By Chris Wright
Following in the wake of their almost funereal blacked-out front page after Spain’s opening World Cup trouncing at the hands of Holland, today’s MARCA cover is even more sombre – Andres Iniesta cutting a lonely figure as the headline solemnly decrees: “THE END, the lamentable end to the glorious period of La Roja”…
Crikey. Where’s Jim Morrison when you need him?
The front page of today’s AS ploughs a similar furrow, exclaiming that “It was nice while it lasted” before going on to describe Spain’s prematurely jettisoning from the World Cup as both “horrible and vulgar”…
Ouch.