Articles tagged with "injuries"
All The Bull: Troop Benefit, Barcelona, Injuries and more
By Dave Martinez | May 15th, 2008Hey y'all. Before anything, I would like to address this major issue: I HATE ALLERGIES. Last year was the first year I had ever gotten em, and I hate it even more this year. Absolutely hate. But on the bright side - I did catch 6 bluefish and a ...
Exit Michael Bradley, Enter Danny Blind
By Matt | May 6th, 2008No, this was not a substitution made in yesterday's 3-1 trouncing of Heerenveen. I am merely referring to Bradley being sent off with two yellows in the first half(!) and Blind being hired by Ajax to replace Martin van Geel as technical director. B ...
Nous from the Camp
By Isaiah | May 5th, 2008Another week, another crucial injury, another rumor, another mega signing on the way. It's just humdrum life at FC Barcelona, eh? First the real news and then the speculation: Gabi Milito has suffered an ACL tear that will require surgery and will ...
Angel Is Clearly Hurting
By Dave Martinez | May 3rd, 2008For those watching Juan Pablo Angels early season performances, it has become painfully obvious that something terrible is going on. He looks slower, he didn't line up for the free kick against TFC (which was netted by Van Den Bergh), he was rarely ...
Klose undergoes surgery
By Angela | May 2nd, 2008On Saturday, Miro will have surgery in Munich to fix the three fractures in his nose. The doctors have said that they will allow him to play again in tend ays. He will miss the matche against VfL Wolfsburg, Arminia Bielefeld and MSV Duisburg, but s ...
Motherwell loses captain in bar "attack"
By Ian Rose | April 29th, 2008Details are sketchy, but here's an incident has popped up which might just have consequences all over the SPL. Paul Quinn, captain of Motherwell, is out for the rest of the season with a broken jaw after being attacked outside a nightclub in Wishaw, ...
Barca v Deportivo La Coruna, or "She's warming up...." Saturday, 1 p.m. CT, GolTV
By Kevin | April 25th, 2008Well, her song isn't done, but you have to wonder. We're in third place, one point behind Villarreal and eleven behind the Evil Empire, with five matches left to go. That's fifteen points. Barring a massive collapse, alien abductions and the like ...
Bayern Injury woes...
By Angela | April 25th, 2008A family that plays together stays together right? Well, in case you all didn't know it Mark van Bommel and Miroslav Klose are buddies. Very good buddies. So much so that they ride into training from Grünwald to the Säbener Strasse in the same c ...
Injury Analysis and Updates (including Etcheverry)
By Dave Martinez | April 24th, 2008The Bulls are in for quite a test this season if the first three games are any indication. Through 3 games, we have had 7 relevant injuries and a red carded player in Jeff Parke. That equals roughly 14.5 missed games by individuals on this te ...
Bayern Bits
By Angela | April 22nd, 2008First of all lets all collectively sing a very happy birthday song to my favorite Mark van Bommel as he celebrates his 31st birthday! Continuing on with my favorite Dutchman, in the Pokal cup Mark picked up an injury. More precisely, a broken nos ...
Farewell, R10, a.k.a. "The Good Old Days"
By Kevin | April 12th, 2008Ah, a picture from happier times that we can all remember, because it looks like its official: Ronaldinho is now a Rossoneri. We all saw it coming, so it isn't like anyone should be shocked at the news, which, unlike many other recent rumors of t ...
Peter Cech Takes it for the Team
By Laurie | April 11th, 2008If I wereChelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech, I might be considering a safer career. Like lion tamer. Or bomb squad specialist. Or snake venom collector. Or Iraqi policeman. Yes, that's Cech in the photo. You may not recognize him, because a) wh ...
Recreativo Huelva - Barcelona: Saturday 4pm EST (GolTV)
By Isaiah | April 11th, 2008While El Mundo Deportivo reports that a Ronnie-to-Milan deal has been reached for €30million, the focus for the team must be on Recreativo Huelva and regaining some sort of foothold on the league title -- or at least not slipping further behind Rea ...
The Morning After: Injury Report
By Isaiah | April 10th, 2008The injuries just keep right on coming, that's for sure. Do we have a quota we have to fill or something? The biggest news is that Andres Iniesta has a slipped meniscus, which could require surgery either now or at the end of the season, depending on ...
It's official. We're ripped apart, a.k.a. "Big news of 'black sheep'"
By Kevin | April 9th, 2008The news just keeps coming hot and heavy in Blaugrana land. This just in, to be filed in the "Duh" file: The team's economic president (and former acting president), Xavier Sala Martin, says that the locker room is split. Further, that some pl ...
Are we crazy, a.k.a. "Expectations make Baby Kxevin cry"
By Kevin | April 7th, 2008So, we've been wrestling with the burden of expectations all season long. Last season we grabbed Zambrotta, Gudjohnsen and Thuram. This past summer it was Abidal, Toure Yaya and Thierry Henry. Couple this with Krkic, the 1,000+goal wonder and Giovani ...
Barcelona - Getafe: Sunday 3pmEST
By Isaiah | April 4th, 2008[Updated Version] Just an FYI for all the readers: The Offside is listed as the 35th most powerful blog in the entire universe by The Guardian. Check it out. How cool is this!? We've also received just over 9,500 visitors last month (half of them ar ...
Podolski shakes off injury
By Angela | April 2nd, 2008Fit again. Lukas Podolski looked to be a doubt ahead of the Bayern clash against Getafe on Thursday, but the boy has bounced back and has shaken off an ankle injury. He will be making the start against Getafe in place of Miroslav Klose "Lukas has ...
The Return of the Absentees
By Isaiah | April 2nd, 2008The big news coming out of La Masia today seems to be the return of Deco and Ronaldinho to full training. Kevin has already expressed his opinion on the matter in the comments of the previous post, but I'd like to take a moment to discuss this situat ...
Podolski injury woes...again
By Angela | April 1st, 2008During the match with Nürnberg we saw Podolski shine and give the equalising goal to bring Bayern a draw. We also saw him take a knock that left him on the ground for a few minutes and still carrying a limp after the match. Now, it comes out that ...
Champions League preview: Schalke vs Barcelona, Tuesday 4 p.m. CT, ESPN Classic
By Kevin | March 31st, 2008I know, we don't get the high-def ESPN2 feed. Ripoff! It's April Fool's Day on this matchday, everyone, but since we've already played our cruel trick on Saturday against Betis, t'would be my vast, vast preference if we just rolled into Schalke's ...
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 ...
Tidbits: Benzema Injured, Transfers, and Internationals
By Inara | March 24th, 2008For your perusal, the latest news out of Lyon: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karim Benzema injured his knee last night against PSG. A scan revealed that he had twisted it slightly and will require between two to three weeks on the sidelines. Another s ...
Preview: Barca v Valladolid, or "It's go time, yo!" (12 p.m. ET, GolTV)
By Isaiah | March 22nd, 2008Spare some love for me, up here amid the winter wonderland that is Highland Park, Illinois. 11 inches of snow, kids, on the second day of spring. Yum! On the up side, I have all-wheel-drive and snow tires on my car. On the down side, nobody else seems to.
Valencia 3, Barca 2, a.k.a. "Well, we still have the double" edition
By Isaiah | March 21st, 2008Dammit, this one killed me for so many reasons. First off, I know why he did it, and I'll never, ever question his manhood, but Yaya wasn't himself. He took the needle (cortisone) to play, and tried like a lion. A healthy Yaya stops that first goal, but s
Barca-Valencia preview (Thursday, 3:30 p.m. ET, GolTV), a.k.a. "Remember the Getafe," a.k.a. "Ronnie needs a smack"
By Isaiah | March 19th, 2008Right. This is the first, for-real, no messing about, bring-the-silver ass game. We all remember what happened last year. All we had to do was take care of business against Getafe, of all teams, and we laid a big, fat, stinking, 5-goals against egg. Ugh.
Almeria - Barcelona: Preview; Sunday 2pm EST
By Isaiah | March 14th, 2008Updated version. I found out this morning that there is so much more news available that I just couldn't fail to update my "janky" preview. This is almost a complete rewrite. It's away to Almeria this weekend and it won't be a cakewalk. Yes, we beat th
Another Argentina victim
By travis | March 11th, 2008Now that Claudio Lopez has officially joined the team, there is much less to talk about. The Wizards continue their training in Argentina, and won their latest friendly 2-1 over River Plate. Goals were scored by Jack Jewsbury and Kevin Souter, one of the
Skipper returns!
By Matt P | February 20th, 2008Louis Carey is fit again and available for the match away at Colchester. The skipper's been missed while he's been on the treatment table and is a massive boost for the run-in. Gary Johnson had this to say: "It's good to have Louis around because we've go
Inter - Livorno, Bring on The Black and Blue
By Marco | February 15th, 2008Inter – Livorno The game is at 10am ET on Saturday! Streaming here We’re playing Inter, so get ready to see a little bit of this! Undefeated Inter are the next opponents of our beloved Amaranto Liberation Army.The ugly Milanese sister
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