In Barcelona, the giant screen showing the final had been moved this year because the city's central Plaça Catalunya had been occupied by disaffected youth taking part in Spain's other national sport: protesting.
Don Foster, the Liberal Democrats' spokesman for culture, media and sport, protested that the clause was too wide-ranging: "it could apply to Google," he complained, adding that its inclusion of the phrase about "likely to be used" meant that a site could be blocked on its assumed intentions rather than its actions.
In such a setting, school capitalizes on rather than thwarts the intensity and engagement that teenagers usually reserve for sports, protest or friendship.
When was the last time there was an anti-sport protest in the U.S.?
In the Sixties we had safer and more sophisticated weapons: fists and sports, protest marches and songs.
As sports protests go, taking the knee might not seem nearly as subversive or dangerous as thrusting a black-power fist into the air, as Tommie Smith and John Carlos did during their medal ceremony at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
McGregor threatened to retire from the sport in protest, which led to much speculation about whether he would follow through on his promise and actually quit, but then he relented and said he was still willing to fight at UFC 200 – providing he could reduce the amount of promotional work he was expected to do.
This week there are daily protests: women were outside the high court today against a budget that cuts 72% from women; tomorrow schools and sports celebrities protest against the axing of the school sports budget; Wednesday and Thursday see two days of student protest.
(Young feminist author Periel Aschenbrand caused a storm in the US with her screen-printed slogan T-shirt proclaiming, "The only bush I trust is my own", which women including Gloria Steinem and Susan Sarandon sported on protest posters before the 2004 US election).
And yet - as anyone who has been dragged along to a ghastly sports arena protesting that they hate everything U2 stand for, then unaccountably ended up punching the air to Pride, will tell you - there is something undeniable about U2.
His March 1888 open letter to The Sporting Life protesting the racial segregation of baseball has been described as "perhaps the most passionate cry for justice ever voiced by a Negro athlete".
