… and if someone needed at good day at the office, it was Pepe Reina, after his unfortunate mistake in the friendly against Argentina.
But lo and behold, he put that behind him and gave a truly wonderful performance in Liverpool’s otherwise lackluster 0-0 draw against Birmingham this weekend. In case you had forgotten why Mr [...]

Who are we trying to kid, every loss hurts. Particularly since it’s been a couple of years since Spain lost in a friendly, and the only recent defeats for La Roja were against the USA at the Confed Cup, and against Switzerland on our way to the World Cup.
So yeah, losing against Argentina wasn’t fun.

But [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s obvious that Spain suffers at this time an epidemic of good footballers (honestly, where else would players like Cesc Fàbregas and Xabi Alonso be consigned to the bench?), which makes Vicente Del Bosque’s work all that much harder. While over in England the masses worry about whether any of their goalkeeping options are good [...]

I love the word ‘penpix’ … I have no idea what it means but I take it to mean ‘player biographies’ …
Here then is the Spain Euro 2008 penpix, complete bios and stats of all the members of La Furia Roja straight from the fine folks at Reuters … ENJOY! (To view [...]

(*Note that I tend to do ‘previews’ a bit different from everyone else (i.e. I just talk about whatever I feel is relevant to the game in no order!)

(Sorry, I felt the need to put this up since I used to sing this song drunk while watching any football game)
Daryl already got some of you [...]