Guardian Unlimited: 

It's the Spanish Christmas tradition as entrenched as traffic, turrón and tack, up there with nativity scenes of bewildering detail and monumental scale, lottery draws stalked by kids chanting like an army of pre-pubescent Gregorian monks and the Catalan caganer - the chocolate figurine producing a chocolate log. Every year when the football wraps up for winter, La Liga's Brazilians catch a flight home for Christmas. And every year when the football returns, La Liga's Brazilians don't. Much to the irritation of the fans.

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