Alfredo Relaño

For some time now, LaLiga has supposedly been run stringently, under the unyielding hand of Javier Tebas and his big financial controller, Javier Gómez.

Spanish referees have an expression that has been passed down to the current generation of match officials: "You're not a fully fledged ref. until you've been hit by the Real Madrid juggernaut".

The game at the Bernabéu started with an error from Marcelo which led to a clumsy challenge from Casemiro conceding a penalty and ended with a breakaway from Oyarzábal which Willian José should have converted for a 0-3 scoreline.

Alfredo Relaño looks ahead to today's fixtures in which Real Madrid and Barcelona both play their games in the capital, just 23 kilometres apart.

A knock, a muscle tear... Madrid boss Solari was a little lost for words following the latest injury sustained by the Welsh player.

It was an unhappy return to LaLiga duty for Real Madrid, who were held to a draw that leaves them seven points off the top...

For a few years now, Dubai has hosted a kind of get-together for the football world that's part conference, part awards gala...

Mexicans call this time of the year in the game, ‘football by the stove’, a reference to the cold of winter and the opening of the transfer window

María José Rienda brinda en nuestra portada por todos ustedes y por el buen futuro de nuestro deporte

The recent additions of Jeison Murillo and Moussa Wagué to Barcelona's threadbare defence have sparked debate and dissent...

Yes, it was all a big Día de los Inocentes ruse! I hope you took it in good humour. Contrary to our fun piece yesterday, Tebas and Rubiales were not seen in any Cistercian monastery...

While LaLiga is on hold over the Christmas break, we have the International Under-12 tournament in Arona and action from England and Italy to keep us supplied with football.

'Athletic, Athletic, club de limpia tradición...' That was the first anthem I knew of the old and beloved Athletic Club, 'world football's unique case', as L'Équipe once wrote.

Diego Simeone celebrated his seventh anniversary as Atlético Madrid manager on December 23

The big wheel of football today has Marcos Llorente sitting on top, just as it has Isco sitting at the bottom. The same could be said of Solari and Lopetegui.

Real Madrid add another trophy to their list of honours after a comfortable win over Al Ain. A game they were expected to win on paper but given recent form it did see the side digging deep to secure the title.

The first time I heard talk of the European dry spell Real Madrid endured between their domination of yesteryear and their more recent success was...

Among the questionable things about the Club World Cup, which is in its final throes in its current format, its use as a testing ground for new rules is right up there...

As Argentina still wonders how River Plate (one of the biggest footballing institutions in the country along with Boca Juniors) lost in the semi-final to Al Ain,

Yesterday Solari summed up the competition Madrid will be vying for later on today perfectly, when they face Kashima - the same team that pushed them all the way two years ago.

El empate de Brujas, dichoso empate, le ha costado caro al Atlético, porque le mandó al segundo bombo y la mala suerte ha hecho el resto: ...

The general feeling in Spanish football is that VAR has improved the game. Now the referee has a safety net and can view incidents more clearly, writes Alfredo Relaño.

AS editor Alfredo Relaño takes a look at Real Madrid's current poor form and worries about what awaits them at the Club World Cup.

AS editor Alfredo Relaño gives his view of the difficult case of Ousmane Dembélé at Barcelona.

I have a suspicion that when Isco said “if they sack Lopetegui then they need to get rid of the rest of us” this was the first nail in thew coffin for him as a Madrid player.