Mallorca back in business

Sometimes it’s good to dip a toe into other people’s football passion. On the night of Sunday June 23, the Balearic island of Mallorca was wrapped up in the biggest party it had known. But for once it was the locals, not the holidaymakers, who were letting their hair down.

Just being a tourist in Palma that night, after RCD Mallorca had clinched their return to Spain’s top flight after six years in the wilderness, meant that sharing in the