Celta didn’t have much patience with Paciencia..

🇪🇸A Coruña on Sunday, Madrid on Monday, and stood looking up at the highest mountain in Spain on the volcanic island of Tenerife on Friday.

What a country.

Hola septiembre, te he estado esperando todo el verano. Y ahora empiezan mis nueve meses favoritos en Málaga.

Nice 🇪🇸

A priest(!) in Motril, Granada giving a press conference(!) to confirm the end of a hunger strike that saw the mother of Luis Rubiales lock herself into a church.

These are truly perplexing times.

lavanguardia.com/deportes/20230…

This letter in today’s El País shows the need for Spain’s mid-size cities to step up and take the burden off Madrid and Barcelona as the only viable options for many young professionals in the country.

Zaragoza, Bilbao, Vigo, Murcia…

‘He himself used a specially-designed pen to record conversations, including with former sports minister Irene Lozano.’

This is brilliant reporting by Dermot Corrigan #Rubiales

theathletic.com/4821437/2023/0…

When the Madrid police sees who’s coming to town…

Atleti: ‘Well that’s a nice group.’

Also Atleti, last season.

📺 ‘In Portugal we don’t dub our TV.’

💶‘The biggest bank in Portugal is now BNP Paribas.’

🇧🇷 ‘Without the Brazilians, Lisbon would not work.’

🇵🇹 Learned a lot about Spain’s Iberian neighbour here ⬇️

🇪🇸🫒 The price of olive oil in Spain up 38.8% and the really good stuff, the extra virgin olive oil, up 227%(!) over the past year.

Production down around 50% due to drought conditions.

elpais.com/economia/2023-…

Juan Rubiales - Luis Rubiales’ uncle & former #RFEF director - doing the rounds w/ media. Damning & extraordinary what he has to say about his nephew. Main points in thread 👇, but interestingly says “the whole Rubiales family is on Jenni Hermoso’s side.”

elconfidencial.com/espana/2023-08…

A priest(!) in Motril, Granada giving a press conference(!) to confirm the end of a hunger strike that saw the mother of Luis Rubiales lock herself into a church.

These are truly perplexing times.

lavanguardia.com/deportes/20230…

This letter in today’s El País shows the need for Spain’s mid-size cities to step up and take the burden off Madrid and Barcelona as the only viable options for many young professionals in the country.

Zaragoza, Bilbao, Vigo, Murcia…

🇪🇸☀️ August comes to a close.

📸El País

🇪🇸🍅 La Tomatina is back - 15,000 kilos of squishy tomato everywhere #Spain

📸 El País

📍Goya, Madrid.

“That’s my cousin in there, that’s my blood, you’re all a f***ing disgrace.”

Dermot Corrigan reporting from Motril, Granada on a hunger strike that added a new dimension of ridiculousness to the Rubiales saga.

theathletic.com/4816530/2023/0…

‘August sips away like a bottle of wine.’

#Madrid #Spain

🇪🇸⚽️ Friday September 22nd - Spain’s world champions are supposed to be back in action against Sweden in the Nations League.

Few things to be sorted before then…