The great British philosopher Bernard Williams once said, "We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness." A leading voice on the concept of morality, Williams probably nailed it with that one, but you sense La Liga had its earmuffs on at the time.
Spain's top division is a place where morality is a loose concept; where what you do only matters through the prism of what the other lot does; where taking another's weakness and parading it through the streets on a stick is the modus operandi.
Except on Wednesday.
On an evening which was only missing a coined slogan dreamed up by an overly aroused marketing department, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid all went home not so much celebrating weaknesses but quietly lamenting them—their own, that is.