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And so it's over. Another season has drawn to a close. It wasn't a vintage one in Serie A, but that can also be said of the Premier League, La Liga, the Bundesliga and Ligue 1. From spring onward, if not earlier, the title race felt like a foregone c...

One of the worst-kept secrets in football was confirmed Monday: Jose Mourinho will depart Real Madrid at the end of the season for pastures new. Three seasons, three trophies. The Copa del Rey in his first, La Liga in his second and the lesser Sup...

His unnecessary inability to avoid feuding with Iker Casillas will forever remain an unsightly scar on Jose Mourinho's reign at Real Madrid -- which, perhaps, awards ultimate victory in the battle of wills between two Iberian footballing powerhouses ...

This one's guaranteed to make you cringe. Guaran-damn-teed, we say! Upon retrieving the La Liga trophy from its podium on Sunday and turning back to the rest of the group, Barcelona captain Carles Puyol began looking for two suitable candidates to...

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Barcelona achieved a well-deserved 2-1 win over Real Valladolid at the Camp Nou on Sunday in Matchday 36 of La Liga. Pedro Rodriguez and Marc Valiente (own goal) scored for the Blaugrana, who enjoyed 71 percent of possession, created 17 scoring chanc...

With 90,000 fans looking forward to being presented with the prestigious La Liga trophy at the Camp Nou on Sunday, one would think that these are peaceful times at the Camp Nou -- the general feeling in the streets of the Catalan capital is not as bl...

The only thing which will be quivering more than the woodwork at the Bernabeu will be Jose Mourinho with indignation. For a bad loser at the best of times, this defeat, Real Madrid's first to Atletico Madrid in 14 years, means that if he leaves th...

After an incredibly euphoric evening when the Blaugranas shared the well-deserved Liga trophy with more than 500,000 Cules around the streets of the Catalan capital, it was back to the drawing board for president Sandro Rosell, sporting director Ando...

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Just a few short months ago I was standing a few hundred metres away from where Levante plays: the Ciutat de Valencia stadium. Juan Francisco Garcia -- or Juanfran, to use his working name -- was showing me the three-minute sprint he used to have ...

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Barcelona achieved a courageous 1-2 win against Atletico de Madrid at the Vicente Calderon in Matchday 35 of La Liga. Alexis Sanchez and Gabi (own goal) scored for the Catalans, who enjoyed 58 percent of possession, created 12 goal-scoring chances an...

Visit the official Real Madrid website today (Sunday, May 12) and it'll take longer than you'd expect to find details and reaction to Los Blancos' 1-1 draw at Espanyol on Saturday night. That's because Madrid's basketball team are set to face Olym...

The past few weeks have been full of Barcelona's players and staff emphasising that any feeling that the title victory isn't all that impressive, that it doesn't need to be properly celebrated or appreciated is false. They have taken turns, Andres...

England: Two games remaining Queens Park Rangers (20th place, 25 points), Reading (19th, 28 pts.), Wigan (18th, 35 pts.), Newcastle (17th, 38 pts.), Norwich (16th, 38 pts.), Sunderland (15th, 38 pts.), Southampton (14th, 39 pts.) It speaks volume...