The Confederations Cup: Spain 0-2 USA
Yes, yes, yes. Spain had an off night. It has been a long season and their players may have been tired. And so on. Let’s drop the excuses, here. Spain,...
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The Confederations Cup: Spain 2-0 South Africa
South Africa, horns and all, have edged their way into the semi-finals of this year’s Confederations Cup, but their doing so has been something of a hollow victory for them,...
The Confederations Cup: Spain 1-0 Iraq
It took Spain 40 years to rebuild their national team into a championship-winning force, so 55 minutes was never going to be too long to wait. Still, that’s how long...
The Confederations Cup: New Zealand 0 – 5 Spain
Iker Casillas is a one club man. He first signed for Real Madrid Juniors at the age of ten, and has been at the Bernebau ever since. He has played...
The Confederations Cup – A (Very) Rough Guide
For some people, the end of the football season in years that end with odd numbers means a return to the real world. For two and a half months they...
Spain – European Champions
Spain, then, are the European champions and, with the benefit of hindsight, it’s difficult to argue a case against them winning it. Euro 2008, however, was just like that in...
Brushed Aside
We had very high hopes for this match, didn’t we? When pressed, this was going to be the classic of the two matches. The match that would repeated in slow...
Breaking The Jinx
Everybody has their bogey team, and so it has been for Spain against Italy for almost ninety years. No competitive wins against them since 1920, and the massive feeling of...
Spain 4-1 Russia
Slowly but surely, Euro 2008 is coming to life. After last night’s contender for Match Of The Tournament between the Netherlands and Italy, tonight’s match between Russia and Sweden ran...
Euro 2004 – Group D
Finally, Group D. One of the curiosities of media coverage of this group so far has been the enthusiasm with which writers have reached into their big bag of cliches....
The Old Masters
France 3-1 Spain You can’t keep a good team down. France have, finally arrived at this tournament and, curiously enough, in exorcising still more of their own demons, they also...
Siesta Time
Ukraine 1-0 Tunisia / Spain 1-0 Saudi Arabia After all the excitement of last night, it was back to the dull and the ordinary this afternoon. Spain decided to field...
Sangria & Sangria
Spain 4-0 Ukraine Spain. The perennial under-achievers. For years and years, they have flattered to decieve. Often packed with as many start players as the other top nations, they alone...