Euan McTear
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Scottish guy in Madrid doing all the sports media. From books to podcasts to PR to social media to features to TV to translation. You know, sports media stuff.
Madrid - Glasgow - Eibar
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Saves a penalty in the World Cup final shootout, but this was the save of his career.
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Bilbao is having a party. There's something extra special about one-club football cities.
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Jude Bellingham is now inside the top 100 goalscorers in Real Madrid history. He's played 29 games.
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So, Eibar were relegated yesterday. For them to even be in LaLiga in the first place was a miracle. For them to be there for seven years was just continuously unbelievable.
Here’s a THREAD on Eibar’s past seven years. (1/18)
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Zidane says Real Madrid have 7 matches left. He's counting the Champions League final as one of them.
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I don't think Klaas-Jan Huntelaar is the 'I don't celebrate against my former club' type...
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Saudi Arabian fans when Girona, Mallorca and Athletic arrive for next year's Spanish Super Cup.
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PSG training started at 11:00 today. Messi was there at 09:15.
He is going to destroy people.
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Sid Lowe might be the only journalist who can ask a question in the introductory press conference of Bellingham, a €100m player, and have the player respond by saying "I'm a big fan of yours, by the way".
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LaLiga clubs have now won more than half the UEFA trophies of the 21st century.
Yes, 34 of the last 67 European titles were won by Spanish clubs.
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For the Champions League final, I give Manchester City an 80% chance, Inter a 19% chance and Real Madrid a 1% chance. You can never rule Real Madrid out.
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If this proposed Super League format was in place today, then this season’s incredible Girona squad would have to wait until 2026/27 at the very earliest to play in the top European football competition. Is this what they mean by “open”?
Our proposed new men's ESL competition is a league structure based on a true pan-European pyramid: It will consist of 64 participating clubs in three tiers. Watch the video to learn more about the key elements.
#BetterForFootball
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So, El Chiringuito literally started last night's show with three minutes of Guti just sitting there looking sad.
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Pablo Paz and Diego Simeone. Both their sons have scored tonight at the Bernabéu.
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Take Kubo gives this kid his shirt. So, the kid goes and gives Kubo his bag of crisps. The beautiful game.
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Sergio Ramos on Feb 22nd: "I think there are predetermined refereeing decisions."
Sergio Ramos on June 24th: "I don't think there are predetermined refereeing decisions."
Nice and consistent.
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Forget Haaland vs Mbappé. I'll enjoy watching Ansu vs Vinícius for the next decade.
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This weekend, 9 of the Super League's 12 founding members had fixtures against clubs deemed too small for them.
Only 4 of them won those fixtures.
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I'm old enough to remember Real Madrid losing at home to Sheriff Tiraspol in this edition of the Champions League.
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2020/21: Atlético Madrid
2021/22: Real Madrid
2022/23: FC Barcelona
Three champions in three years. Not every league can say that.
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Zidane whenever the going gets tough in the Champions League.
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Levante keep cheering their team despite going 6-0 down.
"You're a first division team" the Real Madrid fans respond.
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A reminder that Bayern coach Hansi Flick was the Germany assistant for the 7-1 Brazil game.
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If Real Madrid had lost last night, their official account wouldn't have tweeted until next Wednesday.
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Gavi is so good and maybe Luis Enrique knows something about football.
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Real Madrid fans telling Barcelona fans that this summer has been really difficult because they had to debate whether to give the No.11 shirt to Asensio or Vinícius.
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Since 2014, the Champions League and Europa League have been won by LaLiga teams 12 times in total and won by non-Spanish teams just 6 times. No other league comes close.
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Rate my Halloween costume. Nothing spookier than Mateu Lahoz refereeing your team, right?
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Xavi is actually right here. Barcelona are the only team in Europe that flew all the way to Dallas to put their players through a pointless friendly game one day after playing in LaLiga.
🗣 Xavi: "We have analyzed our match calendar with our staff and no team in Europe has had a calendar like ours. We have had bad fortune, injuries and also unfortunate situations that have harmed us."
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Imagine thinking the 2021 Ballon d'Or factored in matches played in March 2022.
Imagine watching that second leg and still thinking Messi deserved the Ballon d'Or over Benzema.
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So, apparently 15 Las Palmas players missed their plane for tomorrow's game in Seville because they went for a coffee at the airport. My new favourite team.
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Luis Enrique before World Cup: "I told my players to practice 1,000 penalties in training."
❌ Spain score 0 pens in shootout
Ancelotti before Super Cup: "We don’t train penalties much, it’s impossible to replicate the real life atmosphere."
✅ Madrid score all pens in shootout
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Benzema scores and SPRINTS back to get the game restarted. He's the goalscorer and also the first outfielder back in his own half.
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If Vinícius was racially abused and heard it in the moment, then he's absolutely right to point the culprit out.
Racists need to be kicked out of football stadiums and that's one way to do it.
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First two teams into the 2021/22 Champions League semi-finals are both from LaLiga. Not bad for a "dead league".
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Eibar is a town of 27,000 people.
Tonight they had one Eibar native (Mikel Oyarzabal) and one current SD Eibar player (Bryan Gil) both feature in a senior Spanish national team game. That's absolutely incredible. Aupa Eibar!
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Absolutely insane how the Champions League is 95% of Real Madrid's essence, the competition they absolutely boss, yet their president is trying to abolish nights like this to instead have his 'Super League' in league form and not knockout style.
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A very serious Ancelotti responds: "Whether it was 'mono' or 'tonto', the referee stopped the game to open the racism protocol. He wouldn't do that if they just chanted 'tonto'. Speak to the referee."
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"Go to school tomorrow wearing the Atleti shirt, kids."
Griezmann with a message at the end of his interview.
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If Ernesto Valverde was sacked because of his lack of a Barça style of play, despite achieving results... Well, Koeman has neither the style nor the results.
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So, Messi has been absolutely ridiculous today, but because he does it all the time it won't be hailed as much as it should.
When people say "we'd be talking about that for weeks if it was Messi", it ain't true. Messi makes the amazing so routine that it's probably the opposite.
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Pamplona at 3am on a Wednesday morning because Osasuna just reached the Copa del Rey final. This is what football's all about!
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Without doubt the most toxic 24 hours ever on Twitter for the Real Madrid & Barça rivalry.
Francoism being used as meme material. "Let's cook", "Hold an L", "Cry more", all said in reference to a period so chilling that you have to hope it's just ignorance rather than wickedness.
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No way 63-year-old Ancelotti just did four keepy-uppies on the sideline with his team two goals up in a Champions League quarter-final.
Do not sack this man.
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He's also the joint-top English scorer for the club, pulling level with the 20 official goals of David Beckham and Laurie Cunningham.
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Atlético Madrid are now preparing their 23rd Champions League knockout rounds tie ever.
Diego Simeone will have been coach for 21 out of the 23 ties.
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Wow. Imagine being Fermín López right now. You've just scored a worldie in front of 82,000 people who are right now Googling who the hell you are.
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It'd 23:38 and the Spanish commentator just said: "Cancel your dinner plans, because this final might go to extra time." Oh, Spain.
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Luis Enrique on top form again with this on Ferran Torres, who is dating his daughter.
"If he scores and does the baby dummy celebration, I'd sub him off immediately and he wouldn't see a football pitch for some time."
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So, the population of Eibar is 27,400 at the last count. That makes them the smallest ever club to reach Spain’s top division. You could put every Eibar resident in the Camp Nou and still have 72,000 seats left over.
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Arda Turan could technically come on for Barcelona tonight and then see his contract expire right there on the pitch during stoppage time if the game runs past midnight.
Wouldn't be the strangest thing to happen in his Barça career...
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Wow. This is fascinating from Mark Clattenburg on the refereeing shambles in the 2016 Champions League final (whose logo he got a tattoo of btw). This is why we needed VAR, instead of bad assistants and make-up calls.
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Zidane goes to speak to the referee at full-time. Looks like he was just genuinely wanting to know what the referee's thought process was. No anger. Then just calmly walks away.
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The story behind Marc Cucurella's long hair. It's not because he wanted to be like Puyol, even if he was one of his idols. It's because his mother Patricia asked him to keep his hair long so she could spot him better during his youth football matches.
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Later this season, Atlético Madrid will play their 22nd Champions League knockout rounds tie. Diego Simeone will have been coach for 20 out of the 22 ties. Simply incredible how far he has taken this club.
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Spanish government: We declare a climate emergency.
Real Madrid: Let's fly the 170km to Salamanca instead of taking a two hour bus.
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Vinícius and Rodrygo wondering where all their fellow forwards went.
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Sevilla's 7 Europa League titles in the last 18 years is so unbelievable since it's actually so hard to just stay in the Europa League. Most clubs are either too good or too bad to so consistently remain in the second UEFA tournament. But, Sevilla just seem to figure it out.
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If you're a midwife in Naples, and don't like being stressed, you might want to book February 4th 2024 off now.
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Nice Carlo Ancelotti press conference moment.
Question: "I don't know how many matches you've coached in your career, around 1,100 or 1,200..."
Ancelotti interrupts: "It's 1,272."
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Not the first time David Silva will play for a team in the Basque Country...
Played for Eibar back in 2004/05. Had to call his mum back in the Canary Islands to ask how you scrape ice off a car since he'd never seen it before.
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On days like this, you've got to feel sorry for the RMTV video editor who will still be tasked with framing that game as a refereeing injustice against Real Madrid.
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Haaland says "it's a bit shit" that he didn't score a hat-trick vs West Ham. Gets told to watch the swearing.
"Ah, sorry, shit" he replies.
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If it's Real Madrid vs Manchester City in the semis, Ancelotti is going to release the starting XI five hours before kick off so Guardiola can overthink it this way and that way and back to this way again.
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Rodrygo Goes comes on and faces 38-year-Dani Alves, who is one year older than Rodrygo's 37-year-old father Eric Goes.
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Ancelotti joked in February with Osasuna coach Arrasate that the Copa del Rey final would be Real Madrid vs Osasuna. Carletto was right. They meet on May 6th.
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Average number of goals in clashes amongst the top four this season…
In LaLiga: 3.83
In Premier League: 1.66
But apparently LaLiga is boring…
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For the first time in 7,504 days, Messi isn't a Barcelona player.
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"YOU SEE, EVEN THOUGH EIBAR AND BARÇA HAVE NOTHING TO PLAY FOR, THEY STILL HAVE TO PLAY IT AT THE SAME TIME AS THE RELEGATION GAMES BECAUSE IF EIBAR WIN AND HUESCA AND ELCHE BOTH LOSE THEN IT CHANGES THE TIEBREAKER AS A THREE-WAY TIE COULD SEND HUESCA DOWN INSTEAD OF ELCHE."
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The new LaLiga broadcast graphics for next season look class. From the new line-up graphics to the scoreboard and more. 👌
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Athletic fans in Seville. This is what football is all about.
Nothing beats supporting your hometown team and then being part of a massive away days exodus with your mates.
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Carlo Ancelotti just had a press conference of more than 20 minutes, entirely about the racist abuse suffered by Vinícius on Sunday. Here are some of the coach's main quotes:
-“Condemning acts of racism isn’t enough. We have been condemning acts of racism for years.”
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There are only four clubs in Spain's top tier that are still member-run football clubs and not SADs (limited companies). It's the four Copa del Rey semi-finalists.
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Oh. My. God.
Eibar have just taken the lead vs Atlético Madrid with GOALKEEPER Marko Dmitrović scoring a penalty vs Jan Oblak!!!
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For example, I was there when Eibar travelled to San Mamés for the derby vs Athletic… in a boat! Because why the hell not.
(6/18)
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Red Star Belgrade beat the eventual Champions League winners this season.
Yet there are some people who want teams like Red Star to not be involved. Don't get it. A European Super League would be crap.
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Vinícius now has the same goals/assists as Mbappé this season, with 14.
9 goals and 5 assists for Vini.
6 goals and 8 assists for Mbappé.
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The last of those stadium experiences was away at Alavés just before the pandemic last February. Wherever the Segunda takes Eibar, I can’t wait to join
@EskoziaLaBrava
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(18/18)
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Interesting Benzema quotes to France Football.
"We no longer bother to look at what someone does on the pitch, just at who scores. It even happened to me. I'll have a bad game, but score and be praised. I don't like it, but football is becoming more like this, more about stats."
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Simeone and Koeman have said this week that they can't bring themselves to watch their title rivals' matches because of the nerves. Zidane asked if he has the same feeling.
“No, I watch the matches if I can. I just like football," he says.
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I have only just learned who Marlon Torres is and, for this, he is my new favourite player.
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Maybe, just maybe, Girona didn't "crack under pressure".
Maybe, just maybe, Girona's last two games were away at the 2nd-best and 3rd-best home teams in LaLiga.
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Messi has won the Copa América!
Was he good in the final? No.
Was he the best player of every other round? Yes.
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"It's easy to be a Madrid or Barça fan. But, supporting a more humble team is as rewarding as it is difficult."
That's what an Eibar friend told me today, before they lost out on promotion in min 91.
"That's how it goes, it just makes the victories even better" he texts me after.
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Delighted for José Luis Mendilibar, the coach whose hard work over all these years has paid off.
His first ever European tie and he knocks out freaking Manchester United!
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Their first LaLiga match was a derby against ‘big brothers’ Real Sociedad. They won 1-0, defeating the team that used to loan them players because they operated in different footballing universes. (Also, check the angle Javi Lara scored a freekick from)
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The strangest guard of honour. Getafe players applaud the newly crowned Copa del Rey winners out, while at the same time wearing t-shirts criticising the Barcelona directors' decision to launch the Super League.
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Vinícius did many things in today’s game, some good and some bad. None of them justify racist abuse.
It really shouldn’t be that hard to understand.
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Total cost of the 14 players used today by Real Madrid: €363m
Total cost of the 14 players used today by Eibar: €16m
Full time score: Eibar 3-0 Real Madrid
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