San Fermín Fair: Pyrrhic ear for Fernando Adrián, who does not produce a large batch of La Palmosilla | Culture

The Madrid bullfighter Fernando Adrián cut off a pyrrhic ear, the only one that was awarded all afternoon, even without having managed to gel with the mettle and dedication that two of the three outstanding bulls that the Cádiz team of La Palmosilla fought this Sunday in Pamplona deserved.

The bullfight of the Núñez family showed ideal and balanced performances for the attack, because, even with loose meat and long backs, they were all short, without exaggerations in the front quarter like other bullfights at the fair, and they also had a long neck to take it down after the deceptions, which is what those three good specimens did, playing in second, third and fifth places.

That is to say, that two of them fell into the lot, as the second sword of the shortlist, of a Fernando Adrián who never managed to take advantage of them with the sincerity, depth and temper that they deserved, but instead extended himself in separate piled up maneuvers, full of short and flying muletazos, without hooking or controlling the attacks, but moving them with his own inertia. Despite the headwind, as an argument in his defense, he did so with the second, which immediately showed the quality of his right python, although it did not last long in a task that was never lifted. But the fifth lasted much longer, a beach-horned bull that Pedro Iturralde stung with measure and that went up with Adrián’s long cites.

The point is that the man from Madrid repeated the formula with this one and with the wind subsiding, without even managing to speed up the class of the bull also with the right-handed python, only to end up confused at the expense of the animal’s poor control. And so there was, in reality, no really estimable phase in Adrián’s work that would justify even that cheap ear they gave him for the effectiveness of the sword blow he received after a puncture.

The other notable bull of the sextet, although not so obvious, was the third, also fought in a constant gale but which, even measured in strength, had a noble quality in some spaced starts that asked for a little more rest and place than the one handled by Samuel Navalón.

The young Valencian gave him many passes, extending with more will than notable results, until he ended up getting into the short distance as a last resort and collecting, yes, a superb lunge, also after a previous puncture. With the sixth, the most serious and to which he greeted with a gayola, Navalón once again put in effort, but the one from La Palmosilla could not hold on with enough depth.

For Jiménez Fortes, on the other hand, it was the lot with the least possibilities, since his first, whom he received with a clean and perfect long lantern on his knees at the pigsty door, maintained a constant and annoying gazapeo that did not stop, despite the fact that the man from Malaga, with a tenacious temper and a lot of sincerity, tried to disabuse him when the wind blew the most.

Another thing was the fourth, not because of the bull, which had a very similar behavior, moving without zeal or any route, but because this time Fortes, who fought in Pamplona despite suffering an internal goring yesterday, was obsessed with searching where there was none, and even less so on the sun boards, where he was even knocked down without consequences.