“When Barcelona whirled through Almería’s defence from kick-off and just missed with their first shot, you could see Almería’s players thinking: ‘Whew, only 89 minutes left.’ The match, earlier this season, was never a match. Little Almería’s annual revenues are just €21m ($31m, £19m), 5 per cent of Barcelona’s, and if they had brought any supporters along I could not see them. Almería got away lightly that night, losing only 1-0. However, the Spanish league is out of whack.” (FI – Simon Kuper)