Bilbao give a great advert for La Liga

Since Barcelona and Real Madrid started regularly thrashing everyone and Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo would fight it out every week for who can score the most hat-tricks, it has become a widely accepted norm among English fans and pundits that the Spanish league is just weaker than our own.
Barca and Real are great sides, they reluctantly admit, but they play in a two-team league and don’t ever have to play teams like…wait for it…Stoke(!) on a muddy pitch on a cold night up north, so they’re over-rated. In the Premier League anyone can beat anyone, which makes it...