Reasons to be cheerful.

Sixty per cent of Madridistas polled in EL Mundo's latest edition give the league up as lost already, the blame being laid at the door of the last trainer Luxemburgo. Not that they're old or tired, nor that a radical rethink is needed - time to show Raul and some of the other dinosaurs the door, perhaps?
Whatever, let them agonise over their plight. Plenty to celebrate this weekend with a fine Atleti victory over Sevilla 3-0; my own Bilbao seeing Albacete off 3-1; Barcelona lengthening their lead over the enemy to 8 points beating Osasuna 0-1 away from home; and, of coure, the lowly Madrid lumbering to a draw against top Anti-madridistas Valencia 1-1.
Europe awaits and fingers crossed for a major upset or two.