This week’s round-up is mostly being…convoluted
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- Created: Tuesday, 10 March 2009 10:02
- Written by Ian Shine
As the so-called business end of the Portuguese season approaches it’s time to do some number crunching.
This week there were the same number of goals as the sum of the first six digits of Pi, while the number of red cards was double that of the Bank of England interest rate.
Sporting won by scoring the cube root of eight while their opponents Paços Ferreira managed to score only (280/28) – 10.
Real Madrid and Barcelona's simultaneous kick-offs on Saturday meant that if results went Real's way they could move to within 1 point of the Catalan league leaders. The form book was certainly with them, having won their last 10 league games compared with Barcelona's run of 5 fixtures without a win, and then there was the fact that Atlético Madrid hadn't won in the Bernabeu for over 10 years.
The results of the latest poll are in and they’re pretty interesting. Asked which of the major European leagues is best, 47% of you plumped for La Liga, followed by 39% for the Premier League and just 14% for Serie A.
Hull City’s Geovanni is undoubtedly a quality player. At Barcelona he was earmarked as the natural successor to Rivaldo, and in terms of creativity, trickery and goalscoring ability, there are obvious similarities. 
Thousands of delighted Basque fans flooded onto the pitch to celebrate Athletic Club Bilbao's first cup final in 24 years. The 'Lions' of Bilbao went into the game 2-1 down on aggregate but roared out of the blocks at home last night, instantly asserting their authority on this second leg, and soon finding reward with young Javi Martinez arriving into the box from midfield, as he so often does to effect, and slotting past Palop in the 3rd minute.