Barcelona will have their chance for Champions League revenge on Atletico in this year’s UEFA Champions League quarter finals, as it was the red and whites who eliminated the Catalan masters under Tata Martino in season 2013-2014, the last time they met in UEFA. Barcelona were not firing on all…
With their somewhat laboured 2-1 home win over a Unai Emery’s gallant and dangerous Sevilla, the Barcelona record team have now extended their unbeaten run to 35 matches. Although Sevilla put up a brave show (making life more difficult for Barcelona than even Atletico or Real Madrid have this season)…
Real Madrid’s La Liga chances appeared to all but disappear with their 0-1 defeat at home in the Bernabeu against city rivals Atletico Madrid. In a match in which Atletico, not Real, provided the quality football, a world, clas goal from Griezmann gave another three point advantage over both to…
Barcelona had to fight to take all three points but such is the strength in depth that this side now has (in the Suarez era)- they always seem to find what they need in time. Luis Enrique’s Barcelona in La Liga is now undefeated for 30 matches. Some azulgrana supposrters…
Madrid have improved under their famous new manager, but at the time of writing, after a laboured 1-1 away draw against Malaga at the Rosaleda Stadium, they sit nine points behind FC Barcelona and 3 behind Atletico Madrid. Even with Benitez gone, Real Madrid in La Liga is still not…
Farewell to Xavi After more than 500 appearances, 8 league titles, 4 Champions League triumphs, 2 European Championships and 1 World Cup winner’s medal (not a bad haul!), Barcelona legend and mercurial midfield maestro Xavi Hernandez bid an emotional farewell to Barca and Spanish football in 2015, moving on to…
Establishing themselves as a top flight team in La Liga in 2015-16, Celta Vigo have been putting together some seriously impressive performances in the first half of the season, not least the 4-2 thumping of all-conquering Barcelona. So, as they head into the halfway stage of the season still with…
With David Moyes currently plying his trade at Real Sociedad and the sad news earlier this week of Howard Kendall’s passing, we look at some of the other British managers who have made their mark on the Spanish league down the years. Howard Kendall The late, great manager of Everton’s…
It’s one of the great footballing nations in the world (2 European Championships, a World Cup and 7 Champions League wins this century) so you’d imagine that the stadiums would be a cauldron of passion for the beautiful game. And one of the charms of Spanish club football is the…
The past ten years have been a story of near unbridled success for the Catalan giants of FC Barcelona. From the Ronaldhino inspired Rijkaard managed days of the mid-noughties to the Messi-Suarez-Neymar triumvirate who destroyed everyone in Europe in 2014-15 the last decade of European and Spanish football has been…
