1. On Saturday night, the sporting drama culminated. Girona drew at home with Elche and was relegated to the Second Division. If Lemar's shot against the post had gone in, the big party in Plaça del Vi would have lasted two days. But when football really hangs by a thread, it's a sign that things haven't been done well. This bad run at the end of the season (no wins in the last eight games, 4 points out of a possible 24) has been practically symmetrical to a start of the season with continuous stumbles. The condemnation has been the meager 41 points achieved. A year ago, also with 41 points, Girona managed to save themselves by playing with fire. On this occasion, there has been no luck, and the fans, at the end of the match, pointed to the stands and oscillated between expressions of condolence and criticism of the players. 

Halfway between Logroño, Vitoria, San Sebastián, and Bilbao lies Miranda de Ebro, a town of just over 35,000 inhabitants renowned for its industrial center—now in decline—and communications hub, especially for rail. Children attend school wearing the shirt of the town's team, Mirandés, not Barça or Real Madrid. Historically, it has straddled the Third Division and Second B, which is 90 minutes away from promotion to the Liga. end of the play-off, will achieve this for the first time in its nearly hundred years of existence, making it one of the smallest teams to reach the Spanish football elite. "It's a David versus Goliath story. With one of the lowest budgets in the division, it's very close to promotion to the First Division, having competed against Granada, Almería, and Racing de Santander, teams from large cities that represent provincial capitals. It's very big," says Pablo Infante, the most famous player in the club's history.