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  •       They cried. The neutrals cried. All most everyone cried. Some were tears of joy. Others were tears of despair. Earlier in the day people had seen the English Premier League descend into chaos as in the space of 90 seconds the league title would cross over Manchester....

    Viva La Liga: Surviving The Tension In Vallecas

    Posted on May 14, 2012 | 2 Comments
          They cried. The neutrals cried. All most everyone cried. Some were tears of joy. Others were tears of despair. Earlier in the day people had seen the English Premier League descend into chaos as in the space of 90 seconds the league title would cross over Manchester....

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  •     Allen Dodson, our finance expert is back to look at the dark side of La Liga, financial inequality.     As a look at the league table shows, this year is going to be much like last, and the year before that, with Barcelona and Real Madrid fighting...

    QUANTIFYING INEQUALITY IN LA LIGA: A GINI COEFFICIENT ANALYSIS

    Posted on April 17, 2012 | No Comments
        Allen Dodson, our finance expert is back to look at the dark side of La Liga, financial inequality.     As a look at the league table shows, this year is going to be much like last, and the year before that, with Barcelona and Real Madrid fighting...

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  •   How many players can genuinely be said to represent the very soul of their club? I don’t mean a player whose current team leans on him heavily. Take the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Steven Gerrard and Christian Erikson out of their current club sides and I admit they’d be...

    La Liga History: Illa, Illa, Illa, Juanito Maravilla

    Posted on April 10, 2012 | 1 Comment
      How many players can genuinely be said to represent the very soul of their club? I don’t mean a player whose current team leans on him heavily. Take the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Steven Gerrard and Christian Erikson out of their current club sides and I admit they’d be...

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  •     I felt rather saddened on Saturday as I watched Real Zaragoza collapse to yet another pitiful defeat. It wasn’t the nature of their loss that troubled me; in fact they threatened to actually compete with Malaga in the first half and held a lead for a decent amount...

    La Liga History: The Peculiar Legacy of Pato Yáñez

    Posted on February 29, 2012 | 2 Comments
        I felt rather saddened on Saturday as I watched Real Zaragoza collapse to yet another pitiful defeat. It wasn’t the nature of their loss that troubled me; in fact they threatened to actually compete with Malaga in the first half and held a lead for a decent amount...

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  •     Craig Williams (twitter: @onlyscotinsama) is back with a poignant piece on Real Madrid history and  the legend Andres Junquera.   Living in this Northern pocket of Spain I feel surrounded by football, just as I do back home in Glasgow; you can almost breathe it in the air. So...

    A Classic talks about El Clasico and Real Madrid of yore

    Posted on January 24, 2012 | No Comments
        Craig Williams (twitter: @onlyscotinsama) is back with a poignant piece on Real Madrid history and  the legend Andres Junquera.   Living in this Northern pocket of Spain I feel surrounded by football, just as I do back home in Glasgow; you can almost breathe it in the air. So...

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  •   With the current financial crisis in Spain and the fact that most stadia desperately require makeovers, I decided to take a look at the attendance and capacity numbers over the past 5 years in Spanish Football (2006/2007 – 2010/2011) in the first division. Some  observations: 1) The average attendance...

    La Liga Attendances over the past 5 Years

    Posted on January 20, 2012 | 3 Comments
      With the current financial crisis in Spain and the fact that most stadia desperately require makeovers, I decided to take a look at the attendance and capacity numbers over the past 5 years in Spanish Football (2006/2007 – 2010/2011) in the first division. Some  observations: 1) The average attendance...

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  •   As Molina entered the press room he looked like the tourist who buys a holiday apartment and turns up and sees that the place resembled nothing like the brochure. Molina was defeated, broken and lost. Where to now? A team that had played well only a week ago disappeared...

    Viva La Liga: A View From A Madrid Sofa ~ Round 19

    Posted on January 17, 2012 | 1 Comment
      As Molina entered the press room he looked like the tourist who buys a holiday apartment and turns up and sees that the place resembled nothing like the brochure. Molina was defeated, broken and lost. Where to now? A team that had played well only a week ago disappeared...

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  •   Always controversial, Jorge Zuazola from Spanish Leadership (twitter: @SpanishLeadership) is at it again and is providing an exclusive executive summary of his list of Spanish players who he believes are transferable this winter market.  Take a look and provide your comments, do you agree or disagree?     Sponsored by OLBG.com...

    Winter Transfer Market: Spanish players

    Posted on December 24, 2011 | 6 Comments
      Always controversial, Jorge Zuazola from Spanish Leadership (twitter: @SpanishLeadership) is at it again and is providing an exclusive executive summary of his list of Spanish players who he believes are transferable this winter market.  Take a look and provide your comments, do you agree or disagree?     Sponsored by OLBG.com...

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  •   The last round before the brief winter break in Spain. Barca is off in Japan playing in the Club World Cup.  They already faced Rayo who also gets a bye.  Funnily enough, a lot of players return to face their old teams this week. Sergio Ramos returns to Seville,...

    La Liga Calendar ~ Round 17 + US TV

    Posted on December 15, 2011 | 1 Comment
      The last round before the brief winter break in Spain. Barca is off in Japan playing in the Club World Cup.  They already faced Rayo who also gets a bye.  Funnily enough, a lot of players return to face their old teams this week. Sergio Ramos returns to Seville,...

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  • Though I’ve covered all ten games in the last two rounds of La Liga, I’ve decided to just cover the fixtures that I’m extremely confident of picking winning bets out of at acceptable prices from now onwards.  However, I’m likely to take chances on other bets throughout the weekend so...

    JCLaLiga Betting Recommendations – Round 14

    Posted on November 26, 2011 | 1 Comment
    Though I’ve covered all ten games in the last two rounds of La Liga, I’ve decided to just cover the fixtures that I’m extremely confident of picking winning bets out of at acceptable prices from now onwards.  However, I’m likely to take chances on other bets throughout the weekend so...

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