Articles tagged with "carles puyol"
Manchester United - Barcelona: Champions League, Tuesday 2:45pmEST
By Isaiah | April 28th, 2008Update: Check out the liveblog on the main page This. Is. It. There's no tomorrow, no next match. We're in it to win or we're out on the street. The whole season, all the good and all the bad, have led up to this moment, this game, these 90 minu ...
Barcelona 1 - 0 Schalke: YAY...a Toure Edition
By Isaiah | April 9th, 2008So I just spent somewhere in the 20+ minute region writing up what wasn't too bad a post, certainly evolving into something worthwhile anyway, and then somehow the browser decided that it wanted to go to the previous page and I lost everything. That' ...
Where Are You Going? Barcelona. Oh.
By Sam | April 9th, 2008A bit cryptic, that title (it's a Sondheim lyric: Soundtrack to Company, the musical ... lovely song). But I'll be in Barcelona in less than an hour ... in my mind. At the Camp Nou, where Barça take on Schalke 04 in the Champions League quarterf ...
Frank Rijkaard's Leather Couch
By Sam | April 7th, 2008Simon Kuper has a superb interview in today's Financial Times with Barcelona's Dutch coach. Frank's comment about Lionel Messi -- whom we shall not see this week due to injury -- illustrates Rijkaard's sensitivity toward his players and to the ...
Real Betis - Barcelona: Saturday 3pm EST
By Isaiah | March 28th, 2008In a world obsessed with little orange globes being thrown at metal circles 10 feet in the air by amateurs (that would be my world), there comes a ray of shining hope: Real Betis hosts FC Barcelona. I just had to rewrite my entire opening to this pos ...
Barcelona - Villarreal: Preview, Sunday 4pm EST
By Isaiah | March 8th, 2008The squad list is out and we're back to shuffling players due to injury: Valdés, Pinto, Abidal, Thuram, Milito, Sylvinho, Zambrotta, Edmílson, Touré Yaya, Xavi, Iniesta, Deco, Gudjohnsen, Giovani, Ronaldinho, Henry, Eto'o, Bojan. Note the absence
Barcelona - Levante: Sunday 1pm EST
By Isaiah | February 22nd, 2008The fortune teller in me is saying the end of this weekend will be just like it began: 5 points back of Real Madrid, but a few inches closer in terms of goal differential. Not that that matters, as we learned last year. RM plays Getafe at home while we pl
Celtic Green, Barca News & Fat Spurs
By JT | February 14th, 2008Not that we didn't already know that Celtic are one of the top twenty clubs in the world (actually top 1), Deloitte's Football Money League for 2006/7 now confirms it. The Bhoys are 17th in the table, behind the usual suspects, Real Madrid, Man U, et al.
Barca's Injury Pile & The Brilliant McGeady
By JT | February 12th, 2008With a brief winter vacation in the books, its time to get back to what really matters in life: media coverage of The Celtic Football Club. So let's get to it. The first leg of Celtic's Champions League Round of 16 tie with Barcelona is a mere eight d
Ins & Outs From an Efficient January
By JT | February 1st, 2008There's tons of info to round up today, so lets get right to it. The transfer period was a productive one for Celtic, of that there can be no doubt. Sure, a proven central defender would have been great, but right-back, striker, and midfield depth wer
Barcelona: a statistical analysis of the defense
By Isaiah | December 16th, 2007The question of Barcelona's defensive capabilities has been brought up before, in comments, and I'd like to take a moment or 10 to delve into the murky depths of statistical comparisons. Is Barcelona's defense better than it was last year? That is, in a w
Lyon - Barcelona: Champions League (Tuesday, 2:30pm EST)
By Isaiah | November 26th, 2007I don't have much time to write up this post, so I'm just going to link to Inara's post about the game and copy my thoughts from the comments there to here. The injured for Barcelona are: Henry, Deco, Gio Dos Santos, Oleguer, Eto'o, Edmilson, and maybe
Barcelona - Atletico de Madrid: Preview (Sunday 11am EST, GolTV)
By Isaiah | October 5th, 2007Whoever it is that schedules La Liga matches sure knows how to make me happy. They must have me in mind, I mean, they must since they've rearranged everything I want to see on TV this weekend so that I can not only enjoy the morning and early afternoon on
Good News!
By Isaiah | October 4th, 2007Yay, Milito and Puyol trained with the rest of the club in today's afternoon session and look set to start against Atletico. It's just nice to hear something good coming out of La Masia these days, you know? From Pelotazos found on El Mundo Deportivo
Stuttgart 0 - 2 Barcelona: Highlights and Review (Bitter Victory Edition)
By Isaiah | October 3rd, 2007The headline today on Sport's website was "Smiles and Tears," which is pretty appropriate, I suppose. Last night Barcelona defeated Stuttgart 0-2 in Germany with goals from Lionel Messi and, of all people, Carles Puyol. So Barca have 6 points from 2 games
Levante 1 - 4 Barcelona: Review and Highlights
By Isaiah | October 1st, 2007For all of you (ahem, us), who wondered if Henry had lost his scoring touch, Saturday's game at Levante should have send you/us into rapturous squeals of delight as he bagged a hat trick. Or at least that's what it did to me, eliciting strange glances fro
Barcelona 2 - 1 Sevilla: Review and Highlights (I heart Toure edition)
By Isaiah | September 25th, 2007While everyone else is lauding the brilliance of Messi during Saturday's 2-1 defeat of Sevilla at the Camp Nou, I think it would be wrong of me not to start this post by nominating Andres Iniesta as the Man-of-the-Match. Prior to Saturday I had answered a
Thierry Henry to Barcelona
By Isaiah | June 22nd, 2007Apparently it's true. Thierry Henry is a member of Barcelona. The story can be found from Soccernet here. A reported £16m transfer fee, 4 year deal. I'm not sure how I feel right now, what with Puyol out for 3 months, at least, with a knee injury. A stri
'Nastic 1 – 5 Barcelona: Ending the season with style
By Isaiah | June 18th, 2007First, congratulations to Real Madrid for winning the league. Certainly the better team during the last third of the season, the merengues, as always, left it late, but came away with all 3 points against a plucky Mallorca side whose finishing let Barcelo
Atletico Madrid - Barcelona, Sunday 3pm EST
By Isaiah | May 18th, 2007I haven't been feeling the whole posting thing these last few days, but there is a little something going on Sunday at the Vicente Calderon and it's called us kicking rojiblanco booty to the curb. For all his supposed sex appeal, Fernando Torres is still,
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