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The weekend preview

Spain – La Liga: Champions Barcelona are top of the table and host Atletico Madrid on Saturday night, while Real Madrid, who also have six points out of six, host newly-promoted Xerez on Sunday.
Valencia have started strongly with David Villa and David Silva (pictured) back in the goals again. They are at home to Sporting [...]

The weekend round-up

Spain-La Liga: Real Madrid tonked Espanyol 3-0 away at the host’s new stadium thanks to goals from Granero, Guti and Ronaldo as Manuel Pellegrini rested one or two key players but came up trumps in a win which maintain’s Real’s 100 per cent record.
Ironically it was Granero (pictured), a former Real youth team player who [...]

Leap of faith for UEFA

A total of ‘1,108 related articles’ on Google News shows just how much this one has bubbled over in recent days.
When Arsenal’s Eduardo took a tumble in the area in his side’s Champions League qualifier with Celtic, a chain of events began which has lead to one of the most bizarre passages in the history [...]

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