In order to gain a fuller understanding of how Real Madrid came to be viewed as the establishment class of Spanish football, one must become familiar with the history.

After Joan Laporta's statements in which he called Real Madrid "the team of the regime" and the response of the white club with a video in their social networks, featuring images from their historical ...

It's the end of the last great symbol of Spain's dictatorship. That's how Spain's major newspaper El Pais described the removal Thursday of the wooden coffin containing the remains of Spanish dictator ...

Forty-four years have passed since his death in 1975 finally brought one of Europe’s longest modern-day dictatorships to an end, but as a general election looms, General Franco is once again a hot ...

The family was, she claims, put under intense pressure when it was made clear the prestige of the Franco regime was at stake Credit: Photo: PICTORIAL PRESS Within a year of Christian Barnard ...

No official ceremony was held in the country, now a constitutional democracy with a Socialist government. The service on Sunday was held at the Valley of the Fallen (Valle de los Caidos) and marked ...

The history of Spanish football is the history of Spain, with the country's biggest sporting institutions serving as totemic representations of opposing ideologies. El Clasico between Real Madrid and ...

Barcelona are inextricably linked with the cause of Catalan separatism, but why are Real Madrid seen as the team of the establishment? The history of Spanish football is the history of Spain, with the ...