@paulmcgarraghy
✍️A veces escribo. Spent 6 years covering #LaLiga as a Senior Writer for an English language site. Still enjoying fútbol. 🎙️Talk about it on the ‘El Partido Podcast’. Views are my own. Manchester City ‘Legacy fan’ | RCD Mallorca sufferer
Ore caotiche a Vallecas: prima il comunicato della rosa del Rayo per chiedere condizioni di lavoro degne, poi il rinvio di #RayoRealOviedo a causa delle condizioni del terreno di gioco. Ecco una nuova puntata della telenovela vallecana.
🖋️ Stefano Picasso
Match summary
Manchester City vs Liverpool
09-11-2025, Premier League
Score: 3:0
Expected Goals: 1.92:0.83
Possession: 53:47
#ManCity #RedTogether
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Wrote a piece on Racing Santander’s UEFA Cup campaign for the latest issue of Revista El Partido. It includes the club’s win over Manchester City in 2008 as well as their games against PSG and FC Twente.
You can read it for free here:
www.patreon.com/posts/142797...
Drama at Montilivi
58th min: Girona 0-2 Real Oviedo
90th min: Girona 3-2 Real Oviedo
Full time: Girona 3-3 Real Oviedo
When a game can finish like that, I guess to an extent, both teams feel like they’ve dropped points.
Partidazo. #GironaRealOviedo #LALIGAEASPORTS
Here’s the link for Apple Podcasts
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Really enjoyed chatting with @futboleslaleche.bsky.social all bout his brilliant new book ‘Once Upon A Time In La Liga’ on the latest episode of El Partido.
You can listen wherever you get your podcasts and watch it back on YouTube I’ll post the links below.
#LaLiga
Thanks John, glad you enjoyed it. A genuine pleasure to talk to Chris. Plenty more things planned for the coming months that I’m sure everyone will enjoy.
Hadn't previously heard of El Partido podcast, but based on this episode, I'll definitely be listening to more.
@paulmcgarraghy.bsky.social & Nick interview @cmrlee.bsky.social from @outsidewrite.bsky.social on Fascism, Spanish Civil War & Football. Chris explains nuances & dispels some common myths
The book is out today! ⤵️
Latest piece for @footballespana.bsky.social on #RCDMallorca covering the Dani Rodriguez situation and dressing room issues that Jagoba Arrasate has to contend with this season after a difficult start to the new #LaLiga season
www.football-espana.net/2025/09/04/a...
Thoroughly enjoyed recording this with @outsidewrite.bsky.social!
Give it a listen and hear about football’s significance throughout the 20th century in Spain including the age before #LaLiga.
We discuss a wide range of stories, clubs, characters and the wider nuances of football and society. ⤵️
Need some commuter or weekend listening this morning?
Big thanks to @paulmcgarraghy.bsky.social and Nick from the El Partido podcast for having me on to discuss football before, during, and after the Spanish Civil War
Have a listen 👇🏼 #LaLiga
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Thoroughly enjoyed recording this with @outsidewrite.bsky.social!
Give it a listen and hear about football’s significance throughout the 20th century in Spain including the age before #LaLiga.
We discuss a wide range of stories, clubs, characters and the wider nuances of football and society. ⤵️
It's been a far from ideal start...
www.football-espana.net/2025/09/04/a...
#RCDMallorca
It's been anything but Love Island this summer at Son Moix😬
Jagoba Arrasate has a storm brewing at #RCDMallorca, with captaincy issues, wantaway players and comunicados oficiales.
✍️ @paulmcgarraghy.bsky.social looks at the early rumblings he's dealing with.
Latest piece for @footballespana.bsky.social on #RCDMallorca covering the Dani Rodriguez situation and dressing room issues that Jagoba Arrasate has to contend with this season after a difficult start to the new #LaLiga season
www.football-espana.net/2025/09/04/a...
Girona are 100% getting relegated this season… and I know I’m saying that halfway through Matchday 3. #LaLiga #LALIGAEASPORTS
Thanks Chris, hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed recording it! The book’s fantastic too!
Here’s the link for Apple Podcasts
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
Really enjoyed chatting with @futboleslaleche.bsky.social all bout his brilliant new book ‘Once Upon A Time In La Liga’ on the latest episode of El Partido.
You can listen wherever you get your podcasts and watch it back on YouTube I’ll post the links below.
#LaLiga
Likewise, whatever you think of Goldbridge, it’s not as if you say his current platform of followers (predominantly Manchester United fans) is even a cohort of potential ‘consumers’ that could be swayed to embracing the #Bundesliga.
Maybe I’m wrong. Just seems like an act of self-depreciation.
3/3
…giving it away free like that to be shown on YouTube (not even the #Bundesliga’s own channel) cheapens the ‘product’s’ value
I’ve been to several Bundesliga games - they’re great to attend in person but the TV audience isn’t there in the UK (currently)
I’m not sure this is the way to grow it
2/3
The more I read about the #Bundesliga’s deal for UK rights - particularly that they’re giving it to Mark Goldbridge for free - the more I think the league has compromised on its integrity. And it’s quite sad.
You can spin it as it trying to reach new audiences, but let’s be real… 1/3
In my latest piece for LaLigaExpert, I take a look at how Julián Calero's newly-promoted side might approach life in the top flight, after winning the Segunda title.
#Levante begin their #LaLiga season away to Deportivo Alavés on Saturday night.
laligaexpert.com/pragmatic-ca...
Now confirmed by Girona. Centre-back Vitor Reis has joined on a season long loan from Manchester City.
I wrote about this yesterday in a piece published on @footballespana.bsky.social ⤵️
www.football-espana.net/2025/08/07/g...
Here’s a piece I’ve written on Vitor Reis’ loan move to #Girona from #ManCity
There’s (obviously) a good relationship between the clubs & Girona made it clear to CFG early this summer they would like 2 of City’s young talents on loan for the upcoming season
www.football-espana.net/2025/08/07/g...
