April 23, 2013 at 12:06 am Just seven games remain in Spain’s Segunda Division and Racing Santander find themselves on the cusp of dropping into the third tier of Spanish football. Last season’s relegation from the Primera Division was the club’s first drop from the top flight since the 2000/01 [...]

February 6, 2013 at 4:15 pm  With every La Liga season comes to compelling prediction of a top four finish occupied by the likes of Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Valencia, Sevilla and more recently Malaga. But every season manages to provide the odd shock, but a shock so defiant [...]

January 8, 2013 at 12:30 am So there you have it. The FIFA World XI at this year’s annual gala in Zurich has taught us, if nothing else, that Barcelona and Real Madrid really are the crem-de-la-crem of world football right now. An astonishing TEN of the eleven players selected [...]

January 1, 2013 at 12:50 pm With many people finding themselves homeless or unable to feed their families are the huge fees paid out to football players alienating Spanish fans from the national sport? The economic crisis in Spain has hit the nation hard over the last couple of years [...]

December 20, 2012 at 11:03 am Following a run of just two wins in 15 games this season, Espanyol finally had enough and sacked manager Mauricio Pochettino. At first glance the treatment of Pochettino seems harsh. After taking over in 2009 he guided the White and Blues to 10th, 11th and [...]

8 Dec 2012 Last updated 16:35 GMT Michel Platini is the King of Procrastination, a throne he has sat on since his appointment in 2006 when he replaced Lennart Johansson as Uefa President. The Frenchman has only narrowly avoided being carted off in a white coat after suggesting ideas  such [...]

“We all live in a yellow Submarine” was once a lyric for the Beatles. Much like the Beatles, Villarreal’s time as a major force has now passed. But unlike their Liverpudlian pop-music compatriots, El Submarino Amarillo (translating to The Yellow Submarine) is still lurking with intent under the murky waters [...]

The seven dwarves, unlucky number 13 and 32 teams in the Champions League. That’s the way it’s accepted, and anything else would be mentally incomprehensible. The number 13 is unlucky for some, not 12 and certainly not 14, and Snow White resided with seven dwarves, not six and to suggest [...]

Things certainly started to look up for Marcelo Bielsa and his young squad at Athletic Bilbao. Last season they enjoyed a successful league campaign as well as reaching the Copa del Rey Final and Europa League Final, despite suffering defeats on both occasions. To some, it was regarded as a [...]

Athletic Bilbao – Prediction 4th Showed all of Europe what they could do in the Champions League last season with some stunning displays, which made their mid-table struggles last season all the more curious. IF they can keep hold of Llorente and they can learn how to fight on more [...]