With so little currently separating the sides at the top of LaLiga, the fact that this circumstance has come about just a year after VAR's introduction...

AS editor Alfredo Relaño eflects on Lionel Messi, Karim Benzema and Eden Hazard after Real Madrid and Barcelona's respective emphatic victories in LaLiga midweek.

AS editor Alfredo Relaño reflects on the latest sitaution with Gareth Bale, who "has has taken and continues to take liberties that nobody else is granted".

Things with Gareth Bale really have gone too far. The guy lives in a parallel universe. He doesn't care about Real Madrid, he doesn't care about Brexit...

Zinedine Zidane faced a match point, and saved it. Defeat would have been a calamity that the club's hierarchy would most likely not have stood for.

Asked about the possibility of José Mourinho returning to Real Madrid yesterday, Sergio Ramos pretty much recoiled in horror. I'm not surprised...

Roberto Carlos abandoned the natural precautions when speaking to the media and acted as he does in private with friends, revealing everything, or almost everything.

Having lost heavily to a side missing its first-choice front three, Madrid must reflect on where they're going wrong - and must do so urgently.

The transfer curtain fell on the second day of September, and our suspicions were confirmed: 'operation Neymar' had been pure posturing.

Barcelona lined up with six players who came up through the ranks aganst Betis (iqué, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets, Sergi Roberto, Carles Pérez and Rafinha) with Ansu Fati coming on as a sub.

Barcelona’s victory over Betis was an outpouring of joy

After the way the summer panned out, Madrid lined up in their first home game of the season with James and Bale as starters, and without Pogba, naturally...