Man, today I really wanna talk about this football history thing. Celta de Vigo against Sevilla. Sounds straightforward, right? I figured fans would love seeing past matches laid out. Simple enough.
The Whole Process Started
First thought? Google. Easy peasy. Typed something like “Celta Vigo Sevilla all past results”. Guess what? Absolute mess. Got news articles, betting sites, some dodgy forums. Found bits and pieces for recent years, like the last five, maybe. But anything older? Nope. Gone. Vanished. Like chasing smoke.
Got frustrated real quick. My kitchen table became mission control. Coffee cup number… lost count. Needed another way. Kept digging deeper.
Getting My Hands Dirty
Turns out, those big football stats sites everyone uses? Total garbage for complete historical data unless you wanna pay an arm and a leg. Felt stuck. Remembered an old, kinda clunky football encyclopedia site I used years ago – the one that looks like it hasn’t changed since dial-up internet. Fired that relic up. Took ages to navigate. Found their head-to-head section for Celta and Sevilla. Finally!
Score!
- The Good: Tons of matches listed! Years stretching back to the 40s! Wow.
- The Bad: Readability? Zero. Just walls of text. Dates, scores squashed together. Hurt your eyes trying to follow it.
- The Ugly: Some scores looked suspicious. Missing goals? Weird draws that didn’t feel right? Had my doubts.
Couldn’t trust just one source. Needed backup. Opened about fifteen different tabs on my ancient laptop. Fan forums filled with old geezers reminiscing. Official club history pages (which surprisingly sucked most of the time). News archives buried deep online. Started cross-referencing.
Building the Thing Piece by Piece
Grabbed my text editor – plain old Notepad. Started manually typing each confirmed result I could actually verify.
Formatting became a headache. How to make it clear? Settled on this:
- DATE: Year comes first. Keep it simple.
- COMPETITION: La Liga, Copa del Rey… important.
SCORE: Celta goals always listed first. Home team advantage thing.
VENUE: Home stadium name. Crucial context!
Hours crawled by. My back started complaining. Seriously, sitting hunched over a laptop sucks.
What Popped Out?
Once I finally got a decent chunk entered, patterns jumped out:
- Back-and-forth battles everywhere. Win streaks? Rare for either side.
- Playing in Vigo? Different ball game for Sevilla. Tough place for them often.
- Found some crazy high-scoring games! Like 4-4 draws back in the day. Fans must have been going nuts.
- Sevilla had some sneaky good runs in the early 2000s against Celta.
The sheer number of games surprised me honestly. Decades piled up on my screen.
Wrapping Up
Finally stopped. Looked at my messy Notepad list. It wasn’t flashy, but it felt solid. All verified, as best I could tell without owning a time machine. Typed it up clearer for the blog post.
Biggest lesson? Finding complete football history takes way more grunt work than people think. It’s out there, but scattered like confetti. You gotta be stubborn and piece it together yourself. Feels good to preserve a bit of this stuff though, before even the internet forgets.