
Given all of the Fabregas love in Spain, it's a little disappointing he's being vilified by some fans. Catalan newspaper Sport explain on Tuesday that there's been outrage among some fans at Fabregas posting a Premier League celebration photograph of him draped in the Catalan flag. Sport say there have been calls from fans to have Fabregas banned from the Spanish national team, with the angriest clearly feeling his use of the Catalan flag was a direct insult to the Spanish.
Catalan independence movements have been gaining momentum in recent years and that's obviously made the situation a little more tender. It all seems a little over the top, when Spain won the World Cup there were players waving Catalan flags without too much of a fuss being made, nobody then wanted the World Cup handing back and some of the country's most important players banned. Fabregas surely didn't mean to cause such a stir.
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