Match Of The Midweek: Real Madrid 4-0 Tottenham Hotspur
For Spurs supporters, matches like this evening’s – Real Madrid at the Estadio Santiago Bernabau – are, perhaps, what have been missing for all these years. Yet Spurs have cause...
Posts Tagged: "Real Madrid"
A Homage To A Catalonian Evening
I will get to actual football in a minute. Please bear with me. In a week when former Tory minister David Mellor bleated on TV about dishonesty in public life,...
Video Of The Week – Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
This week's Video Of The Week is "Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait", a 2006 film that was featured at that year's Edinburgh Festival. The film follows a simple concept: follow...
Ronaldo To Madrid… Possibly
It has been said before that the one single things that all great sides have in common is a player in midfield, aged in his mid to late twenties. That...
Five Great European Cup Finals
If you open this morning’s newspapers, you’ll see that, in the opinion of the hacks, it’s already a foregone conclusion that this year’s European Cup final will be the greatest...
The 20 “Most Important” Football Clubs In The World
It doesn’t do any of us any harm to occasionally remind ourselves of the sheer blustering pomposity of the biggest clubs in football. Tonight’s ambassadors for “giving the fans what...
Slaves To Fortune
Is there any sound more grating than that of the petulant millionaire? One of the curiosities of the situation concerning Cristiano Ronaldo’s on-off move to Real Madrid is the lack of media...
My Dream Is To Play For Madrid
I’ve long been a believer that the media can make any story it likes true if it repeats it enough. When Martin Jol was sacked by Tottenham Hotspur, it was...