Real Madrid vs Espanyol: A 90-Minute Masterclass in How the World Still Runs on Brands, Bile, and Bad Wi-Fi by Diego “Malbec” Serrano, International Correspondent with Season-Ticket-Level Cynicism MADRID—Wednesday night at the Bernabéu felt suspiciously like the rest of 2024: overpriced, overlit, and over before it began. Real Madrid—pop-culture juggernaut, geopolitical soft-power project, and the…
Carvajal’s Knee and the End of Empire: A 30-Centimeter Scar for the 21st Century By L. di Sangiovese, Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker The sun that never set on Real Madrid’s empire finally flickered last Tuesday, somewhere between a UEFA MRI tube and a Madrid operating table. Dani Carvajal, the indefatigable right-back who has sprinted 40,000…
Real Madrid vs. Marseille: A Cosmic Ballet for the Age of Collapse By Our Man in Madrid, Having Just Survived Another Round of Tapas and Existential Dread The Bernabéu, Thursday night, 21:00 CEST—an hour when half the planet is doom-scrolling through inflation charts and the other half is streaming this Champions League group-stage tilt between…
San Sebastián, Sunday night—while the rest of the planet argued over which streaming service best buffered their insomnia, a wind-lashed corner of the Basque Country served up a 90-minute referendum on the modern order. Real Sociedad 0-1 Real Madrid: the scoreline looks minimalist, but the ripple effects are already rattling boardrooms from Beijing to Bogotá,…
