After years of European supremacy, La Liga is at a low ebb

The champs were overjoyed. It's Atlético Madrid, they know only heart-bursting happiness and burst-hearted shame. Luis Suarez, cast off by Barcelona and told he had failed his friend Leo Messi, wept on the pitch at Estadio Jose Zorilla. (Suarez will always belong more to Barca than Atleti, but his vulnerability, the way his excitement is almost indistinguishable from terrible pain, is very Atlético-esque.) Some half-hour previous, he'd scored the goal that sealed the title, and the week before that, he'd scored a more dramatic one that kept his new club in first place. Now he could rest. Season over, mission accomplished, scores settled. Most of the guys who ran him out of Barcelona weren't even in charge anymore; some of them had been arrested in March.