Phil is joined by Valencia and Spanish football legend Gaizka Mendieta for a quick look at the Barcelona-Real Madrid rivalry and its effect on reigning European and World Champion Spain as the we head towards the stretch run in La Liga. Gaizka played 40 times with the Spanish national team, appearing with it in one World Cup and one European Championship, as well as two Champions League Finals with Los Che, voted twice as best midfielder in that competition by UEFA. In this episode we take a look at the Mourinho factor as it cuts across Real Madrid as a football club and how events are now resonating with the supporters now that Barcelona trail by enough points to make it highly likely that La Liga honors will be restored to the Bernabeu. We also look at Barcelona itself to examine whether this might just be the best club team ever to play in La Liga even while failing short in its title challenge and Gaizka draws many parallels to the Dream Team and its natural evolutionary step with Pep Guardiola at the helm. Gaizka also weighs in on whether La Liga will be enough for Jose Mourinho in his second season and if the psychological impact of not beating Barcelona while winning a title might be a cloud that will be forgotten with a bit of time. We close on the matter of the National Team and whether Spain has enough in them left to mount a successful defence of their title in Poland and Ukraine this summer.

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