Levante Players to Down Tools This Weekend

By Daryl | May 16th, 2008

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTXYs8gdVUw&[/youtube] Levante's players are sick of not getting paid. For two years now, they haven't been paid properly. They've tried threatening to strike, only for the club to guarantee that money w ...

Relief

By Cesar | May 12th, 2008

Ahh, sweet glorious relief ... how wonderful it is! The weight of the world has been lifted off our shoulders. The birds are chirping. The sun is shining. The flowers smell wonderful and the effervescent coffee in the next room beckons us to en ...

Safety

By Cesar | May 10th, 2008

I'm keeping this one short as I battle a torrid head cold that just won't go away ... the players better not catch anything either, as evidenced by the picture above which shows Marchena and Villa enjoying the wet conditions at Paterna. They're n ...

What's the Difference Between UEFA Cup and Nothing? Ask Belenenses.

By Greg | April 30th, 2008

The Portuguese Football Federation's Council of Justice has handed down its verdict in the case of Belenenses' illegal transfer of Cameroonian striker Meyong. They have found that the infraction that Meyong and Belenenses are guilty of is the FIFA r ...

Players Going on Strike is the Latest Fashion

By Inara | April 19th, 2008

Players from Boavista have announced that they will be on strike this weekend due to the fact that their salaries are two months overdue. The Porto based club, currently 10th in the BWIN Liga, know that a win may allow them to move into eighth, b ...

Barcelona 5 - 1 Levante (Holy Balls Edition)

By Isaiah | February 26th, 2008

Squashed between several big matches in the Champions League, Copa del Rey, and even La Liga itself, was a little visit from old Levante. Any thought that Barcelona would have a post-Celtic hangover was dashed early, then reignited for lack of anything be

Barcelona - Levante: Sunday 1pm EST

By Isaiah | February 22nd, 2008

The 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

Liveblog: Levante v Real Madrid

By Steve | January 13th, 2008

Hala Madrid! Los Merengues play in their 19th match of the season, the halfway point of this campaign. They're away to Levante, and Sky Sports 1 carries the match in a little over 20 minutes. Madrid are coming off possibly their worst showing of the se

Two Strikers Desperate to Move

By Martha | January 10th, 2008

As of this morning, Christian Riganò is still in Spain. He's stuck on the bottom of La Liga with the hapless Levante -- nine points behind their nearest rivals with a goal difference of -22, twice that of the next-worst -- losing week after week, and not

Keepers, Keepers and More Keepers

By Martha | January 7th, 2008

As Fiorentina can tell us, there's nothing like an outstanding keeper to help your team survive the bad days intact. And, even if you can't have a game-saver like Sebastian Frey behind your team, it's awfully nice to have one who's not a liability, as bot

Monday Odds n Ends As Milan Are Victimized Again and Again

By Martha | November 5th, 2007

•For the Milan fans among you, this morning I stumbled upon a fantastic gallery of screenshots of all the refereeing errors to which your team has fallen victim this season. Go check it out, and get your righteous indignation on. •Cristiano Riganò

Levante 1 - 4 Barcelona: Review and Highlights

By Isaiah | October 1st, 2007

For 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

Deja Vu All Over Again, Or: Riganò Sold to Two Clubs at Once

By Martha | August 15th, 2007

Yes, that's right: Another player has apparently been sold to two different teams -- and this time there's no way anyone can blame Massimo Moratti for the problems. The player in question is Christian Riganò, a striker whom Spanish side Levante today rev

More Anfield Banter: Yossi Benayoun, Gabriel Paletta, 2005 CL Final, Xabi praises Coleman, & those delusional Evertonians

By Brian | July 9th, 2007

* It looks as if we've agreed on the contract terms for West Ham midfielder and Israeli National team captain, Yossi Benayoun. All we need now is for the Hammers to accept our latest transfer fee offer, which is believed to be around £5m, but apparently

The End is Near ...

By Cesar | June 11th, 2007

Nothing good came out of the Valencian derby this weekend. Save for Levante who ensured they will be playing La Liga football next season after defeating Los Che in an incident-packed derby that saw six goals and four sendings-off. We lost 4-2 but

A True Derby: Levante UD

By Cesar | June 8th, 2007

I have a special place in my heart for Levante, also known as Llevant Unió Esportiva (in Valenciano) or Las Granotas (The Frogs). I used to live near Levante's ground, the Estadi Ciutat de València. I'd walk to Valencia matches at the Mestalla with

Barcelona 1 - 0 Levante: Eto'o grabs 3 points

By Isaiah | April 30th, 2007

Well, we got 3 points, even if it turned out to be pretty much the hardest way we could do it while maintaining a clean sheet. 1-0 against a side as poor as Levante isn't very reassuring, but the number of shots on goal (8) certainly suggest potency. It

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