Articles tagged with "barca"
Lionel Messi Now Starring In Spitgate
By chris | November 3rd, 2008Sweet little Lionel Messi's reputation is in a spot of trouble. Late in this weekend's 4-1 win over Malaga, Messi was roaming around and bumped ...
Matchday 2 Wednesday roundup!
By Rob | October 2nd, 2008Apologies that this is so late, real life went crazy for me yesterday. I miss having a team here at the CL Offside. Anyway, on ...
Barca tell The Dhino, "No Olympics for you"
By Rob | July 9th, 2008In another bizzare news story, Barcelona have told out-of-favour striker Ronaldinho he isn't permitted to partake in the Summer Olympics, despite being named in Dunga's ...
Transfer Window Opens for Viola
By Ted | July 2nd, 2008In recent weeks we’ve heard a lot of stories regarding Fiorentina and their summer signings, especially since the team is expected to reload for next ...
Step away from the Bridge
By Matt | May 8th, 2008As the summer quickly approaches, the EPL tends to become a bit like a middle school cafeteria in it's propagation of nasty ...
It Was Rio!
By Sam | April 29th, 2008The reason Manchester United are through is Rio Ferdinand. Titanic performance by all, but without Rio's huge presence Barça surely would have gotten behind the ...
Champions League Semi Final Preview: Man Utd vs Barça Pt. II
By Daryl | April 29th, 2008It's no secret that second legs are almost always better. Why? Because that's when we find out who wins. And so the fireworks we were ...
Ronaldo Gets The Dreaded Tranny Surprise
By chris | April 28th, 2008God I love it when Brazilians have time to party. Ronaldo (The Phenomenal One then The Fat One then The Symptomatic Fat One and now ...
Man Utd v Barça (comment)
By Sam | April 23rd, 2008A Euclidian footballing howto was provided by Barcelona as Man Utd showed exquisite discipline to draw nil at Camp Nou. Man of the Match: Patrice Evra, ...
Barcelona vs Man Utd Champions League Semi Final LiveBlog (1st Leg)
By Daryl | April 23rd, 2008Barcelona 0-0 Man Utd 2nd leg LiveBlog here Today's Champions League semifinal at Camp Nou pits Barcelona against Man Utd, and Leo Messi against Cristiano Ronaldo. Arguably ...
Regarding Barça
By Sam | April 21st, 2008The Financial Times' sport columnist, Simon Kuper, spent a few days last month at Camp Nou interviewing Frank Rijkaard and members of the team and ...
Almeria 2-Barca 2, a.k.a. the "Too Damned Many Set Pieces" edition
By Isaiah | March 16th, 2008My heart. My heart. I am absolutely gutted. Oh, yeah....this is Kevin, not Isaiah, who I'm sure is just as gutted. This was a brilliant, ...
Marco Amelia Desination of the Week ; Barcelona
By Marco | January 7th, 2008That’s right Marco, Lovely Barcelona ! After Napoli last week and Siberia the week before, Marco Amelia is now a target of Barcelona! The city where ...
Rino Where are You?
By Gianfranco | July 11th, 2007Rino, if you are reading this post it is time you get off of your vacationg rear and put the most vocal mouth on the ...
Anfield Banter: the new stadium, JP, Bells, El Nino, Rick Parry, Titi Camara, & more Q talk
By Brian | July 8th, 2007* The 'final' plans for the new stadium could be revealed as early as tomorrow and will definitely be revealed by July 25th, when they ...
Ronaldinho Eases Closer to Milan
By Martha | May 12th, 2007After Barca's humiliating cup defeat to Getafe last week, Ronaldinho was verbally abused by fans, some of whom rather angrily suggested -- in so many ...
The Eto'o-to-Milan Rumor Returns
By Martha | May 7th, 2007During the winter transfer window, one of the roughly 400,540 names associated with a move to Milan was Barcelona's sublime Samuel Eto'o, who was probably ...
Quick News Roundup Ahead of Today's Matches
By Martha | April 18th, 2007I don't even want to think about how unproductive I'm going to be today -- pray with me that no work crises erupt doing the ...
Despite being Knocked Out, Barca Remain Very Interested in Champions League
By Martha | April 3rd, 2007According to a report in the Spanish press, among the most interested spectators at the Olimpico when Roma host Man U tomorrow night will be ...
Hey, It's Adriano Day!
By Martha | March 21st, 2007While Adriano is off soberly (we think) training with his non-international Inter buddies, people all over the world have him on the brain. In Spain, there ...
Inter: We Want Messi. No, Wait, Deco! Eh, Whatever.
By Martha | March 21st, 2007Not content to let Milan have all the fun, Inter are now allegedly also getting into the race for a Barcelona player or two. According ...
Another Twist on the Ronaldinho Rumor, Now with More Zambrotta!
By Martha | March 21st, 2007Obviously the Ronaldinho-to-Milan rumor isn't going away any time soon -- at this point we probably should start treating it less like a news story ...
Mmm ... Rumors (Transfer and Otherwise)
By Martha | March 19th, 2007Look at all the rumors swirling in the air today! Isn't it great? Why, if there wasn't snow outside, I'd swear it was summer. •First of ...
Milan Heart Ronaldinho (Shhh, Don't Tell Barca)
By Martha | March 14th, 2007The flirting continues between Ronaldinho -- through his brother/agent (Who doesn't have one of those?) Roberto Assis -- and Milan, and press reports suggest ...
PSV's Alex out six weeks, to miss both CL ties
By Brian | March 13th, 2007Has there ever been a guy who's gotten so much hype for almost costing his team a spot in the Champion's League quarterfinals? I ...
Eamon Dunphy is 'fat and a clown'
By Brian | March 7th, 2007I don't know what he was drinking here, delusional juice maybe? What game was he watching? No conviction in the second half? Liverpool had better ...
Liverpool 0, Barca 1
By Brian | March 7th, 2007Well, it's not exactly the way I would have liked our team to advance, but we did what we had to do. It was ...
Rijkaard and Eto'o talking junk
By Brian | March 6th, 2007Rijkaard thinks Benitez is conceded. He's probably right, I mean, you sort of have to be that way to be a good manager. ...
Is God Preparing a Cosmic Joke for Kaka?
By Martha | February 28th, 2007In an interview* with La Gazetta dello Sport today, Milan's Ricky Kaka joined the chorus of voices calling for the summer capture of the newly ...
Barca build-up & other news tidbits
By Brian | February 13th, 2007Xabi thinks Xavi is the man to stop for Liverpool success. I sort of think Deco is more of a threat. Oh yeah, ...
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