Madrid gonna Madrid and the mighty Williamses: La Liga review and awards
The Sids pick over the season that was in Spain, featuring the revelation that was Girona, a big year in Bilbao and the Beatles besting the Stones
May 2024
Cádiz pay for failure to make football fun with miserable relegation
The sun went silently down on the team from the carnival city to leave everything settled in La Liga with one week still to play
February 2024
European football: Leverkusen go eight clear, Juve stumble and Barça get lucky
Bayer Leverkusen opened up an eight-point gap at the top of Bundesliga while Atlético enjoyed a thumping 5-0 La Liga win over Las Palmas
January 2024
Milan show support for Mike Maignan amid seesaw draw with Bologna
La Liga: Gündogan’s last-gasp penalty lifts Barcelona as Athletic move up
November 2023
European roundup: Bellingham on target as Real Madrid sweep aside Cádiz
European roundup: Las Palmas end Atlético’s winning run; PSG go top
April 2018
Sportblog
Levante go wild after breathless win drops rivals off edge of La Liga cliff
Las Palmas, Málaga and Deportivo La Coruña will almost certainly be relegated after Paco López returned to his boyhood club to mastermind their stunning surge towards safety
March 2018
Barcelona's Valverde blames referee for Las Palmas draw before facing Atlético
After drawing with lowly Las Palmas, Barcelona are under threat for the first time this season, and on Sunday face their nearest challengers, in-form Atlético Madrid
January 2018
European round-up: Suárez, Messi score late to save Barcelona against Alavés
Lionel Messi scored a spectacular free-kick to give Barcelona a come-from-behind 2-1 win over struggling Alavés, keeping the Catalans 11 points clear at the top of La Liga
December 2017
Sportblog
Can Las Palmas lurch away from segunda as they go from Pako to Paquito to Paco?
On course for their fourth manager in under five months, Las Palmas had drifted to the foot of La Liga before a lifeline emerged against Espanyol …
November 2017
European round-up: Isco caps win as Real Madrid brush aside Las Palmas
Real Madrid shook off their midweek defeat by Tottenham Hotspur to register a 3-0 win over Las Palmas while in Serie A the champions Juventus came from behind to beat Benevento 2-1
October 2017
Sportblog
Barcelona in the strange and symbolic eye of a storm over Catalonia
Barça’s nuanced identification with Catalonia is part of what gives the club an explicitly socio-political dimension. And that meant this was always going to be more than a match … even if in the end it was less than one
Lionel Messi helps Barcelona extend perfect start at empty Camp Nou
Barcelona maintained their perfect start to the La Liga season with a 3-0 victory over Las Palmas at an empty Camp Nou, where the game was played behind closed doors
Barcelona 3-0 Las Palmas: La Liga – as it happened
Lionel Messi scored twice after Sergio Busquets bagged the opener at an empty Camp Nou, where the La Liga match was played behind closed doors
June 2017
Sportblog
It’s the Sids 2017! The complete review of the 2016-17 La Liga season
From Real Madrid’s historic double to a bottom three in a league of their own, via explosive managerial cameos and that statue, it’s the annual awards
April 2017
Sportblog
Real Madrid make big point as Barcelona shoot themselves in the foot – again
Barça’s fate was in their own hands, which as it turned out was the worst place it could be against Málaga, despite the draw by La Liga title rivals
March 2017
Ronaldo’s late double earns Real Madrid draw after Gareth Bale is sent off
Cristiano Ronaldo struck two late goals for Real Madrid to force a 3-3 draw with Las Palmas at the Bernabéu in La Liga after being reduced to 10 men by the dismissal of Gareth Bale
February 2017
Kevin-Prince Boateng: ‘Mandela shook my hand and said: my daughter wants to marry you’
Las Palmas’s former Spurs and Portsmouth midfielder talks about fighting racism, speaking at the UN and waking up one day ‘looking like 50 Cent: that’s not me’
January 2017
Luis Suárez and Lionel Messi on target as Barcelona thrash Las Palmas
Luis Suárez scored twice and Lionel Messi was also on target as Barcelona thrashed Las Palmas 5-0 with a ruthless second-half display at the Camp Nou
