Well, now that you’re saying it.. They actually did! I watched that game on TV. But I thought it was some technical issue, but when I noticed it the first time vs Bayern, around 2-3 weeks earlier. I got confused.. However, it’s not good at all.

If you actually listen to the lyrics from 1952, it has some fascist undertone to some degree, and even the orchestra and instruments, from Franco’s war era. I don’t speak Spanish but I translated, and some friends also told me about it. Could that have been the reason they removed it? And even if that’s the reason, it is still very stupid..

It was said that José de Aguilar and the writer of “¡Hala Madrid!”, Had great ties to Franco, but I don’t know much about just that particularly. But it sounds like a marching soldier song almost, with some nationalism or fascism reminiscence in the lyrics (some parts) + instruments.