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The Guardian // Sport // Football

Football Daily | La Liga and a howl of self-pity as plug pulled on Miami awayday

Wednesday 22nd October 2025, 3:11PM

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!While Football Daily likes the idea of partying in any city where the heat is on, all night on the beach to the break of dawn as much as the next periodical, we have never been lucky enough to visit Miami. However, we are familiar enough with the musical stylings of Will Smith to know that every day in Florida’s second most populous city is “like a mardi gras” and that all visitors “party all day, no work all play”. Sadly for the powers that be in La Liga, it has been decided that their money-making, profile-rising wheeze to send Barcelona and Villarreal to “the city that keeps the roof blazin’” to play a Spanish top-flight game has been cancelled. Any notions Lamine Yamal, Nicolas Pépé or their teammates might have had to spend their Christmas break “bouncin’ in the club where the heat is on” are on hold and replaced by the crushing reality of having to remain in – Football Daily checks notes – Spain.I’m pleased that Graham Potter has already found a new job so soon after leaving his last one. It would have been easy to get despondent after such a setback, hide from the world and risk getting lost in the shuffle in a crowded field of candidates for any position. Instead, it’s really important to get your face out there, be seen by prospective employers. On that front, he was fortunate to have a group of fans so willing to get his face absolutely everywhere. That they did it before he’d actually left West Ham is beside the point” – Ed Taylor.Great to see a se

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