The weekend preview
Spain – La Liga: Champions Barcelona are off to La Mestalla to play Valencia. The Catalan club are sweating on the fitness of midfield playmaker Xavi, who came back injured from the international break. Star striker David Villa is out for the home team.
Real Madrid are at home to Valladolid and are expected to be [...]
The weekend preview
Spain – La Liga: Barcelona and Real Madrid are now the only two sides left with perfect records after Athletic Bilbao went down in midweek. Real are at home to Tenerife on Saturday and Barcelona travel to Malaga on the Sunday.
Both Ronaldo for Real and Lionel Messi for Barcelona have started the season in frightening [...]
Chelsea deserve the slap
Yes, you can point to the hundreds of similar cases, and yes, it’s harsh to fine a player who was 15 at the time of the offence, but just as with Eduardo’s post-match conviction for diving, Chelsea deserve their two-year transfer ban for tapping up Gael Kakuta.
Why? Because Fifa, like Uefa, have to start somewhere [...]