Deportivo Alavés

AS editor Alfredo Relaño looks ahead to Real Madrid's meeting with Vallodolid.

Traditionalists may blanche at a new fixture system in LaLiga, but it is designed to help Spain's European competitors.

It would appear that the footballing goblins have conspired to help Isco with their mischief making. It wouldn't be odd to me, though, because he is such an attractive player...