FOOTBALL AND BULL-FIGHTING
A message from Madrid to' the French sporting Press describes the increasing popularity of football in Spain. A considerable section of the general public now prefers watching football matches to bull-fights. So great is the new attraction that the Ronda arena in Andalusia, which was fomerly used for-corridas, has now been transformed into a football ground, and even in Seville popular interest m football has grown to such an •extent that a bull-fight arranged for a recent Sunday was postponed as it clashed with the football match between the Seville and EuropV Clubs for the championship of Spain.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 17
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101FOOTBALL AND BULL-FIGHTING Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 17
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