Marcelo Bielsa's brother attacks British media over 'double standards' | OneFootball

Marcelo Bielsa’s brother has come to the defence of the Leeds coach in an extraordinary attack against the “double standards” of the British press.

Bielsa has been box office since joining the Championship club last summer, guiding Leeds to third in the table and playing a brand of football rarely seen in England’s second division.

There have been critics, though.

The Argentine tactician was roundly lambasted for his part in the ‘Spygate’ scandal and there have been suggestions that Bielsa’s methods have led to fatigue at the most crucial part of the campaign.

But Rafael Bielsa, Marcelo’s brother and Argentina’s former Minister of Foreign Relations, has hit back at the British press for their reporting and “double morals”.

Strap yourselves in, because this is quite the quote.

“With Spygate, there were condemning voices. Very focused and badly argued,” he told La Nacional.

“There were also many rational and supporting voices. The rampaging communicative element here was the British double morals.

“There’s a beautiful book, ‘The Trials of Oscar Wilde’, those that Wilde brought to Douglas, the father of his boyfriend, and those that Douglas, who was the Marquess of Queensberry, brought to Wilde.

“There you see it: a repressed society with criminalised homosexuality where many of the men condemning Wilde were homosexuals.

“The British double standard, from corporal punishment to the Profumo case, a State secretary with a double life, or the spy theme covered by Le Carré, or that wonderful novel by John Banville, ‘the Untouchable’… There’s a double standard.”

Blimey.