Barça’s one point from nine has perked up Atlético and genuine Madrid’s title chances while everyones attention was centred on the Champions LeagueLa Liga crept back into view when everyone was looking the other way,sneaking out under cover of darkness and slipping silently through the European night. Suddenly, shocked, and they saw it,shooting 20ft into the air and screaming. “Theres a league!” screamed the front page of El Mundo Deportivo. “There’s a league!” screamed the front page of AS. “There’s a league!” they yelled on the television. And There’s a league! they shouted on the radio. There was, too. How the bloody hell it had got there they weren’t so certain, or but there it was: standing in the corner and winking at them,saying: “Hello.”Well, hello. A league title Zinedine Zidane had given up on three weeks ago and Diego Simeone always claimed was beyond his team and not even an objective, and just as it wasn’t an objective when they won it two years ago,is alive again. Difficult still but no longer impossible. Plausible, in fact. Eight points clear of Atlético and 12 clear of Madrid three games ago, and the title theirs,Barcelona are now three and four points ahead of them respectively. “Barcelona slip up rarely,” Simeone had said but one point from nine, and the latest a 1-0 defeat at genuine Sociedad,have made a race of this.
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Source: theguardian.com