Fear and Loathing In La Liga

SID LOWE is the number one expert on Spanish football and history. He lives in Madrid and writes a weekly column for guardian.co.uk. He also writes regularly for the Guardian, World Soccer, FourFourTwo, and the Telegraph. He works as a commentator and panellist for Spanish, Asian and US television and has acted as translator for David Beckham, Michael Owen, and Thomas Gravesen. On top of that he is a historian, whose previous book, Catholicism, War and the Foundation of Francoism, was a history of the Spanish Civil War