Articles tagged with "season-preview"
The Season Preview
By chris | September 11th, 2008Associazione Sportiva Roma 2008-09. The Outlook. It can finally begin. After a tumultuous summer with the ownership negotiations, death of Il Presidente, and the strange "opening" ...
Ready Steady Go
By AlexG | August 15th, 2008A huge apology first for my wankerdom in being absent, I've recently relocated countries and am just now starting to settle in. (read, stolen wifi) ...
Preview to the Season - Part I (Arsenal-Chelsea)
By Rob | August 13th, 2008So the entire country (and a fair few from elsewhere) breathes a sigh of relief on Saturday when the season finally kicks off again. After ...
Enter the New Guy
By Kyle | April 18th, 2008I’m not making this up: I was going to use the Admiral Stockdale joke to introduce myself, too. Until I saw that Jeff already ...
The Rapids In Context*
By Jeff | March 27th, 2008* And in another space. Center Holds It, to be precise. I just posted a Major League Soccer 2008 Western Conference preview over on that ...
The Rapids Attack! An Offensive Review
By Jeff | March 21st, 2008...hmm, that title isn't quite what I'm going for...and I can't link to some of the statistical stuff cited below because MLSnet.com was gummed up ...
Rapids Preview: Dynamite "D" in Denver
By Jeff | March 20th, 2008I read somewhere that Colorado Rapids head coach Fernando Clavijo made building a solid defensive corps his top priority for 2007 (here? Yep; it's ...
Someone else's take on how awesome we are...
By jon | February 12th, 2008Just got this link in my inbox, and decided to share it. This is Soccerticketsonline's (nice site, awful name) preview of DCU for this season. They didn't ...
Saturday Afternoon Hangover, SEASON PREVIEW
By Gianfranco | August 25th, 2007I wanna give my player previews for the upcoming season and then give my projected lineup for this year’s Winning Eleven, please let me know ...
AS Roma: The Definitive Preview
By chris | August 24th, 2007Associazione Sportiva Roma 2007-2008: The Anthem: Journey - Don't Stop BelievingUploaded by manon42 Alright, the final installment of the four part season preview (because Roma is just so ...
Season Preview: Defense & Keepers
By chris | August 24th, 2007The Back Five: Roma's biggest question mark for the next few weeks, if not the season, will be the back four - or back three if ...
Season Preview: Midfielders
By chris | August 23rd, 2007Midfield, the bread and butter of Luciano Spalletti's 4-2-3-1 attacking system. One of those systems where the players fit the system, not vice versa, a ...
Season Preview: Forwards
By chris | August 22nd, 2007Now that the season is officially upon us, it's time to see where the team stands and preview the team individually. First up is the ...
2007/08 Season Preview
By Erick | August 10th, 2007With the season just one day away it's time to get cracking on this humble little blog, so let me be quick and to the ...
A Short Look into the Wizard's Crystal Ball.
By Michael | March 28th, 2007The road to our season opener in DC is ever-shortening, as there are only two more (confirmed) exhibitions to be played before they start counting. ...
How Do You Call Them?
By Ivan | March 12th, 2007It's the last post of season preview – to summarize previous and give you a bit more. Let's dig into nicknames of Russian Premier League ...
Season Preview: CSKA Moscow. Overlords
By Ivan | March 11th, 2007Location. It's strange but the most successful Russian team of last 4 years hasn't own home stadium. Jokes has it that CSKA must play at ...
Season Preview: Spartak Moscow. Volksteam
By Ivan | March 10th, 2007Location. Spartak has a lot of fans not only in Moscow – they always were like Juventus in Italy. Every second man outside Moscow loves ...
Season Preview: Lokomotiv Moscow. Succession
By Ivan | March 9th, 2007Location. Historically Moscow has 4 big clubs – Spartak, Dynamo, CSKA, Torpedo – that’s why sometimes Lokomotiv was described as "fifth wheel in Moscow cart". ...
Season Preview: Zenit Saint Petersburg. Unity
By Ivan | March 8th, 2007Location. Saint Petersburg usually called "cultural capital" opposite to nominee Moscow: that's the key antagonism. Vlastimil Petrzela, Czech ex-coach of Zenit, once said "Zenit will ...
Season Preview: Rubin Kazan. Sect
By Ivan | March 6th, 2007Location. Kazan is a capital of Tatarstan Republic. It was a centre of criminal activity at the decline of USSR but two years ago city ...
Season Preview: FC Moskva. Artifact
By Ivan | March 5th, 2007Location. Guess where? Yep, it's Moscow. Capital of Russia has financial potential to host even half of Premier League' teams. Moscow major Yuriy Luzhkov, who ...
Season Preview: Luch-Energiya Vladivostok. Flyover
By Ivan | March 5th, 2007Location. If looking from Moscow, Vladivostok is really on the edge of the world: 6500 km equals 9 hours flight. But it's close to Japan ...
Season Preview: Tom Tomsk. Outland
By Ivan | March 2nd, 2007Location. Tomsk is placed in the heart of Siberia. But the pitch is good enough even in early spring – because it has a heating ...
Season Preview: Spartak Nalchik. Hillfolk
By Ivan | March 1st, 2007Location. Nalchik hiding in between the Caucasus Mountains. Maybe that's why Spartak' fans use to throw stones to opponent's supporters. Luckily that kind of behavior ...
Season Preview: Krylya Sovetov Samara. Gang
By Ivan | February 28th, 2007Location. Samara is situated on the banks of Volga river. Samara’ fans probably were the greatest supporters in Russia, especially in 2004 when Krylya Sovetov ...
Season Preview: Saturn Ramenskoe. Afterworld
By Ivan | February 27th, 2007Location. Ramenskoe is a not-so-big city but it hosts a strongest team in Moscow region. Saturn has support of general-colonel governor Gromov and club chief ...
Season Preview: FC Rostov. Slack
By Ivan | February 26th, 2007Location. Rostov-upon-Don is a big city on Seattle latitude – but we called it South. Rostov is well known after its criminal authorities, delicious lobsters ...
Season Preview: Amkar Perm. Chill
By Ivan | February 25th, 2007Location. Perm is situated near Ural mountains, 1500 km east and little north from Moscow. No wonder it’s very cold and no grass here in ...
Season Preview: Dynamo Moscow. Hoodoo
By Ivan | February 24th, 2007Location. Dynamo has stadium with same name in Moscow but also use to play home matches at Luzhniki arena (which will host Champions League final ...
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