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• Good Day, Bad Day: Perfect Pedro and Awful Atlético

  RESULTS Sun 2 Jan Athletic Bilbao 1-2 Deportivo La Coruña, Barcelona 2-1 Levante, Sporting Gijón 1-2 Málaga, Sevilla 1-0 Osasuna, Valencia 2-1 Espanyol Mon 3 Jan Villarreal 2-0 Almería, Real Zaragoza 2... Posted Jan 04 2011, 16:19 PM by Tim Stannard with | with 4 comment(s) Tags: Real Madrid, Fernando Llorente, Athletic Bilbao, Racing Santander, Barcelona, Sevilla, Villarreal, Espanyol, Valencia, Manuel Pellegrini, Cristiano Ronaldo, Getafe, Pedro, Simao, Alvaro Negredo, real mallorca, Juan Mata, Almeria, Levante, Real Sociedad, Osasuna, Real Zaragoza, Sporting Gijon, Unai Emery, Atlético Madrid, Borja Valero, Deportivo la Coruna, Hércules, Málaga, Royston Drenthe, Ricardo Costa, Manuel Preciado, Javier Aguirre, Esteban Vigo, Sergio Asenjo, Chica, José Antonio Reyes, Valentín Botella, Diego Forlán, Freddie Kanoute, Gaika Toquero, Adrián, Toño, José Pinto, Ustaritz Aldekoaotalora Astarloa, Mikel San José, Jesus Navas, Braulio, Martín DiMichelis, Aritz Aduriz

• The porn star-jettisoning, stomach ulcered weekend La Liga predictions

  Saturday Zaragoza (20th) v Villarreal (3rd) It was a truly bone-warming, wonderful sight to see the greying flat-top of Javier Aguirre back in la Liga again taking charge of his new club against Getafe... Posted Nov 26 2010, 10:47 AM by Tim Stannard with | with 1 comment(s) Tags: Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, Barcelona, Sevilla, Villarreal, Malaga, Deportivo, Espanyol, Valencia, Atletico Madrid, Getafe, real mallorca, Hercules, Almeria, Levante, Real Sociedad, Osasuna, Real Zaragoza, Sporting Gijon, Racing

• The Midday Kick-off Weekend Predictions

  SATURDAY Villarreal (3rd) Valencia (4th) There’s going to be a moving, flower-petalled, violin-filled reunion in El Madrigal on Saturday when World Cup Portuguese pugilist Ricardo Costa comes a-callin'... Posted Nov 19 2010, 10:29 AM by Tim Stannard with | with 1 comment(s) Tags: Real Madrid, Fernando Llorente, Athletic Bilbao, Racing Santander, Barcelona, Sevilla, Villarreal, Deportivo, Espanyol, Valencia, Manuel Pellegrini, Cristiano Ronaldo, David Villa, Sporting, Zaragoza, Alvaro Negredo, Real Sociedad, Markus Rosenberg, Almería, Atlético Madrid, Hércules, José Mourinho, Leo Messi, Málaga, Miguel Angel Lotina, Royston Drenthe, Ricardo Costa, Manuel Preciado, Joan Capdevila, Javier Aguirre, Guiseppe Rossi, José Aurelio Gay, Rafael van der Vaart, Wesley Sneijder

• Who'll be the next manager to be sacked in Spain?

  A combination of Spain’s economic crisis, club coffers as empty as Villarreal’s trophy cabinet and the utterly misguided notion that bench-sitting stability is a good thing has meant just two coaches have... Posted Nov 17 2010, 14:34 PM by Tim Stannard with | with 2 comment(s) Tags: Sevilla, Malaga, Manuel Pellegrini, Getafe, Zaragoza, Juanma Lillo, Michel, Gregorio Manzano, Jose Aurelio Gay

• The only coach who loves la Liga life

  A growing and probably quite unhealthy obsession with the concept of Unai Emery caused La Liga Loca to spend Monday musing whether the Valencia manager actually enjoyed his job. It certainly didn’t look... Posted Nov 09 2010, 13:56 PM by Tim Stannard with | with no comments Tags: Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, Jose Mourinho, Pep Guardiola, Barcelona, Sevilla, Deportivo, Valencia, Getafe, Zaragoza, Osasuna, Unai Emery, Almería, Atlético Madrid, Juanma Lillo, Leo Messi, Míchel, Quique Sánchez Flores, Stale Solbakken, FC Copenhagen, José Antonio Camacho, Tomás Ujfalusi’s, Miguel Angel Lotina, Racing, Miguel Angel Portugal, Joaquín Caparrós, Mehmet Topal

• Good Day, Bad Day - Round 7

  The best and worst of the weekend's Spanish football, in handy tapas-sized dishes... GOOD DAY Cristiano Ronaldo It causes LLL immense mental and physical anguish to do so, but the blog must admit that... Posted Oct 18 2010, 14:43 PM by Tim Stannard with | with 4 comment(s) Tags: Real Madrid, Gonzalo Higuain, Racing Santander, Jose Mourinho, Barcelona, Sevilla, Carles Puyol, Malaga, Deportivo, Espanyol, Valencia, Atletico Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo, Getafe, Joan Laporta, Mallorca, Almeria, Levante, Real Sociedad, Osasuna, Andres Iniesta, Jesualdo Ferreira, Real Zaragoza, Sporting Gijon, Luis Garcia, Asier del Horno, Mista, Diego Costa, Diego Castro, Cesar Sanchez, Ariel Nahuelpan, Diego Alves, Florent Sinama-Pongolle, Ibai, Markus Rosenberg, Adrian Colunga, Xavi Hernandez, Gaston Sangoy

• The Burger King-Sponsored Predictions

  Saturday Barcelona v Hércules There is something peculiar going on at Marca . Well, there is something even more peculiar going on at Marca than normal. Just look at the face of the paper’s director Eduardo... Posted Sep 10 2010, 11:36 AM by Tim Stannard with | with 4 comment(s) Tags: Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, Racing Santander, Barcelona, Sevilla, Villarreal, Tenerife, Malaga, Deportivo, Espanyol, Valladolid, Atletico Madrid, Getafe, Sporting, La Liga, Zaragoza, Mallorca

• The Disparaging Primera Predictions: Part 4

  Tim Stannard rounds off his preview of the coming La Liga season with a look at Sevilla, Sporting, Valencia, Villarreal and Zaragoza Sevilla Poor Sevilla. The club was once the fresh-faced, buxom-boobed... Posted Aug 26 2010, 11:34 AM by Tim Stannard with | with 13 comment(s) Tags: Sevilla, Villarreal, Valencia, Sporting, La Liga, Zaragoza

• Pérez and Pellegrini: Perfect Strangers

  One of the many theories being bandied about by Madridista Mulder types is that Florentino Pérez will be standing behind José Mourinho as he writes his team sheets next season, clearing his throat in a... Posted May 27 2010, 12:08 PM by Tim Stannard with | with 7 comment(s) Tags: Real Madrid, Gonzalo Higuain, Karim Benzema, Jose Mourinho, Barcelona, Sevilla, Guti, Manuel Pellegrini, Atletico Madrid, Joan Laporta, Florentino Perez

• La Liga Loca’s Good Day, Bad Day - Round 38

  Good Day Leo Messi (Sighs) Leo Messi really is no fun at all. What was the first thing he did to celebrate his 34th league goal of the season? Ran to the stands to hug his Mum, that’s what. Shocking behaviour... Posted May 17 2010, 11:57 AM by Tim Stannard with | with 17 comment(s) Tags: Real Madrid, Pep Guardiola, Lionel Messi, Barcelona, Sevilla, Villarreal, Guti, Manuel Pellegrini, Marca, Getafe, La Liga, Alvaro Negredo, Mallorca, Rodri

• The Final Weekend La Liga Predictions - Round 38

  Saturday (18.00 Spanish time) Athletic (8th) v Deportivo (who cares) It’s like raaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiin on your wedding day. And it’s like Deportivo being involved in the only match of the weekend that has... Posted May 14 2010, 11:47 AM by Tim Stannard with | with 11 comment(s) Tags: Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, Racing Santander, Barcelona, Sevilla, Villarreal, Tenerife, Malaga, Deportivo, Espanyol, Valladolid, Atletico Madrid, Getafe, Sporting, La Liga, Zaragoza, Mallorca

• The Beginner’s Guide to La Liga’s Last Day

  The English Premier League is now done and dusted with its oh-so-riveting final day of drama and no-one really cares about boring old Serie A, anyway - apart from the excellent Serie Aaaargh of course... Posted May 11 2010, 12:42 PM by Tim Stannard with | with 10 comment(s) Tags: Spanish football, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Tenerife, La Liga, Mallorca

• Incredible Ronaldo keeps Real breathing down Barca’s neck

  He may have a stupid, shiny face you want to whack with an ironing board, Tom and Jerry style, but Cristiano Ronaldo certainly can play a bit. The most expensive footballer on the planet has got the Madridista... Posted May 06 2010, 14:25 PM by Tim Stannard with | with 5 comment(s) Tags: Real Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Deportivo, Manuel Pellegrini, Cristiano Ronaldo, Marca, real mallorca

• The Vapours-Suffering Weekend Predictions - Round 35

  Saturday Tenerife (19th) v Racing (15th) A final knuckle-whitening round of midweek matches on the horizon sees seven games kicking off on Saturday evening so la Primera’s prima-donnas don’t get too tired... Posted Apr 30 2010, 12:06 PM by Tim Stannard with | with 9 comment(s) Tags: Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, Racing Santander, Barcelona, Sevilla, Villarreal, Tenerife, Malaga, Deportivo, Espanyol, Valencia, Valladolid, Atletico Madrid, Getafe, Sporting, La Liga, Zaragoza, Mallorca

• The More-of-a-Man Weekend Predictions - Round 34

  Saturday Barcelona (1st) v Xerez (20th) The probable feeling from Barcelona fans in regards to Saturday’s match against lowly Xerez is that there couldn’t be a better opponent as a bounce-back from their... Posted Apr 23 2010, 11:26 AM by Tim Stannard with | with 13 comment(s) Tags: Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, Racing Santander, Barcelona, Sevilla, Villarreal, Tenerife, Malaga, Deportivo, Espanyol, Valencia, Valladolid, Atletico Madrid, Getafe, Sporting, La Liga, Zaragoza, Kaka

• Violence in Valladolid & Sleepless in Getafe

  The blog has so many stories desperately trying to burst out of its insufficiently-sized brain. Joan Laporta kicking his bestest childhood buddy out of the Barcelona presidential race. Guti’s Country Life... Posted Apr 13 2010, 13:09 PM by Tim Stannard with | with 7 comment(s) Tags: Sevilla, Javier Clemente, Guti, Valladolid, Marca, Getafe

• La Liga Loca’s Good Day, Bad Day - Round 31

  Good Day Barcelona Some 24 hours after the final whistle had blown on el Clásico, pundits on Spanish TV were still pulling apart every shot, every tackle and every save from Saturday’s game. But there... Posted Apr 12 2010, 13:52 PM by Tim Stannard with | with 7 comment(s) Tags: Gonzalo Higuain, Barcelona, Ever Benega, Sevilla, Villarreal, Tenerife, Malaga, Deportivo, Javi Martinez, Espanyol, Kristian Vadocz, Valencia, Manuel Pellegrini, Valladolid, Atletico Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo

• The ‘Guti don’t leave me!’ Weekend Predictions - Round 31

  Saturday Málaga (16th) v Sevilla (4th) The rest of world may not give two flying hoots about this weekend’s fixtures aside from The One, but LLL certainly does. Apart from the Deportivo game. And maybe... Posted Apr 09 2010, 10:26 AM by Tim Stannard with | with 10 comment(s) Tags: Real Madrid, Racing Santander, Barcelona, Sevilla, Villarreal, Javier Clemente, Guti

• La Liga Loca’s Good Day, Bad Day - Round 30

  Good Day Pep Guardiola When LLL first read the Barcelona line up to face Athletic Bilbao, it assumed that the Dream Boys’ boss had finally lost his mind or staggered into the dressing room half-cut and... Posted Apr 06 2010, 09:00 AM by Tim Stannard with | with 12 comment(s) Tags: Real Madrid, Pep Guardiola, Lionel Messi, Barcelona, Bojan Krkic, Joaquin, Ever Benega, Sevilla, Jermaine Pennant, Villarreal, Carles Puyol, Dmytro Chygrynskiy