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Malaga fans pretend random tourist is a high-profile signing in protest over transfers

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Lennart Johansson and Sky Sports News have got a lot to answer for. The former Uefa chief executive was the man who pushed for the introduction of a transfer window in football 21 years ago, since then few have done as much to promote it as every gym’s favourite TV channel. Over time what was once an instrument of employment law has become a lurid, frenzied and utterly inescapable part of footballing culture. The transfer window does strange things to people.

So to Malaga, where supporters of a team which once reached a Champions League quarter-final under Manuel Pellegrini are mad as hell and not going to take it any more. Now in the Spanish third tier, Los Boquerones (The Anchovies) have failed to strengthen sufficiently in the eyes of their supporters this off season. Just the 10 or so arrivals, all on free transfers, but this is seemingly not enough for fans reared on an ultra-processed diet of Ultimate Team, Football Manager and loneliness.

The sky blue and white-shirted hordes flocked to Malaga airport and found an unsuspecting tourist, astonishingly not called Kevin and sunburned after a week of AM pints and fry-ups on Costa del Sol. He was surrounded and presented with a not-very-official looking shirt with the number 69 scrawled on the back. He looked, as you probably would expect, a mix of highly confused and fairly concerned.

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Spain: 'A complete mess' – British expats stage anti-Brexit protest in Malaga

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Roughly a hundred British citizens living in the southern Spanish city of Malaga held an anti-Brexit protest on Sunday.

Demonstrators were seen gathering in the city’s central Constitution Square with banners and posters, wrapping themselves in European flags and calling on the UK government to revoke Article 50; the mechanism by which a country announces its intention to leave the EU according to the Lisbon Treaty.

“These people are here because we don’t know what our future holds, we live in a foreign country, we work here, we pay taxes, we vote here. What happens to us now? It’s just a complete mess and it is infuriating that we have no say in who’s leading our country, in what’s going to happen to our rights,” said Harriet Paulet, a British resident in Malaga.

Many voiced their concerns about their future and the insecurity surrounding the UK withdrawal from the EU, as they fear they could be stripped of many of the rights they enjoy in their host country if Brexit comes into force without a deal on October 31.

The rally was also supported by the Spanish residents in a sign of solidarity with the British community.

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Brit expats in Malaga hold anti-Brexit protest saying 'UK has forgotten us'

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Brtions in Malaga are worries that they will lose the rights they have and claim that Spain has done more for them than the UK.

Anti-Brexit protesters waved the British, Spanish and European Union flags and held banners reading, “Take back control: My grandkids’ future.“

Tamara Essex, a 60-year-old from Dorset, commented, ”Spain is doing everything it can to protect us. The UK government has forgotten us.”

Pedro Sanchez, Spain’s acting Prime Minister, has sought to reassure Britons living in Spain, promising to protect their rights after Britain’s exit from the European Union.

Spain is a popular retirement destination for UK residents, with around a third of British residents aged over 65.

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