Injured player quite literally shown the door.

Next time you read a traditional NHS scare story about patients being left to die on trolleys, spare a thought for the Spanish third division footballer, for whom a trolley would mark a significant step-up from the typical form of transport. Here is some tremendous initiative from the weekend fixture between Extremadura and Badajoz.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

In this world, some people just don’t understand each other. Go into any shoe shop on a sweltering Saturday, and you’ll see men - grown men - in the midst of a finger pointing whirlwind, starring blankly at their disgruntled wives/girlfriends, totally unaware of what they might have just done wrong. They’re bewildered. Much in the same way that The Spoiler is feeling bewildered right now. Because of the Spanish.

Just five short days ago, we wrote a kind-hearted, innocent piece about how the Spanish football team was still celebrating Euro 2008 almost a week after it had finished. We chuckled to ourselves, hugged, and went home happily singing Spanish folk songs to show our inner appreciation of Spain. And then something disturbing happened. Actual Spanish people read the piece, and it seems our gentle musings have been met with a roaring fury. From nowhere.

“What’s the problem?” raged Nadia7.