He failed a drugs test after a loss to Man United in May. A player at one of Spanish football’s biggest clubs has been banned from playing in the country’s top division after testing positive for a banned substance. Athletic Bilbao star Yeray Alvarez failed a drugs test after playing 90-minutes in the Basque side’s […]

9 months ago

‘It was one of the best weekends of my life’ A group of Spanish cousins travelled 1,400 miles to watch a League One team they chose to support after playing as them on FIFA – because ‘they liked the badge’. Fernando Batallon, 25, and his relatives became unlikely fans of Derby County after they randomly […]

3 years ago

The Catalan club could be pulled out of the mire by foreign investment Barcelona have apparently received an offer of approximately €1.5 billion (£1.2bn) from a Dubai based company which would help them clear their humungous debts. As reported in the Mirror, the Spanish giants were made an offer to refinance their debts from an […]

4 years ago

Here are the best goals from week 37 as the La Liga 20/21 season is set to wrap up As the La Liga title looks to come down to the last day, one of the Madrid teams is now set to clinch the trophy by just a point or two. Week 37 saw Barcelona seal […]

5 years ago

Another bad take from the man who thinks the Super League will ‘save football’ Real Madrid President, Florentino Perez, is one of those at the heart of the Super League breakaway – the delightfully dubbed, ‘Dirty Dozen’ – and following yesterday’s mass outrage across the footballing world, he took to Spanish TV to try and […]

5 years ago

They tell a great story at SD Eibar, about the first time the mighty Barcelona came to town. The game itself, played on a drizzly Saturday evening in March 2015, was settled by two goals from Lionel Messi – but this particular tale is not about the multi-Ballon d’Or-winning Argentine or any of his world-renowned […]

8 years ago