So with apologies to Brian Blessed and the film Flash Gordon,

Look it up, the League is alive.

What happened last night in Madrid was pretty remarkable.

The title of Marcus says today,

Madrid don't deliver the league to Barcelona. During the day, Brahim Diaz, who was going to play

in the starting 11, was injured, and Madrid had 11 first-team players out, meaning that on the night

that they had to beat New York in order not to hand the league directly to football club Basso and play

in Spanish tonight,

they were in grave danger of playing

too many non-first-team players.

There's a rule in the Liga

that there's a set amount of first-team players

that must always be

on the pitch.

And therefore, once Brahim was was out Madrid were able to name ten first-teamers in their line-up against Mallorca.

But if there were red cards or injuries or general caffle, which is a Spanish word,

then there were only two changes that Madrid could make from their bench

without the match automatically becoming illegal

and all three points being handed to Madrid, to Mallorca

and the title being handed to Barcelona.

So if that wasn't enough drama to set up tonight's match at Cornea, just across

town over towards the airport, what about the fact that Majorca led for the majority of the

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