IdioVista

La Liga is back and well and truly on the way. A rather intriguing title-race is ongoing with Spain's two top clubs, FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF, going for it. At the time this article is being published, Real Madrid sit top of the table, level on points with Barcelona courtesy of a 1-2 victory over Real Sociedad in what has been described as a controversial match. In fact, Barcelona has a superior goal difference of 38 to Madrid's 36 and Real are only top of the league by virtue of a better head-to-head record over Barcelona. But, today my problem isn't with Madrid going top of the table in arguably dubious circumstances, but with how the Barcelona community are taking a slip up on their part. FC Barcelona had one job and one job only, to try and win every match they had left in other to retain their title. They have actually had quite a decent season, maybe not one on par with their lofty La Liga standards. But on the 13th of January, they announced they had s...

As the more attentive readers may have noticed, the title is a little flawed. The Bundesliga has actually been back for a week now, I'm actually just getting to writing about it now because I had not started this blog last week. As the first major league back in Europe, (sorry Belarusian league but no one was watching) expectedly there has been so much excitement from around the world about this. Thousands or even millions of non-regular Bundesliga watchers are tuning in and selecting their favourite german team to support until Europe's other major leagues resume. Various football fans on Twitter scrambling around looking for the right Bundesliga team to give their support, while the German team's Twitter accounts making bids to get as many new fans as they possibly can, who doesn't love football Twitter. So naturally, there had been a lot of buzz leading into the second round of German top-flight football and I'm glad to say one of Europe's most excitin...