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ESP and FC. The instinct the won out was to focus on the Champions League. Ever since I saw Aberdeen playing European football,

I haven't quite been able to explain why, but it always meant more to me to see my club

beating European teams. And some of that has guided me throughout my career when it's meant so much to watch other teams,

or the clubs, other cultures, and how they do things.

But it's meant a lot to see the teams that I'm paid to cover beating continental rivals.

That happened last week when I was down at what still romantically you think of as El Madrigal but it's actually

last ceramica named after the bathroom wall tiles that have made the fortune for Fernando Royce, the owner of Villarrealis,

it's that over the last 25 years, he can develop them into more than a giant killer, a mini giant town of 50,000 people.

And I was about to explain, scalp after scalp of the genuine big boys of European football.

Going there and sitting reporting on their victory of a buying Munich, sat beside Phil Kuchamelidas from the League of Television, if you're a fan of what we do at weekends, was magical and it made me reflect a little bit because I was there in the last games for the coach that preceded Manuel Pilagrini

before he took over and there when Pilagrini surged Villarreal onwards to the semi-final of the 2005-2006 Champions League.

Now to be there season after season when either relegation was on the cards or

when other big European sites were being beaten meant that going down there

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