Is the party over for Real and Barça?

When reports began to emerge from Spain at the beginning of February that the government was planning to impose the collective selling of media rights on professional football, it was easy to glaze over and dismiss the story. How many times in the last couple of years have we read similar stories? How many times have we heard presidents of smaller Spanish clubs – that means everybody that isn’t either Barcelona or Real Madrid – warn that individual selling, and the rich man-poor man culture it creates, would eventually kill La Liga?