Cristiano Ronaldo

"If I'm honest, football doesn't feel the same if there's no Real Madrid game on a Sunday," a friend said to me this weekend...

Perhaps the most striking thing about the latest round of LaLiga fixtures is the Barcelona team we saw in Huesca...

A goal is like gold dust for the away team at this stage of the Champions League and for Barça last night it came as quick as the twelfth minute...

AS editor Alfredo Relaño analyses the Champions League matches between Liverpool and Porto and Tottenham and Manchester City as well as looking ahead to Wednesday night's games.

I write this from Madrid, which should go a long way to explaining the column's title. The Champions League quarter-finals get underway tonight...