Tuesday 09 February 2010, 12:00
Now, La Liga Loca has no idea if it all stems from a post-Franco distrust of authority figures or the persistent culture of blame-shifting, finger-pointing and responsibility-dodging. But Spain has an...
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Monday 08 February 2010, 17:00
RESULTS: Sat Feb 6 - Valencia 2-0 Valladolid, Real Madrid 3-0 Espanyol, Barcelona 2-1 Getafe. Sun Feb 7 - Zaragoza 2-1 Sevilla, Racing Santander 1-1 Atletico Madrid, Osasuna 1-0 Tenerife, Mallorca 1-0...
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Friday 05 February 2010, 12:00
Saturday Valencia (3rd) vs Valladolid (17th) As will be discovered with Robert Pires later on in the blog, the tendency for older, clapped-out footballers failing to grasp the notion that their leaden...
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Wednesday 03 February 2010, 17:00
Bernd Schuster says the concept is “ridiculous.” Vicente del Bosque muses that “the door is open.” Sport claim that he can’t change his ways at 33. Penelope Cruz screams “in the name of all that is holy...
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Tuesday 02 February 2010, 10:30
Two clubs normally defined by their square-jawed, steadfast ways have reacted to poor results in the last round of matches to pull the lever marked “Gaaah!” by firing their coaches. The sudden departures...
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Monday 01 February 2010, 14:30
RESULTS Sat Jan 30 Deportivo La Coruna 1-3 Real Madrid, Espanyol 1-0 Athletic Bilbao, Sporting Gijon 0-1 Barcelona Sun Jan 31 Atletico Madrid 0-2 Malaga, Getafe 0-0 Racing Santander, Sevilla 2-1 Valencia...
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Friday 29 January 2010, 13:00
Saturday Espanyol (14th) vs Athletic (8th) Once his chores are done of an evening, his homework completed and piano practice endured, little Iker Muniain is allowed a little downtime before being packed...
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Wednesday 27 January 2010, 17:00
While the prize for Florentino Pérez after his own victory was the chance to gaze at the Santiago Bernabeu whilst drooling “mmm... office blocks...” Homer Simpson-style, the reward for Barcelona’s next...
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Tuesday 26 January 2010, 11:30
If Real Madrid actually had a pair they’d take the Cristiano Ronaldo banning business on the chin - or rather the nose - like poor old flat-faced Patrick Mtiliga had to. NEWS , Mon Jan 25: Mtiliga nose...
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Monday 25 January 2010, 15:00
Good Day Dani Alves La Liga Loca is uncertain whether Dani Alves’ goal was a mishit cross or flukey shot. But it isn’t that bothered about finding out, really. It was just a cracking strike and topped...
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Friday 22 January 2010, 12:00
Saturday Sevilla (6th) vs Almería (15th) With four straight defeats and just one win in seven in la Liga, Sevilla suck royally at the moment. Perhaps the only thing keeping coach Manolo Jiménez in his...
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Wednesday 20 January 2010, 16:00
The footie agenda in Spain for this week is supposedly dominated by the increasingly curious Copa del Rey and its quarter-final stages. But as neither Real Madrid nor Barcelona are playing any part in...
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Tuesday 19 January 2010, 11:00
Like many of the old boots that turn up on Spain’s ever-popular gossip programmes boasting of a night of passion with a bullfighter or Sergio Ramos (or both), a large chunk of la Liga’s grounds are either...
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Monday 18 January 2010, 15:00
Good Day Mallorca Wham, bam, thank you Mam! Six second-half minutes was all it took for Mallorca to bang in a couple of goals against Deportivo and make it a ludicrously exceptional nine home wins from...
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Friday 15 January 2010, 14:00
Saturday Osasuna (14th) vs Espanyol (13th) And it’s straight to News from Sweden courtesy of thelocal.se with a truly intriguing tale of what would constitute a relatively normal night out for La Liga...
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Thursday 14 January 2010, 10:00
For the past couple of days the blog has been doing tours of the block wracking its tiny brains trying to think of something meaningful that Maxi Rodríguez has contributed to the Atlético Madrid cause...
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Tuesday 12 January 2010, 14:00
“Clatter, clatter, clatter, bang!” went La Liga Loca’s smoking telex machine with a missive from the FFT ogres demanding a best XI of the past decade in Spanish football. “Get lost. Impossible,” was the...
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Monday 11 January 2010, 17:00
Good Day Atlético Madrid Quique Sánchez Flores’ tactic of insults, humiliation and good old-fashioned physical torment towards his players in the wake of the midweek defeat to Recreativo has proved so...
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Friday 08 January 2010, 13:00
Saturday Valladolid (13th) vs Atlético Madrid (11th) Normal service has resumed at Atleti after Saturday’s win over Sevilla. With club president Enrique Cerezo declaring that lifting the Copa del Rey in...
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Wednesday 06 January 2010, 22:30
Leg or breast? Spicy stuffing or a smearing in some special sauce? Just two of the decisions often made by Sergio Ramos over his winter break, as well as being the culinary choices on offer at Christmas...
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Tuesday 05 January 2010, 14:00
Just before Christmas, the proud people of Spain gave the recession the finger, downed tools and aren’t due to pick them up again until next week with the Three Magic Kings business still to come. But...
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Monday 04 January 2010, 14:30
RESULTS Sun Jan 3: Almería 1 - 0 Xerez Getafe 1 - 0 Real Valladolid Mallorca 2-0 Athletic Bilbao Osasuna 0 - 0 Real Madrid Racing Santander 2 - 0 Tenerife Real Zaragoza 0 - 0 Deportivo La Coruña Sporting...
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Friday 01 January 2010, 11:30
January “What! Do you want to die?! I’m a professional! Respect my work! Show me respect!” - Carlos Kameni, perhaps the biggest, hardest person La Liga Loca has ever come to face-to-face with, scares a...
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Tuesday 22 December 2009, 14:30
You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, La Liga Loca is telling you why... ...cos Joan Laporta will smack you over the back of the head with a bottle of Cava, bundle you into a van...
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Monday 21 December 2009, 11:30
Good Day Atlético Madrid La Liga Loca is in an uncharacteristically frisky mood, having woken up to a big bunch of snow in Madrid. But the responsible BBC-listening blog is well aware that this is bad...
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Friday 18 December 2009, 16:00
Saturday Xerez (20th) vs Barcelona (1st) Put every penny you own or can beg, steal or borrow on a 2-0 win for Barcelona on Saturday night. And perhaps go for a victory with goals from Henry and Zlatan...
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Wednesday 16 December 2009, 14:30
Although not necessarily true, but for the purposes of today’s offerings it is a useful observation to make that the Brits are, by and large, an armpit-scratching, knuckle-dragging, pea-brained breed addicted...
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Tuesday 15 December 2009, 14:00
The roots of the existential animosity between Espanyol and Barcelona are now lost in the mists of time, but ready to be uncovered by Simon Schama in a 37-part BBC series. Precambrian anthropologists claim...
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Monday 14 December 2009, 10:00
Weekend results: Barcelona 1-0 Espanyol, Valencia 2-3 Real Madrid, Sporting 0-1 Sevilla, Atletico Madrid 1-2 Villarreal, Almeria 1-1 Deportivo La Coruna, Getafe 2-1 Tenerife, Osasuna 0-1 Mallorca, Racing...
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Friday 11 December 2009, 13:00
Saturday Zaragoza (17th) vs Athletic (8th) Spanish sports station, Canal Plus, have decided that it would be a whizzy idea to wire up a flock of Primera coaches to monitors to see just how dangerously...
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Wednesday 09 December 2009, 10:30
On Wednesday night, Pep Guardiola must make the toughest choice of his short but astonishing managerial career: how to battle the incredible Ukrainian cold in Kyiv during Barcelona's Champions League...
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Tuesday 08 December 2009, 10:00
It was almost a year ago to the day that former Real Madrid president Ramón Calderón carved part of La Liga Loca’s soul out with a rusty chisel by sacking Bernd Schuster as punishment for winning the league...
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Monday 07 December 2009, 10:00
Weekend results: Deportivo La Coruna 1-3 Barcelona, Real Madrid 4-2 Almeria, Sevilla 1-1 Valladolid, Xerez 0-2 Atletico Madrid, Athletic Bilbao 1-2 Valencia, Espanyol 0-4 Racing, Malaga 1-1 Osasuna, Mallorca...
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Friday 04 December 2009, 12:00
Weekend fixtures: Sevilla vs Valladolid, Xerez vs Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid vs Almeria, Deportivo La Coruna vs Barcelona, Tenerife vs Sporting, Espanyol vs Racing, Mallorca vs Zaragoza, Malaga vs Osasuna...
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Thursday 03 December 2009, 12:45
If there’s a reason why La Liga Loca is feeling especially cranky and crazed, today, it’s because it was up until the ungodly hour of MIDNIGHT watching Xerez and Barcelona hoof the ball about an athletics...
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Wednesday 02 December 2009, 10:30
Atlético Madrid are not wholly unlike dogs in that they run to a completely different time scale as the rest of the known universe. Whereas one human year supposedly represents seven for our canine buddies...
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Tuesday 01 December 2009, 09:30
WEEKEND RESULTS Sat Nov 28: Sevilla 2-2 Málaga, Valencia 1-1 Mallorca, Sporting Gijón 1-0 Villarreal Sun Nov 29: Atlético Madrid 4-0 Espanyol, FC Barcelona 1-0 Real Madrid, Racing Santander 0-1 Deportivo...
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Friday 27 November 2009, 10:00
Saturday Sporting (7th) vs Villarreal (11th) Giuseppe Rossi’s agent claimed this week that his client could well make a summer move away from Villarreal and... and... and... sorry. Stuff el clásico, as...
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Wednesday 25 November 2009, 12:00
In response to AS cranking up their Barcelona brickingthemselvesometer last weekend, La Liga Loca has decided to give a debut airing to its own fiendishly brilliant contraption, the barçasmugometer. And...
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Tuesday 24 November 2009, 09:00
Through no fault of its own, on Monday afternoon La Liga Loca had to spend 20 minutes of its short human life listening to a Spanish sports talk radio station. It was 20 minutes of a group of very, very...
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Monday 23 November 2009, 11:00
Good Day La Liga Loca There was no hot date with Sara Carbonero this week. Well, there was, but that’s a story for our grandkids. Instead, it’s a very, very, very good - nay, exquisite - day for La Liga...
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Friday 20 November 2009, 14:00
Saturday Tenerife (15th) vs Sevilla (3rd) Today’s ramble starts in the second division, where La Liga Loca has a sneaky feeling Tenerife might be residing come the start of the next season. Regular readers...
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Wednesday 18 November 2009, 10:00
Barcelona’s next presidential elections could still be up to six months away, but this hasn’t stopped a gaggle of candidates beginning their ablutions to take over from the current King of Catalunya, Joan...
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Tuesday 17 November 2009, 10:00
The Spanish league’s main sponsors will have you know that there's is the best in the world. Well, that may be so, but these days la Liga feels more like a particularly insane series of ‘My Name is...
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Monday 16 November 2009, 10:00
When Fabio Capello opined that “Spain are not as strong as Brazil as they don’t defend as well” it could have been taken in two ways in the home of FIFA’s newly-crowned number one team. It was either going...
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Friday 13 November 2009, 12:00
INVASION ALERT! With Spain facing Argentina in a friendly, Argie Bargy blogger Joel Richards has his say on Argentine attitudes to the Old World country... Manolo and his brother were in the house-moving...
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Tuesday 10 November 2009, 11:30
...in which Real Madrid rail against Ronaldo representing his country, while Barcelona rail against any of their players doing likewise... The beginning of another week in la Liga sees pretty much everyone...
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Monday 09 November 2009, 12:00
RESULTS Sat Nov 7: Atlético Madrid 2-3 Real Madrid , Barcelona 4-2 Mallorca , Getafe 0-2 Deportivo La Coruña , Tenerife 2-2 Málaga Sun Nov 8: Almería 2-0 Osasuna , Racing Santander 0-2 Athletic Bilbao...
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Friday 06 November 2009, 11:30
Featuring Paris Hilton, Big Brother , Barcelona's dodgy engine, Atletico's plans to beat Real Madrid, Guti's venture into sonic terrorism and the long-awaited return of The News From Sweden...
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Wednesday 04 November 2009, 11:00
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE RESULTS, Tue Nov 3: AC Milan 1-1 Real Madrid, Apoel Nicosia 0-1 FC Porto, Atletico Madrid 2-2 Chelsea, Bayern Munich 0-2 Bordeaux, Besiktas 0-3 Wolfsburg, Maccabi Haifa 0-1 Juventus, Manchester...
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Tuesday 03 November 2009, 11:30
Tonight's Champions League games: APOEL v Porto , ATLETICO MADRID v Chelsea , Bayern Munich v Bordeaux , Besiktas v VfL Wolfsburg , Maccabi Haifa v Juventus , Manchester United v CSKA Moskva , Milan...
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Monday 02 November 2009, 11:30
WEEKEND RESULTS Saturday Oct 31: Athletic Bilbao 1-0 Atlético Madrid, Deportivo Xerez 0-2 Sevilla, Osasuna 1-1 Barcelona, Real Madrid 2-0 Getafe. Sunday Nov 01: Deportivo La Coruña 1-1 Sporting Gijón,...
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Friday 30 October 2009, 11:00
...in which Real Madrid's potty-mouthed vice-captain is carpeted, Barcelona's mini-magician is measured for his market worth, Sevilla's president attacks a peer, Atletico Madrid ban a banner...
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Wednesday 28 October 2009, 11:30
It may have been a miserable Tuesday night for Real Madrid but it was a magnificent one for the glaziers of the city. As Alcorcón’s fourth goal flew in, the squeal of protest from a fist-flying Florentino...
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Tuesday 27 October 2009, 11:00
The Big Boys of la Primera joining the Copa del Rey party can only mean one thing: La Liga Loca’s annual rant at how a tournament which could be as fun and frolicking as the FA Cup has been stripped of...
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Monday 26 October 2009, 13:00
Good day Villarreal If La Liga Loca’s Friday predictions had been even half-right so far this season, Villarreal would probably have been top of the table before this weekend’s round of action. Instead...
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Friday 23 October 2009, 13:00
With the world a dark, grim and...er...grim place these days, we should thank all the gods-that-be for Atlético Madrid for making this boring burden we call life so much easier to bear. In fact, those...
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Wednesday 21 October 2009, 10:00
Due to the increasingly intriguing nature of the Joseph Fiennes-fuelled ‘FlashForward’ the simple-minded La Liga Loca completely forgot about the Champions League highlights show on Spanish TV on Tuesday...
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Tuesday 20 October 2009, 10:00
One of the most memorable moments of José Antonio Reyes’ rather hopeless spell at Atlético Madrid came when the winger was coming off the pitch, rather than when he was on it. Having been substituted after...
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Monday 19 October 2009, 10:00
Good Day Tomás Roncero There was no happier fella in Spain this weekend than barking mad AS -man, Tomás Roncero. For a while now, La Liga Loca had wondered whether his insanely upbeat articles about Real...
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Friday 16 October 2009, 11:30
If a plastic surgery and showbiz analogy can be stretched to its furthest possible boundaries without snapping back and hitting La Liga Loca on the forehead, then the self-proclaimed “best league in the...
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Wednesday 14 October 2009, 10:00
The midweek press from a beautifully sunny Spain sees mardy-bum Madridileños still moaning about Xavi’s sick-note from la Furia Roja and Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal-produced ankle-knack. But Marca ’s...
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Monday 12 October 2009, 12:00
If Joan Laporta’s wettest dream, an independent Catalan football side, ever comes true, then at least one part of the Spain manager’s life would have been made considerably easier: the politics. Of course...
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Thursday 08 October 2009, 12:00
It’s been a big couple of days for the Spanish FA (RFEF) in its ongoing centenary celebrations. At the beginning of the week, there was a golden oldie gathering of ex-internationals who, while being well...
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Tuesday 06 October 2009, 10:00
The word on the mean, polluted, traffic-clogged streets of Madrid on Monday was that Florentino II was not a happy presidential bunny after the previous night’s defeat of Real to Sevilla, and definitely...
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Monday 05 October 2009, 10:00
Good Day Sevilla After a couple of depressing days spent in the Vicente Calderón and Coliseum watching Atleti and Getafe, the Sevilla vs Real Madrid clash was a powerful pick-me-up against the La Liga...
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Friday 02 October 2009, 16:00
Saturday Tenerife vs Deportivo Earlier this week, it was finally confirmed to Deportivo that tug-of-love midfielder Queen Lafita would spend the next few seasons playing for Zaragoza and not them. However...
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Wednesday 30 September 2009, 10:30
INVASION! Ahead of the FC Porto vs Atletico Madrid game, FFT.com blogger The Portugeezer – aka Sérgio Santos – pops by to introduce the Portuguese permachamps – and explain how they can be beaten Hey amigos...
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Tuesday 29 September 2009, 11:00
Depending on your point of view, Real Madrid’s 2006 presidential election was either a high point in the club’s institutional history or a cringing embarrassment. The whole polemical process included police...
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Monday 28 September 2009, 12:00
GOOD DAY Xerez As you read this, just imagine a march mixing the missile-displaying pomp of a Soviet-style May Day parade with a full-on nudey lady Brazilian carnival. That’s the kind of greeting that...
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Friday 25 September 2009, 10:41
Just 24 hours ago, the blog warned that it was going to indulge in a serious bout of acid-based self-harm if it was bombarded with yet more images of Cristiano Ronaldo. So it was less than pleased to face...
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Thursday 24 September 2009, 12:35
(...with apologies to Sporting and Zaragoza who play on Thursday night) New! Spanish results (and fixtures, and table) GOOD DAY Sevilla A third win in a row for Sevilla means it’s Manolo Jiménez’s side...
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Tuesday 22 September 2009, 14:42
A bleary-eyed blog was more than a little confused this morning by an early eye-full of AS . But of the newspaper kind, this time. On the front cover of Spain's finest daily were pictures of the country...
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Monday 21 September 2009, 14:12
GOOD DAY Athletic Bilbao When La Liga Loca heard that Athletic had beaten Villarreal 3-2, it instinctively knew, deep down in its cockles, that one of those goals would be a header from a cross. It was...
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Friday 18 September 2009, 11:30
SATURDAY Deportivo vs Espanyol The crusty old codgers running la Liga will need their respirators switched to maximum after a blistering week of work. Not only did the foggy-brained fogies set the times...
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Thursday 17 September 2009, 10:00
The much-trumpeted Inter Milan vs Barcelona game was so god-awful that if it hadn’t been for a timely episode of Bones on a rival channel, La Liga Loca may well have pinned its tiny brain to the ceiling...
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Tuesday 15 September 2009, 10:30
When La Liga Loca asked the average José in the street who would be this season’s surprise package in la Liga, most hurried off in the opposite direction looking for a policeman. And this was fair enough...
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Monday 14 September 2009, 14:31
La Liga results Weekend round-up GOOD DAY Cristiano Ronaldo, Leo Messi Hands up everyone who had their cockles warmed when seeing that cheeky smile back on Cristiano Ronaldo’s face after his World Cup...
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Friday 11 September 2009, 12:00
Saturday Atlético vs Racing When Marca ran their exposé on vote-rigging at Real Madrid’s last AGM, the blog was quite happy to applaud both the cojones of the paper and a brilliant piece of journalism...
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Wednesday 09 September 2009, 11:30
The Spanish FA have announced that this season’s campaign to have as few people as possible watching the country’s football matches has been a “stunning success” and has exceeded all previous expectations...
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Tuesday 08 September 2009, 11:00
A fortnight ago and everything was smelling of peaches and Pimms in Atlético Madrid’s fragrant garden. Qualification to the Champions League had been achieved for another year and the club had managed...
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Monday 07 September 2009, 10:30
Like binge-drinking and grumbling about the weather, Spain has taken up another fine English hobby in recent weeks - big-club paranoia over the dastardly plans of the froggiest Frenchman, Michel Platini...
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Friday 04 September 2009, 15:00
This week, our Falklands-defending man behind enemy lines, Argie Bargy , wrote about the social-life destroying situation in Argentina where every top flight league game is available for free on terrestrial...
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Wednesday 02 September 2009, 10:30
As it turned out, transfer deadline day turned out to be as limp and lifeless as a typical weekend in the life of La Liga Loca. For starters, we never got the rumoured massive multimillion swoops by Real...
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Tuesday 01 September 2009, 14:00
GOOD DAY Getafe Thought that La Liga Loca was bluffing when it predicted that Getafe would spend the season chasing the Big Two like a particularly terrier-like terrier? Reckoned that the blog was merely...
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Friday 28 August 2009, 12:00
SATURDAY Real Madrid vs Deportivo When asked to opine on who will win the title this season, La Liga Loca would always give a thoughtful, careful, considered answer based on a number of factors - the questioner...
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Thursday 27 August 2009, 12:00
Valencia So what do you do if you are some half-a-billion euros in debt, desperately struggling to service it and are on the brink of disappearing into a gaping chasm of doom? Do you sell your most valuable...
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Wednesday 26 August 2009, 13:00
Racing Santander The new campaign for Racing Santander is set to be a veritable thriller - STAY AWAKE! - with literally anything possible! - STOP MOVING ON TO THE NEXT SECTION! The first statement is not...
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Tuesday 25 August 2009, 12:00
Espanyol The Barcelona-based club is set to have the saddest of starts to the season overshadowed by the shocking death of captain, Dani Jarque. But it should have been a joyous occasion with Espanyol...
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Monday 24 August 2009, 10:00
Almería The southern side could well be this season’s Recreativo - plucky hangers on for a couple of campaigns before an inevitable knapsack-clutching return to la Segunda. Poor Hugo Sánchez has had a...
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Thursday 20 August 2009, 10:00
‘Visionary’, ‘stunning’, ‘breathtaking’ - just three of the adjectives that swept around an enraptured Camp Nou on Wednesday night. But sadly for 90-odd thousand Catalan crazies gathered in their sweaty...
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Tuesday 18 August 2009, 16:00
“Espanyol is like my wife” - Always promising to go down, but never going through with it, perhaps. Espanyol manager Pochettino , musing over comparisons between his club and his misses. “I raised my hands...
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Monday 17 August 2009, 12:00
The Madrid barrio of La Latina was full of 24 hour party people and peace this weekend. Four days of boozy fiestas to celebrate... well, nothing much really... saw thousands and thousands of young dudes...
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Friday 14 August 2009, 15:30
It doesn’t take much to kick up a bit of a fuss in Spain. One of the topics currently making the headlines is a complaint by the opposition, Partido Popular, that when their local politicians are arrested...
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Wednesday 12 August 2009, 14:00
Every morning, the small business owners of Spain are peering into the pages of Marca and AS to discover if Alvaro Negredo has decided that Hull City’s for him or if Aston Villa are willing to stump up...
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Tuesday 11 August 2009, 16:00
Monday turned out to be a very happy start of the week indeed for Atlético Madrid. The rojiblancos lifted the world’s most insanely heavy trophy and also managed to ruin their cursed neighbour’s start...
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Monday 10 August 2009, 14:00
In 2007, Sevilla took on Espanyol in an all-Spanish UEFA Cup final in Glasgow. Two of those players who took part in that dramatic game have since been lost to the world of football. Just under two years...
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Friday 07 August 2009, 12:00
La Liga Loca is not sure how long it has to complete today’s entry. You see, it made a bit of a boo-boo this morning, and suspects that the t’internet police will be bursting in through its (already open...
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Thursday 06 August 2009, 12:00
Today’s update from la Liga Loca begins with a short competition. One of these scenarios has never been used by Getafe as part of an advertising campaign to boost season ticket sales ahead of a new campaign...
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Wednesday 05 August 2009, 10:00
August in Spain means three things. La Liga Loca’s pale, delicate, Victorian child miner skin turns that one shade redder in the sun. The holiday-bound locals finally clear out of the blog’s city and let...
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Friday 31 July 2009, 14:00
A large chunk of the transfer talk over the summer has been David Villa’s ‘will he, won’t he, loves me, loves me not’ move to either Real Madrid or Barcelona. But it seems that this particular chapter...
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Tuesday 28 July 2009, 10:00
As with the transfer itself, the eventual presentation of Zlatan Ibrahimovic was stumbly, bumbly and all a little bit late. On Monday night, some 60,000 had gathered in the Camp Nou to welcome the Swedish...
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Monday 27 July 2009, 12:00
A concerned La Liga Loca can only hope that the Reverend Sun Myung Moon hasn’t been keeping his all-seeing eye on any football related shenanigans in Spain over the past weekend from his giant palace of...
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Friday 24 July 2009, 12:00
To lose one gargantuan goal-machine of a footballer over the course of the summer, as happened to Manchester United with the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo, can be considered unlucky. To lose two is just...
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Wednesday 22 July 2009, 10:00
If Joan Laporta had known what a blooming ball-ache the Mad Sammy Eto’o for Mad Zlatan Ibrahimovic transfer was going to be, then the tantrum-throwing titan of the Camp Nou probably wouldn’t have bothered...
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Tuesday 21 July 2009, 11:00
By and large, pre-season friendlies are rubbish. They’re something to watch when you’re too hungover to move, out of DVD boxsets or – if you're unfortunate enough to live in Britain – when it’s peeing...
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Monday 20 July 2009, 10:00
Right about now, nearly all of the siesta’d-up squads of la Liga will have gathered together for pre-season training. 400 word assignments on “Wot I did on my holidays” will have been handed out and those...
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Friday 17 July 2009, 12:00
The polymathic genius that is La Liga Loca used to think that it had a decent grasp of economics. In its seven years teaching the subject at Rutland Poly, the blog would always opine that the standard...
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Wednesday 15 July 2009, 12:00
While the Head of Player Presentations at the Camp Nou has spent the past few months hitting the refresh button on their Facebook page every three seconds in a desperate attempt to pass the time, their...
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Monday 13 July 2009, 11:00
High-trousered dream-shredder, Simon Cowell, is a lily-livered wimp of a man compared to his infinitely nastier and hard-bitten counterpart on Spanish television, Risto Mejide. For a number of years now...
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Friday 10 July 2009, 10:00
Well, Zippity-do-dah! Ding Dong Merrily on High! and Pah-Pah-Poker Face! A footballer from the UK and Ireland has grown some cojones and plucked up the courage to pack his knapsack and give the Spanish...
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Wednesday 08 July 2009, 12:00
With Valencia not so much flirting with bankruptcy as leering at it with wedding tackle in-hand, gags and giggles have been hard to come by in Mestalla in recent months. Which was why a press conference...
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Tuesday 07 July 2009, 11:00
If you are the president of a football club located in the wacky world of Andalusia, then standing up to your eyeballs in some kind of dodgy deal or saucy scandal forms part of the job requirements. Indeed...
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Monday 06 July 2009, 10:00
While January's presentation of poor old Julien Faubert attracted around 70 people and a couple of pigeons, Cristiano Ronaldo is expected to get a whopping full-house crowd of 80,000 turning up for...
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Thursday 02 July 2009, 08:00
La Liga Loca’s Atlético Madrid-loving acquaintances – the blog has no friends, friends make you weak – have been doing their very best to avoid the ongoing Galactico parties at the Bernabeu. But the lack...
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Tuesday 30 June 2009, 10:00
When last mentioning the Segunda-bound Real Betis in blog dispatches, La Liga Loca made the rather snooty suggestion that only a couple of lagered-up flamenco singers and some confused tourists would be...
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Monday 29 June 2009, 09:00
In the fortnight between La Liga Loca leaving Spanish shores and being dragged back kicking and screaming, millions of protesters took to the streets of Iran, Jacko popped his clogs and the campaign to...
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Monday 15 June 2009, 10:00
Andalusia is a land where out-of-tune wailing by battered old hags is considered music, where the locals speak as if their mouths are full of chorizo and where it’s always really, really hot. But very...
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Friday 12 June 2009, 12:00
“It’s insane! It’s obscene! What about the children! Frack me!” Just four of the descriptions of La Liga Loca’s conceptualist art exhibition currently on display outside its penthouse apartment. And melting...
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Wednesday 10 June 2009, 12:00
Now the fairly Philistine La Liga Loca is dimly aware of three great works of Spanish fiction - Marca , Don Quixote and, er, Don Quixote . But it seems that a fourth may be added to this very short list...
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Tuesday 09 June 2009, 11:00
With the briefest of announcements posted on their website in the wee small hours of Tuesday morning, Real Madrid had spread the word that they had doubled the number of playmakers who don’t really want...
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Monday 08 June 2009, 10:00
All over la Liga, Spain’s football clubs have been taking one for the team and helping out their most loyal supporters in these dark financial days. Almería have announced that they will be dropping their...
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Friday 05 June 2009, 11:00
They may be completely unable to agree on the colour of ham or be in the same room together, but the terrible twins running Atlético Madrid have met in the middle over the appointment of Abel Resino as...
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Wednesday 03 June 2009, 10:00
Dash and darn it. Despite La Liga Loca and millions of its readers praying long and hard to all things unholy that either Arsene Wenger or Jose Mourinho would be joining the jamboree in Castle Greyskull...
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Tuesday 02 June 2009, 10:00
To avoid a repeat of the deplorably dishonest presidential elections of 2006, a poll the local Colombos are still combing through - “One more thing before you go, Mr Calderón...” - Real Madrid’s bigwigs...
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Monday 01 June 2009, 12:00
GOOD DAY Diego Forlán By the end of his 32-goal campaign, the Atlético forward was scoring the kind of efforts that, had you pulled them off on your PlayStation, would have made your friends beat you to...
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Friday 29 May 2009, 10:00
Saturday Mallorca (9th) vs Villarreal (5th) If the rumours swirling around the Spanish press are to believed, then Villarreal coach Manuel Pellegrini will be strapping himself into the Castle Greyskull...
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Thursday 28 May 2009, 09:30
There were only two people in Rome who weren't completely sucked in by the enthralling action of the 2009 Champions League final. The first was the very desperate housewife, Eva Longoria, who was caught...
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Wednesday 27 May 2009, 11:00
Cynical old La Liga Loca has been around for a few centuries now in one form or another and is all too aware that ‘dream finals’ rarely turn out that way. So knowing already that Wednesday’s affair will...
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Monday 25 May 2009, 12:00
Good Day Manolo Jiménez In a truly massive win for the mediocre, Sevilla secured third spot on Saturday night after a last minute 1-0 over Deportivo. But this achievement may not be enough to keep the...
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Friday 22 May 2009, 10:00
Saturday Villarreal (6th) vs EasyValencia (5th) And so two fine, upstanding, terrific teams must face the humiliation of a bruising barnyard scrap in their chase to overhaul... (sigh) ...Atlético Madrid...
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Thursday 21 May 2009, 14:00
In general, La Liga Loca is not normally the jealous type. But it must admit to being a tad envious of the easy-peasy world of Spanish sporting journalism, where libel law is scoffed at and how to make...
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Wednesday 20 May 2009, 10:00
“Valdano negotiates with Villa!” yells Marca . “Villa takes a walk to Madrid!” screams AS . “Over my dead body!” splutters Raúl. Those were Wednesday’s headlines that greeted the appearance of David Villa...
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Tuesday 19 May 2009, 10:00
When the world’s finest football magazine repeatedly begged La Liga Loca to come on board some 78 years ago - well, offered it a packet of biscuits - those running the show knew they were getting their...
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Monday 18 May 2009, 10:00
Good Day Barcelona Like a wet dream for Maniche, Barcelona didn’t even need to disembark from the bus on Sunday to seal the deal. Instead, it was the party-poopers from last weekend, Villarreal, who gave...
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Friday 15 May 2009, 11:00
Saturday Osasuna (17th) vs Sevilla (3rd) Last weekend, Osasuna boss José Antonio Camacho pretty much wrote off the relegation jelly-wrestle against Getafe before a ball had been kicked by leaving Persian...
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Thursday 14 May 2009, 12:00
Barring witchcraft or a Bear Stearns-style collapse, Barcelona will be picking up at least two trophies this season, meaning yet more arrests in the Catalan capital from bottle-chucking culés. Wednesday...
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Wednesday 13 May 2009, 12:00
A few days ago, AS wrote that 35,000 batty Basques would be making the trip down to Valencia for Wednesday’s Copa de Rey final. Not the first time - and almost certainly not the last - the paper was quite...
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Monday 11 May 2009, 13:00
GOOD DAY Valencia Saturday’s 3-0 win over Real Madrid was shows exactly why, every September, the pea-brained La Liga Loca calls for silence, stands on a chair and tipsily tips Valencia to win the title...
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Friday 08 May 2009, 11:00
Saturday Sevilla (3rd) vs Mallorca (9th) With Raúl reportedly pondering the opportunity to disappear in crucial clashes for Man City next season with a four-year, 40-million-Euro offer on the table, it...
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Thursday 07 May 2009, 10:00
Poor Paco cut an unfashionable figure tucked away in the corner of his bar in Barcelona. Puffing away on his ciggies, supping on his cañas, Paco spent 97 minutes of Wednesday night being booed and barracked...
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Wednesday 06 May 2009, 09:30
La Liga Loca is unsure whether it’s a catastrophic caña -caused comedown from Seville’s annual Feria - which Sergio Ramos definitely, definitely did not attend two days before el Clásico - or reaching...
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Monday 04 May 2009, 10:00
GOOD DAY Barcelona When there are regurgitated guts and glass covering the streets the Catalan capital, you can be sure that it has been a good night for the culé-crazy part of the city. The 6-2 *rse-handing...
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Friday 01 May 2009, 10:00
Saturday Real Madrid (2nd) vs Barcelona (1st) It needed to be a whopping story to knock The Pig Plague, political corruption, cash-grabbing mayors and skyrocketing unemployment figures off the front pages...
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Wednesday 29 April 2009, 12:00
Mork and Mindy man, Robin Williams, would have been more useful than Pep Guardiola in the Dream Boys’ dressing room on Tuesday night. What the perplexed players of the Camp Nou needed was a rousing, desk...
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Tuesday 28 April 2009, 13:00
La Liga Loca doesn’t really get on with its neighbours. Or rather, its neighbours don’t really get on with La Liga Loca. And that’s fair enough considering the blog’s slight sociopathic tendencies and...
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Monday 27 April 2009, 12:00
GOOD DAY Real Madrid Blimey. Madrid could actually win this, a concept La Liga Loca poo-pooed just this weekend with its prediction of a defeat for Juande Ramos’ men. And this could send Barcelona fans...
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Friday 24 April 2009, 10:00
Saturday Málaga (6th) vs Deportivo (8th) Now La Liga Loca must start Friday’s ramblings by apologising to Málaga and Deportivo - well, Málaga, anyway - for hijacking their section which should be a joyous...
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Thursday 23 April 2009, 12:30
Like a date with La Liga Loca, Barcelona’s encounter with Sevilla was only fun for two minutes. But at least the fans didn’t walk off promising to call the next day. Two minutes was how long it took for...
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Wednesday 22 April 2009, 10:00
It was like putting up with nine hours of Jacqui Smith, only to be rewarded by seeing her being blasted into space, Emperor Ming style. The first half of the clash against Getafe at the Bernabeu was awful...
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Tuesday 21 April 2009, 10:00
Those go-getting fast-trackers running the Spanish league gave a good four days notice to the plebs and players of when they would be in footballing action this week, so everyone had better be ready. Incidentally...
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Monday 20 April 2009, 09:00
GOOD DAY Ever Banega For an hour or so, it looked like being the 13th consecutive season that poor old Atleti would fail to win on their special ‘Day of the Fans’. It looked like going the same way of...
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Friday 17 April 2009, 09:00
Saturday Getafe (14th) vs Barcelona (1st) A light-headed La Liga Loca has to confess that it has been rubbing its hands on its cockles all week. But has always washed them after. After a month of unrelenting...
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Thursday 16 April 2009, 11:00
With three English teams having qualified for the semi-finals of the Champions League for the third season in a row, the Spanish press have taken a teeny time-out on Thursday to sniff out the chances of...
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Wednesday 15 April 2009, 10:00
Having disappeared from the Bernabeu faster than the bullfight-barmy Sergio Ramos, blog über-hero Bernado Schuster has made a very welcome return to the Spanish spotlight after a four month absence. With...
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Monday 13 April 2009, 12:00
GOOD DAY Vladimir Stojkovic Having gone through more goalkeepers than a Seaman-obsessed old slapper, Getafe finally found the right man for the job on Sunday evening. Vlad the Impaler was between the posts...
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Friday 10 April 2009, 13:30
Saturday Barcelona (1st) vs Recreativo (18th) As well as wrestling with his own demons and the odd UEFA official, prickly Pep Guardiola now has to take on the familiar task of dampening down the fierce...
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Thursday 09 April 2009, 12:00
Perhaps it’s because there’s a bank holiday in Spain and La Liga Loca can hear birds singing (and coughing) rather than beeping and blaring from cranky commuters. Perhaps La Liga Loca is all giddied up...
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Wednesday 08 April 2009, 10:00
From La Liga Loca’s lofty perch in Atlético Madrid’s Vicente Calderón stadium, the blog is lucky enough to be able to gaze upon snow-capped mountains and the city’s royal palace. It can also enjoy the...
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Tuesday 07 April 2009, 09:30
Sadly (unless you are an Atlético fan), there’s only nine matches of Primera fun left till the season grinds to a horrendous halt. But you can turn those frowns upside-down as there’s still plenty of time...
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Monday 06 April 2009, 12:00
GOOD DAY Armchair fans On Friday, a doom-mongering La Liga Loca feared a gaggle of match blackouts due to the increasingly petulant Great TV War. Instead, the complete opposite happened with almost every...
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Friday 03 April 2009, 11:00
Saturday Recreativo (16th) vs Sevilla (3rd) La Liga Loca knows it. You know it. Heck, even master prediction-maker (still waiting for Pedja’s sacking, still waiting) Roberto Gómez knows it - Manolo Jiménez...
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Thursday 02 April 2009, 10:00
Many, many moons ago, La Liga Loca declared itself as a candidate in the wacky race to be the next president of Real Madrid, to enormous global press interest. After weeks of wheeling and dealing, contemplating...
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Wednesday 01 April 2009, 10:00
One of La Liga Loca’s proudest moments was when, armed only with Dick Cheney’s ‘Torture for Dummies’ and a hairdryer, it managed to get a former Marca writer to admit that the paper did indeed make almost...
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Tuesday 31 March 2009, 09:30
Despite the shocking news from commie daily Valencia Morning Star concerning the 895 percent increase in windscreen-cleaning squeegee merchants in the downtown area - all looking suspiciously like members...
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Monday 30 March 2009, 09:00
“It was a great example of Madridismo!” Has all that toiling and tinkering, sweating and swearing in La Liga Loca’s basement finally paid off? “Madrid can write another glorious chapter!” Has its spanking...
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Thursday 26 March 2009, 08:00
Today’s ramble through the wonderful world of La Liga is dedicated to the wasters and what-the-heck-happened? of this year’s Primera. The blog brings you an XI comprised of those players who simply aren...
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Tuesday 24 March 2009, 10:00
Real Betis is normally known for shaky goings-on both on and off the pitch. And for playing in yukky Norwich green. The club is currently fighting their umpteenth battle against relegation, being fined...
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Monday 23 March 2009, 11:00
GOOD DAY Freddie Kanouté It’s time to juice up the Jacuzzi, dim the lights and put on sexaaaay music. Early ‘Steps’ always gets La Liga Loca going on a Monday morning. Monday’s blog ramble simply has to...
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Friday 20 March 2009, 11:00
Saturday Villarreal (4th) vs Athletic (13th) One of the best wheelers and dealers in the transfer market last summer was Villarreal - simply through their admirable achievement of beating off (not in the...
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Wednesday 18 March 2009, 10:00
Now that Real Madrid has skilfully managed to swerve all that pesky Champions League nonsense for another year, the club is able to turn its full attention to its favourite waste of time - bickering. The...
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Tuesday 17 March 2009, 09:00
The game in Spain is going through a decidedly bipolar phase in its existence. Its debt-ridden clubs owe a good 700m Euro to the tax man and zillions more to each other. The league champions were made...
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Monday 16 March 2009, 10:00
GOOD DAY Bojan Krkic By leaving Mad Sammy Eto’o and Thierry Henry on the bench and starting with Bojan Krkic, Pep Guardiola was placing his Catalan cojones in the hands of the press. Despite being a keen...
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Friday 13 March 2009, 10:00
Saturday Valencia (8th) vs Recreativo (14th) If Valencia VP sporting director thingy, Fernando Gómez, is contemplating a new career - something he’ll have to do in about three months anyway - then writing...
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Wednesday 11 March 2009, 10:30
So, it appears the spirit of Juanito had something better to do on Tuesday night. Preparing some popcorn, perhaps, before settling down to watch Keanu Reeves action flick Spid , the film constantly - and...
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Tuesday 10 March 2009, 08:00
Being a Real Madrid player means that most of your waking days will involve being pestered by the press on urgent matters such as the greatness of Raúl and whether the club can still win the league. Or...
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Monday 09 March 2009, 10:00
Results : ( Sunday ) Deportivo La Coruña 5-3 Racing Santander; Getafe 1-2 Málaga; Mallorca 3-3 Real Betis; Numancia 2-1 Valencia; Osasuna 1-2 Sporting Gijón; Recreativo Huelva 2-3 Real Valladolid; Sevilla...
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Friday 06 March 2009, 10:00
Saturday Barcelona (1st) vs Athletic (11th) Brain-dead Spanish football busy bodies have now got a difficult dilemma on their dilettante hands. And that’s never a good thing, considering their current...
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Wednesday 04 March 2009, 12:00
About three weeks ago, Barcelona’s voyage to the Balearics to take on Mallorca in the semi-final second leg of the Spanish Cup was set to be the creamiest of cakewalks, the lightest of snacks, heck, a...
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Tuesday 03 March 2009, 10:00
The reason for La Liga Loca’s numerous literary and sporting awards, and the fact that is has been translated into 892 languages, is a very simple one. It is the blog’s mixture of admirable industry and...
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Monday 02 March 2009, 10:00
GOOD DAY Guti It was with a tear in the eye when La Liga Loca read Guti’s declaration of intent in regards to his footballing future. The Madrid midfielder is set to head for somewhere ‘exotic’ in 2011...
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Friday 27 February 2009, 14:00
Saturday Athletic (9th) vs Sevilla (3rd) There’s nothing quite so infuriating as a Spanish grandmother or ‘abuela’. Rather than being friendly, fuzzy figures armed with sunbeam smiles, they are coffin...
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Wednesday 25 February 2009, 10:00
Tuesday wasn’t the greatest of days in the glorious, award-strewn life of La Liga Loca. It suffered the maddest of moments by tipping Atlético Madrid for the last four of Europe’s top competition. After...
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Tuesday 24 February 2009, 12:00
Now regular readers may think that La Liga Loca has been at the Tuesday turps again. Or has, rojiblanco club president, Enrique Cerezo threatening to strap the blog down in front of a movie he has produced...
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Monday 23 February 2009, 10:00
GOOD DAY Real Madrid Ding dong merrily on high, there may actually be something resembling a contest in La Liga this season after Saturday night’s nuttiness. It was an outstanding evening that evoked memories...
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Friday 20 February 2009, 10:00
Saturday Barcelona (1st) vs Espanyol (20th) Joan ‘Joan’ Laporta’s ongoing Uzbek activity caused enough of a seedy stir in Barcelona for the King of Catalunya to come down off his throne and explain away...
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Wednesday 18 February 2009, 10:30
Long-suffering readers of the blog will be aware that the Spock-like daily has no time for sickly sentimentality or ugly emotions. Its bottom lip didn’t even come close to wobbling last week, when Guti...
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Tuesday 17 February 2009, 10:00
Quite a few things in the game in Spain make La Liga Loca scratch its head. More often than not, it's the fleas picked up from its latest visit to the Vicente Calderón. The Starship Troopers-sized...
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Monday 16 February 2009, 10:00
GOOD DAY Víctor Valdés The other day, the Satanic singer from Maroon 5 popped up on La Liga Loca’s TV and the blog was reminded of the fact that the smug-faced so-and-so could write the modern equivalent...
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Friday 13 February 2009, 10:00
Saturday Deportivo (8th) vs Osasuna (17th) Now, La Liga Loca doesn’t mean to start the latest edition of its regular Friday ramble on a big old downer. But, Merciful Zeus, is this weekend’s serving of...
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Thursday 12 February 2009, 09:00
Spain’s superb 29-match unbeaten run began some two years ago with a 1-0 win over England, and continued last night with what was a fairly comfortable 2-0 victory at a sprightly Sánchez Pizjuán in Seville...
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Wednesday 11 February 2009, 11:30
It’s relatively rare to be invited to a Spaniard’s home to be entertained. And with good reason too, considering it makes more sense for your Tupperware parties to take place in a tapas bar where they...
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Tuesday 10 February 2009, 11:00
In a mega-testosterone, time-warped environment when a team can be the bestest of all time in the morning and a big pile of poo come nightfall, three weeks in La Liga is a very, very long time indeed....
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Monday 09 February 2009, 10:00
GOOD DAY Mad Sammy Eto’o “We’re all quite fed up,” complained the crestfallen presenter on Telemadrid’s football round-up show on Sunday evening. “Barcelona keep on winning.” If their remarkable streak...
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Friday 06 February 2009, 11:00
Saturday Real Madrid (2nd) vs Racing (10th) This week, Fabio Capello decided to pin a plug to his nose, remove his brain and subject himself to a thorough probing by Marca – a probing that involved a thousand...
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Wednesday 04 February 2009, 11:00
“I can’t liiiveeeeeee, if living is without youuuuu.....!!!!!!” As La Liga Loca writes this, it is sitting and sobbing in a flat surrounded by more stuffed trunks than a herd of binge-eating elephants...
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Tuesday 03 February 2009, 10:00
The Spanish second division used to be a bit rubbish, although a sniffy L’Equipe claims that it still is by branding the BBVA sponsored barndance the fourth worst second tier of Europe’s big five, based...
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Monday 02 February 2009, 12:00
Good Day Queen Latifa La Liga Loca came THAT close to writing the name “Riki!!!” before realising that the blog’s already rock-bottom credibility would drop even further with such an act. Instead, it’s...
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Friday 30 January 2009, 11:00
Saturday Athletic (10th) vs Málaga (7th) Imagine for one miserable moment that those scandalously high Telefonica bills were getting a little bit too much for you. Imagine you had flogged your super-duper...
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Thursday 29 January 2009, 13:00
La Liga Loca can’t honestly remember what film it was in now (although it’s got a funny feeling it was Speed, conjuring up once again images of Sandra Bullock’s smooth, dark leg pumping away at that accelerator...
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Thursday 29 January 2009, 10:00
“President Florentino” boasted Marca ’s headline on Tuesday as it detailed a poll commissioned by the paper that made the Bernabeu bottler the most popular candidate for members with a 62.9 percent of...
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Wednesday 28 January 2009, 11:00
If you have a high tolerance for flamenco-based sonic torture and incomprehensible accents, then a spell in the city of Seville is the most fun you can have aside from a date with Deportivo. Unless you...
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Tuesday 27 January 2009, 10:00
Football is one of the few sports that both the ‘anglosajón’ English and Spaniards both share a big love for. Of the other candidates, motor racing only became popular when the brooding figure of Fernando...
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Monday 26 January 2009, 10:00
GOOD DAY Leo Messi A mischievous Madrid press may have forced the outstanding Argentinean into an unnecessary bout of ‘I love the club, me’ badge-kissing - and there’ll be more on that little saga coming...
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Friday 23 January 2009, 10:00
Saturday Villarreal (5th) vs Osasuna (20th) Osasuna president, Patxi Izco appears to be a genuinely likeable old duffer. After firing Cuco Ziganda earlier this season, he confessed that it was one of the...
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Wednesday 21 January 2009, 10:00
When Samuel Eto’o slotted his easy-peasy penalty past, Deportivo midfielder, Juan Rodríguez for his side’s fifth on Saturday night, the glucose solution in the juddering jar at the offices of Sport started...
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Tuesday 20 January 2009, 10:00
To celebrate the end of the first half of the latest campaign of craziness in La Liga, the blog has decided to display a thumping lack of originality and imagination with an alternative XI of the season...
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Monday 19 January 2009, 11:30
GOOD DAY Málaga One of the biggest regrets of La Liga Loca’s season so far is the limited opportunities being offered up for the pee-taking of the increasingly injury-prone Guti. That and the fact that...
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Friday 16 January 2009, 12:00
Saturday Barcelona (1st) vs Deportivo (7th) Joan Laporta’s dastardly plan to expand his evil empire from Catalunya to the rest of the globe had been going rather well. Football fans all over the world...
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Wednesday 14 January 2009, 13:00
Marca ’s furious pounding at the gates of Castle Greyskull means that everything has changed in snowy Spain. Everything. Up is now down, right is now wrong and Andy & Lucas are the new Lennon and McCartney...
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Tuesday 13 January 2009, 13:00
Marca editor Eduardo Inda must have been a trifle tense on Monday night. And this had little to do with the fact that Captain Fantastic (Raúl) didn't exactly feature heavily in the FIFA World Player...
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Monday 12 January 2009, 11:00
GOOD DAY Barcelona When La Liga Loca suggested on Friday that Barça would drop points against a prickly Osasuna in Pamplona , there were some dubious doubters who scoffed and snickered at such a concept...
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Friday 09 January 2009, 12:00
Saturday Deportivo (6th) vs Sevilla (4th) For the opening instalment of the weekend predictions, La Liga Loca must come over all early 90’s Ben Elton with a little bit of politics. There has been a fair...
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Wednesday 07 January 2009, 10:00
Opposition fans offering a standing ovation to honour the brilliance of visiting players is unusual in football, but not unheard of. Ronaldo at Old Trafford, Ronaldinho in the Bernabeu, Pablo Couñago against...
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Tuesday 06 January 2009, 12:00
If the clowns running the show at Real Madrid were going to make a complete and utter balls-up described by a finger-wagging AS as ‘unforgivable’ and Johan Cruyff as ‘an enormous mistake’ then their timing...
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Monday 05 January 2009, 12:00
GOOD DAY Deportivo It’s been a troubling start to 2009 for La Liga Loca. The blog returned from foreign parts to find an odd smell of an unknown source in the kitchen and the deeply troubling concept that...
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Monday 29 December 2008, 11:30
Putting up with players “I’ve seen Jurassic Park 15 times. My favourite is the Velociraptor.” – Former Mallorca midfielder Jonas Gutierrez, was so fond of big extinct beasties, he moved to Newcastle to...
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Monday 22 December 2008, 12:00
GOOD DAY Osasuna “They deserve to end the year with a bit of happiness,” grinned, Osasuna coach, José Antonio Camacho after his side’s 5-2 spanking of Getafe. Unfortunately, the result is likely to be...
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Friday 19 December 2008, 11:00
BREAKING NEWS.... BREAKING NEWS....BREAKING NEWS..... In the Champions League draw on Friday morning, Villarreal and Atlético Madrid have been landed Panathinaikos and Porto respectively... the two club...
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Wednesday 17 December 2008, 11:00
Before we kick off, it’s best to mention that this isn’t a story in regards to a midnight misdemeanour from saucy Sergio, so the FourFourTwo lawyers can wipe away the coffee that has just been sprayed...
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Tuesday 16 December 2008, 10:00
La Liga Loca is breathing a big old sigh of relief, today. It’s a terrific Tuesday filled with peace and goodwill to everyone. Even Deportivo. But not Betis, mind. Not only have Penelope and her sister...
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Monday 15 December 2008, 10:00
GOOD DAY Víctor Valdés It’s high time La Liga Loca paid its dues to the one player that even the most barmy of Barça fans would still see swiftly swapped for an Iker Casillas-shaped shot stopper, if the...
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Friday 12 December 2008, 12:00
Saturday Valencia (3rd) vs Espanyol (18th) It would seem that the players and staff at the Mestalla are going to have their stockings filled by Santa this Christmas after all. Only the ones who have been...
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Thursday 11 December 2008, 17:00
La Liga Loca is hanging its head in shame this evening, readers. And not just because it’s sitting in a rubbish Irish pub in Madrid penning this here blog - and not even being rock and roll enough to do...
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Wednesday 10 December 2008, 11:00
Over the years, La Liga Loca has found a number of varied uses for the likes of Marca and AS . Lining the bottom of hamster cages and clearing up sick of contrasting consistencies have been two handy household...
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Tuesday 09 December 2008, 10:00
When Atlético wheezed and panted their way into fourth place and the Champions League last season, their passport-waving fans must have imagined for several blissful moments that the new campaign would...
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Monday 08 December 2008, 09:30
GOOD DAY Recreativo Those crazy folk on the blog who have been noting that Recreativo are not as rubbish as their lowly position suggested - the reverse situation currently being enjoyed by Deportivo ...
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Friday 05 December 2008, 14:00
Saturday Sporting (10th) vs Atlético Madrid (6th) La Liga Loca wouldn’t be at all surprised if rojiblanco fans witness Maniche transforming from a cake-obsessed caterpillar into a beautiful footballing...
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Friday 05 December 2008, 09:30
There is a reason why Real Madrid presented Klaas-Jan Huntelaar at the Santiago Bernabéu on Thursday, hurriedly crow-barring him in before the weekend. And it’s nothing to do with Ruud van Nistelrooy’s...
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Wednesday 03 December 2008, 11:00
In general, La Liga Loca is very, very easily pleased. As with Guti, a particularly colourful plastic bag is enough to grab its attention for hours on end. Just the other day, it had to put something down...
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Tuesday 02 December 2008, 10:00
Running a football club in Spain can be an incredibly costly business. The daily delivery of premium ham to get the directors through those boring board meetings. The five-star foreign trips to sign deals...
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Monday 01 December 2008, 13:30
Results Getafe 3 - 1 Real Madrid; Sevilla 0 - 3 Barcelona; Athletic Bilbao 2 - 0 Numancia; Atletico Madrid 4 - 1 Racing Santander; Espanyol 0- 1 Sporting Gijón; Malaga 4 - 2 Osasuna; Recreativo Huelva...
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Friday 28 November 2008, 10:00
Saturday Getafe (14th) vs Real Madrid (2nd) When Gabriel Heinze knacked his leg standing on a rake carelessly left lying around the club’s training pitches, the clumsy Argentine sustained Madrid’s 21st...
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Wednesday 26 November 2008, 11:00
La Liga Loca woke up this frosty Wednesday morning feeling very excited indeed. Penelope had left nice and early for her film set, leaving the blog to lie back and contemplate the upcoming experience of...
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Tuesday 25 November 2008, 09:00
As Ramón Calderón wandered the room with microphone in hand, like a stinky stand-up comedian playing a dinner-dance in Doncaster, he realised that things weren’t going to plan. “You’ve been a great audience...
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Monday 24 November 2008, 10:00
GOOD DAY Valladolid Whilst some clubs have battened down the hatches and adopted the foetal position during the Sevilla-Barça-Madrid-Villarreal death race, Valladolid decided to seize the day, dangle their...
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Friday 21 November 2008, 10:00
Saturday Real Madrid (4th) vs Recreativo (19th) Even by Ramón Calderón’s magnificent standards, it has been quite a week for the increasingly potty Real Madrid president. The Bernabeu bigwig decided to...
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Wednesday 19 November 2008, 10:00
Are you tired of working for The Spanish Man? Have you been worn down by the daily grind of getting up at 10am, having breakfast, the second breakfast, the four-hour meeting, the long boozy lunch and the...
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Tuesday 18 November 2008, 10:00
When a team’s square-jawed, super-duper, fans’ favourite forward ends up with a knee knack or a gammy groin, there are several ways for a club to deal with the unfortunate occurrence. The most popular...
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Monday 17 November 2008, 12:00
Good Day Sporting La Liga Loca spent Saturday night injecting bleach into its eyeballs in a desperate attempt to banish the images of the Valladolid vs Real Madrid match from its brain, so missed out on...
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Friday 14 November 2008, 13:00
Saturday Valladolid (16th) vs Real Madrid (4th) The current 'Schuster out!' head-for-the-hills, scapegoat hunt is extremely entertaining fare. But it’s a mere ‘Disaster Movie’ sized lump of fun...
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Wednesday 12 November 2008, 11:30
Tomás Roncero, Wednesday November 12. “Another glorious hat-trick from Raúl made it 300 goals in the pristine white shirt of Real Madrid for our Captain Courageous - the shirt that stands for peace and...
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Tuesday 11 November 2008, 11:00
There is a chance, faithful reader, that some of you may not be around tomorrow to read another daily dose of lies, more lies and the odd statistic. Indeed, there’s a possibility that La Liga Loca won...
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Monday 10 November 2008, 12:30
Good Day Barcelona, Real Madrid Yes, Barcelona continue with their Ming-the-Merciless style maulings of opponents. And yes, Real Madrid continue to be somewhat lucky in their ability to grind out results...
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Friday 07 November 2008, 11:30
Saturday Real Madrid (3rd) vs Malaga (8th) As the Spanish top flight moves into round 10, it’s high time for a wee catch-up with the latest ‘club in crisis’ count. According to the sporting press it’s...
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Thursday 06 November 2008, 15:00
Describing Spain’s sports press as a little bit myopic would be like accusing Nelson of having a slight squint. Biased aint the half of it. Everything, but everything, gets seen through the media’s very...
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Wednesday 05 November 2008, 11:28
When Martin Hansson – or ‘the Swede’, as many papers are spitting on Wednesday morning, as if his nationality was relevant in some way – signalled for a penalty against Atlético described on Radio 5 as...
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Tuesday 04 November 2008, 10:20
Last Thursday, barmy Barcelona president Joan ‘Joan’ Laporta was slumped on his throne, in the deepest darkest corner of the Kingdom Cataluyna. Poor Joan was not a happy bunny. Stroking the trigger of...
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Monday 03 November 2008, 12:01
GOOD DAY Sporting This is why la Liga’s truly inspired plan of everyone playing Sevilla, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Villarreal in a row is the most ludicrous footballing concept since Christoph Metzelder...
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Friday 31 October 2008, 10:00
Saturday Málaga (6th) vs Barcelona (2nd) You’d have thought that Barcelona’s weasley, measly 1-0 away win at Brit-packed Benidorm in the Copa del Rey might have raised an eyebrow or two of concern in the...
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Wednesday 29 October 2008, 14:30
For a few soiling seconds on Tuesday evening, La Liga Loca had the experience of how it must feel to be a Manchester United fan. And what a very disturbing moment it was, too. That needed much scrubbing...
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Tuesday 28 October 2008, 10:00
The one factor that unites Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao and Barcelona - aside from notoriously touchy fans - is their presidential system of management. Every few years in the lives of these three democratic...
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Monday 27 October 2008, 11:00
Good Day Barcelona Now that was just dog-darn purty football. Poor Almería didn’t stand a burger’s chance in Maniche’s fridge in a first half 5-0 pummelling where they were befuddled and bewildered by...
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Friday 24 October 2008, 10:00
Saturday Osasuna (19th) vs Betis (16th) My Best Bullfighting Bunk-ups - In a Saturday night spectacular, Spain’s favourite uber-lipped celebrity slapper, Belén Esteban, discusses her favourite fornications...
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Wednesday 22 October 2008, 14:00
La Liga Loca (ouch) has experienced (ouch) two new sensations this week. The first was being stung by (ouch) a wasp, on its favourite typing (ouch) finger which makes (ouch) writing quite (ouch) painful...
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Tuesday 21 October 2008, 10:26
Like bankers getting bonuses or mortgage-brokers holidaying in the Bahamas, there are some financially-flushed folk out there in Planet Football who simply don’t realise that cash-splashing has gone the...
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Monday 20 October 2008, 12:00
Good Day Víctor Valdés “It was him and 10 others,” beamed Pep Guardiola as he patted the panting goal-conceding guardian on the head after Barcelona’s gritty, grinding win over Athletic Bilbao. It was...
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Friday 17 October 2008, 11:00
Saturday Atlético (7th) vs Real Madrid (5th) Whilst a hellish hullaballoo has been hovering over Atleti’s home all week, the massive Real Madrid media machine has been humming away, continuing its campaign...
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Thursday 16 October 2008, 10:00
There’s trouble in paradise. All is not well at La Liga Loca ’s little lovenest. In fact, La Liga Loca came home this afternoon to find its clothes in a suitcase on the front lawn, its dinner in the dog...
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Wednesday 15 October 2008, 11:00
The Spanish press reaction to the roof caving in on poor old Atlético’s world - not that much of the Vicente Calderón has a roof, mind - could have appeared in one of three ways on Wednesday. a) a thoughtful...
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Tuesday 14 October 2008, 11:00
For what seems like a very, very, very long time now, Atlético Madrid have been promising purposefully to break with the painful past and move away from the crumbling, creaking Vicente Calderón to the...
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Monday 13 October 2008, 13:00
La Liga Loca is now completely convinced that when the international break comes along, the holiday-happy editorial teams of the Spanish footballing press head for the hills and are replaced by a herd...
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Thursday 09 October 2008, 11:00
‘Doomed! We’re all doomed” - shrieked La Liga Loca as it popped into its corner newspaper kiosk on Thursday morning. As this is a regular occurrence in the blog’s daily routine, the other patrons were...
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Wednesday 08 October 2008, 11:00
Six rounds of La Liga lunacy was all it took for the first panicking Primera president to crack and kick out his coach. And the winner of this season’s prestigious 'Juan Soler itchy trigger finger...
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Tuesday 07 October 2008, 10:00
There’s been some soul searching down the Vicente Calderón over the past few days after Atlético’s somewhat lacklustre performance against Barcelona on Saturday night. And this puts club president Enrique...
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Monday 06 October 2008, 08:00
Good Day Leo Messi If there is a better footballer out there, at this very magic moment in time, then La Liga Loca will eat its hat. Oh yes, it will. It was a stupidly good performance on Saturday night...
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Friday 03 October 2008, 13:30
Saturday Villarreal (2nd) vs Betis (18th) In the same way that seven dog years supposedly equates to 12 months of a human lifespan, 24 hours in Spain works out as roughly 700 years in the rest of the world...
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Thursday 02 October 2008, 18:00
They say that if you get 1000 monkeys to bash away at 1000 typewriters, they’d eventually come up with the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Now, obviously “they” say a lot of things – and most of it’s complete...
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Wednesday 01 October 2008, 11:45
For the past couple of seasons, Betis majority shareholder and imperial overlord Darth de Lopera has been a bit of a tease. On a number of occasions he has flirted with the idea of selling off his stake...
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Tuesday 30 September 2008, 10:00
Sometimes a bile-letting bout of finger-pointing and blame-gaming can be both a useful and entertaining exercise. After all, the Jack Bauer side to La Liga Loca doesn’t think there has been nearly enough...
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Monday 29 September 2008, 12:00
Good Day Malaga The weekend didn't start too well for manic Malaga down on the Costa del Crime. First off, club owner and former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz was caught by the Fuzz whilst involved...
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Friday 26 September 2008, 12:00
Real Betis (17th) vs Real Madrid (3rd) A few months ago Rámon Calderón was babbling about mysterious types lurking in the shadows who were out to get him. Which is perhaps the only thing he will ever have...
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Wednesday 24 September 2008, 11:00
Wednesday Barcelona (9th) vs Betis (16th) If Barcelona fans were already mopping their brows in relief after their six goal-gazzumping of Sporting, then they must be throwing their hats in the air like...
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Tuesday 23 September 2008, 11:10
These days, Guti isn’t the only Real Madrid player nervously looking over his shoulder in anticipation of someone giving him a good going-over. His team captain is, too – but it won’t be coming from a...
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Monday 22 September 2008, 12:45
GOOD DAY Pep Guardiola See, it was all about the sweaters. Rather than lounging around on the touchline dressed like a posh boy (or pijo , as the tribe is known in Spain) on a Sunday stroll through Madrid...
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Friday 19 September 2008, 15:00
Friday afternoons, eh? Don't you just love them? Every other bugger in the office has sloped off early and you're all alone, just staring at the clock, trying to wile away the final couple of hours...
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Friday 19 September 2008, 11:00
Saturday Atlético Madrid vs Recreativo Due to a joint-gesticulating rojiblanco fan smoking a jazz cigarette the size of Belgium, La Liga Loca - along with the surrounding eight rows - only has fuzzy memories...
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Wednesday 17 September 2008, 11:00
On Tuesday, the panic levels of the Catalan press were that of a fainting and flustered Victorian spinster faced with a very naked and very drunk David Hasslehoff. The following day, the feelings of fear...
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Tuesday 16 September 2008, 11:00
When Michael Laudrup first arrived at Getafe last year, the macho men of the Spanish media were very much with the man-crush, bewitched by his winning smile, perfect teeth and luxuriant, soft hair. Except...
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Monday 15 September 2008, 12:00
BAD DAY Pep Guardiola Yet again in Spain, there has been a great deal of talk over tactics and Barça’s current love of fannying about in front of goal. But yet again, everyone is barking up the wrong footballing...
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Monday 15 September 2008, 10:00
La Liga Loca ’s inaugural Super Spot the Difference competition was such a rip-roaring success that we’ve decided to do it all over again. And this time the prize is even better than ever. We’ve giving...
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Friday 12 September 2008, 13:00
Saturday Valladolid vs Atlético Madrid Right. La Liga Loca is putting its slightly manky club foot down. It cannae take any more. Already jiggery and jittery over the universe ending, England looking good...
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Wednesday 10 September 2008, 10:00
La Liga Loca is sitting on a sneaky suspicion that the editor of Barcelona-based Mundo Deportivo may still be resting his Catalan cockles on the beach. After all, Spain dug up another Saint’s day skive...
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Tuesday 09 September 2008, 16:00
At the beginning of September there is a fun tradition in Spain to speculate on the hot topic of when, Atlético Madrid manager, Javier Aguirre will be sacked by his trigger happy bosses, what method they...
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Monday 08 September 2008, 10:28
"Tick, tock, tick, tock...” La Liga Loca had itself a big old alarm clock running, last week. “Tick tock, tick, tock...” An alarm clock charged with keeping a beady mechanical eye on how long it would...
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Friday 05 September 2008, 10:46
Like Ever Banega when his internet connection cuts out just as he has started to get going, as it were, the Spanish football fan has been left limp and lifeless by the underwhelming arrival of another...
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Wednesday 03 September 2008, 09:55
La Liga Loca read with some astonishment this week that moo-cows tend to stand in a north to south direction. It seems that the ability to sense the Earth’s magnetic poles is embedded into their tiny,...
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Tuesday 02 September 2008, 10:43
In the end 40 million had a rather pleasing symmetry to it. That was the amount of cash – in Euros – that Man City dumped into the Bernabeu backyard for the whining services of Robinho. That's the...
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Monday 01 September 2008, 16:00
Bad Day Bernd Schuster Big Bernado stopped answering La Liga Loca ’s texts a while back. There’s only so long someone can tolerate “Drop Raúl! DROP HIM! DROP HIM!” popping up on their phone 50 times a...
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Friday 29 August 2008, 12:00
Saturday Espanyol vs Valladolid Where better to kick off a sparkly new season that at the most beautiful, scenic stadium in the whole of southern Europe, if not the planet - the Montjuic. Unfortunately...
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Thursday 28 August 2008, 16:00
Back when La Liga Loca was just a nipper, a mere squiggle scrawled on the kitchen floor with a crayon rather than the fully-fledged, typed- out-on-a-computer-and-everything uberblog that it is these days...
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Thursday 28 August 2008, 12:00
Merciful Zeus! Atlético Madrid have done it! La Liga Loca can finally pack their lunch box, hand over the bus fare and wave at them from its front door wiping tears from its eyes. The rojiblancos are going...
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Wednesday 27 August 2008, 09:52
If La Liga Loca ’s employers demanded hot-as-a-hamburger-in-hell breaking news and informed, accurate musings on the wonderful world of Spanish football, then it would be in serious do-do. In fact, it...
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Tuesday 26 August 2008, 10:00
A Night of Glory and Magic - by AS ’s Tomas Roncero* (*not technically true) For three dark months my soul has been as bleak and pointless as a life without ham. Or Don Alfredo di Stefano. May angels sing...
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Monday 25 August 2008, 12:00
Having snored through much of the Olympic football tournament in a ‘Kun-confused’ state, according to the pun-loving Argentine press, Sergio Agüero finally came to his senses on Tuesday by popping up with...
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Thursday 21 August 2008, 12:24
In many ways, Real Madrid’s decision to permanently block journalists’ access to their players after training should be seen as a blessing in disguise for the Spanish footballing press. After all, as Marca...
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Wednesday 20 August 2008, 15:00
‘Scribble, scratch, scribble’. Today, La Liga Loca is writing a letter. ‘Scratch, scribble, scratch.” Something it hasn’t done in years. La Liga Loca is writing a letter to the Spanish FA, as they have...
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Tuesday 19 August 2008, 12:00
La Liga Loca smelt something in the air this morning. At first it thought it might be the whiff of wee coming from the local plaza, which also doubles as a toilet for Sangria-soaked winos. But it seems...
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Monday 18 August 2008, 13:04
La Liga Loca had a bit of an epiphany on Saturday. During the five minutes it caught of a dire-looking pre-season friendly between Athletic Bilbao and Villarreal, it realised something quite extraordinary...
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Friday 15 August 2008, 13:00
If Marca have got their facts right, for once - and let's face it, it's up there with Guti joining a book club in likely events - then it could be a highly entertaining weekend in Real Madrid's...
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Wednesday 13 August 2008, 22:00
There’s just no pleasing some people sometimes... and that includes La Liga Loca . Ramón Calderón has done the sensible thing and sacked freak-show Bernabéu PA announcer Arturo Sisó, the man that La Liga...
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Wednesday 13 August 2008, 14:00
Twelve fun-filled months in the life of Atlético Madrid manager Javier Aguirre are about to be stomped on and squashed into 180 minutes of frenetic football. On Wednesday night, the rojiblancos kick off...
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Tuesday 12 August 2008, 11:29
Once upon a time, La Liga Loca came across a poor desperate soul who used to work for Marca . And very ashamed he was about it, too. This now ex-Madrid propaganda spouting minion revealed what most people...
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Monday 11 August 2008, 14:03
With three, long, painful weeks to go to the start of the footie season, the Spanish sporty press have gone Olympic Games crazy. And frankly Mr Shankly, who can blame them? Instead of filling their front...
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Friday 08 August 2008, 15:18
It isn't often you see a Spanish club president out on a training field - except if it's to rip his manager a new one or if there are free biscuits going. Most are too wheezy and sleazy to beat...
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Thursday 07 August 2008, 15:30
Two themes have dominated the news agenda in Spain over the past few weeks. One has been the weather. The other has been Cristiano Ronaldo. The first is nothing unusual. Every summer, with the thudding...
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Wednesday 06 August 2008, 14:00
Rafael Van der Vaart was presented as Real Madrid’s “first and only” signing of the summer yesterday and everyone, but everyone, was thinking about the same thing: His wife. And now La Liga Loca ’s doing...
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Tuesday 05 August 2008, 12:04
Having promised to pack his team with the finest young Spanish talent available, Real Madrid president Ramón Calderón has continued his great Iberian initiative by recruiting Rafael van der Vaart from...
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Monday 04 August 2008, 18:00
"Hey you! Yeah, you! You with the girl's name! Wuss!" La Liga Loca has started the day with a couple of shandies and is feeling feisty. "Yellow belly! Cowardy Custard! Bottler!"...
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Monday 04 August 2008, 13:00
Never let it be said that Real Madrid’s pom-pom donning, axe-wielding cheerleaders-turned-hatchet-men Marca and AS don’t put in the leg-work in their pursuit of a story (and for “story” read “party line...
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Friday 01 August 2008, 15:30
Atlético Madrid have had it up to here with being everyone's footballing butt monkeys. Oh yes. No more comedy last minute defeats. No more Spiderman goalkeeping outfits. And no more 'Pupas'...
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Thursday 31 July 2008, 14:07
For those La Liga Loca regulars who had "two weeks" in the blog's "how soon into the pre-season will Bernd Schuster blow his stack" sweepstake, then congratulations, you now possess...
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Wednesday 30 July 2008, 15:30
After what feels like decades of speculation from Sport and Mundo Deportivo concerning Mad Sammy Eto'o being replaced by Adebayor / Berbatov / Zlatan / Chipper from Operación Triunfo it seems that...
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Tuesday 29 July 2008, 12:11
One of the chirpiest clubs to be found in La Liga these days is Espanyol. And that's somewhat surprising considering that very little appears to have changed at the Catalan club over the summer aside...
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Monday 28 July 2008, 12:25
The island-dwelling people of the Balearics are already accustomed to lobster-skinned, barfing, brawling British types ruling their roost for much of the year, thanks to Easyjet and co. But it appears...
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Friday 25 July 2008, 19:51
The last time La Liga Loca sticky-beaked its way into Valencia's odious affairs, a good 10 days ago, a period of stability and sanity was being promised by all those resident in the Mestalla madhouse...
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Wednesday 16 July 2008, 13:59
Never look a gift horse in the mouth, they say. Now, La Liga Loca hasn’t got a clue what that actually means. But it’s not going to, oh no sir. You can accuse us of going for easy targets all you like...
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Tuesday 15 July 2008, 12:42
Wherever you are in the world - even if it's Lincolnshire - you're probably having a chirpier summer than poor old ducking and covering Barcelona bigwig, Joan Laporta. The lobster-like La Liga...
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Monday 14 July 2008, 12:24
So, Sepp Blatter thinks that Cristiano Ronaldo is a slave and – more importantly – that Manchester United should stop flipping well whinging and let him go and join Real Madrid. Which poses a question...
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Wednesday 25 June 2008, 12:28
Now that the sultry stickiness of the Spanish summer has finally landed like a sweat-filled piano, it's high time for the good people of Andalusia to take up their favourite pastimes - intensive thumb...
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Tuesday 24 June 2008, 13:06
July 7 is shaping up to be a thrilling day in the worlds of both Real Madrid and Barcelona. According to the current rumblings in the Spanish press - coming from that teeny, tiny, work experience run section...
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Thursday 19 June 2008, 11:43
La Liga Loca has not been to the water-starved city of Barcelona for a while but it can only imagine that its pickpocket-invested streets are full of cranky culés with faces longer than Ruud van Nistelrooy...
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Tuesday 17 June 2008, 19:00
Stung by criticism that last season's Copa del Rey final was seen as a bit of an afterthought by the Spanish FA - and, indeed, by most of the clubs taking part in it - the buffet-loving bigwigs have...
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Tuesday 17 June 2008, 07:48
Not so very long ago, they were getting all excited down El Mundo Deportivo ’s way, screaming from the rooftops - and their front cover. Massive letters heralded the "Nou Barça!" while inside...
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Friday 13 June 2008, 14:28
Fernando Torres is finally starting to show that he may well be the one true heir to Raul's super striking throne. Not in the scoring a gazillion goals for Spain stakes, but in the pouty, sulky, staring...
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Tuesday 10 June 2008, 11:00
Real Zaragoza are beginning to get a teeny, tiny inkling of the footballing jungle they will have to hack their way through next season with seedy stories of unsavoury goings on dribbling out of the Spanish...
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Monday 09 June 2008, 14:22
It seems that the repeated fining of Atlético Madrid and Real Betis for constant failures to control their crowds is no longer sufficient to replenish the cake-purchasing coffers of the bigwigs running...
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Friday 06 June 2008, 17:00
After months of media speculation, rampant rumour mongering and downright dodgy deception, the transfer deal of this and perhaps all summers has finally been sealed. And the news was met by incredible...
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Thursday 05 June 2008, 23:54
According to AS ’s page 16 stunner Carmen Colino, Robinho is bang out of order. From the safety of the Brazil camp, the condom-loving forward has admitted that he has offers from Manchester United and...
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Wednesday 04 June 2008, 11:46
When Ramón Calderón pledged last week that his personal goal for next season was to open his presidential trap an awful lot less, La Liga Loca 's face fell faster than Jesus Navas being handed a suitcase...
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Tuesday 03 June 2008, 12:18
"......................................" That's the noise inside Guti's head. Aside from the occasional burst of the Magic Roundabout theme. That's also the reply from Levante's...
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Monday 02 June 2008, 11:33
If there are two men in Spain who definitely need to join Guti and Raul for a spot of R&R it's the Chuckle Brothers of La Liga, Ramón Calderón and Joan Laporta. Not that the comedy duo have worked...
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Friday 30 May 2008, 11:37
On Thursday, a smugger looking version of Seinfeld ’s George Costanza banged on the drawbridge doors of the Kingdom of Catalunya carrying a very large box indeed. It wasn’t elevenses being delivered to...
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Thursday 29 May 2008, 19:00
So, Racing de Santander coach Marcelino's not going to Sevilla after all. He's mental and is instead going to relegated Zaragoza, thus turning down the chance to lead Racing into their first ever...
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Wednesday 28 May 2008, 12:14
Now that the whole time-consuming football business is over with for a wee while, La Liga Loca has been able to dedicate itself to the far more important business of Spanish reality television. And the...
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Monday 26 May 2008, 22:13
Last Thursday, Real Madrid's Sporting Director, Pedja Mijatovic was settling into seat 1D of his Iberia flight from Moscow to Madrid. As the Prince of Darkness reapplied his hair gel and nibbled on...
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Thursday 22 May 2008, 11:56
Everything has a good and a bad side. Except David Bisbal. The housing bubble burst is set to cause bankruptcies and repossessions and all the misery that walks hand in hand with that kind of business...
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Wednesday 21 May 2008, 17:32
Now, we’ve been here before but just to recap: Real Madrid president Ramón Calderón has done lots of bloody stupid things. Like buying that creaking Airfix plane he forces the team to travel in. Like letting...
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Tuesday 20 May 2008, 11:12
When English clubs talk about adopting a 'continental model' for their side, they really are barking up the wrong footballing tree. That's because they are under the assumption that the aforementioned...
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Monday 19 May 2008, 12:46
Good Day Osasuna / Recreativo / Valladolid All three started the day out of the drop zone. And all three finished the day out of the drop zone, despite their best efforts. The already knee-trembling tension...
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Friday 16 May 2008, 12:22
Saturday Murcia (19th) v Barcelona (3rd) This week, the Catalan press has been keeping itself busy by indulging in more anarchic acts of reckless speculation than Nick Leeson ever managed. Both Sport and...
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Thursday 15 May 2008, 17:00
Levante are downing tools after two years without pay after one player had to send his missus home to live with his mother while he dossed down on a mate’s floor, after a whole fleet of flash cars were...
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Wednesday 14 May 2008, 12:15
For the Spanish of a more traditional generation, choosing where to go on holiday is a fairly simple business. It's either the village or the beach. None of your Guardian-reading fannying around with...
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Tuesday 13 May 2008, 11:22
Like the very odd man currently seated at the table next to La Liga Loca in its favourite café, Real Madrid may well be playing with themselves on Sunday. In the most predictable move since both Marca...
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Monday 12 May 2008, 14:21
Good Day Atlético Madrid "We Are De Champions" was the erroneous attempt at an English headline on the front page of Monday's Marca . "We are in fourth place but will probably balls...
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Friday 09 May 2008, 11:36
Sunday Zaragoza (16th) v Real Madrid (1st) To prevent any sneaky shenanigans or any on the field funny business, all matches this weekend will kick off on Sunday. At 9pm. Meaning a quarter of a million...
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Thursday 08 May 2008, 22:14
Let's face it, everyone - including La Liga Loca - is talking about Barcelona's not-at-all hidden shame today. About the "pasillo" they were forced to hand Real Madrid before last night's...
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Wednesday 07 May 2008, 11:38
Wednesday Betis (12th) v Valladolid (14th) Today's the day when the Beticos roll up their sleeves, scrunch up their eyes and endure a 90-minute long Chinese burn from the bully boys of the Spanish...
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Tuesday 06 May 2008, 12:56
If you are to believe the multiple Pulitzer prize-winning papers in Catalunya, Pep Guardiola is about to become the luckiest puppy in the world. That's because the former Al-Ahli Doha and Dorados de...
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Monday 05 May 2008, 16:17
Good Day Real Madrid Monday's El Pais sums up the praiseworthy performance of the whole celebrating side - all 10 of them - in the final frenetic five minutes of the match with the words "attitude...
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Friday 02 May 2008, 12:14
Saturday Atlético Madrid (4th) v Recreativo (16th) With the rojiblancos mired in their second-worst closing half of the season since 2002, the president admitting off-mic that his players are pants and...
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Thursday 01 May 2008, 17:11
Barcelona, eh? It’s worse than The Tower during the reign of Henry VIII and his insatiable ginger loins. Worse than Traitors’ Corner when it’s that time of month down Queen Elizabeth I’s way. Worse even...
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Wednesday 30 April 2008, 11:08
"Watch out! He's getting away," screamed Marca 's man in Manchester as Rijkaard bolted for the Barcelona bus. "Burn him!" screamed the Sport supremo. "Yes! Burn him,"...
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Tuesday 29 April 2008, 10:53
Tuesday's Champions League clash between Manchester United and Barcelona looks like it has squeezed every last drop of effervescence and enthusiasm from the pom-pom waving, back-flipping Catalan sports...
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Monday 28 April 2008, 12:00
GOOD DAY Real Madrid Bless their cotton socks, Real Madrid are starting to play like proper grown-up champions. That said, they'll have to wait a while for the actual accolade – possibly, if Osasuna...
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Friday 25 April 2008, 17:15
SATURDAY APRIL 26 Deportivo (8th) vs Barcelona (3rd) And so another rip-roaring weekend of Iberian soccerball kicks off with the most exciting, in-form, team-shredding club in Spain taking on Barcelona...
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Thursday 24 April 2008, 10:51
If the bored-witless Spanish viewers are to be tempted back to their TVs for the second Champions League helping of Liverpool vs Chelsea, they'll have to display the same kind of guts, determination...
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Wednesday 23 April 2008, 13:29
"And there'll be cake... and there'll be games". Oh dear. "And there'll be jelly! And I can invite all my friends." Marca has turned into a seven-year-old girl. "And...
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Tuesday 22 April 2008, 10:05
It was to stunned gasps when Agustin Morera finally spoke at Monday afternoon's emergency meeting at the Mestalla. "Gentlemen, we need to take a long hard look at ourselves," began the club...
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Monday 21 April 2008, 11:38
Good Day Levante Ah. It's been another vintage year for the goons nominally in charge of the game in Spain. Changing kick off times and locations the day before matches. Doing diddly squat about the...
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Friday 18 April 2008, 14:38
Saturday Barcelona (2nd) v Espanyol (8th) It's the "derby of depression" according to AS with the faces of both sets of fans longer than Ruud Van Nistelrooy in a hall of mirrors. The pessimistic...
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Friday 18 April 2008, 11:24
It was the Cup final that had it all. A match ball that was parachuted in, the kind of noise that makes your ears bleed, enough orange wigs to keep Cilla Black in hair for a decade, and Chikilcuatre dancing...
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Wednesday 16 April 2008, 15:11
Despite being stranded in Spain for a good few years now as it struggles to save the pennies for that golden Easyjet ticket home, La Liga Loca has yet to completely adapt to its Iberian environment. The...
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Tuesday 15 April 2008, 10:35
Aside from Guti's outrageous attempt at a dive on Sunday night there's nothing quite so foolish in football as counting the rapidly rising price of your chickens before they are hatched. But that's...
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Monday 14 April 2008, 12:18
Good Day Wesley Sneijder The combination of a seven-man defence for Murcia and a 10-man Real Madrid was the perfect storm resulting in Sunday's Bernabeu bore-fest. La Liga Loca was counting its blessings...
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Friday 11 April 2008, 11:18
Saturday Valencia (14th) v Racing Santander (5th) Quite possibly the hands down, no-doubt-about-it, all-bets-are-off, worst buy of the season since La Liga Loca gave Guti an instruction-less colouring...
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Wednesday 09 April 2008, 11:03
There was none so giddy and giggly as La Liga Loca's newspaper kiosk man on Wednesday morning. And it wasn't because the blog had finally paid the bill on those specialist import magazines. Instead...
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Tuesday 08 April 2008, 11:55
In another one of those forehead-slapping 'what on earth were they thinking?' moments, the shaved monkeys running Spanish football - the same simple-minded simians who allowed the Mallorca v Real...
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Friday 04 April 2008, 11:13
Saturday Osasuna (14th) v Recreativo (18th) It was heart-warming to see Osasuna resort to their default setting, on Sunday, against Getafe. And that's booting the opposition about. They did it last...
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Thursday 03 April 2008, 12:19
Real Madrid president Ramón Calderón has done some bloody stupid things and wasted a bloody lot of money on a bloody lot of rubbish. Let's not produce a list because we could be here all day what with...
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Wednesday 02 April 2008, 13:35
Barcelona's fairly useful 1-0 win over Schalke 04, in Gelsenkirchen, means that the Catalan press continues to go through more ups and downs than Lindsay Lohan on a pogo stick. It's with a tangible...
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Tuesday 01 April 2008, 11:03
It seems that Bernd Schuster is not the only manager in Madrid to have an uncontrollable evil dark side, as Javier Aguirre does, too. While the alter-ego of the man at the helm of Real Madrid has taken...
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Monday 31 March 2008, 12:29
Good Day Villarreal The big debate in Spain - aside from whether the country's Eurovision entry 'Rodolfo Chikilicuatre' is a national disgrace or one of the wonders of the world - is whether...
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Friday 28 March 2008, 13:31
Saturday Real Betis (13th) v Barcelona (2nd) Slightly slow? Fond of a lunchtime tipple? Staggeringly inept? Then come help run Spanish football. On Thursday morning ,this match was due to be played in...
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Thursday 27 March 2008, 14:23
So, Spain beat Italy - dirty, boring, cynical, successful Italy - in Elche. 1-0 thanks to a fantastic volley from David Villa. And it could not have gone better. Which is a roundabout way of saying it...
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Wednesday 26 March 2008, 11:21
With an hour or two to kill at an airport, recently, a bored-to-tears La Liga Loca took a moment to flick through a couple of self-help business books aimed at desperate and despairing corporate types...
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Tuesday 25 March 2008, 09:08
Good Day Angel Javier Arizmendi "The worst player scores the best goal," declared an astonished Spanish hack moments after the Valencia striker/full-back/ waste of space poked the ball past a...
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Friday 21 March 2008, 11:23
Saturday Mallorca (12th) v Deportivo (14th) Easter week in Spain and there are more virgins being carried around the streets of the country than an Amish piggyback race. One club who may well be able to...
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Thursday 20 March 2008, 14:40
So, Real Betis Balompié will not play the final 19 minutes of their match against Athletic Bilbao after a bottle thrown from the stands hit visitors’ goalkeeper Armando and led to the game being abandoned...
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Wednesday 19 March 2008, 10:50
Most Primera club presidents carry chips on their shoulders the size of Strasbourg. They are some of the paranoid men on the planet, primed to come over all Kenneth Williams and declare, "infamy,...
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Tuesday 18 March 2008, 11:08
Further evidence that Diego Maradona may still be as high as a kite was produced on Tuesday, with Marca revealing that the rotund rebel has recommended that Bernd Schuster be the next manager of Boca Juniors...
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Monday 17 March 2008, 11:19
Good Day Villarreal Another cracking finish from Nihat, his first league strike since 19th January, means that the smart money is on the Yellow Submarine to overhaul Barcelona and grab second spot. The...
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Friday 14 March 2008, 11:40
Saturday Recreativo (18th) v Murcia (19th) Almost everything that comes out of his mouth is objectionable, but it still gives La Liga Loca a warm and fuzzy feeling to have Javier Clemente back in the football...
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Thursday 13 March 2008, 11:48
Before every La Liga game last Sunday, a minute’s silence was held in memory of Isaías Carrasco, the PSOE councillor from Mondragón who was shot three times and killed by ETA as the Basque terrorist group...
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Wednesday 12 March 2008, 13:30
In this 'buy coffee, sell tea', dog-eat-dog, 'I drink your milkshake' world there is nothing more exasperating than the Spanish 'abuela' or grandmother. With her strange bouffant...
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Tuesday 11 March 2008, 10:49
After several days spent wandering the gold-paved streets of Hove pondering the conundrum of how some herbs and melted cheese stuffed in a focaccia can cost seven pounds frickin' fifty, La Liga Loca...
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Friday 07 March 2008, 17:16
Think raffles, bring-and-buy sales, and prize draws are pretty rubbish ways for football clubs to make cash? Well, here’s a fund-raiser that really is ***. Over 3,000 people turned up at the home of Galician...
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Wednesday 05 March 2008, 10:57
If you are an ex-Real Madrid player and also happen to have popped your clogs, then you're rarely allowed to rest in peace. Indeed, if you are a chilly gust of wind away from passing on to the other...
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Tuesday 04 March 2008, 12:00
No country for music lovers The judge on the far left of the three-person jury muttered under his breath, rubbed his forehead with one hand and jabbed away with the other at the ‘reject’ button. It had...
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Monday 03 March 2008, 13:07
Good Day Robinho "The new Kaka" is how the typically unimaginative Marca described the boy from Brazil on Monday morning, with the story that Madrid are looking to tie Robinho down until 2013...
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Friday 29 February 2008, 12:05
Atlético Madrid (4th) v Barcelona (2nd) The sand has been spread, the net erected and Ronaldinho has squeezed himself into his favourite thong – let's be grateful Maniche is in Italy. Yes, it's...
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Thursday 28 February 2008, 08:00
A couple of weeks ago, La Liga Loca presented the best goal of the season so far and one of its favourite ever - not Alvaro Negredo's brilliant free-kick flick-up volley type thing, although that was...
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Wednesday 27 February 2008, 11:00
After many months of seeing his sulking son being brutally booed and bullied by fans and hacks alike, the big daddy of Valencia has stepped in to end the entertaining affair. Bautista Soler, father of...
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Tuesday 26 February 2008, 12:30
There's nothing the Spanish enjoy more than reversing into traffic without looking and a good old row, so it's often quite hard to get people to agree on anything. If the moderator of Monday night's...
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Monday 25 February 2008, 14:37
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...
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Friday 22 February 2008, 14:38
Saturday Valencia (9th) v Recreativo (15th) It's a bracing Friday morning in Valencia. The trainers will be laying out the cones. The manager will be running through the tactics ahead of the visit...
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Wednesday 20 February 2008, 15:03
"It was a great game between two attacking sides and I think the second leg is very open. It could be even better than this one", was what Bernd Schuster should have said after Real Madrid's...
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Tuesday 19 February 2008, 17:09
For every ying in life, there must be a yang. For every Natasha Bedingfield there must be a Fiona Apple. And for every limping, lame mummy's boy like Vicente there must be a Cata Díaz. And that's...
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Monday 18 February 2008, 12:18
Monday's Good Day, Bad Day – Round 24 Good day Barcelona "Yes, the league is on!" squealed Mundo Deportivo , just a few days after dismally declaring claiming that all was lost. La Liga Loca...
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Friday 15 February 2008, 12:14
Saturday Real Betis (16th) v Real Madrid (1st) From time to time in this journey we call life, there are little things you learn that make the constant toil and trouble so much easier to suffer. This week...
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Thursday 14 February 2008, 08:59
“It’s interesting to see Guti take that free-kick with his left foot when he’s predominantly a right-footed payer.” So said Trevor Francis during Sky Sports’ coverage of Real Madrid versus Villarreal recently...
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Wednesday 13 February 2008, 15:12
Valencia v Valencia David Albeda has had quite a bit of time on his hairy hands since being ordered never to darken the Mestalla doorstep ever again. So he has gone and bought himself powerded wig and...
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Tuesday 12 February 2008, 17:19
For those of you who assumed that the life of a professional footballer was a baffling blur of hot tubs and high jinks, then hang your heads in shame and go stand in the corner. Unless you had Patrick...
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Monday 11 February 2008, 13:16
Good Day Real Madrid There must have been an awful lot of double parked Landrovers on Castellana, on Sunday night, as that can be the only explanation for thousands of Real Madrid fans leaving the Bernabeu...
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Friday 08 February 2008, 16:31
Saturday Murcia (18th) v Villarreal (4th) This week's winner of La Liga Loca's 'liar, liar pants on fire' award goes to Murcia president, Jesús Samper, with his suspiciously sumptuous support...
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Friday 08 February 2008, 12:30
Was Cristiano Ronaldo’s free-kick the best ever? Maybe. But how about this one from a game between Almeria and Valladolid ? And yet the best set-play so far this season in Spain is in fact not a free-kick...
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Wednesday 06 February 2008, 14:53
So a group of Liverpool fans furious with Hicks and Gillette have decided to join forces and try to buy the club themselves.100,000 fans paying £5,000 would be enough to raise the €500m they think they...
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Tuesday 05 February 2008, 11:28
He was Monica Bing's former billionaire, Ultimate Fighting boyfriend. He lost most of his limbs in Very Bad Things . And now Víctor Muñoz is ex-manager of Recreativo. The former Mallorca, Villarreal...
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Monday 04 February 2008, 13:45
Good Day Víctor Valdés It's not unusual to get into an argument with a Barcelona fan over the merits of their players. Culés can be sensitive souls, sometimes. But it is an odd occurrence when you...
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Friday 01 February 2008, 15:23
Saturday Almería (8th) v Real Madrid (1st) The last eighteen months have been tough ones for Ramón Calderón. Being detained in New York having been mistaken for a narco-trafficker and using a countrywide...
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Friday 01 February 2008, 11:29
So, Valencia president and owner Juan Soler finally sacked the man really responsible for the club’s crisis. After going through five coaches, five directors of sport, three director generals, and three...
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Wednesday 30 January 2008, 20:30
With Frank Rijkaard having waved a big white flag of surrender on the title race with his rather defeatist, "it seems that no-one can beat Real Madrid," comment, it's time for everyone to...
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Tuesday 29 January 2008, 21:14
As expected, the Sevilla v Osasuna post-match mayhem has caused more foul-smelling fallout than a dozen rumbling Russian reactors blowing their tops. But it is not the water throwing, the neck grabbing...
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Monday 28 January 2008, 17:23
For those wanting to see La Liga Loca in beautiful surround sound, HD 3D, tune into Extra Time (22.05 UK time) on Real Madrid TV – a show repeated throughout the week. Bad Day Valencia OK. Hands up in...
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Saturday 26 January 2008, 09:09
Saturday Sevilla (9th) v Osasuna (14th) Ten defeats this season - the third worst record in the league - means that excitable Sevilla coach, Manuel Jiménez, is almost certainly going to be thrown into...
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Thursday 24 January 2008, 21:11
Kelly Osbourne's recent diatribe against a 'fatist' society has fallen on deaf ears in Spain – exactly what people wish they possessed every time the portly popster opens her mouth to sing...
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Wednesday 23 January 2008, 19:04
It hurts when La Liga Loca types today. Oh it hurts. That's because La Liga Loca has plasters on most of its fingertips. And that's because La Liga Loca was up half the night making a brand new...
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Monday 21 January 2008, 16:11
Good Day Francisco Casquero The match between Getafe and Sevilla was similar to one of those tug-of-love American tv movies for La Liga Loca . But without the scenes of domestic violence and bad guys being...
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Friday 18 January 2008, 18:23
Saturday Villarreal (5th) v Valencia (7th) This week began with the normal mayhem in Mestalla, got marginally better, but will end with doom and despair when Valencia have their arses handed to them by...
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