“Anybody regularly watching La Liga since Sky popularised it in recent years would be led to believe that the Spanish game is based purely on fancy media-puntos, jet-heeled wingers and silky-skilled strikers. And they’d be about right. But back in the 70’s and 80’s the same skill and flair was on show but was counterbalanced with a number of brutal defenders, the likes of whom would make modern day so-called football hard-men run off crying to their Mummies…” (midfielddynamo)