Lengthy newsletter today, running to almost 6,000 words and covering eight games from Spain, Germany, England and MLS.

The day has already started well with good results for J-League this morning ( sent to subscribers on Friday) , but was just as well as I had a bit of a nightmare yesterday !

Those JL1 notes are reproduced below as samples.

I posted some background notes last week on what we can expect historically from end of season games and round 38 in particular and a quick look at those is a good place to start today.

Ligue 2 has long been one of our main leagues and we are rapidly coming towards the end of the 17/18 season and we can take this opportunity to look at how the final rounds there tend to play out.

Championship:  Hull City- Cardiff City