Spider represents me.

In that interview, he was bombarded by four microphones from TV Globo and subjected to the almost natural indigence of the network's sports journalism, which is incapable of making even a minimally critical assessment of its role.

For a pair of reporters to ask, at this point in the game, what difference the booing made back then, leads us to two possibilities: either the pair are stupid, or they suffer from a serious character flaw.

Another thing that is becoming increasingly clear is the culturally racist bias of Grêmio's fanbase. Of course, there are Grêmio fans horrified by the behavior of their peers in Porto Alegre, but they seem to be a minority increasingly condemned to silence.

The team's coach, Luiz Felipe Scolari, is perhaps the main emblem of this moral paralysis within Grêmio regarding the case.

This week, Felipão asked the team's press officer to ask journalists if they were going to "fall for Aranha's trap" again. He was referring to the Santos goalkeeper's insistence on not submitting to the media's wishes, especially those from Rio Grande do Sul, to let the matter die down.

Aranha, in addition to everything else, refused to meet with fan Patrícia Moreira da Silva, who was caught on camera calling him a "monkey." Patrícia is now betting on her own victimhood and the "let's-not-make-a-thing" culture that is so appealing to Brazilian journalism, especially when it involves a fair-skinned young woman willing to engage in acts of Christian contrition.

Aranha, confident in himself and his rights, said he forgives the girl, but that she should deal with the justice system.

Still, Grêmio fans preferred to heed Felipão's advice and went to the stadium to boo Aranha.

The booing that Globo reporters couldn't decipher.

But most Brazilians understood very well what these new boos meant: that racism continues to thrive and thrive over there in the Pampas.