Articles tagged with "1"
Jeonbuk Hyundai Minor Season Champs: Now It's Play-Off Time
By Brett | November 11th, 2009After 30 rounds, 210 games and 554 goals, fifteen teams have become six and the real season can finally begin. It's play-off time in the ...
Group Stage: Match Day 2
By Dan | October 1st, 2009There was a little bit of everything on match day 2 in the group stage: redemption, surprises, and some consolidation of power already. In ...
Who Will Make The K-League Play-Offs?
By Brett | September 30th, 2009The top three all won again on the weekend. Hence, whilst they are not mathematically assured of being there, I'm prepared to say that, with ...
Hey everybody, let's deconstruct the taboo around diving.
By Dan | September 24th, 2009Cristiano Ronaldo, Didier Drogba, Francesco Totti, Hernan Crespo, Arjen Robben: all talented, renowned international footballers, yet the sight of their names is no doubt making ...
The Brilliant and the Average...
By Brett | September 22nd, 2009Not a lot of time this week, so I’m borrowing an idea from another football blog I regularly read to sum up the happenings in ...
Pohang Steal the Headlines as Top Two Clash in Seoul
By Brett | September 15th, 2009This is my first post in a month, and to my legion of fans out there (both of you), please accept my most humblest of ...
Football Can Be An Evil Bitch-Goddess at Times
By Brett | August 17th, 2009At times, the game of football can be a cruel, unfair and to quote Bart Simpson (who I'm pretty sure was quoting someone else at ...
Suwon Samsung Starting To Gain Momentum
By Brett | August 4th, 2009Senol Gunes knew. He knew that even though his side may have been unlucky to lose just over a week ago to the second best ...
Pivotal Weekend Overshadowed by Ji
By Brett | July 27th, 2009Seventy-three minutes. It took seventy-three minutes for the 64,000 strong crowd at the Seoul World Cup Stadium to get what they came for. This may ...
White Hot Pohang Steelers Keep Pressure on the Leaders
By Brett | July 20th, 2009I watched Pohang Steelers knock off reigning champions Suwon Samsung 3-2 in round 1. I wasn’t at the Big Bird Stadium in Suwon. I wasn’t ...
FC Seoul Pistol Whip Incheon United: Go Top At The Halfway Mark
By Brett | July 15th, 2009Fifteen rounds ago FC Seoul opened their 2009 K-League campaign with a demolition job in Chunnam. The six goals they scored that day are still ...
The 'Lion King' - Roaring Once More
By Brett | July 7th, 2009Last minute goals were the order of the day in week 14 of the K-League. Lee Je-Kyu got one in the 92nd minute for Daejeon ...
New Kids Gangwon F.C. Making a Big Impression
By Brett | June 30th, 2009Jeonbuk Hyundai manager Choi Kang-hee didn’t sound surprised. Nor did he sound shocked. Or embarrassed. There was no need to hurl abuse at an average ...
Goals Galore as the K-League Returns With a Bang
By Brett | June 22nd, 2009It was the week where the K-League resumed after a month-long break, only to be greeted by torrential rain, unbearable heat and energy sapping humidity. ...
A Shameless Plug...
By Brett | June 10th, 2009With the K-League currently enjoying on a month-long hiatus due to a heap of World Cup Qualifiers, I haven't got a whole lot to write ...
Korea's 'Double Dragons' Dominate for FC Seoul.
By Brett | June 3rd, 2009Round 17 of the K-League came eight weeks early on Saturday night. Gwangju Sangmu graciously agreed to play their late July clash with FC Seoul ...
Suwon Samsung Still in a World of Trouble
By Brett | May 27th, 2009With snow gently falling around him, Lee Won-jae looked up at the clock. It read 94:45. The Suwon and Korean legend took a deep breath ...
A Football Miracle Sends FC Seoul Through in the Champions League
By Brett | May 23rd, 2009Going into the sixth and final match day of this seasons Asian Champions League group stage, Suwon Samsung Bluewings and Pohang Steelers were already through, ...
Pain in the Rain for Daegu FC
By Brett | May 20th, 2009Byun Byoung-joo was motionless. Stunned. His gaze fixed on his own goal; on the ball nestled snuggly in the back of the net; on his ...
Top 5 UEFA Cup Finals: # 3
By Dan | May 18th, 20091987-1988 Bayer Leverkusen 3 (3) - Espanyol 3 (2) A collapse that can only be described as utter. In terms of names, this was hardly a marquee ...
Top 5 UEFA Cup Finals: # 4
By Dan | May 18th, 20091988-1989 Napoli 5 - Stuttgart 4 Napoli's finest hour, featuring a classic, yet underrated, Maradona performance. The close aggregate score actually flatters Stuttgart, who were not awful, ...
Top 5 UEFA Cup Finals: # 5
By Dan | May 17th, 2009The last UEFA Cup final is going to be an event that launches a thousand lists, so no points for originality here. There are ...
UEFA Cup 1982: Hooray for Sven
By Dan | May 14th, 2009Here's a fun UEFA Cup final from days of yore, when UEFA Cups were not handed out like so many supermarket samples of an exciting ...
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By Dan | May 13th, 2009Essentially, I am an enthusiast/curmudgeon that has been graciously given a public forum. I support Hertha Berlin and to a lesser extent AS Roma. I believe that ...
Threes, Threes Everywhere...
By Brett | May 11th, 2009Whether it be losing your job, your girl and your house in the same day, the first three Star Wars movies (the old ones), or ...
Jeonbuk Hyundai's Spectacular Green Revolution
By Brett | May 4th, 2009Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors finished sixth in the K-League last season. Another mediocre year from a team that have been consistently mediocre since they joined the ...
Lee Chun-soo Returns to Torment His Old Team
By Brett | April 28th, 2009He was born in the port city of Incheon and is approaching his 28th birthday. He’s dated pop stars and Miss Korea winners. He’s got ...
What Goes Around...Comes Around for FC Seoul
By Brett | April 25th, 2009Justin Timberlake was right - what goes around...comes around. Lie and you will get caught, wear parachute pants and people will think your a doosh, ...
Awesome weather, dynamic BBQ, ho hum football
By Brett | April 21st, 2009Saturday was a great day in Seoul. One of those warm, sun-drenched spring days which are loved by all. The perfect day for showing a ...
Military Men Setting the Pace
By Brett | April 14th, 2009If you follow the likes of Tottenham Hotspur or Real Madrid, then you’re no doubt used to seeing wholesale changes take place at your club ...
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