Football matches

Tempers were already rising before the derby between Betis and Sevilla. It boiled over when a plastic pole, thrown from the stands, striking a player, writes Alfredo Relaño.

"They scored with a shot, not with a move. It was an isolated action.” That's how Busquets described Madrid's first goal, by Alaba... but he was wrong.

I detest the term 'high risk match', a qualification that the anti-violence commission splashes with its admonitory hyssop every so often

El Clásico of the new normality - Cristiano and Messi are no more - was won by Real Madrid because they are a) more ready and b) because they have Vinicius.