Spotlight Seasons
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Spotlight Season: Southern Comfort – Sevilla’s one and only title 1945-46
Background This was the 15th Spanish league championship and to date, the title had only travelled to the south of the...
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Spotlight Season: Real Madrid and La Quinta del Buitre 1985-86
Background Spain in 1985 was unrecognisable from the neurotic, militarised State of a decade earlier. Democratic and social reform had transformed...
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Spotlight Season: Cruyff, Michels and Total Football end the Barca drought 1973/74
Background The 1960’s had not been a swinging time for Barcelona. Financially crippled by the cost of...
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Spotlight Season: The title finally leaves Madrid as Valencia dominate – 1970/71
Why 1970-71? La Primera title had not left Madrid for a decade, with either Real Madrid (8)...
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Spotlight Season: The Basque conquest of La Liga begins – 1980/81
Background At the start of the 1980’s, Spain was a country that was experiencing huge economic and...
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Spotlight Season: Zarra reigns in Bilbao but the title goes to Madrid – 1949/50
Background – In the ten seasons since the end of the Civil War, the La Liga title...
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Spotlight Season: The Basque Conquest of Spain – 1982/83
Background Football in Spain was in need of a boost. The country had staged the twelfth World...
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Spotlight Season: Irish eyes smile in Seville – 1934/35
The Background La Liga was still very much in its infancy, with the title being the...
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Spotlight Season: Super Depor lead the way – 1999-2000
Background Such is the domination of the big two in Spanish Football, any glimpse of a realistic...
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Spotlight Season: A Season in Hell for Atlético Madrid – 2000/01
Background The conversion in 1992 of many of Spain’s leading clubs to Sociedades Anónimas Deportivas weighed heavily...
