Fear and Loathing in La Liga: Barcelona vs Real Madrid

by Sid Lowe

Yet now it is they who claim they are robbed and it is the Madrid media that invented the ‘Villarato’ – the ‘theory’ that the president of the Federation, Ángel María Villar, is out to get them and the country’s referees

And there, at kilometre 52 of the NVI road to the north-west of Madrid, Barcelona’s president and his companions were assassinated by fascist troops.

sheltering in the French Embassy, from where he escaped to France. He then returned to Spain, entering the Nationalist zone via Irún on the border and volunteering for service with Franco’s forces, aged forty-three. He served under General Muñoz Grandes, who would later lead the División

Mr Leafe and Mr Ellis

Evaristo’s

case