The Fifa Congress taking place in Sydney has voted by 155 votes to 5 to endorse Sepp Blatter’s proposal of clubs having to play six players who are eligible for the national team of the club’s country and only five foreign players. Blatter’s idea is to introduce the plan in steps, so that in the […]

Barça’s last home game of the season against Mallorca has been set for Sunday 11th May kick off at 9pm. all the games this weekend will kick off at the same time. It will be the last chance to see some players at Camp Nou and will also be Frank Rijkaard’s last home game in charge. I […]

The Spanish Football Federation have dictated that Saturday’s match between Betis and Barça will take place in Atletico Madrid’s Vicente Calderon stadium. Betis had appealed against their stadium being closed after the Athletic Bilbao goalkeeper Armando was hit by a bottle two weeks ago, but the Appeals Committee today rejected their appeal and the Federation […]

Barça have taken the somewhat strange step of reserving two different hotels in two different cities for Saturday’s match against Betis. The situation arrives due to Betis announcing they plan to stage the game at their Ruiz Lopera stadium in Seville despite an order by the Real Federación Española de Fútbol to find another venue […]

Samuel Eto’o has been fined €12,000 by the Real Federacion Española de Futbol (RFEF) for his celebration after Barça won La Liga in 2005. Eto’o chanted “Madrid cabron saluda al campeon” which is one of the favourite chants here from the fans when Barça win anything. Literally translated it means “Madrid, bastard, salute the champion” […]

You have probably already heard about the new organization set up to represent the interests of the clubs. The G14 is to be disbanded and replaced by the European Clubs Association (ECA) which will represent 103 clubs from 53 different football associations.

In an attempt to find out what is happening with regards to this week’s kick off times I had a look this morning at the websites of the Liga de Futbol Profesional (LFP) and of the Real Federacion Española de Futbol (RFEF). The LFP has a special note on the subject saying that the Athletic-Barça game […]

It seems incredible but after the Liga Profesional De Futbol (LFP) announced earlier today that Barça would play Athletic Bilbao on Saturday 26th January, this afternoon the Real Federacion Española De Futbol (RFEF) have announced that the first leg of the Villarreal-Barça Copa Del Rey quarter final will take place on Thursday 24th January, kick […]

La Liga de Fútbol Profesional (LFP) has officially announced today that no games from the weekend before christmas will be brought forward and played on Friday 21st December. This means the story that has been floating around for weeks about El Clasico being played on the Friday was just a wind-up. It is now definite […]

With just two weeks to go before the biggest game of the season the powers that be have still not announced a kick-off time for El Clasico. There have been a number of rumours that the game will be played on Friday 21st December but I think this is impossible now. Apart from the inconvenience […]