Monday's Good Day, Bad Day - Round 25

Good Day
 
Mad Sammy Eto'o

 
Cameroon's striking superstar celebrated his first hat-trick in the Spanish league, by grabbing a camera off a Mundo Deportivo pitch side photographer and snapping a rather blurred shot of Bojan.
 
And Mundo Deportivo were tickled pink by this. "A Hat-Click from Eto'o!" they punned underneath the headline of "It's Two Points!!!! Aarrrgggh!" (The last bit was completely made up).
 
Unfortunately, the rest of the paper left the reader with the familiar sense of soul-destroying emptiness and inky fingers.
 
A couple of decent results against Celtic and a Levante side who are bottom of the table and trained for the game by going on strike, let's not forget, have perked up a previously gloomy Frank Rijkaard, no end. "People are back to believing in the side", declared the Dutchman.
 
Although the title is now in Barcelona's hands - and Real Madrid's as well - the best news from the whole wild weekend is that what had been the easiest of cakewalks for Real Madrid has now become a proper bun fight.
 
And this is best pastry related pun achieved by the blog since writing a film list containing 'Eclair and Present Danger" and "Crumble in the Bronx". Happy days, indeed.
 
Getafe

La Liga Loca may actually have squealed with delirious delight when Uche cooly shot past Iker Casillas to seal one of the funniest moments seen in the Bernabeu since Fernando Gago last attempted to score a goal.
 
Getafe's last three results at the Bernabeu were a 2-0 defeat, a 1-0 defeat and a 1-1 draw so there was a certain symmetry to their 1-0 win.
 
Pick of the battling bunch for the visitors was the always magnificent, Cata Díaz, who placed Ruud and Raul in his defensive pocket and carried them around like an Argentine shaped kangaroo.
 
Copa del Rey semi-finalists, three wins from safety and the only Spanish club in the UEFA cup. Once again, Getafe show that they are consistently, euro for euro, the best team in Spain.
 
Esteban Granero's Bird

 
The Getafe midfielder's lady friend now has the honour of kicking Eva Gonzalez' super model booty from the top of La Liga Liga's favourite WAG chart. A charming combination of Shakira, hot french exchange student and someone who works in a video shop.
 
Edu
 
"He doesn't seem to get tired of scoring the same goal, again and again", marvelled Marca at the Betis striker's 6th headed goal of the season. And pretty much a carbon copy of the other five. Cross comes in from the left, Edu nods it home.
 
A handy away point for Betis, at Mallorca, but the side are still just two points and two places from Deportivo in the drop-zone.
 
Luis Fabiano

 
It wasn't the 27th and 28th goal of the season scored in 31 games, that was remarkable about Fabiano's performance, on Saturday night, against Zaragoza. It was the fact that he did it the day after his wife and children were held at gun point by thieves who broke into his house.
 
"I moved them into a hotel", said the emotional striker seconds after the end of the 5-0 thrashing.
 
Another bonus from Sevilla's overwhelming destruction of an awful Zaragoza side was that La Liga Loca was able to flick to Telemadrid and see a dog walking up and down a flight of stairs balancing a small cup of water on its head. A feat to rival that of the Sevilla superstar.
 
Guille Franco

 
For a wee while, Villarreal's Mexican striker had been the butt of many of La Liga Loca's jokes for not being that good. Especially during the World Cup. Although he always looked a genius compared to José Mari. A cracking goal against Athletic has forced the blog to call a temporary truce on Guille. But it may be a Gaza Strip style truce, in length.
 
Tchité
 
The Racing Santander striker often plays as his name suggests, but his solitary effort against Almería on Sunday, stops a temporary wobble from Racing Santander that had seen them without a win in five.
 
Osasuna
 
The perfect time for the visit of Atlético Madrid's travelling circus. Osasuna were - and still are - in all sorts of trouble at the bottom of the table, but Ziganda's young guns of Sola and Vela polished off the rubbish rojiblancos in under five minutes.
 
Bad Day
 
Espanyol

 
A sixth defeat in seven! A born-again Barcelona! Things probably couldn't possibly be any worse for Paul in Barcelona had Messi himself broken into his house and drawn a moustache on his life sized cut-out of Raul Tamudo.  Keep your beady eye on the comments section for the latest news from the perico world.
 
Pedja Mijatovic

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