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Richard Martin

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5 years

Porto's Moussa Marega: "To those idiots that go to the stadium to shout racist insults, go fuck yourselves. I'm also grateful to the ref for not defending me and for giving me a yellow card for defending my skin colour. I hope I never see you on a pitch again. You're a disgrace."

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Atlético have been knocked out of every Champions League knockout stage they have been in since 2013/14 by a team containing Cristiano Ronaldo.

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3 years

Shout out to the Manchester United fans, bringing one of the biggest fixture in football to a standstill. Leaders in Premier League titles and protests.

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1 year

Better view of that sign

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2 years

Congratulations to Real Madrid for winning Champions League, just one year after they tried to abolish it.

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Richard Martin

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3 years

This is the first goal scored in Spain's newly created third division and I can't think of any better advert for lower league football

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3 years

Ladies & Gentleman, con todos ustedes, el primer gol de la historia de la nueva 1RFEF.

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5 years

On @GarethBale11 's birthday, a reminder that his stats at Real Madrid are much better than Zinedine Zidane's. Bale Games: 231 Goals: 102 Assists: 65 Trophies: 13 Zidane Games: 227 Goals: 49 Assists: 66 Trophies: 6

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3 years

Barcelona director who resigned over Messi departure fires shots at Joan Laporta: "I don't understand how while Barcelona fans were crying over Leo's departure, Laporta went for a seafood dinner with the president of Real Madrid."

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Richard Martin

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5 years

Watford manager Nigel Pearson asked if he expected more from Manchester United. "Not necessarily." And that sums it all up.

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Richard Martin

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5 years

Anyone else find it odd that Barcelona want to get rid of Dembele because he's apparently unprofessional yet are desperate to get Neymar, who PSG think is really unprofessional and are desperate to sell, so that they can sign the really unprofessional Dembele in his place?

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Richard Martin

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6 years

This is fantastic. Barça showed Frenkie De Jong Neymar's Whatsapp messages asking to come back to Barça in order to convince the Dutchman to choose the club over PSG

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Richard Martin

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6 years

Referee Gil Manzano's report: "In the 28th minute the player Diego Da Silva Costa was sent off for the following motive: he shouted loudly at me the following words: 'I SHIT ON YOUR WHORE MOTHER, I SHIT ON YOUR WHORE MOTHER.'"

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2 years

The disappointment of Graham Potter going to Chelsea would be like when you learn that intelligent, worldly person you went to university with who talked about fixing the world's problems has gone and joined Shell's graduate scheme

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Richard Martin

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4 years

Luis Suarez signing for Atletico Madrid is confirmed at 23:55 Spanish time. What a country.

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Richard Martin

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4 years

FA sanction on Cavani is an utter disgrace and fact he's being forced to go on an education course is unbelievably patronising. This issue could easily have been solved with a polite letter of warning, instead he is being branded a racist for saying "thanks mate" to his friend.

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Richard Martin

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2 years

Fascinated by River Plate's half renovated stadium. The new parts look like they are from Fifa 23 or CGI. The old parts look like a 1970s terrace.

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Richard Martin

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3 years

Chelsea are very good at sacking their manager mid-season and then reaching a European final. 1998 Cup Winners' Cup Gullit/Vialli 2008 Champions League Mourinho/Grant 2012 Champions League AVB/Di Matteo 2013 Europa League Di Matteo/Benitez 2021 Champions League Lampard/Tuchel

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Richard Martin

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5 years

Dani Alves named best player of the Copa America. He's 36. Yesterday he said "If you have respect for your profession and look after yourself it's easy to maintain your level. Some people are surprised about my performances here, I am not."

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6 years

In a huge victory for national stereotypes, Spain midfielder Koke has said the team do not watch the 3pm games at the World Cup "because it clashes with siesta time".

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3 years

Luis Suarez is crying in his post-match interview. He thanks Atletico Madrid for "offering me a door to keep proving that I'm good enough"

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4 years

Joan Laporta has NOT said that the European Super League is "absolutely necessary". He said "it's a need..but the members will have the final say." He then said: "It's absolutely necessary that the big clubs have our say about the distribution of wealth as we contribute a lot."

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Richard Martin

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3 years

Spain's health minister said today it would not be advisable for fans to return to La Liga matches this season. So, 5000 fans can't go to the 99,000-capacity Camp Nou. But yesterday, 6000 people were allowed to watch a bullfight at the 24,000-capacity Las Ventas in Madrid.

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Richard Martin

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5 years

Very sad (likely) ending to Gareth Bale's Real Madrid career. In hindsight, leaving after that beautiful overhead kick against Liverpool, as he had threatened to do, would have been a wise idea.

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Richard Martin

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7 years

People find it very hard to understand Gerard Pique for the simple reason that he is an intelligent footballer who says what he thinks

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5 years

Ernesto Valverde has just been asked in the press conference after Barcelona lost to Levante if he should resign. He said no.

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7 years

Spent some time with Catalan independence supporters for a piece for @independent . Here is what they said:

'They beat us with sticks, we have to beat them with votes': A revealing look inside Catalonia's...

This week campaigning began ahead of Catalan regional elections, called by Madrid for 21 December, with key separatist leaders in either prison or exile. The Independent meets the charismatic activ...

www.independent.co.uk

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3 years

Diego Simeone said his Atletico team "will dive into a swimming pool whether there's water in it or not". An apt way of describing the hold he has on them.

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5 years

Messi: "I didnt promise to bring 'that beautiful and desired cup' back, I promised to do everything to try and bring it back but we didn't do that, so we should say sorry for that because we didn't even compete in the second leg."

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3 years

La Liga TV have just made a Galactico signing for next season. Gary Lineker will be presenting "key matches" and also be doing studio analysis. Huge coup for the channel and sure to drive more subscribers.

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Richard Martin

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8 years

Just realised Mourinho has as many sendings off at Old Trafford in the league as he does home wins.

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7 months

Seeing lots of 'Ten Hag stormed out of press conference' headlines. I was there and it's not true: he was leaving anyway, question landed after the press officer had said it was over. Like saying someone stormed out of a party after already saying goodbye and opening the door

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8 years

Discussions about Messi being best ever remind me of climate change arguments. It's not a debate, it's not up for discussion, it's a fact.

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5 years

Hope everyone realises that if Barça sack Abidal for Messi's reaction to him implying the players have too much power and influence it will in fact underline that they have all the power and influence.

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4 years

Ronald Koeman is asked which player from the Dream Team he'd pick to have in this current Barca side: "Me"

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8 years

Spanish commentators left stunned by Rashford dive. "It's left me cold, I feel disappointed by him, I had such a good opinion of him."

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5 years

Always thought Argentines were the craziest fans around but seeing videos and photos of Falcao arrival at Galatasaray I'm now no longer sure. Utter madness.

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5 years

Why on earth would Brendan Rodgers leave this hungry, humble and brilliant Leicester side to join a declining, directionless institution with gnashing fans who are baying for blood after every disappointing result?

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6 years

Xavi in Marca today: " All France say to me is that they are world champions: an organised team, that are not very exciting, but with a lot of qualities: they work hard, they are great at counterattacking, Mbappe and Griezmann run back and defend. But they don't enthuse me."

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5 years

Barca's last seven away matches Celta 2-0 Barcelona Liverpool 4-0 Barcelona Eibar 2-2 Barcelona Athletic Bilbao 1-0 Barcelona Osasuna 2-2 Barcelona Borussia Dortmund 0-0 Barcelona Granada 2-0 Barcelona

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5 years

"Guys, what's the most interesting thing about Roma v Inter for our front page?" "How about Smalling v Lukaku?" "Ah yeah they were teammates at Man United, let's focus on that" "Interesting.. But can we make it about their skin colour instead?" "Great idea!"

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5 years

Ernesto Valverde has this weird habit of explaining really obvious things in press conferences, I'm trying to think if anyone does it quite like him. On the new Super Cup: "It's different this year, the team who wins tomorrow will go to the final." Yes thanks for that Ernesto.

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5 years

There should be a support group for former Barcelona coaches. Tata Martinez: "I won a game at Rayo Vallecano 4-0 and was ridiculed for having less possession." Ernesto Valverde: "I won two titles by a landslide and was top of La Liga when they started looking for a new coach."

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6 years

The most surprising thing about Messi's display today is that he did a post-match interview. Everything else was thoroughly predictable.

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6 years

According to Radio Marca the six Real Madrid players in Spain squad knew the news about Lopetegui and then one non-Madrid player got wind of it so Lopetegui was worried news was spread, he told Madrid and so they made it public immediately to prevent unrest.

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5 years

Wait a minute, Yerry Mina can't appear in a betting advert in Colombia according to the FA's rules but is allowed to wear a betting company's logo on his shirt in literally every game he plays for Everton??

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5 years

Yerry Mina fined £10,000 by the FA for appearing in Colombian betting advert as Everton defender is warned over his future conduct

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6 years

HOW CAN YOU ALLOW AN ATLETICO PLAYER TO TAKE A PENALTY IN A SHOOT-OUT??!!

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4 years

A real shame that Atleti must offload Diego Costa in order to get Suarez because those two as a strike force, managed by Diego Simeone, is an absolute dream team of shithousery.

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4 years

That is a beautiful tribute to Maradona by Messi, who lifts his shirt to reveal a Newell's Old Boys shirt from the brief era Maradona played there. A six-year-old Messi performed kick ups on the pitch at the Marcelo Bielsa stadium on Maradona's debut for Newells.

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30 days

Sacking Ten Hag in June would have cost United around £10m. Doing it now, after the one-year extension, will cost around £17.5m. That's around half the amount the club saved from making 250 employees redundant.

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Richard Martin

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2 years

About 7000 Everton fans here. Singing "Sack the board" and then something about Manchester being full of ships, honouring the city's rich history of trade

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Richard Martin

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1 year

Plenty of fans, mostly in Stretford Ens, still in Old Trafford and chanting "Glazers Out"

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4 years

Within the space of half an hour, Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu learned he is facing a vote of no-confidence and then that his club is being sued by former coach Quique Setien and his staff. How's your Thursday afternoon going?

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4 years

What the FA are essentially saying is you shouldn't converse with friends on social media in your native language as it might offend someone, even if you are not being offensive at all, and if you do, you're banned for three matches and fined £100,000. This is actually insane.

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5 years

Can't wait to see the reception Saudi Arabia fans give Mirandes and Granada.

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Richard Martin

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3 years

Lack of security at Wembley is unbelievable. Fans have just rushed a disabled gate (D11) when it opened. No ticket checks until the turnstiles. Seen hundreds here without tickets trying to jib in. Remarkable contrast to security at La Cartuja in Seville.

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3 years

Of course, the natural host city for the Diego Maradona Cup is not Barcelona nor Buenos Aires but Riyadh

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FC Barcelona and Boca Juniors to play in first ever #MaradonaCup in December #D10S 🇦🇷

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5 years

In 69 matches at Camp Nou in La Liga, the Champions League and the Copa del Rey, Ernesto Valverde lost just once, 3-4 to Real Betis in November 2018. The coach who beat him that day has just taken his job.

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7 years

Tonight's referee Mateu Lahoz is following the Spanish government's line on cracking down on protests in Catalonia

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7 years

Mass-trolling of Ronaldo by Betis fans, they chant "siiiiii" every time something goes wrong for him, like the offside goal or that shot straight at Adan

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Richard Martin

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8 years

Zabaleta says Guardiola cut off the 3G signal at City's training ground to prevent players using phones instead of talking to each other

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Richard Martin

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7 years

First Bin Laden, now Trump, Arsenal always have had strange fans.

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Richard Martin

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6 years

Wanda Metropolitano looks like it has been dumped in that place in Breaking Bad where they go to cook and hold secret metings

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Richard Martin

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2 years

The final insult for City is surely Madrid bringing on Jesus Vallejo after bringing on Dani Ceballos

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5 years

Emili Rousaud, who quit Barcelona and who is being sued for alleging that "someone put their hand in the till", has launched a petition where fans can demand he releases all info he has about 'Barcagate' saga. The club denies "any activity that can be described as corruption".

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6 years

Mauricio Pochettino pleasantly surprised to learn that Harry Redknapp won I'm a Celebrity. "Congratulations to Harry, it's like a trophy for us."

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8 years

Luis Enrique asked "Do you share Pique's views on Madrid?". Response: "I'm more radical than Pique it's best if I don't reveal my thoughts."

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7 years

AS's closest journalist to Jorge Mendes saying today that Ronaldo has been calmed down by Perez defence of him and no longer wants to leave

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5 years

Took 89 minutes for a player to be given a yellow card in Rangers-Celtic. The game's gone.

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4 years

Reading FA Written Reasons on Cavani (this is becoming a worrying habit) and the FA admit that Cavani was not being racist at all but was only guilty of using language people with no understanding of his culture/language could find offensive. This set's a worrying precedent

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4 years

Unai Simon definitely didnt recognise Kosovo there

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8 years

What an absolutely belting quote from Pique: "We need to start hiring midwives, a lot of love is going to be made tonight."

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4 years

Ansu Fati is Barcelona's youngest scorer in La Liga, the youngest scorer in the Champions League and now Spain's youngest scorer. Not a bad little list of records there.

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5 years

After hearing about the dire finances of Pizza Express, my thoughts go out to the author of this timeless review

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4 years

Reading the FA's report on Trippier now. On page nine out of 46 and so far the most upsetting thing is everyone spelling his new club 'Athletico'

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5 years

Celta Vigo's Fedor Smolov has broken club and league rules and fled Spain during state of alarm to go home to Russia. But that's not where it ends. According to reports, he went home to see his girlfriend, who is Boris Yeltsin's granddaughter and has just turned 18. Smolov is 30

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4 years

Still no La Liga fixtures announced yet for next weekend. Mundo Deportivo today: "Improvisation is still a constant in Spanish football. La Liga cannot rely on being the best league just because it has Messi, Madrid and Barca. It should lead the way in professionalism."

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7 years

Florentino has just said "Cristiano Ronaldo is more powerful than all of us". It has taken his interviewer by surprise.

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5 years

Barça fined 1500 euros for balls being thrown on to the pitch during the Clasico. This latest fine, coupled with the 300 euros they had to pay for being found guilty of tapping up Griezmann, could seriously harm their bid to offer Messi a new contract.

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4 years

La Liga have released a statement saying Lionel Messi's contract is still valid and the only way for him to be freed from it is if a club exercises the 700 million euro release clause. Potential boost for Barça/blow for City

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4 years

Getafe-Levante right now is I think the worst advert for VAR I've ever seen. It's been horrendous. Four goals chalked off, all after interminable waits. The three VAR checks meant 10 minutes of added time was played in first half. Sucked all fun out of the game. Ban this filth

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6 years

Barça fans now chanting "Juve Juve vaffanculo"

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Richard Martin

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6 years

Barcelona are and have been for some time completely in a league of their own on the domestic front. But I still don't really fancy them in the Champions League. Wouldn't even bank on them beating Lyon. Football is strange.

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5 years

Within the last hour Mundo Deportivo have published a story saying Xavi is not coming to Barcelona now, while Sport have published a story saying he is coming now. I wonder what Ernesto Valverde thinks of it all. What a way to treat one of the most dignified men in football

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6 years

Barça fans, somewhat predictably, are singing "Julen please stay".

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7 years

Beating Madrid but ultimately losing, all in the pissing rain, is literally the most Atlético way to wave goodbye to the Calderón

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6 years

Basque derby on a Friday night

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1 year

As an English football fan I think it's absolutely brillliant that we now have players at Bayern Munich and Real Madrid. What an honour. Speaks very highly of the quality of our players and also their mentality and willingness to challenge themselves. Something to be proud of

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2 months

Ilkay Gundogan is back. He comes on to chants of 'Ilkay's coming home'

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7 years

FC Barcelona players will not have their names on the back of their shirts against Betis on Sunday, just 'Barcelona'. Nice touch

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4 years

Laporta then said: "It has to be an attractive competition which you qualify for based on sporting merits." Hi Joan, have you ever heard of this competition called the Champions League?

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1 year

United fans staging sit-in against Glazers and remaining in the ground long after full-time

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3 years

I'm not sure we should really be celebrating Karim Benzema's return to the France team. He blackmailed a team mate. The team mate has since left, as have most of the players from that side. But it doesn't say much about the importance of team spirit and unity.

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6 months

David Silva is at the Etihad Stadium today for his first game since leaving the club in 2020

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6 years

Guardiola has lost three Champions League knockout ties on away goals and two others by the thinnest of margins. That's tremendous bad luck, definitely not a fraud. But Spurs have suffered enough and deserved a crazy night like this to go their way.

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7 years

Gareth Bale is Real Madrid's top scorer in Liga despite being injured for most of the season. Only started seven games but has six goals. Ronaldo has started 15 and has four.

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3 years

It only really hits home quite how many European Cups Real Madrid have won when they mark the anniversary of each one on Twitter and seem to have been doing it every day for the last two weeks

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7 years

Diego Costa is so proud of not having learned any English in three years in London, it's almost admirable.

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7 years

Girona coach Pablo Machin just said "I'm sure that at half-time Diego Simeone got his balls out."

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7 months

Bellingham on Tchouameni getting racially abused against Mallorca: "It's awful to prepare for a game knowing you're going to get racially abused. You've got to play your game and hope the people are looking after you and they're not doing it well enough at the moment."

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6 years

Huge deal struck between Facebook and La Liga in India which means every game will be available to watch for free for the next three seasons.

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