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Just over a month ago, the relegation battle in Spain was fairly easy to summarise - Real Zaragoza plus two others. The team from the North-East looked doomed, they were 12 points from safety with only three wins all season. The fans and pundits alike didn't expect them to survive, it was rumoured that the club had even settled on the fact they would be relegated, they would just simply regroup in the Segunda, coming back stronger. A master-plan flawed to the extreme, the club entered administration last summer, but without 'parachute payments' for relegation it's possible they might...

For two teams that used to pride themselves on not discussing match officials, for Barcelona and Real Madrid, there's been a change of directive over the last few seasons. This seems to have hit fever pitch this season, whilst it hasn't been as intense as last year's El Clásico series, it has prodded and niggled over a much larger period. Is one getting more favourable decisions than the other ? Their respective medias certainly think so, obviously portraying their team as victims; whilst offering the bitter rivals as the teacher's pet. If it was to be judged and irrespectively...

A look at one of the factors behind the dominance of Real Madrid and Barcelona by guest writer Ian Walsh.

Throughout the football world there are many examples of great football rivalries and possibly with the exception of the explosiveness of the Old Firm rivalry of Celtic and Rangers in Scotland - there is none greater than the one contested between Real Madrid and Barcelona in Spain. Author of Morbo: 'The Story of Spanish Football' Phil Ball refers to the games between Real Madrid and...