Articles tagged with "jose mourinho"
Michael Ballack on Jose, Making it into the Chelsea team, and always coming second
By Rob | May 15th, 2008Midfielder Michael Ballack has been the centrepiece to the Chelsea revival. At the begining of the season, Chelsea looked lethargic, and had two players considered by many to be the best in the world, sat on the bench on the whim of the manager. That ...
I'm on Setanta Sports: Is it really over?
By Ian Rose | May 11th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWPIFHVotCY[/youtube] The English football season is one thing, but the first season of my favorite ever sports puppet show has to end on the same day? On our last dose for a while of puppet Mourinho, the S ...
You, Sir, Are Up For Review!
By chris | May 8th, 2008Normally those words aren't a positive sign. Not for Sven-Goran Eriksson, who must've interpreted this as music to his slightly overgrown ears. Or maybe it's complete bollocks. April ended with rumors that Thaksin Shinawatra would be releasing Sven f ...
Photos of the Day: Or In Soviet Russia Photoshop Edits YOU!
By Rob | May 8th, 2008Over on the Guardian they've got you the people, to photoshop lots of amusing images to celebrate the upcoming Chelsea/Man United Champions League final. Most follow a Communist artwork route as the final is in Moscow, so if you want to see Drogba as ...
The 2007/8 Champions League. In Numbers.
By Rob | May 6th, 2008This season's Champions League is quickly drawing to a close. Just two teams remain, Chelsea and Manchester United. So while the CL Offisde team prepares its teams of the tournament, and before we hand over to you to pick your team of the tournament ...
The 2007/8 Champions League. In Numbers.
By Rob | May 6th, 2008This season's Champions League is quickly drawing to a close. Just two teams remain, Chelsea and Manchester United. So while the CL Offisde team prepares its teams of the tournament, and before we hand over to you to pick your team of the tournament ...
Is an Abramovich-type buy out the only way to cope?
By Rob | May 3rd, 2008As the Roma buyout saga continues with lots of 'I'd like to' 'you've done nothing' 'what's going on?' type newstories, Born-in-England-Italian-Roma Midfielder Simeone Perrotta has hinted that he would quite like his club to get bought out by someone ...
Sven To Be Canned, But What About The Puppet?
By chris | April 29th, 2008Judging by recent comments by human rights advocate and Man City owner Thaksin Shinawatra, the reports coming out today stating Sven-Goran Eriksson will be unemployed come the end of the year. Patient guy, that Thaksin. So the paychecks in Manchester ...
The Champions League Semi-Final Drinking Games
By Rob | April 27th, 2008So we are just a couple of days away from the mammoth second legs in the Champions League semi-finals. To make them even more fun, I've constructed drinking games for either night - though you would be pretty unwise to try both I fear you may need it ...
Gerrard might miss First Leg with Chelsea, Avram 'good' says Rafa
By Rob | April 20th, 2008After he sat out against Fulham yesterday, Rafa Benitez has revealed that talismatic captain Steven Gerrard may not play in the crucial first leg (Anfield) in this weeks Champions League matches. The Liverpool manager also took time to praise Avram G ...
Fulham Result and What Not
By CSD | April 19th, 2008My normal video link site didn't have the highlights for the Fulham match (Reds win 2-0 surprise surprise), so I decided to post the new home kit instead. Ta-da. Now you don't have to wait another 5 days or whatever it is to find out. Thanks to An ...
Daily Dose 04.19.08
By Daryl | April 19th, 2008Something to read while your cursor tries to kill you... Kevin Keegan has Geordie genes (Newcastle United Blog) A passing metric proposal (ArmChairGM) The world's largest stadiums (The Best Eleven) How would Mourinho have answered instead of Gr ...
Special One: "...good options"
By Sam | April 19th, 2008As clubs wind up their league seasons, boardrooms at the top are abuzz with discussions of who shall manage their club next season. Even managers who do well in the Champions League, or even reach the final, are not safe from sacking in this competit ...
Avram Tries Enigmatic. Ends up like Statler. Now With Video!
By Rob | April 18th, 2008In his second bizzare press conference of the week, Chelsea Manager Avram Grant has completely confused the media, by only answering questions for five minutes, and giving sulky one-word answers to most of the questions. You can see it here. Daryl ...
Before Jose was "On Setanta Sports." Some History.
By Laurie | April 16th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDBUCbohk_o&feature=related[/youtube]. Ever wonder where the Jose Mourinho puppet character from "I'm on Setanta Sports" came from? And whether he has the real Jose's approval? The answer to the second ...
Ronaldinho: It Won't Just Go Away
By Rob | April 16th, 2008So to recap, It all looked a bit odd at Barca, when news broke that Milan wanted to bring the Brazil forward to the San Siro. It all looked cut and dry about 4 days ago - The Dhino was to wear the Rossoneri. But its not materialised yet. What is goin ...
Do You Miss Special One?
By Sam | April 15th, 2008There's a good career profile of Jose Mourinho over here. I don't know about you, but this year has had a ... what? ... bit of a void ... without the Special One. Knowing he's a family man, this year off will have been a healthy one; and will assu ...
Jose Again: Sven Plays the Didgeridoo and Rooney Speaks!
By Laurie | April 14th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc5lhChg9m8[/youtube] Just one question: How many of you are now rushing out to do a YouTube search for "Wenger the Voyeur"? ...
The Magnificent Fall of União Leiria
By Ian Rose | April 12th, 2008We all marvel at teams that seem to perform beyond their potential, the little guys that come out of nowhere, emerging from relative obscurity to make miracle runs in their league, cup, or sometimes even in Europe. Unless they happen to beat our bel ...
Wayne Rooney Is Multi-Talented
By Laurie | April 9th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ofNjViTVuc[/youtube] What does it say about my life that these Jose Mourinho spots on "I'm On Setanta Sports" totally make my week? Don't answer that. In today's show, Jose's and Sven get into a lover ...
So Thats whats happening with Ronaldinho. Perhaps.
By Rob | April 6th, 2008Yesterday after he suffered yet-another-injury amongst a back drop of hearsay and rumour (that his injury wasn't entirely real) I posed the question, What is going on with Ronaldinho. It appears, we may be a little closer to knowing. After news last ...
And The Special One's New Signing is...
By Daryl | April 1st, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS0VMVvysbk[/youtube] ...revealed in the above video. What can I say? After a long, long build up we were all expecting one of the usual voices (Wenger the Voyeur, Cabbage Man Capello, Mr. Alex etc) but the ...
Ameobi is Not a Film Dave. Shut Up Dave.
By Daryl | March 25th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dplW92iEKcM[/youtube] Another week, another Special One puppet video. As soon as Jose jumps the shark, let us know and we'll stop posting them, promise. But another great installment this week, with The Spec ...
The Ever-Controversial Ones #1, Frank Lampard
By Rob | March 25th, 2008Some players, like let us say, Maldini, never get any critisism, quite rightly. Its become such a cliché about his legendary status that its hardly worth going over again. Not all of the top-level players are treated in the same way though, as this ...
Mourinho Unemployed For 187 Days, Is Almost Through Watching Entire Golden Girls DVD Set
By Greg | March 25th, 2008It's International Week and it's also known as the time when your league and club bloggers really show their mettle. I can choose to go the easy route and take the week off and just devote time to the Euro2008 Portuguese National Team blog over at t ...
The Special One Doesn't Think Lyon Is That Special...
By Inara | March 1st, 2008France Football magazine, Lyon's #1 enemy, recently revealed the fact that Jean-Michel Aulas had offered Jose Mourinho the coaching position at Lyon. Apparently, Aulas approached the Special One with the offer of heading Lyon's long term project, whic
Polling CLOSED. And the RBNY fans want . . . .
By Dave Martinez | November 28th, 2007Jose Mourinho (aka a big name foreign coach) In a landslide, no questions about it win, the fan base has spoken up and have left no doubt - we arent interested in a local guy with strong grass roots connections - we want to keep up with the Lalas's.
Harry Redknapp Will Not Be Allowed To Talk To The FA
By b-man | November 25th, 2007Portsmouth Chief Executive Peter Storrie has come out against the idea of Harry Redknapp taking the England job. "Hopefully they'll look completely the other way because we won't let them talk to him at all. As far as we're concerned, we wouldn't give
So Long QQ
By Cesar | October 29th, 2007And so it ends. The 3-0 defeat at the hands of coachless Sevilla was the final nail in the coffin for oft-embattled Valencia gaffer Quique (QQ) Sanchez Flores, who was sacked after the game. The Flores era ends on a sour note. But as I've said befo
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