Best of the Segunda

Even the backroom uncertainties (the situation with Emana for example) and the usual antics of Lopera (his treatment of Lima is a joke) could not ...

A Good Start but Nothing more...

Finally! After weeks of speculations, and in general a spate of bad news, the focus has finally returned to purely what happens on the field and in ...

Will the real playmaker please stand up?

One of the main problems that Betis faced last season was the fact that the team was one dimensional and probably lacked a real playmaker ...

An Offseason of Discontent

It has been a trying few weeks as a Betis fan with all the backroom shenanigans that have been taking place completely overshadowing what happens ...

Reality Bites...

That is a picture of the Betis team decked out in the latest away strip...it grows on you actually but that is about the only ...

Interesting interview

For those who are keen to find out more about Antonio Tapia and his way of thinking, (and there is not much information in English ...

Reality Bites

"Just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in" - The Godfather III So in the end it was a storm in a teacup...the latest news on ...

Miracles don't happen...do they?

Just when I was getting used to life in the Segunda Division, there are now rumours coming out of Spain that there is a chance ...

First Friendly Game

There are some who claim that humans are motivated more by scents than by sights and in a way, I tend to agree with them. Just like ...

Looking on the Bright Side

                Looking on the brighter side of things, here are the new players for this new season decked out in the latest jerseys... From Left: Sunny, Inaki ...

Betis as a feeder club

                Well so much for wanting to stay and help Real Betis secure promotion. The latest word over the weekend is that Ricardo Oliveira has signed ...

Dawn of A New Age

The reality of life as a second class citizen in the Spanish League is both harsh and brutal and as Real Zaragoza has shown, there ...

Betis New Kit for 2009-2010

The start of something to smile about after the pain of dropping a division? Behold the new kit for Betis that has just been launched for ...

We will miss you...

They say that the worst part of any disaster or tragedy is not the feelings of shock and despair that come in the immediate aftermath ...

OH MY GOD

Forgive me for I am still in a state of shock...even until now, I cannot believe the reality that Real Betis - MY REAL BETIS ...

¡Viva er Beti manque pierda!

I been a Real Betis Balompié fan since about 1988. Why? We can get into that later. What I want to express ...

Is this Love that I'm feeling?

After so many months, so many matches and so many different emotions, we have finally come to this...the fact that Betis now lies 1 point ...

Kent

So it has come down to this...

Is it just me or did Betis really have a change of coach? The resemblence is uncanny and it goes beyond the way in which ...

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

An advanced "sorry" to all the few Betis fans... after my last post, I realised that I have upset the Footballing Gods and thus to ...

So this is Heaven...

Weird as it may seem, (and apologies to the few Betis fans who bother to even read this blog), I was holding off on writing ...

We Are Fast Losing You.......

A new year has descended upon us and while many hope for new experiences and new adventures, as a Betis fan it seems like nothing ...

Which Way Betis?

As we move towards the end of the year, many always choose to reflect on the year that had gone by and to make new ...

Happy Days are here again

A month away without any updates due to commitments and services to the country but now I'm back as a citizen of my first alligence ...

Is there place for Morality in football?

Take nothing away from Deportivo - they showed that teamwork and a great spirit allied with smart counterattacking tactics can pay dividends especially when they ...

Ramos for Betis????

            The latest rumours coming out from the grapevine should raise the stakes between the rivarly between Betis and Seville... Juande Ramos may be out of a ...

Life is Good...

                  Things have a very funny way of working themselves out that you can never imagine. I've been away from this blog trying to deal with ...

This is War!!!

                    You know what's funny? I use to think that nobody reads this blog of mine and that most writers are like guitar virtuosos, treating this as a ...

The Only Way is Up...

  It has been a brutal few weeks for me and for Real Betis. Who would have thought that when I decided to pin my flag ...

Some interesting tidbits...

Guillem Balague is one journalist and football critic whose opinions I respect and enjoy reading...being from Spain, he has an insider understanding of the comings ...