In anticipation of this year’s Euro 2008, I thought it’d be illuminating to look at the history of La Furia Roja, who’ve underachieved time and time again.
Their best finish ever at the World Cup was 4th place in 1950.
Their only major tournament victory was Euro 1964, a mere 44 years ago.
You could say […]

Daryl here, just stepping in with a quick update. Luis Aragones has named his provisional 31 man squad for Euro 2008, which will be chopped down to 23 at some point.
No Raul (no surprise) but young Bojan is in there. Squad looks like this:
Iker Casillas, Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Andrés Iniesta, Xavi, Carles Puyol, Bojan […]

Barcelona had a Pyrrhic victory of sorts on Saturday. Their win at Mestalla allowed them to get to a point of Real Madrid in the standings as the hype already began in Spain over next week’s Derbi. The greater loss was that of Lionel Messi who left the game in the […]

La Liga Starts; Remember Antonio Puerta

Finally back- but the Spanish season is still a long way off

Spanish Update June 29th, 2007, I’ll be off on holiday

Calderon goes mad with coaches and Barca go mad in the transfer window.