Valencia fans finally have something to cheer about after Ronald Koeman's side beat Getafe 3-1 in the Copa del Rey final at the Vicente Calderon.....
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La Liga Review takes a look at Monday's Spanish football headlines in Madrid: MARCA claims "Real Madrid, with a nine point lead at the top of La Liga, have the title in their pocket". Elswehere, Sneijder wins the plaudits and the Madrid president, Ramon Calderon announces that he intends to start shopping closer to home: re-signing Ruben De La Red and recalling Esteban Granero from Getafe...
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La Liga Review's snippets from all 20 Spanish Primera Liga football clubs.Ruuds up and running, Xisco is dreaming, Vicente isn't injured and Del Nido wants just 25 million for Alves' boots ....
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La Liga Review looks back at all of this weekend's Primera Liga action after Real Madrid's 3-1 win over Sevilla sees them go six points clear at the top of the Spanish league and Barcelona slip down in to third place behind Villarreal...
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La Liga Review's round up of what's being made up in the Spanish football papers sees Ronaldinho's brother announce, then deny, that the player will exercise FIFA clause 17 to fight for his right to party; an 'act of Terrorism' inflicted upon Betis; Real Madrid targeting Benzema, Poulsen and Alves. And could there really be someone Xavi at Chelsea?
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Normal service resumes after some sort of accord momentarily broke out yesterday and the Spanish football papers from Barcelona and Madrid have returned to their trenches either side of the
great divide. Marca and AS both focus upon Spain's 1-0 win over Italy, while in Barcelona, Sport and MD pretend it never happened and concentrate on transfer gossip. So, it's Benzema and Diego for Barcelona, Schuster and Cannavaro for the chop, Ronaldinho for Chelsea, Xabi Alonso and Fabiano for Madrid and De La Red for Liverpool: all in our paper review.....Oh,and how could we forget?: Ronnie likes girls.
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Today is one of those rare occasions when the Sports papers in Barcelona and Madrid are actually in agreement with one another: both Marca and Mundo Deportivo claim that Rafa Benitez is being tapped up as the next manager of FC Barcelona, while everyone agrees that it's curtains for Ronaldinho…
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Barcelona go bonkers for Bojan while the Madrid papers have Schuster in their sights: La Liga Review's regular look at the Spanish football paper's (over)reactions to the weekend's action...
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The Spanish FA's Competition Committee have imposed a two match stadium ban on Real Betis as punishment for the bottle-throwing incident which caused their home game against Athletic Bilbao to be abandoned last Saturday.
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It seems that Ronaldinho is coming in for a fair amount of criticism for missing out on FC Barcelona's La Liga clash with Almeria at the weekend. After moaning about the fact that his leg 'hurt', the Brazilian was left out of Sunday's injury hit squad, and is now feeling the backlash after Barcelona blew yet another chance to close the gap on Real Madrid at the top of the Spanish league…
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La Liga Match Reports & Results
La Liga Review takes a look at all of this weekend's Spanish football action...
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Controversial stuff. Or is it? Well that depends on which Spanish football paper you read. According to Marca, Samuel Eto’o tells Thierry Henry to ‘get on with his job and play where he’s told’. According to El Mundo Deportivo, the FC Barcelona striker thinks ‘we should all respect Henry’s private life’. La Liga Review brings you two different versions of the same story…
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In La Liga Review’s regular look at the Spanish football papers' front pages, the focus in Madrid is upon Luis Aragones and Raul’s staged ceasefire, whilst the scribblers in Barcelona get very excited over ‘new signings’ Ronnie and Henry…
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Spanish Football Headlines: La Liga Review's regular look at Spain's sporting press.
Following Barcelona's Champions League win in Glasgow, the Barcelona papers are full of praise for Ronaldinho. The Fantastic Four are real, apparently. Even Marca agrees, although it is critical of Barcelona's defending; whilst AS stuns the football world with an Arjen Robben 'exclusive'...
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Our daily look at whats making the headlines in Spanish football today. According to the Madrid press, Raul continues to be the best player in the world, whilst in Barcelona there is anarchy in the dressing room as Mourinho, Van Basten and Wenger are lined up as alternatives for Rijkaard...
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