Today is looking like an exciting finale for La Liga Smartbank (Second division). For better or worse, relegation is already decided, which tends to add additional excitement into match day 42.
Today at 3 PM ET (is that 8 PM or 9 PM CET?) Granada’s title of second division is in its own hands against Leganés, whereas Las Palmas and Alavés will battle it out in the event that Granada gets dethroned, as they are one and two points behind Granada, respectively.
Perhaps more importantly than the “crown” is the likelihood of playoffs versus direct slot into Primera. In effect, the winner of Las Palmas and Alavés guarantees a direct slot. Not sure of tiebreaker, but if they tie, even Levante could sneak in and snag the second direct-to-Primera slot.
Don’t expect to be able to watch, but would be exciting to follow events here on the Forum with you all.
Until last week anyone down to about ninth could have made the play offs. As it is now the play offs are sorted, just who from the top 6 will go up automatically and who will be in the play offs. Don’t forget league position is huge here as after two legs and extra time if scores are level, the higher ranked team goes through.
Suso would have been proud of both of those goals. Left foot from the top corner of the box, lol.
Looks like we have a Suso substitute for 2024.
I suspect we’ll sell before that, but feel like we need to do a better job getting players onto the first team before selling them. Can’t get those big sticker sales off guys out of 2nd and 3rd tier.
After the storylines in the Championship promotion playoffs, I can’t help but feel “meh” about the teams being promoted this year. I’d love to have a Cinderella story like Luton Town in La Liga!
Interesting, albeit unrelated to Liga Primera RFEF, there’s a popular saying in Latin American Spanish which comes from the TV show El Chavo del Ocho, where one of the characters anytime his “manliness” or straightness was questioned would respond “Yo le voy al Necaxa”/“I’m a fan of Necaxa” as a way of affirming his manliness/straightness. There’s a whole big story behind it, but most people didn’t know the story, they just understood the subtext of the phrase.
More than a bit homophobic in retrospect, but the phrase still hangs around as the prime cultural association with Necaxa, at least outside Mexico, where I assume there are lots of other, newer cultural associations with the Rayos (Stripes or Lightning Bolts) of Necaxa.
I dunno, given our experience with Nike, I’m going to say that the ones whose piss is being taken (hope I conjugated that Britishism correctly) are Eldense. And the ones taking the piss are Nike. Nike is always so lazy with its designs when it comes to non-giant clubs. I would bet money that internally they have two or three different tiers for their design teams wherein lower teams both get less investment in their design and more of a “take it or leave it” contract in terms of veto power.
