La Liga's future at a crossroads
http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/laliga/...e-future-082211

Completely retarded way to run a league.

There was me thinking this forum revolved around Fishdoll...

Nyope. Everyone loves the Greek.

Interesting

Has the Greek's gender been discovered yet?

Yes. I could tell you more but then I'd have to kill you.

Ok, kill me afterwards but yes, tell me more.

We're running further tests on it though, but the results are mind-boggling to say the least. I've had to kill Captain Jack twice already just to keep a lid on it all. Good thing he's sober now.

la liga strike is over

Good stuff, now we have a Serie A one!

Why does Mourinho use Coentrao as DM? The guy is a pure winger.

The World's best player carries on where he left off last season., 1-0, Ronaldo.

2-0, Marcelo.

2-0 Marcelo.

Why are Sky getting rid of everyone? Mark Bolton no longer doing La Liga coverage FTL.

They just want to make their coverage as terrible as possible.

I do think Gary Neville is a good addition though to be fair.

3-0, nice goal from Alonso.

Madrid is having a walk in the park tonight. If Mourinho doesn't sub in Kaka' even in these circumstances, then he really doesn't have any plans for the guy.

4-0, Ronaldo again.

Ronaldo, 4-0.

Callejon on for Di Maria. Still no Kaka'!

Kaka' in.

Higuain and Kaka' on for French Heskey and Ozil.

Kaka', 5-0. Good finish.

Stange how everyone went to congratulate him. Perhaps a goodbye gesture?

Awesome finish though.

Or maybe a sign of support for a team mate under fire

You party pooper.

Kaka' assist for Ronaldo's hat-trick. 6.

Ronaldo has 14 goals in his last 5 La Liga games.

It was a shot, really.

I must say, Madrid are really great, but Zaragoza has been pathetic throughout the entire match.

Sevilla-Malaga next. Should be interesting with Malaga's spending.

NEGREDO!!!

Stick your money up your ****.

2-0, Negredo with both.

Barca starting lineup..

Valdes, Abidal, Macherano, Busquets, Keita, Thiago, Iniesta, Fabregas, Sanchez, Pedro, Messi.

Wow, that defence, Hopefully it stays as is when we come up against them, maybe we could sneak it

One pure defender? I don't remember when was the last time I saw something like that, if ever.

Though, Barca and Madrid can do thing like this in La Liga and still win comfortably because of a big gap between the Big 2 and the rest.

And the worrying thing is you can forget about Xavi/Villa not being in that line-up, what a team.

Pretty much.

Think it could be a risk though. No width from Alves will take away one dimension and then those CBs? Hardly the quickest or most mobile and they're up against Rossi and Nilmar, I assume.

Barca is playing 3-4-3. Strange not to see them with the usual 4-3-3.

Boooooo!

HT 2-0 Thiago and Cesc scored. Game over.

This league is actually worse than Scotlands for how pathetic it is.

Agreed, is this supposed to be a top 4 contender?

Naah, it's unwatchable. Once there was a time you could expect Deportivo or Valencia actually do some serious damage while other teams were also tough; nowadays it's just one trashing after another. Pathetic defensive tactics as well.

Agreed. They might as well just lay out a red carpet for them

I'd rather watch German Football than this now. Yes, Madrid & Barca are good, but bar them playing each other it's just a rather dull thing to watch nowadays. Even teams like Atletico Madrid aren't going to be that much of a force now.

And not to toot your English horn or anything, but watching the EPL games yesterday, and then switching over to the Zaragoza game vs Real, the drop in the quality of not just footbal but the overall presentation of the match, the terribly lit stadium, the commentary, not being able to hear the crowd well, etc, it's really staggering.

For sheer quality imo, there's the EPL first, then the German league and I'm not even getting to the football aspect of it. If that were the case, then as a league, Serie A is still better then La Liga. Would a Serie A team lose to Barca? Yes 10 times over, but would a Lazio, Roma, Udine, etc lay down like this and not even try to defend? Never. At least they'd give it a good fight. Even a bottom table team would try to strangle out Barca better then this

I've often wondered this, I do think our football over here is good for that (in all divisions). I agree, the Germans are up there too with the atmosphere etc. The Scandinavian & Portuguese clubs don't seem too bad either in that regard.

And yes, as a league as a whole, I'd put the Serie A above La Liga, I've said that before too.

I do agree outside of the football that La Liga is just awful. There's just no passion towards the teams at all. Watching the Madrid game yesterday there's just Madrid fans scattered all over the home ends of the stadium and the home fans don't really back the team and it's dull.

I think the EPL is the best overall and it's nothing to do with bias since I hate half of the times and dislike most of them. Then Serie A and Bundesliga football I enjoy watching far more than La Liga.

Spanish teams just seem so naive. Sanchez goal was pathetic. He was about 40 yards out and they play a simple ball over the top and he's in.

Plain boring to be honest ... The Calssicos, that's the mouth watering piece of it all. But even then, it becomes annoying ... Take the EPL, Bundes Liga and Serie A as a collective example in terms of competition for top honors ... There is no comparison.

However, and strangely if I might add, Madrid & Barca get a world-wide appeal from all quarters of the globe. Astounding, but I guess they like watching Barca smash Malaga 6-0 without even going into 3rd gear.

Or the Allure of Madrid's Galacticos. The team that can bid for any fantasy player you have in mind, they will land him, no matter the cost. Or Perez will

you say that in the week of Manchester 13 - 3 North London?

in my view this only shows that the top sides in England and Spain have grown much stronger than the competition. It's been like that for Barcelona and Real Madrid the past few seasons and it's becoming like that in the EPL too.

There's a difference between a one off and a regular occurance.

Man U beat West Brom due to a late OG. Chelsea couldn't beat Stoke. Man City barely beat Bolton. Liverpool couldn't beat Sunderland. Arsenal have 1 point.

But Madrid/Barca regularly beat teams by 3+ goals. Barca used 1 defender against a fellow Spanish CL side and won 5-0 for crying out loud.