Tim Stannard
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La Liga Loca’s half-term report: Atleti still awesome, Barca must (and will) do better
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La Liga Loca Tim Stannard's rating and slating includes reigning champs Atletico Madrid and a below-par Barcelona...
La Liga Lessons: Messi’s cunning plan, Ronaldo’s new philosophy
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La Liga Loca Tim Stannard rounds up the big stories from the seventh round of La Liga action – including a goal you really should see...
Madrid's midfielders mauled in international action
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La Liga Loca FFT.com's Spanish expert Tim Stannard assesses the injury angst about to rock the Bernabeu...
Solidity vs uncertainty as Barça members vote for new King of Catalunya
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La Liga Loca Who's the next big Barça boss? Tim Stannard [surely not - Ed.] investigates the options in this weekend's presidential elections...
The Week In Real Madrid: Bale bails out Los Blancos again
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The Week In... The continued absences of Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema would have have cost Real Madrid more were it not for the Welshman's inspiring form, writes Tim Stannard...
Marvellous (but misfiring) Messi, cracking Courtois and awful Osasuna
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La Liga Loca FFT's Spanish expert Tim Stannard reviews another weekend of La Liga action...
10 big questions in La Liga: Can Osasuna beat up Barca, can Real get it together?
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La Liga Emery under pressure, Schuster plays it cool, Ancelotti prepares for a big fortnight and Tata faces a big decision...
La Preview: A last hurdle for Barca as Madrid attempt synchronised celebrations
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La Liga Loca Tim Stannard comin' atcha in technicolour with the latest lookahead to Spain's top-flight action...
La Review: Real Madrid find form while Barcelona grind out another win
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La Liga Loca Tim Stannard on round two of La Liga as Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo fail to find the net again...
Atletico could finally end Simeone’s Real Madrid-induced nightmares
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La Liga Loca The fiery coach's current crop of players have what it takes to put the heartbreak of two years ago behind them, says Tim Stannard...
Real Madrid enjoying winter stroll in Morocco - but it would've been more fun with Atletico
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La Liga Loca FFT's Spanish expert Tim Stannard apparently isn't a fan of the Club World Cup...
Osasuna get La Liga's first sacking in the bag
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La Liga Loca FFT's Spanish expert Tim Stannard on Spain's first top-flight managerial casualty...
Cardiff goes Spanish as Real Madrid and Sevilla battle for Super Cup
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UEFA Super Cup It’s the European Super Cup! Grr! Bah! Our Spanish expert Tim Stannard looks ahead to the continental Community Shield between Real Madrid and Sevilla...
Why Barça have done everything they can to make deal a little bit Arda
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La Liga Loca On paper it was the perfect transfer, writes Tim Stannard – but in reality we might not have heard the last of it...
Why Lionel Messi’s future is as a mentor, not the master
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FFT100 Messi has slipped a place to No.3 in FourFourTwo's Best 100 Players in the World list, but Tim Stannard says a life chasing individual honours isn't what the Argentine needs anymore...
Mourinho vs Pellegrini: Truth behind the 'bitter rivalry'
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Jose Mourinho With Jose Mourinho's Chelsea set to host Manuel Pellegrini's Manchester City in the weekend's biggest Premier League match, FFT's Spanish expert Tim Stannard explains the 'beef' between the managerial duo...
Why fear of failure is absent from the American game
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MLS Tim Stannard on the lack of promotion and relegation in MLS...
Messi's King Joffrey approves move for Suarez (presumably)
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La Liga Loca Barcelona's bandana-clad revolutionary gives the thumbs-up to ol' chompy-chops...
Why Barcelona and Real Madrid both face banana skins in disguise this weekend
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La Liga Loca The Big Two won't struggle as much as you might expect (if you actually did), as Tim Stannard looks ahead to the weekend in La Liga...
La Review: La Liga returns with a whimper not a wham
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La Liga Loca Tim Stannard on an underwhelming start to the new season...
La Review: Roles reversed as Barça take turn on crisis train
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La Liga Loca Tim Stannard picks up the pieces in La Liga after a second home defeat of the season for Barcelona...
Five questions to be answered this weekend in Spain
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La Liga Loca Can Neymar get ruthless? Will Valencia shoot themselves in the foot yet again? Is Luis Enrique a dead man walking? Can the real Real Madrid please stand up? And what the heck is Tata wearing?
Walking Dead-like Eibar enjoying reanimated life
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La Liga Loca Tim Stannard reacts to Eibar's surprise table-topping antics, only a matter of months after the minnows were relegated from the top flight...