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Yeah, it's going to be like this from time to time, on the move, jumpy frame. But this Monday's roundup of La Liga is about grief, penitence and culpability. Sounds cheery, doesn't it? But it's to begin with a serious subject. In fact, it's the very serious subject that I began this series of Substack video columns with. The Dana,
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or isolated high-pressure depression, that caused flooding in the Valencia region and meant that nearly 300 people were killed and there are still seven missing. It's caused football in Real in Valencia to be postponed until this weekend and so Mestalla that grand creaky old antiquated home of Valencia was full of 44,000 people as Los Che hosted
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Betis and the scoreline the result aside Valencia won for two they climbed to third bottom first win since mid-September really is if not irrelevant it's dwarfed By the way in which the ceremony of silence, of mourning, was stunningly observed and moving. It had been preceded by solemn cello and violin music.

Grief, Penitence and Culpability: the weekend in La Liga

Valencia honours those it lost; two players issue mea culpas; Florentino loses friends in Uganda and Finland

I hope you’re enjoying these reports on all aspects of Spanish football. This time, as I hurtle home to Barcelona in time for tomorrow’s Champions League action (I’ll be recording from Camp Nou after their match against Brest), we reflect upon the way Valencia said goodbye to the victims of its floods; a footballer who showed humility when bloody-minded vengeance would have been more to my taste; and some bitter revisionism by Madrid’s messianic president.