22 Jun, 2010 @ 11:01
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Villa double gets Spain charge back on track

A DAVID Villa double got Spain’s World Cup Campaign back on track against Honduras in South Africa.

The Barcelona front man opened the scoring midway through the first half after he capped a mazy run with a stunning finish into the top corner.

Just after the break Villa gratefully received Xavi’s cut back to fire a deflected effort beyond the despairing dive of keeper Noel Valladares.

After the opening match disappointment of losing to Switzerland, the Furia Roja came out firing from the first minute.

It was a return to the free-flowing, one-touch football that had critics drooling two years ago when the Spaniards were crowned European Champions.

And the margin of victory could have been far greater had Vicente Del Bosque’s men been more clinical in front of goal.

Hero Villa struck the crossbar with a long-distance thunderbolt and also watched in horror as his hat-trick penalty missed the target altogether.

Fellow hitman Fernando Torres was guilty of a number of misses while second-half substitute Cesc Fabregas saw his effort cleared off the line.

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor)

Jon Clarke is a Londoner who worked at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as an investigative journalist before moving to Spain in 2003 where he helped set up the Olive Press.

After studying Geography at Manchester University he fell in love with Spain during a two-year stint teaching English in Madrid.

On returning to London, he studied journalism and landed his first job at the weekly Informer newspaper in Teddington, covering hundreds of stories in areas including Hounslow, Richmond and Harrow.

This led on to work at the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Standard and even the Sun, before he landed his first full time job at the Daily Mail.

After a year on the Newsdesk he worked as a Showbiz correspondent covering mostly music, including the rise of the Spice Girls, the rivalry between Oasis and Blur and interviewed many famous musicians such as Joe Strummer and Ray Manzarak, as well as Peter Gabriel and Bjorn from Abba on his own private island.

After a year as the News Editor at the UK’s largest-selling magazine Now, he returned to work as an investigative journalist in Features at the Mail on Sunday.

As well as tracking down Jimi Hendrix’ sole living heir in Sweden, while there he also helped lead the initial investigation into Prince Andrew’s seedy links to Jeffrey Epstein during three trips to America.

He had dozens of exclusive stories, while his travel writing took him to Jamaica, Brazil and Belarus.

He is the author of three books; Costa Killer, Dining Secrets of Andalucia and My Search for Madeleine.

Contact jon@theolivepress.es

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