‘Real Madrid’ Archives
Tuesday night Champions League highlights
Are you getting interested in this behemoth of a competition yet? No? Well maybe last nights games are starting to warm your cockles. Watch the first leg games here. One Italian team down... will the others fall tonight? Liverpool 4-0 Real Madrid Yossi Benayoun scored Liverpool's winner against Real Madrid in the first leg to put the fixture [...]
Spain’s two-horse race: advantage Barca
Europe's next best league remains a two-horse race, with leading horse Barça nudging a little further ahead of Real Madrid's second placed, er, horse, thanks to a lively performance from city sidekicks Atletico. The Madrid derby was the best game I've seen so far this weekend. Barcelona 2 - 0 Athletic Bilbao Barcelona returned to winning [...]
When Liverpool weren’t crap: 1981 European Cup Final
Ok, enough of the Liverpool bashing. They did actually use to be quite good, although you'll have to be in your mid-thirties at least to remember those days. what with the upcoming Liverpool - Madrid fixture, this seems a good time to take a look at the heady days of the early 1980s. The season 1980-81 of the European Cup football club tournament [...]
Harry good, Juande bad?
Juande Ramos is doing a Martin Jol-esque job of proving that Tottenham are the problem and not the plethora of reputable international managers whose careers have hit the rocks during a stint at White Heart Lane. the ever excellent Sid Lowe covers the issue in typically fine fashion in the Guardian: 'Any suggestion then that Ramos, the "bumbling [...]
