catalan radio station RAC1 the now-Manchester City boss said: “Barcelona against Las Palmas should never have been played, not at all.
“In Catalonia they have injured a lot of people, people who only went to schools to vote.
“The images are not deceptive. There were people who went to vote and they were violently attacked.”
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He added that Spain was a “beautiful country”, but that it has “a population that wishes to decide its own future”.
Catalan officials said 840 people had been injured while trying to cast their ballots.
The handling of the referendum by authorities in Madrid, who had declared it illegal, has left Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy facing Spain’s biggest constitutional crisis in decades.
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