Will Slattery

But if people have forgotten, we have won 37 titles since I've been in charge.

So he was obviously very keen to allay rumours reporting that his health was failing.

So why the...

disquiet and how widespread were the reports of ill health?

I appreciate two trophy-less seasons at Real Madrid is more than a crisis, but he would surely have a fair degree of credit in the bank.

Where's all this coming from, the briefing against him?

Is it from potential political opponents?

Is it just unhappiness in the Madrid press?

What's kind of the backdrop here?

I see at one point as well, or at several points rather.

So he had sheets in front of me and he had his phone and he would very dramatically take out his phone and read aloud excerpts from critical articles directly, you know, naming journalists, naming the newspapers and then the journalists in the room, some of them push back.

So all of that was going on.

And then as tends to happen, there's a moment which has gone viral where

he read an article by a female journalist and then questioned her understanding of football and then turned to another journalist at another point, a female, and said, well, let's let her ask because you men are all ugly.

And I presume he, at 79, thought that was kind of a charming compliment.

Well, this is just something a gentleman here, let the lady ask, you know, you're all ugly.

But all of that, I suppose, feeds into a man whose time is coming to an end, perhaps.

Just on foot of Perez threatening maybe to withdraw his subscription.

Wow.

Les Sexta, this is, you know, these infamous late night TV and radio shows which are so popular in Spain.