Asturian Derby

Yesterday.................Oviedo 2 - 1 Sporting unfortunately, but what passion for a Segunda fixture. Passion sadly missing from the English game.



I've been reading about the big 6 plotting to leave the PL and I'd say, "See ya". Maybe then, without countries and billionaires using clubs as vehicles for their own agendas, we can get back to football.

I'd love some big club like Villa or Leeds to engineer a reverse breakaway in response.

 

It makes you wonder why PL clubs have only one 1 CL final in the past 10 years, but La Liga clubs have won 7?

Each to their own, but I go abroad to enjoy the atmosphere, the l.o.n.g build up to the game around the stadium, the boozing and the noise, stuff you don't get in England.

 

Well they were last year, and the year before, the year before, and the year before that, the year before and the year before that and the year before........

Liverpool and Man City are chalk and cheese, nothing like! Anyway, feel free to open a thread about PL v whatever football, I'll contribute. I started this one to show how piss poor English atmosphere has become and how even divisions outside the top flight abroad still have have that primal atmosphere.

 

In Spain for the derby, for those that missed it, and that'll be everybody but me.....it was a calm one.

13 yellow cards and 1 red.

Sporting Gijon 1 - Oviedo 0

Oviedo were robbed by the ref disallowing a perfectly good goal, something l seem to see a lot of in Spain.. and far more entertaining for me then VAR.

The ovation Oviedo got from their fans for losing the derby would never ever happen here.