Articles tagged with "editorial-opinion"
3 Young Spanish Midfielders
By Corey | May 13th, 2008So after a terrific La Liga title winning season, we have all but a game that may or may not happen against Levante this weekend. So all eyes are on the moves that Real makes this summer in the transfer market, as its pretty certain that barring a bu ...
What Should I Write About?
By Corey | May 13th, 2008I Wish Upstate New York/Connecticut Looked Like This So it is officialy summer for me, which means I have started out a little lazy with posting as I sleep copious amounts and workout like crazy. But I will go back to every-other-day Grapevine p ...
Thursday Morning Hangover
By Steve | May 8th, 2008HALA MADRID!!! I don't have a real hangover, just a lingering joyous delirium. I re-read my liveblog and it doesn't grow old - i love the fact that we were the hungrier team, playing solid, stylistic, beautiful football, the type Barca used t ...
Real 2-0 Santander
By Corey | April 21st, 2008Real got another important victory against Racing Santander this week to move one step closer to the Liga title. In what was looking like a tough game at Santander, Real acquitted themselves well with an assured performance and two opportunistic ...
Island Hopping
By Corey | April 3rd, 2008In what was the beginning of our plunge into mediocre form, we take on Mallorca at the Oni Estadi this Saturday at 4pm. If you remember, the last time we visited the island, we were handed a shockingly bad loss by Mallorca, the only bright spot b ...
What Is Wrong With Our Team?
By Corey | March 17th, 2008After another embaressing loss to Deportivo on Saturday which keeps the "curse" alive for another year (18 in total), I question everyone as to why our team has suddenly began loosing games like Elliot Spitzer visits whore houses? It seems like they cant
Real 1-2 Roma
By Corey | February 20th, 2008We all hope Steve did well on his date tonight and this recap will let him know he did not miss anything entirely exciting. Real went down 2-1 to a resugrnet Roma in what was an equally entertaining and boring enconter. The match started off with flui
What Exactly Is Our Transfer Policy?
By Corey | January 30th, 2008Opinion Salad Yummm! When Ramon Calderon took over last year, he promised some high profile signings. I didnt really care to much about that. Sure Fabregas, Kaka and Ronaldo are good players, but did we need all three or even any? Seems like we didnt
Real Madrid C Overview
By Corey | January 11th, 2008This is a suplement to the Castilla overview I put up a few days ago, and it will be brief because even in this soccer mad world of ours, there is not much info on 16 and 17 year old players, which is rightfully so, because they are kids and shouldnt have
Youth Team In Review
By Corey | January 7th, 2008I did this at the beginning of the season, but as soon as a posted it I realized all of my info was out of date, and the players I had discussed were either loaned out or sold. So seeing as how the second half of the season is when most youth team players
Champions League draw: AS Roma v Real Madrid
By Steve | December 21st, 2007Hala Madrid! Los Merengues have drawn AS Roma for the first round of the knockout stage of the Champions League. Madrid, by virtue of finishing top of their group, travel to the Eternal City for the first leg in mid-February, and the return leg will be
The Winter Market Approaches
By Corey | November 16th, 2007I call it silly season, and I constantly make fun of the papers and various gossip sites that I get all the news for my Grapevine pieces. But the truth is, there is something fun about transfer season, maybe it is the outlandish rumors and unfounded d
Betis Review, Getafe Preview, Opinion Piece
By Corey | September 29th, 2007So I did not review the Betis game. I watched it, I was not impressed for the most part, but hey they won again so you can not be all doom and gloom right? Im not, The Beast's goal was how do you say Joga Bonito. I was watching a stream of the game in cl
Real's dilemma of the defense and midfield
By Steve | September 29th, 2007Hala Madrid! I'm assuming this to be true, but please correct me if not: reader Gonzalo maintains his own blog about Real Madrid called All In White, which I figure to be only the other English-language blog about Los Merengues. It's chockful of great a
15 Years In White: Raul Gonzalez
By Corey | September 21st, 2007Fifteen years in white for Raul, and I would be lieing if I said I didnt have a man crush on him. I have three jersey's with his name on the back, and when I was young I pretended I was Raul as I would run down the field with the ball and feint the keep
Grapevine 9/11 A Day Of Rememberance
By Corey | September 11th, 2007I want everyone to remember what today is. For all the fallen men and women of the trade towers, firefighters, police men and women, EMTs, rescue personel, national guard, and citizens trying to help out, we honor your bravery today. And for all our troop
Greasy Hair Does Not Guarantee Good Deals
By Corey | September 10th, 2007So I said I would write this little piece on our transfer dealings of the mercato. The point of this article is to closely examine how well Real go about their business in the merky waters of the transfer market. This will not turn into a "why are we
Come On Eileen
By Corey | September 6th, 2007The Grapevine 9/6 Today theres some interesting news, a little Soldado, a little Sneijder, and a little Cesc. See, heres the deal, this is all news I pull together from Marca, AS and a couple of other Spanish websites. But in an hour or two its all ove
The Grapevine 09/05
By Corey | September 5th, 2007Well, during the week things are a little slow in football land. Especially if you dont care about Premiership news. i would turn this into a general sports blog but I have to play golf today and that takes precedent over me writing a long post, maybe som
The Grapevine 8/30
By Corey | August 30th, 2007The Silly Season Lurches to a Close This is the second to last day of the transfer market, it is also the draw for the CL group stage. Who do I think will be drawn with Real? I have no clue, I havent kept up with the seedings and stuff, its a crock to me
The Grapevine 8/28
By Corey | August 28th, 2007When I woke up yesterday and had 2 hours to kill before class started (yes, my day doesnt begin til 12 everyday) I figured I would use some of that time writing a post, buttttt unfortunately there was nothing goin on really yesterday. Today is a different
The Grapevine aka The Seed 2.0
By Corey | August 27th, 2007I already put this in a previous grapevine ohh I dont know two weeks ago, but since its such a good song I am obliged to do it again. I push my seed in her push for life... Anyways, lets get down to the nitty gritty of todays transfer market bullsh
Formation Discussion
By Corey | August 23rd, 2007We have had some lively banter about who should play where and how recently, and I thought it would be a good idea to open this up to everyone and let you guys pick apart or compliment my ideas. We all have seen that Schuster is lacking something tactical
Thursday Bullets
By Steve | August 23rd, 2007Hala Madrid! I should start every post with that. Yeah baby, just like that... Just a little something to start us off on the right foot... Fabio Capello reams Calderon and Mijatovic. as I've already made clear, I despise Goal.com for a
The Grapevine: Its Back Boys and Girls
By Corey | August 23rd, 2007So I have been busy the past week or so, I have been working at school and that takes up most of my day and my evenings are filled with things that college kids do, ill let you figure that one out. I missed the Super Cup loss, but Steve covered that excel
CORRECTION: Wednesday Bullets
By Steve | August 22nd, 2007Real Madrid news from today's football headlines... (Day of the week corrected in the title above) Former manager Fabio Capello has finally vented against Real Madrid directors. Claiming that they lied about retaining him and his assistants befo
Here it goes again...
By Steve | August 17th, 2007Yeah, it's a slow news day. Latest crap of the day: Cicinho, Baptista and 25 million euros for Alves? No thanks. Here's some OK Go for your viewing pleasure. So I'm just going to vent a little about the club. We talk about Schuster not really g
Ive Got A Fever and the Only Prescription Is More Cowbell
By Corey | August 15th, 2007"I put my pants on one leg at a time, then I make gold records" You wanted it so you got it, more cowbell. If your good boys and girls you may get some Celebrity Jeoprady. Not much besides transfer news and training pics today, so lets get right in
If it all plays out like they say it will...
By Steve | August 15th, 2007Well, let's take a look at some of the big rumours still going around La Liga... I'm going to make some commentary about them, plus what impacts they might have, and the likelihood that they'll go through. 1. Guti to Tottenham from Real Madrid Likeli
Double Team Supreme
By Corey | August 14th, 2007Double Team Were gonna start this off right See that look in KG's eyes? Does that bother you? When he gives you the psycho peepers. Sneijdaaaaaa and Drenthe So they were officially presented yesterday at 6:30 like i though, but I was playing
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