La Liga is competing with the Premiership to claim the title of most exciting and best league. Home to the most skillful players in the world and world renowned clubs like Real Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Sevilla, not to mention historically successful clubs like Atletico Madrid and Athletic Bilbao, La Liga is a unpredictable rollercoaster ride of a division where you can see the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Lionel Messi and Zlatan Ibrahimovic in action.

With a title race closer than the sea to a beach, a jam packed fight for European places and a relegation fight which engulfs almost half the division regularly, La Liga is definitely worth keeping up with.

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Inter Milan’s fairly smooth passage through to the last eight of the Champions League after a lacklustre fight back by Chelsea has definitively proved what everyone knows – Inter are a much better side for selling the big Swede in the summer.

Acquiring Samuel Eto’o plus some 50 odd million on …

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Both Wayne Rooney and Leo Messi have four goals in the Champions League this season and both wear the number 10 shirt for their respective clubs but which of these stars should be chosen ahead of the other one? The word “world class” gets branded far too quickly in football …

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Florentino Perez. The Spanish version of marmite. Some loathe him, others love him, but if you are a Real Madrid fan, you are probably one of the latter. He is of course the founder of the Galactico era and has recently begun work on part duex. The summer transfers came …

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To everyone who thinks Wayne Rooney is the best footballer in the world at the moment, take a look at the little magician at Barcelona Lionel Messi. On watching the 2nd half of last night’s game between Barcelona-Valencia I was in awe of the Argentinean attacking Midfielder. The …

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With the media in overdrive as the Jose Mourinho love-in shows no signs of slowing down as the fervour of tomorrow’s night’s match reaches a crescendo, a little known fact seems to have slipped the attention of most, should Inter Milan lose to Chelsea, a highly probable outcome, then Italy …

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When Liverpool went and brought Daniel Ayala from Sevilla in 2007 it was on the basis that, in time, he would turn in to a complete player. He is a highly rated central defender and should Jamie Carragher leave Anfield this summer, as it has been mentioned by the player …

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One shot on target. One goal. One-nil victory over Germany. For Gonzalo Higuain this is normal, for Maradona it was a realisation, and for the whole of Argentina it was a sign of hope.

Lionel Messi may have more goals for Barcelona but it is his team-mate and rival at Real …

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An astute buyer in the transfer market, Arsene Wenger knows how to build a team. The Frenchman also knows how to spot a bargain, particularly with French players, bringing the likes of Emmanuel Petit, Patrick Vieira, Abou Diaby and Robert Pires on the cheap. But Wenger has bought in some …

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Just type ‘want David Silva’ into Google and you will see exactly 507,000 results. In fact ‘David Silva is the best player in the world’ even returned 225,000 results. Although the latter might not be quite correct, it might not be too many years before that statement becomes a very …

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At 23 years old Gerard Pique is already one of the best centre backs in world football; he’s a regular for arguably the best team in the world, a regular for his country – who are quite possibly the best national team in the world – and he’s already got …

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