Sid Lowe examines the curious case of Mallorca rising to third place in Spain's La Liga: "Because, make no mistake, Mallorca are rubbish. Or, at least, they should be - a football club with no fans and no hope, rattling around a soulless stadium while their old ground still stands abandoned a few kilometers away, goalposts slowly engulfed by the weeds. A financial, social and institutional wreck where the owner turned out not to be the owner at all, having failed to put any money in but succeeded in taking quite a lot of it out; a club where the owner-who-is-not-an-owner's son, who is also the chief executive, decided it was a good idea to use the club credit card for a 5:30 am drinking session and a (hopefully unrelated) trip to the vet with his dog but not for actually signing any players."

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