The show of shows

You don’t get a political night bigger than this. It’s not just an Americn election, it’s not just the American election that will end the disastrous Bush presidency, it’s the American election that will end the disastrous Bush presidency and be starting (fingers crossed) the Obama presidency, a black man with a completely un-American approach [...]

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Sir Alex should mind his language sometimes

Sir Alex Ferguson is still at it on the Cristiano Ronaldo- Real Madrid case. Today he gave an interview to The Times in which he was simply out of order and if he had some decency left in him he should be apologising for his remarks.
Here is the quote I am talking about:
“What made it [...]

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The shame of football

Tonight the last Barcelona derby played in the Olympic stadium of Montjuic, home of RCD Espanyol for the past four seasons, has brought shame to more than one FC Barcelona player, among them some well known former Arsenal superstar with a love for arrogance.
I don’t want to bore you with the details of one of [...]

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Google.es

The search engine’s Spanish domain shows its support with its logo today including Fernando Torres, the author of the winning goal in yesterday’s final.

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Thank you

Spain are European champions… I know it might seem silly to make it too dramatic, it’s just football, but… after 44 years since Franco, a vicious dictator, for Spaniards across the world it turns a page of our history. Our first democratic football title. It’s a great success. Our team has shown great determination, brilliance, [...]

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The perfect day

So as Spain yesterday made it to a Eurocup final for the first time in 24 years, that wasn’t the only good day for Spaniards. Spanish workers also woke up this morning to their summer bonuses and the 200 euro rebate promised by Zapatero to alleviate the economic slow-down. Pretty good day in Spain today [...]

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Nationalism and football

In the UK is well known the friendly rivalry between Scottish and English football fans. In the last World Cup the Trinity and Tobago T-shirt was the most sold in Scotland showing the Scots preference for the Caribbean team over their fellow Britons. In Spain a similar case happens with some nationalists in Catalonia and [...]

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Back now…and we won!

Back from Kent, great weekend, I’ll definitely be blogging about it tomorrow, but meanwhile Spain has broken the quarter-finals spell and booked themselves a place in the semifinals. It was a heart-stopping experience because of our history with Italy (88 years since we’ve beaten them in an official match). But we certainly deserved this win, [...]

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Euro 2008: the demographics

In El Pais today there’s an interesting article on Euro 2008 and European demographics. If we look at the teams participating in this tournament we can claim that probably this is the most representative tournament ever:
- 4 historic block of nations: the Latin world (Portugal, France, Italy and Spain)- 170 mill. people and GDP per [...]

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Is the Clockwork Orange back?

Under the leadership of the key man of the first Clockwork Orange, Marco Van Basten, the Dutch national team is playing by far the best football I’ve seen so far in three days of competition. The second goal by Wesley Sneijder was a great counterattack and passing combination. Van Nilstelrooy is moving fast between lines [...]

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