Sergio Ramos

We reach the halfway point of the season with Barça as winter champions on goal difference (28-26), level on 40 points with Real Madrid.

We're into an Olympic year, with Tokyo preparing to host the Games for a second time, and I can't help but feel sorry they won't be held rather closer to home...

At the end of a year and a decade, France Football have selected their best XI of the last 10 years - a team which recognises Spain's LaLiga, notes Alfredo Relaño.