I wish it could be Christmas every day

Was it just our imagination or did it seem as if Christmas had come early this week? The Poms grabbing the ashes back off the Aussies, Liverpool showing some class against the valient Betis, and last - but definitely not least - Madrid taking a licking from Lyon. Just some of the language used to describe this happy event in a brief mainstream press round-up: "massive upset, "thrashed", "onslaught", "se desplome" (collapse, crash), "un gran batacazo" (a good thumping), etc. But surely the headline of the week goes to the Guardian online for "Here Vigo, here Vigo, here Vigo" - referring of course to Madrid's last humiliation at the hands of Celta Vigo (see previous posting). Naturally the sound can be heard of knives being unsheathed for the head of trainer Luxemburgo; as we've seen before, this is the usual response from the home crowd and the madridista press - after all he's not from round here. Let's see if Español are in festive spirit this weekend.