John Carlin, in a rejig of chunks of a 2002 article in El País, says that Barcelona, not Paris, is now Telegraph readers’ favourite city (where are the stats?). This has taken a while coming – the NYT did a head-to-head a couple of months back – but still: ouch. Here’s a more interesting (Spanish) article by the same man from a couple of years ago about sub-Saharan Africans who are determined to get to this place in particular because of the football. So does illegal immigration decrease when el Barça goes through a bad spell?
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