You can love them for the perennial punching-above-their-weight and €160 season-tickets, you can love them for saving an 85 year-old widow from homelessness, you can love them for their three-sided tiny ground that is overlooked by a block of flats in a working-class barrio with a real sense of community, you can love their fearless attacking style and eccentric manager Paco Jemez with his elbow patches, pink shirts, purple ties and quotes like “We’re the shittiest team in the league and unless we realise that we will suffer”, “If, as well as being small, you’re a coward, you’re going to get a beating from all sides” and “The people who say we’re dead turn me on.
Seven new reasons to love Rayo Vallecano
