Barcelona
Lucas Moura exceeds expectations, but PSG fail to against Barcelona
With their resources and the calm head of Ancelotti at the helm, PSG are only going to get stronger, and next season, they will be even better equipped to challenge for the Champions League title.
By Matthew Riding | Football, Sport | Thursday, 11 April 2013 at 2:28 pm
PSG 2 Barcelona 2: Thiago Silva heroics make up for ineffective Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Despite being labelled ‘fat and overrated’ by Marseille’s ever outspoken Joey Barton prior to the match, Silva showed exactly why PSG shelled out a mammoth €42million last summer to acquire his services from AC Milan.
By Matthew Riding | Football, Sport | Wednesday, 3 April 2013 at 12:58 pm
The trouble with dribbling: Why even at Barcelona only Lionel Messi is allowed a mazy run
Fans of all ages love it. Computer gamers are obsessed with it. Managers hate it. Dribbling.
By Sheridan Bird | Football, Sport | Thursday, 20 December 2012 at 1:03 am
Artur Mas’ nationalist gamble is risky business for Catalonia
On Sunday, Spain’s economic powerhouse is taking its quest for sovereign independence to the polls backed by unprecedented nationalist support- and the Spanish central government is watching closely. The election will test the nature of the Catalan identity, the power struggle between Madrid and Barcelona at a time of economic uncertainty for Spain, but also [...]
By Maria Tadeo | The Foreign Desk | Friday, 23 November 2012 at 6:18 pm
Lionel Messi in numbers: Is the Barcelona player the greatest-ever footballer?
Football’s greatest – Pelé, Diego Maradona, Johan Cruyff, Franz Beckenbauer and Alfredo Di Stéfano amongst others – may already have been surpassed by a 25-year-old.
By Majid Mohamed | Football, Sport | Monday, 29 October 2012 at 2:50 pm
Are Atletico Madrid serious title contenders this season?
There is a belief, albeit a somewhat guarded one at this stage of the season, that the Mattress Makers, as Atletico are fondly known, can do something a little bit special this season.
By Nicholas Rigg | Football, Sport | Wednesday, 24 October 2012 at 1:02 am
Even the most ardent of the anti-Messi gang have abandoned their mistaken stance
For many in Argentina, Messi was not one of them; he was a child of Barcelona, raised abroad and lacking in sufficient nationalistic zeal.
By Charles Reynolds | Football, Sport | Friday, 19 October 2012 at 12:02 am
Manchester United and Real Madrid top global shirt sale charts
There is a misconception in some quarters that big clubs sell tens of millions of shirts a year but this is simply untrue. As the graphic shows, only three clubs sell more than 1m shirts a year each consistently.
By Alex Miller | Football, Sport | Monday, 8 October 2012 at 4:12 pm
Cristiano Ronaldo, chasing a hat-trick of hat-tricks, will be relishing taking on depleted Barcelona in El Clasico
Drop everything you’re doing at 6.50pm on Sunday. Barcelona welcome, or should that simply be host, old foes Real Madrid at the Camp Nou in the first Clasico meeting of the Liga season.
By Nicholas Rigg | Football, Sport | Saturday, 6 October 2012 at 1:02 am
The letting go: The trials and tribulations of Ronaldinho Gaúcho
For a two time Fifa World Footballer of the Year, Palmeiras v Atlético Mineiro was hardly the most glamorous of occasions. But for Ronaldinho Gaúcho, however, it provides perhaps a last shot at redemption.
By James Young | Football, Sport | Thursday, 14 June 2012 at 3:16 pm
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