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3rd placed team in La Liga, Valencia, is currently closer to relegation (20th) than 2nd place. 29 Points off Barca, 26 points off Racing Santander. That's how skewed it is. The prem blows it out of the water, it has to be said. Admittedly if Barca/RM were competeing in the PL they would come 1st and 2nd every time. But I get the impression the other 18 (maybe 17) teams in La Liga are there to make up the numbers. Wins are so routine for BC/RM that a draw is seen as effectively seen as a 'loss'.
@CB Fair enough Sid isn't really super biased, it's just he only ever talks about Barca and Ronaldo..but like you said it's hard to remove the whole league from the BC/RM prism. Glendenning most definitely is biased, though. From tirades against Wenger, to basically smugly gloating whenever Arse cock up. His football knowledge is decidedly sub-par for a journo too, i've never heard him say anything remotely enlightening. The best you'll get is "Well, they played pretty badly" or some other pub punditry nonsense :)[/rant]