Nah, that's Granada 74 - not Granada C.F. - the original and the best Granada team!

I wouldn't support Franchise football, whatever the location!!

Are Zaragoza top of the Segunda?

the 'derby' will be on sunday 3rd may.
fair play to ciudad de muruca though. treated like cr@p by the murcian council and followed through their threat to up sticks.

The real Granada could well be able to relegate them then!

I'm about to start digging now myself, but maybe you might know something about this.....

At the game yesterday there was a minutes silence for someone and, when the game kicked off, all the Granada players got down on their knees in some kind of tribute for the first minute or so of the game (the Melilla players just passed the ball around themselves, so they knew what was going to happen.)

The crowd around me all seemed quite moved by it so I didn't really want to ask anyone about what had happened, you could definitely tell that there was something motivating the Granada players all through the game and the way they celebrated at the end, some of them just sank to the floor.

Any idea who it was who died? Can't work anything out from the club website.

[iSe guardó un minuto de silencio por D. Antonio Ruiz de Almirón, administrativo del Granada CF durante más de cincuenta años, y por las víctimas del hundimiento del edificio anexo al Campo Municipal de béisbol de Sant Boi. Los jugadores del Granada saltaron al terreno de juego con una camiseta en la que solicitaban a su Presidente la necesidad de cobrar las nóminas atrasadas, y una vez comenzó el partido, se arrodillaron de cara al palco por espacio aproximadamente de un minuto.[/i

don't know if you get that or not.
seems like they were on their knees as a kind of protest at not being paid.
as for the solemn atmosphere, it's got at least a bit to do with the tragic accident on saturday in catalonia where 4 young lads were crushed to death when the roof of the sports centre they were playing in fell through due to the high winds.

fourth. just six points seperate the top 11!

Fútbol Liga Adelante 2008-09

1 Xerez 37
2 Tenerife 34
3 Hércules 33
4 Zaragoza 33

Cheers for that.

Not quite the touching gesture I thought they were making then!

Copa Del Rey last night:

Sporting 1-2 Athletic - goals from Gabilondo and Lopez see the Basques through to the semis after a 0-0 first leg
Mallorca 0-0 Betis - Mallorca go through 1-0 on aggregate.

Tonight sees Valencia - Sevilla (3-2 first leg) and Barcelona-Espanyol at the Camp Nou (0-0 at the Montjuic).

live on telly tonight. kick off 5 mins after i get in from work


guardiola to name a strong line up

Copa Del Rey last night:

Barcelona 3-2 Espanyol.

Barcelona surged into a 3-goal lead through Bojan (2) and Pique, only for Espanyol to fight back through Carominas and a superb strike from Jose Callejon. Barcelona held on though and will meet Mallorca in the semis.

Sevilla 2-1 Valencia.

Sevilla will meet Athletic in the last 4 following Sebastien Squillaci's last minute winner at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan. Trailing 3-2 from the first leg, Sevilla looked down and out when Carlos Marchena gave Valencia an 8th minute lead only for Fredi Kanoute to equalise before the break. Squillaci then met Renato's corner to seal a memorable victory for Manolo Jiminez's men.

shocking displays by both keepers

The weekend in preview:

Saturday January 31
19:00 Athletic Bilbao v Málaga
21:00 C.D Numancia v Real Madrid

Sunday February 1
16:00 Atletico Madrid v Valladolid
16:00 Espanyol v Recreativo Huelva
16:00 Real Betis Balompié v Getafe C.F
16:00 Racing Santander v Barcelona
16:00 Deportivo La Coruna v Villarreal
16:00 Osasuna v Mallorca
18:00 Valencia v Almeria
20:00 Sporting de Gijón v Sevilla

On Saturday Real Madrid, who have been winning of late without playing particularly well, visit Soria to play a Numancia side who are hanging precariously above the drop zone following recent results and are in the middle of the run of fixtures against the top sides. Nevertheless, Real have won six straight league fixtures under Ramos and you would expect this to be a fairly routine victory for Los Merengues. The first game of the weekend comes from the San Mames where Athletic, fresh from Copa Del Rey success, will look to break down a stubborn Malaga outfit who are unbeaten in six matches and are breathing right down the neck of Atletico in the final European spot.

On Sunday, the embattled Javier Aguirre will watch his team play Valladolid. It could not be a better time to play Zortilla’s side, who have taken just one point from a possible 15 in the league. However, with Aguero and Forlan struggling for goals and looking familiarly brittle in defence, it could be a struggle. Espanyol, who fought valiantly at the Camp Nou on Thursday, welcome Recreativo to the Montjuic in what has all the makings of being an ugly relegation dogfight. Pochettino is unbeaten in his short tenure with Los Pericos and I fancy they’ll grab an important 3 points, even though Recre won last time out against Betis. Speaking of Betis, Paco Chaparro is under pressure there and a defeat at home to Getafe could be the last straw. Betis have the worst home record in the league (5 defeats from 9 – woeful) so Getafe, fresh from their shellacking of Sporting last week, will fancy their chances.

Barcelona make the trip to Santander to play a Racing side who have looked full of confidence since the return of Nikola Zigic up front. Racing’s home form is poor, so Pep Guardiola will still be fairly confident his team can cruise unstoppably on. For Racing, a win, however unlikely, will strengthen their fight for UEFA cup place that looked out of the question in December. Manuel Pellegrini’s Villarreal, who continue to stumble, visit the Riazor to play a Deportivo side wounded from three straight league defeats.

Mallorca, who pulled off the result of the week last time with their win over Valencia, visit Osasuna and Gregorio Manzano will be praying the form lasts so they could jump out of the bottom 3. Unai Emery will look to bounce back following league and cup disappointment with a win over Almeria, who have picked up just one away win this season. Finally, Sevilla visit Sporting Gijon which is a simply must-win fixture for Manolo Jiminez’s men if they wish to remain in the top four.

Anybody watch the superb game last night at the San Mames? Brilliant game between Athletic and Malaga. Malaga twice went ahead through Luque and Lolo only for Yeste and Llorente to equalise with a couple of peachy goals followed by an 85th minute winner from Susaeta. Yeste and Llorente were sensational for the hosts while Duda and Baha were constant threats for Malaga. That win means Malaga missed out on the chance to gatecrash the top 6 and Athletic move into 9th.

Contrast that with the rather soporific encounter at Los Parajitos where Numancia were, for long periods, the better side against Real Madrid only for Raul and Robben to score two quick second half goals to collect all three points. Real's gameplan seemed to be 'lump it up to Robben' and for the most part it didn't work as the Dutchman had an off day. Raul's 307th goal equals Alfredo Di Stefano's Real Madrid record, he can beat it at home against Racing next week.

Futher props to Juande Ramos - he looks like a faded matinee idol in that coat. Marvellous.

No, but more than happy with the result. Nosebleed territory now and with the low average age of the side, something half decent looks like being built for the future.




Good call. Very noir-ish.

Surprised Zaragoza aren't top with quality of Arizmendi and Oliviera.

Err......



You missed out. Make sure to catch the goals on Revista. Yeste's goal in particular is a fabulous strike.

Had a better idea. A particular video sharing website before they get yanked... Yes, fantastic strike. Mind, Llorente's weren't half bad either.

I meant Zapater.

2-1 defeat at home to Valladolid for Atlético this afternoon, if the reaction of the crowd toward the end of the match is anything to go by I don't see Aguirre being in his job for much longer, and I don't think he can have too many complaints.

Aguirre i think will be gone by late this week.
Got to an unacceptable level where i think the players are losing faith and just not being very bothered anymore, a la Kun.

they were calling for both his and cerezo's head

For reasons perhaps best known to themselves, Real Madrid have spent £1.5m getting Julien Faubert on loan from West Ham.

Quite rightly so.

Apparently if Aguirre does get the boot Abel Resino will be appointed for the rest of the season, and Atléti will have to pay €500,000 in compensation to Castellon - his current employers.

To most sane people appointing someone who has only coached in the second division to a club playing in the Champs League and chasing European qualification might seem a bit odd, but paying €500k for what could only be a few months would be ludicrous - however that is the sort of thing Cerezo and Atlético can reasonably expected to do!

i can see enrique giving aguirre the boot to save his own skin. show he's taking action and lessen the pressure on himself.

Aye, that's exactly what I am expecting to happen, longer term Cerezo has to go too but I don't know enough about off-field issues to know how realistic that is and who might come in.