Articles tagged with "la liga"
Barca 2-Mallorca 3, a.k.a. "Too much ugliness all around"
By Kevin | May 11th, 2008Must look good in blue and red, great first touch mandatory. Must be a team player and a fast learner. Patience and ability to learn new systems is essential. Catalan skills desired, but not essential. Please apply to: Pep G Camp Nou Avignud ...
Squeeky Bum Time: All over Europe
By Ian Rose | May 11th, 2008It's May, and while most people in the world are reveling in the sunshine and flowers and all that, you and I have our minds elsewhere. It's title time, and it seems like every day around this time of year, some league or cup or other trophy is ...
Barca vs Mallorca, or "Here's to happier times," Sunday, 3 p.m. ET, (5pm on GolTV)
By Kevin | May 10th, 2008Okay. Time to play out the string, to find out what kind of fans we have at the Camp Nou. We're bound for third place, and will have to play our way into the Champions League next season. Frank Rijkaard and Ronaldinho, two faces who came to epito ...
Evil Empire 4-Barca 1, or "Pimp slap is front of the hand, back of the head."
By Kevin | May 7th, 2008That's what we did. Rolled over and showed our goddamned bellies like a submissive dog, at a time when we should have been playing for a bit of pride, playing for the colors, fighting like savages for at least some salvation for this season of pu ...
Barca 6-Valencia 0 or "Like unto a peacock."
By Kevin | May 4th, 2008That's right. Just like a peacock. You heard me. Beautiful plumage, lovely to look at, and what does it mean? Is there satisfaction in having beaten Valencia, the team that took our most realistic chance at silver this season, like a gong? Dunno, ...
Barcelona - Valencia: Sunday 1pm
By Isaiah | May 3rd, 2008There's a Spanish word that I love both because of its meaning and the actual sound when you spit it out: venganza. Revenge, payback. You know what it means and we've got two straight weeks of it, starting with the visit from Valencia and ending with ...
Title Watch: Pray for Victory
By Daryl | May 2nd, 2008There are title races all over Europe this weekend. Some will get decided over the next two days, others are going to take a little longer. So, as a sort of Weekend Watch special, here's The Offside's guide to who's trying to get their hands on s ...
Hunter Freeman Q&A - Exclusive
By Dave Martinez | April 30th, 2008Hey guys and gals, I had a chance to grab some Starbucks coffee with Red Bulls right back Hunter Freeman. We spoke, drank coffee, had a caffeine stroke (well, at least I did) and overall, had a good time. We pretty much covered everything there ...
Villareal interested in Jozy
By Dave Martinez | April 30th, 2008Rossi lives in a Yellow Submarine, a Yellow Submarine, a Yellow Submarine Jozy and Rossi in a Yellow Submarine? A Yellow Submarine?!?!? A Yellow Submarine?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?! No joke. Jozy Altidore is a rumored target for Villareal, according ...
The return of Gurpegui
By Elisa | April 30th, 2008Match Report As most everyone is aware, Athletic was decisively beaten at the Bernabeu 3 nil. I really don't need to go into too much details. Suffice to say Armando had butterfingers on the first goal and practically gifted the goal to Madrid. ...
Episode 21: Paris is Burning
By Ian Rose | April 29th, 2008No, film buffs ... we will not be talking about the drag documentary, but Paris St. Germain is a main topic of discussion this week, as Ligue 1 faces the very real possibility of losing its only Parisian club, and its fans go a little insane. Inara ...
Marco Senna Has Some Serious Range
By chris | April 28th, 2008You know a goal must've been fantabulous when it makes the Sportscenter Top 10 and makes its way down to the number one spot. In a game against Real Betis yesterday, one which saw Villarreal move to second place in La Liga, Marco Senna feckin' un ...
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 ...
Barca 0-Espanyol 0, a.k.a. "Making Kameni look good"
By Kevin | April 19th, 2008Let's just give him a pedicure, a nap and a bottle while we're at it. Repeat after me: If you shoot the damned ball where the keeper is, he's probably going to make the save. Make sense? Feel better now? Good. Now. This match had the stink o ...
Barcelona - Espanyol: Saturday 2pmEST (GolTV)
By Isaiah | April 18th, 2008So it's another derby, another day, right? Weeellll, it's more like we haven't gotten the full measure of revenge for Tamudo scoring that title-destroying goal against us last year, so not only do we need to continue their losing streak (4 straight a ...
The Pipe is a grim thing
By Kevin | April 17th, 2008I wasn't aware that crack was such a problem in Europe. I know that I've said this before but really....it's just getting too big to ignore. The evidence? 1. Chelsea manager Avram Grant said in a press conference that he wants Kaka AND Messi n ...
Episode 19: Blatant Abuse of the 4-3-3
By Ian Rose | April 16th, 2008The podcast family widens a little as we welcome a new member to the crew. Red Bull New York Offsider Dave Martinez joins us for his first run out, to discuss his Bulls, as well as the rest of the MLS action this week. Don't worry - there's still p ...
State of the Liga Address
By Isaiah | April 15th, 2008We have what amounts to a minibreak in Barcelona's schedule as we wait for Espanyol's arrival at the Camp Nou on Saturday (moved up from Sunday, FYI, due to the demands of the upcoming Champions League semifinal with ManU), so I thought I'd do a full ...
More or less saved
By Shane | April 15th, 2008Espanyol were fighting for europe, Osasuna to remain in the top flight. Comes to show that in this years Liga there is no difference in whether you play at home or away, fighting for europe or relegation or you are 7th or 16th on the table, anyone c ...
Caparros returns to Galicia
By Elisa | April 12th, 2008The prodigal son, Joaquin Caparros, goes back to his old stomping grounds where he managed the team for two years and was not exactly successful. It should be a very interesting tie. Considering all the smack in the press or created by the p ...
Recreativo 2, Barca 2, a.k.a. "Kxevin is speechless"
By Kevin | April 12th, 2008Good news. Messi is BACK! All the pace and energy are there. But I'm staggered. Wordless. There are times when you don't know what to say. I only have one page of notes for this match, and the most prominent word is "shit." I'm not at all sure ...
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 ...
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 ...
All Hail El Geta
By Isaiah | April 11th, 2008Before I do a preview of the Recreativo Huelva match, I think we should all give it up for what Getafe nearly pulled off yesterday in the UEFA Cup against Bayern Munich. After soon-to-be-Madridista Ruben de la Red was sent off in the 5th minute with ...
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 ...
Hanseaten Highlights
By Chris | April 10th, 2008All the news that's fit to translate. . . *Real Bettis are in the market for a new striker and like what they see in Mohammed Zidan. *Despite having one foot out the door, Raphael van Der Vaart is still doing the right thing in the Hamburg comm ...
Episode 18: We're Legal!
By Ian Rose | April 8th, 2008That's right. Our little podcast turns 18 today. We can vote, we can go to war, and in several of the more enlightened countries of the world, we can even buy beer. A certain internet access company, who shall remain nameless lest they sue us into ...
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 ...
Daily Dose 04.06.08
By Ian Rose | April 6th, 2008Something to read while you spend 5,000 hours building a burger machine: Does parity make a league "best"? (Mallorca Offside) A player as metaphor for a season (Celtic Offside) Laurie returns, and with her, topless footballer photos (France Wo ...
La Liga is Tough-But is it the best?
By Jeremy | April 6th, 2008After watching this weekends game between Mallorca and Real Madrid, if you dont know much about most of the teams, you would have to think Mallorca is one of the better sides in La Liga. The fact is Mallorca lies in 9th place, and is essentially a mi ...
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