Sorry for not replying but I didn't get an email reminding me about this thread.
It was - I think - Phil Ball in When Saturday Comes in the post EC issue (July or August). Ball has written Morbo and White Storm and criticised Jimmy Burns's book on Barcelona as basically 'Barca good. Real very, very, bad'. Hardly a contrarealista. Raul, according to Ball, was walking around in a strop in Germany two years ago. Aragones had a belly full of him and wanted a team that, in Ball's words, 'got along together'. Ball suggested that Raul was the only 'nationalist' in the team. In contrast Fabregas was too young to care, Xavi couldn't care less, and all Puyol was interested in was listening to the Ramones. Ball also mentions an incident where Raul publicly undermined Aragones. It explains why Aragones put up with a lot of pressure not to have him in the squad.
As for fascist apologist, Raul (along with Figo and Salgado) is pictured in the Ultra Sur fanzine posing with what is at best a peculiar distortion of the Spanish flag. Photos I saw were published in 'Diario de un skin', Antonio Salas' diary of his undercover investigation into Spanish neo nazis.
The article cannot be found on the WSC website.
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