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  4. I think Madrid will have to wait to win La Liga tonight as Athletic Bilbao are a very difficult team to play away. Still, no doubt they will be crowned champions by the weekend.
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  9. This team thinks and plays game by game. First, we have to win at Sevilla and then we'll think of the Athletic Bilbao encounter. If we get three points each time, there will be a happy ending to the title race for us.
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  5. A woman takes a picture of a friend as they visit the exhibition 'David Hockney, a Bigger Picture', on May 14, 2012, at the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum. The exhibition, the first one in Spain dedicated to Hockney's landscapes, shows about 150 paintings, drawings, IPad prints and video...
  6. People visit the exhibition 'David Hockney, a Bigger Picture', on May 14, 2012, at the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum. The exhibition, the first one in Spain dedicated to Hockney's landscapes, shows about 150 paintings, drawings, IPad prints and video installations created since 2004, and...
  7. Curator Edith Devaney talks to journalists during the presentation of the exhibition 'David Hockney, a Bigger Picture', on May 14, 2012, at the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum. The exhibition, the first one in Spain dedicated to Hockney's landscapes, shows about 150 paintings, drawings, IPad...
  8. British artist David Hockney gestures during his visit to the exhibition 'David Hockney, a Bigger Picture', on May 14, 2012, at the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum. The exhibition, the first one in Spain dedicated to Hockney's landscapes, shows about 150 paintings, drawings, IPad prints and...
  9. British artist David Hockney attends a press conference during the presentation of the exhibition 'David Hockney, a Bigger Picture', on May 14, 2012, at the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum. The exhibition, the first one in Spain dedicated to Hockney's landscapes, shows about 150 paintings,...

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Bilbao, sometimes referred to as Bilbo (another Basque variant), in the North of Spain, is the largest city in the Basque Country and the capital of the province of Biscay (Basque: Bizkaia). The city has over 354,000 inhabitants (2006) and is the most economically and industrially active part of Greater Bilbao, the zone in which almost half of... Full Article At Wikipedia.org

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  1. I think Madrid will have to wait to win La Liga tonight as Athletic Bilbao are a very difficult team to play away. Still, no doubt they will be crowned champions by the weekend.
    SOURCE: Goal.com 2 weeks ago
  2. This team thinks and plays game by game. First, we have to win at Sevilla and then we'll think of the Athletic Bilbao encounter. If we get three points each time, there will be a happy ending to the title race for us.
    SOURCE: Goal.com 3 weeks ago
  3. You can say that one team is better or worse than the other, but for example Bilbao beat Manchester United and United were favourites. We beat Manchester City, who were also favourites, and the most expensive team ever assembled, but I cannot say whether we are favourites or not against Bilbao.
    SOURCE: Goal.com 3 weeks ago
  4. You can say that one team is better or worse than the other, but for example Bilbao beat Manchester United and United were favourites. We beat Manchester City, who were also favourites, and the most expensive team ever assembled, but I cannot say whether we are favourites or not against Bilbao.
    SOURCE: Goal.com 3 weeks ago
  5. The rap on Bilbao is a bad rap, fabricated by museum directors. Cy Twombly stayed away because curators at MOMA (eds: the Museum of Modern Art in New York) told him not to go there. When he finally saw it he called and said, 'This is the greatest,'
    SOURCE: Deutsche Welle 3 weeks ago
  6. The 'Guggenheim effect' refers to how the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has transformed the whole city
    SOURCE: Deutsche Welle 3 weeks ago
  7. It will be very difficult for Barcelona to take if they let Real Madrid win the championship although Real Madrid’s fixtures are not easy because, apart from El Clasico still having to be played, they also have to go and play against Athletic Bilbao which will be a very hard game and Bilbao will be aimi...
    SOURCE: Team Kickoff 1 month ago
  8. He is our striker, like [Fernando] Llorente at Athletic Bilbao, [Roberto] Soldado for Valencia, Cristiano Ronaldo for Real Madrid or [Lionel] Messi for Barcelona
    SOURCE: Inside Futbol 1 month ago
  9. Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is prepared to spend £70m on Athletic Bilbao trio Oscar de Marcos, 23, Javi Martinez, 23, and Iker Muniain, 19.’
    SOURCE: Soccer Blogs 1 month ago
  10. The pressure on Real Madrid will be huge at that point. They will have to deal with Bayern Munich in the Champions League as well, while Athletic Bilbao await in the Liga. They take on Barca in the Copa del Rey final, so will hope that the Catalans win the league title. Bilbao will then automatically qu...
    SOURCE: Goal.com 1 month ago
  11. I would love to see a Spanish Champions League final and Europa League final. Real Madrid and Barcelona could go all the way, while Valencia, Athletic Bilbao and Atletico Madrid can do the same. Spanish football is flourishing at the moment
    SOURCE: Goal.com 2 months ago
  12. They play as a team. They beat Manchester United twice and deserved it both times -- that tells us a lot about how strong Athletic Bilbao is
    – Huub Stevens (footballer) SOURCE: Sportsnet.ca 2 months ago
  13. We wanted to avoid both Athletic Bilbao and Atletico Madrid
    – Aritz Aduriz SOURCE: Goal.com 2 months ago
  14. They've beaten Manchester United twice - that says a lot about Bilbao's strength. They are good collectively
    SOURCE: Goal.com 2 months ago
  15. Of course, there is pressure on us because we want to win the title. If Manchester United go out against Atletico Bilbao, maybe it will give them a slight edge in the remaining weeks so for that reason, we hope they win in Spain
    SOURCE: Inside Futbol 2 months ago
  16. We've got the same against Bilbao because Phil Jones and Chris Smalling are unavailable and that's sort of a door slamming in the face again, but we keep carrying on and it points to a resilience in the team that's really admirable.
    SOURCE: SoccerWay 2 months ago
  17. He could play against Bilbao but I have good options in terms of front players with Javier Hernandez, Danny Welbeck and Wayne Rooney
    – Alex Ferguson SOURCE: RTE Interactive 2 months ago
  18. He could play tomorrow (in the Europa League against Athletic Bilbao) but I have good options in terms of front players with Javier Hernandez, Danny Welbeck and Wayne Rooney
    – Alex Ferguson SOURCE: SoccerWay 2 months ago
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  20. It is a new and bracing way to write about architecture. In the past, the museum would likely have been compared to others of its ilk, alongside MoMA, the Guggenheim Bilbao, maybe Daniel Libeskind’s severe Denver Art Museum. It is peg versus peg.
    SOURCE: Planetizen 2 months ago
  21. We conceded three against Basel, two against Benfica, another three against Bilbao and two to Ajax. That tells its own story. Maybe it is just one of those years where we are having to restock and assess how we should approach games at home.
    SOURCE: Sporting Life 2 months ago
  22. We’ve had a bad season in Europe, it has to be said. We’ve lost three goals against Basel, two against Benfica, two to Ajax and three tonight (against Bilbao). That tells the story
    – Alex Ferguson SOURCE: Premiership Talk 2 months ago
  23. Disappointing result tonight but no time to get down with the game Sunday [against West Brom]. Bilbao were impressive too but confident we can turn it round!
    SOURCE: Goal.com 2 months ago
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  25. I must focus on Bilbao and when the time comes that I may be playing in the Olympics and Euro 2012, I will think about it then
    SOURCE: Goal.com 2 months ago

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