Articles tagged with "benfica"
Porto Are Champions, But Are They Champions League?
By Greg | May 15th, 2008As we are all well aware at this point, Porto were "punished" for their involvement in match fixing and referee bribing during the 2003/04 season. The investigation, initially called "Golden Whistle" and then "Final Whistle" (kind of a Desert Shield ...
Luisao "Interested" in Move to Fratton Park
By b-man | May 12th, 2008With Sol Campbell looking set to join Villareal, it is looking increasingly likely that the man trusted with the job of replacing the Sol man is Benfica's Luisao. "I would be interested in moving to England if I receive the right offer,” said Lu ...
Jornada 30 Recap: Final Whistle Blown On Season
By Greg | May 12th, 2008With the league still smarting from the Golden Whistle punishments handed down on Friday, the players took to the pitch to earn their money finish out the end of a controversy-filled season. Here's how it all shook out: Nacional 1 - 2 Belenense ...
Jornada 30 Preview: Final Preview of the Season and a Tribute to Rui Costa
By Greg | May 9th, 2008*** Completely Unrelated, Somewhat Breaking News *** The final verdict in the Golden Whistle trial is going to be handed down at around 10:30 Eastern time today. I'll do my best to give you whatever information becomes available around that time. T ...
Campbell Out... Luisao In
By b-man | May 8th, 2008Benfica defender Luisao is set to replace the departing Sol Campbell this summer. Big Sol is out of contract in the summer and it's looking more than likely that he won't be offered a new deal. Luisao is valued at £12million by Benfica, which ...
List of Clubs Up To Date on Wage Payments Is Released
By Greg | May 8th, 2008Since there's been a whole huge hullabaloo over getting paid this past season, the Players' Association did us all a favor and released a list of clubs who have paid all of their players in full through the end of April. The list is as follows: ...
Hump Day Quickies
By Greg | May 7th, 2008Since there's no one huge news story today, I figure I might as well take it easy, enjoy the 78 degree New Jersey weather, and give you some quick hit news stories and links away from this beautiful site... -*- Estrela da Amadora players suspend ...
Jornada 29 Review: Nacional Take Six Points From Porto
By Greg | May 5th, 2008When the boys of Nacional are sitting around the dressing room at the end of the season to discuss what took place over the course of the thirty jornadas that comprised the 2007/08 season, they can proudly stick their chests out and say: "We handed P ...
Jornada 29 Preview: Thank God It's Friday My Ass
By Greg | May 2nd, 2008Man, do I love Fridays. Actually, the only thing I hate about Friday is that people over acknowledge the day as being one to celebrate. I think that's basically what I did with my first sentence, but I hate myself, so it's okay. I'm going to go ou ...
Jornada 28 Recap: Big Three Winner Weekend
By Greg | April 29th, 2008Now that V.Setúbal and E.d.Amadora have recorded their draw, let's check them results once more: Braga 2 - 1 P.Ferreira Benfica 2 - 0 Belenenses Nacional 0 - 3 Académica Naval 1 - 0 Boavista Leiria 1 - 3 Leixões V.Guimarães 0 - 5 Porto ...
Jornada 28 Pre-Recap: Porto's Big 'F You' To The League
By Greg | April 28th, 2008Ever since the heat has been turned up on the Golden Whistle proceedings, Porto have taken the extra warmth of the spotlight and turned it into some impressive play on the pitch. This week, they decided to show the world just how much distance there ...
Jornada 28 Preview: Why AS Roma and Its Fans Need to Go Away
By Greg | April 25th, 2008I usually start each preview off with some witty banter but this week I have to discuss AS Roma and its huge fan base which have camped themselves here on The Offside. Let me start off by saying that chris' blog about AS Roma on this website is easi ...
Top of the Table Run In Probability Game
By Greg | April 23rd, 2008I'm something of an amateur prognosticator / absolute genius, therefore I'm going to take a look into the future with the final three weeks of the Portuguese Liga season. I've been saying for the past two or three weeks (no, really, this blog has be ...
Jornada 27 Recap: Come On the Chels!!!
By Greg | April 22nd, 2008Don't be confused by the Chelsea badge, it's there for my boys in blue who are going to take it to Fernanda Torres and Co. today. The race at the top (save Porto) is getting even tighter and more interesting with the following results taking place t ...
Jornada 27 Pre-Recap: Sporting Hammered, Porto Rampant
By Greg | April 21st, 2008The weekend's action saw Porto absolutely dominate Benfica with two goals from Lisandro Lopez, putting him on twenty four goals for the season thus making him the top scorer in the league this millennium. His first goal yielded a sweet ass celebrati ...
Jornada 27 Preview: Clássico Time
By Greg | April 18th, 2008These matches this weekend have a huge amount of expectation to live up to after the Sporting v Benfica cup semifinal. As if a 3-0 loss at home to Academica and five second half goals from Sporting isn't enough, Benfica face off against seemingly in ...
Strachan to Benfica?
By Matt | April 17th, 2008Reports have surfaced that Portuguese side and Celtic Champions League foe Benfica are very interested in acquiring Celtic coach Gordon Strachan for the same job in Portugal. Apparently the club love the Wee Ginger Man, after handing them two defeat ...
Taça de Portugal - Match of the Season Edition
By Greg | April 17th, 2008Simply put, I haven't watched / been a part of a match that was this exciting or entertaining for at least a year... Taça de Portugal Semifinal -- Sporting 5 - 3 Benfica -- I watched this game at a Portuguese bar that was probably 75% Sportinguista ...
Taça de Portugal Recap / Preview
By Greg | April 16th, 2008Ever since my return, I've largely ignored the Taça de Portugal. I even mistook it for a competition where you don't actually gain a spot in Europe by winning. However, as I was corrected on yesterday's recap, the Carlsberg Cup (formerly known as ...
Jornada 26 Recap: Formula For a Happy Ending (Updated)
By Greg | April 15th, 2008Once more, here's them scores... Benfica 0 - 3 Académica E. Amadora 0 - 2 Belenenses V.Guimarães 1 - 0 Boavista V.Setúbal 1 - 2 Porto Nacional 1 - 2 P.Ferreira Naval 0 - 3 Marítimo Sporting 2 - 0 Leixões Braga 0 - 1 Leiria (3 red cards ...
Jornada 26 Preview: Fight For Porto's Scraps
By Greg | April 11th, 2008Now that King Porto have been crowned champions for the third successive season, all that is left for the other clubs is "to be or not to be." To be in Europe or not to be. To be relegated or not to be... Okay enough of the overextended Hamlet sol ...
What do The Offside and Boavista FC Have In Common?
By Greg | April 10th, 2008If you guessed "They both make you toil away in the world of football for no pay," then you're the winner, winner, galinha dinner. While there doesn't seem to be any impending revolt for past due wages here on The Offside (those MLS jerks keep votin ...
Jornada 25 Recap: Porto-guese League Champions
By Greg | April 8th, 2008As you all know by now, this was Porto's weekend to pat themselves on the back for their third consecutive league championship. There's still plenty to play for what with relegation and European spots still readily available. Don't forget that I'm ...
Jornada 25 Preview: Time for Porto to "Wrrrap it Uppp"
By Greg | April 4th, 2008I recall as a young kid having my friend Elliot over (who is still incidentally 15-20 years later still one of my best friends) to play Zelda and Baseball Stars on my Nintendo. The TV and Nintendo "game room" was essentially my parents' basement. W ...
Oscar Cardozo Suspended Three Matches for Being Stupid
By Greg | April 2nd, 2008Benfica's Oscar Cardozo has been suspended by UEFA for three matches following an incident in the 2-1 loss to Getafe on March 6th (see this magical work of art below). He's stupid for a few reasons... Firstly, he committed the foul in the ninth min ...
Jornada 24 Recap... Made Possible By Viewers Like You
By Greg | April 1st, 2008The league is basically a done deal what with Porto ahead of 2nd place Benfica by more points than Robert Downey, Jr has on his driver's license. However, it is my duty, my very meaning in life to bring you weekly jornada recaps. So as not to find ...
Porto March On, Sporting and Benfica Dominate
By Greg | March 31st, 2008If you don't know the drill here, you might as well learn. Mondays mean you get the basic score rundown from the weekend's action. Since there's basically one game still to be played, I don't want to take away from the glory that may await our view ...
Sing it With Me Now... Porto the Magic Dragons Own the Portuguese League
By Greg | March 28th, 2008Ahh good Ol' Puff the Magic Dragon. Peter, Paul, and Mary pulled quite the coup by having everyone happily sing along to a "children's" song we all know is really about smokin' the reefer. Well... enough reminiscing about schmokin' bones and zany c ...
Porto Look to Shut Down The Industry This Weekend
By Greg | March 27th, 2008As if the league isn't actually over to begin with, Porto can actually lift the cup this weekend if they manage to defeat Belenenses and Benfica and V.Guimarães manage to lose. Benfica losing at home to Paços de Ferreira and V.Guimarães losing at ...
November to Now: The Season In Time Machine Mode
By Greg | March 20th, 2008I figure that since I've been gone that the Portuguese Liga has been in dark mode to all of North America. Even though I wasn't here diligently writing 10 cent a word bloggles, they were actually STILL playing football over on the continent that now uses
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