After the euphoria of victory comes the ecstasy of celebration… which, in Spain’s case, means getting drunk and clowning around in planes, buses, and a stage especially designed for the purpose of showing your drunk antics to a screaming crowd (also, putting your foot in your mouth).
So, come in and enjoy a few carefully selected [...]

It still feels like a dream… walking to work early on Monday morning, stopping at each newsstand on the way to look at the newspapers and grin like a fool.
Spain, World Cup Champions.
SPAIN, WORLD CUP CHAMPIONS!

¡Campeones, oé!
Finally, finally, we’ve conquered not only the ‘Quarterfinal Curse’, but the World Cup itself. We’ve showed the world where [...]

Paul was right. Huh. Who’d have trusted an octopus with this?
But he chose Spain and Spain won.

And, by all the octopi in the world, we deserved it!!! I know that victory doesn’t go always to the deserving, that pretty build-ups and incredible amounts of possession don’t always mean anything, but they did this time. Unlike [...]

Euphoria was last night’s game, and going to sleep with the beeping of car horns, fireworks and drunken voices singing “¡Illa, illa, illa, Villa maravilla!”.

Waking up this morning was running immediately to the papers to check that it was true, that Spain really were in the semi-finals, and finding a headline that Cristiano Ronaldo is [...]

The review, replays, grading, opinions and coherent thoughts will come later…
… now, it’s time to celebrate!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For the first time in their history, Spain makes it into the semifinals of a World Cup!
Spain, the team everyone was writing off after the match with Switzerland. Spain, the eternal underperformers. *Our* Spain.

¡VIVA ESPAÑA!

Quarter-finals, here we go!!!

While this match might not have been a gift to the eyes of neutral fans expecting super-sized servings of tiki-taka, it certainly was good enough for the Spain fans hoping to see a better showing than in our scrappy win against Chile.
Vicente Del Bosque, a stubborn man with an undying love for [...]

Because if anyone saw the game last night and said, ‘wow, these guys look like serious favourites to win the World Cup’ then, please, they need to go to see their eye-doctor urgently.
I am very, very happy we won, even if my neighbours tortured me all night with wailing car-horns and fireworks, but I am… [...]

There, there. We won. We’re still alive in the competition. In fact, we’re second in our group. We’re not favourites anymore, no one was dazzled by our game, and things have returned to normal. As you were.
It was a good match. Not a brilliant match, not the goleada that it could have been, but it [...]

I can’t say I’m not upset. I might have cried a little and everything. But not so much at having lost the first match on the World Cup which we were ‘favourites’ to win, but at the horrible drone that I’d been hearing since the first half. No, not the vuvuzelas. It goes something like, [...]

We’re all itching to see Spain play in the South Africa (or else you’re here just to pass the time), but what I don’t think we all realise is that it might be the last time we get to see some of our favourite players wearing La Roja.
It’s unfortunate, and a little unnerving, to see [...]