Morbo: The Story of Spanish Football

Morbo: The Story of Spanish Football. Revised and updated paperback edition of Phil Ball's acclaimed history of Spanish football. Morbo is the unique element that gives Spanish football its special flavour. More than mere rivalry, it is the expression in a thousand provocative ways of the feeling between clubs divided by history, language and politics. At its most bitter between Barcelona and Real Madrid, the same spirit courses through the uncompromising politics of the Basque Country, hangs over the divided city of Seville and marks Spain's attitude towards its national team. In this new edition of his acclaimed history, Phil Ball also examines the emerging power centres of La Coruna and Valencia and weighs up the impact of David Beckham on the morbo in Madrid.