I was speaking with a friend of mine yesterday about Sergio Ramos playing with the Spanish national team and it reminded me of the joke about the two Basques who went out early to pick mushrooms.

Something I liked even less than seeing no goal-scoring solution was that Sergio Ramos and Isco were allowed to miss the entire trip,

All players leave, taking with them a piece of that gratifying life that football gives us, but some take a larger piece than others, and Iniesta's is one of the largest.

Eleven matches, eight wins and three draws

We went to the Bernabéu to see Marco Asensio, but what we saw was Isco. Po-tay-to, po-tah-to...

Tonight's Spain-Italy clash is the crunch fixture in Group G. After all, only the winners of each group qualify automatically for the World Cup...

With every passing day, I'm more and more in favour of David Villa's recall to the Spain squad...

It's a rarity that a national team squad list provides such a surprise