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Andy Mitten

Andy Mitten

European Football Correspondent
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Andy is the author of 12 books. He founded the best-selling United We Stand fanzine when he was 15. He's interviewed over 500 famous footballers past and present, writing about football from Israel to Iran, Brazil to Barbados. Born and bred in Manchester, he divides his time between his city of birth and Barcelona.
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Real Madrid's Pepe, left, and Mesut Ozil embrace Gonzalo Higuain, centre. Along with Cristiano Ronaldo, they have made Real Madrid a team Barcelona cannot ignore.
Momentum shifts to Real Madrid ahead of el clasico

Last year's drubbing at the hands of Barcelona has been a catalyst for the team's improvement.

SportNovember 30, 2011
No Dutch treat as Van Nistelrooy withers away

Ruud van Nistelrooy has failed to find his scoring form at Malaga and it looks like the Dutch great's career at top-flight football may be over.

The NationalNovember 23, 2011
Sergio Busquets, left, says the focus should be on the teams playing on the field, Barcelona and AC Milan, not his coach, Pep Guardiola, right, facing former teammate Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Barca sans success at San Siro

Barcelona return to the scene of one of their toughest defeats in recent years, as San Siro has been tough on them recently. Add to that the tension of facing former teammate Zlatan Ibrahimovic, whose biography roughs up coach Pep Guardiola, and there is plenty of intrigue ahead.

UAENovember 23, 2011
Brian Kidd, front, now Manchester City's assistant coach, played for Manchester United against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final.
Manchester United and Benfica relive a golden game

Tonight's Champions League encounter at Old Trafford is a replay of the 1968 final

SportNovember 22, 2011
Barcelona beat Manchester City 4-1 when the sides met in the NextGen comptition earlier this month.
The international bright young things

The NextGen league gives young players from elite clubs across Europe the chance to pit themselves against each other. Andy Mitten looks at the mini Champions League.

SportNovember 19, 2011
Sandro Rosell's job is to keep Barcelona steady

The Spanish club's new president is making the noises that keep sponsors and fans happy.

SportNovember 16, 2011
Arnau Riera in action for Barcelona's B side.
Harsh realities of life after Messi and Barcelona

Arnau Riera's footballing career has never lived up to the early days of captaining Barcelona's B side, which included Lionel Messi.

SportNovember 16, 2011
Economic prosperity in a time of Spanish austerity

Real Madrid and Barcelona top the revenue-generating charts among football clubs across Europe.

The NationalNovember 16, 2011
Draw shows off good work of Bielsa at Athletic Bilbao

The draw with Barcelona highlighted the impressive of Marcelo Bielsa's Athletic Madrid side.

SportNovember 09, 2011
Spain moves the television times

The thinking is that the early kick offs mean that the Asian market can watch matches during their evening.

SportNovember 09, 2011
Sergio Aguero, right, saved Manchester City in stoppage with a goal to lift them to victory over Villarreal two weeks ago.
A defeat to Manchester City will sink Yellow Submarine

Manchester City needs a win in the Champions League to give their campaign hope, but they face a Villarreal side hit by injuries and in need of a a win to not be eliminated.

SportNovember 02, 2011
Barcelona's average support this season has grown at home to 81,371 a game. Stephen Pond / Empics
Tourists help bolster numbers at Barcelona's Camp Nou

Barcelona are making full use of their city's tourist trade to boost their attendance figures.

SportNovember 02, 2011
Hard to see anyone prevent Lionel Messi retaining Ballon d'Or

Messi is favourite to retain the trophy for a third consecutive year and match Michel Platini's record in the 1980s

The NationalNovember 02, 2011
More than a two-horse race so far this season in Primera Liga

The emergence of Levante and Sevilla early in the season have makes La Liga more than a just about Barcelona and Real Madrid.

The NationalOctober 26, 2011
Villarreal's Borja Valero, left, and the rest of his teammates found out that Levante and Xavier Torres Buigues were more than they bargained for.
Levante keep on surprising in the Primera Liga

Supporters surrounded the Levante bus after midnight on Monday after the team had beaten Villarreal. Understandable when you realize the victory enabled team to climb to the top of the Primera Liga for the first time in the club's 102-year history.

SportOctober 26, 2011
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