Articles tagged with "spain-la-liga"
Spanish Segunda B: The Best Lower League In Europe.
By chris | November 12th, 2008Let's omit the small talk and just get down to brass tacks: Real Madrid: Knocked out of the Copa del Rey by Segunda B side (third ...
Death, Taxes & Arjen Robben
By chris | November 6th, 2008Benjamin Franklin once said there are only two certainties in life, death and taxes. We'll give Ben the benefit of the doubt because he was ...
Lionel Messi Now Starring In Spitgate
By chris | November 3rd, 2008Sweet little Lionel Messi's reputation is in a spot of trouble. Late in this weekend's 4-1 win over Malaga, Messi was roaming around and bumped ...
King of Morocco > FC Barcelona
By chris | October 28th, 2008An 18 year old Moroccan schoolboy is in seriously hot water after paying allegiances to his favorite football team, FC Barcelona, over the king of ...
Villarreal and Atlético's Eight Goal Thriller
By Daryl | October 27th, 2008Some cracking action in La Liga this past weekend with Villarreal and Atlético Madrid splitting eight goals down the middle at the Madrigal. Atlético were ...
90th Minute Drama In Madrid
By chris | October 19th, 2008If you're a Real fan...what more could you ask for, really? A start off the blocks in lightning fashion, mid-game drama worthy of the ...
Joseba Etxeberria To Play Next Year For Free
By chris | October 3rd, 2008For most, the term "giving back" to their club is an expression. Usually it's staying on when a larger club is calling, or taking the ...
Goalkeeper Scores With his Head
By Laurie | September 30th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clWtGH7qWms[/youtube]How often do we see goalkeepers score? Not too often. How often do we see goalkeepers score off a header? Not too ...
Trouble in Barcelona, But Who's to Blame?
By Daryl | September 29th, 2008Barcelona came from behind and won the Catalan derby 2-1 with two late goals, but the big news was the crowd violence. With home team ...
Europe's New Derby County
By chris | September 25th, 2008Meet Sporting Gijon. While CD Numancia have picked up the tag of plucky underdog, beating Barca and only narrowly losing to Real & Villarreal, Gijon ...
The European Weekend
By chris | September 20th, 2008After kicking off the Champions League & UEFA Cup, Europe goes back home and hasn't left us wanting, giving us some very big and very ...
Real Madrid & CD Numancia Light Up Spain
By chris | September 14th, 2008Real Madrid stole the victory in another game filled with excitement, but CD Numancia is stealing the limelight - and maybe even a few hearts. ...
Europe's 10 Biggest Transfer Window Bargains
By chris | September 3rd, 2008Obviously the true bargains won't be known for some time, but there were a few transfers which caught the eye before the participants had even ...
Bad Bad Starts For Barcelona and Real Madrid
By Daryl | August 31st, 2008Spain's big two opened La Liga with away defeats. First Barcelona went to newly promoted Numancia and left with a 1-0 defeat. Mario Martinez put ...
Real Madrid Start The Spanish Season In Style
By chris | August 25th, 2008It was "only" the Super Cup, but it's impossible not to think of this as a demoralizing, crushing blow for Valencia, and as a warning ...
Ruud van Nistelrooy Looks a Bit Like a Horse. So What?
By Daryl | August 8th, 2008Sometimes footballers have a passing resemblance to something or someone else, and sometimes it's worth a chuckle. But most of the time it isn't. Especially ...
Rubbing Shoulders with FC Barcelona
By Dave Martinez | August 6th, 2008It was an afternoon of fun and surprises as Barcelona, teaming with the AYSO and MalariaNoMore.org, took part in a 4 v 4, eight team ...
The Offside Euro 2008 Champion: Charles Snyder
By Dave Martinez | July 11th, 2008Over three weeks of tournament action and only one country stood tall: Sweden. Ibrahimovich proved to be unstoppable in the virtual world, earning ...
Squad Breakdown and Notes
By Cesar | July 10th, 2008So the Juan Villalonga era has begun. Villalonga, an international businessman who was the former president of Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica, reached an agreement with ...
Have Your Say: United Strike Back over Ronaldo
By Ian Rose | June 9th, 2008The player has had his say. He wants to go to his childhood dream club. The buyer has made their interest clear. ...
Incredibly Short, Incredibly Tedious Valencia Season in Review
By Cesar | May 28th, 2008So I've wanted to write this Valencia Season in Review for some weeks now, but one thing or another got in the way. Life has ...
It Never Ends ...
By Cesar | May 23rd, 2008Just when I think I can put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and type an 'End of Season' post, something comes up to ...
As Your World Turns, Valencia Edition
By chris | May 22nd, 2008Good lord. You'd think that after the abysmal stretch they spent together Valencia players and Ronald Koeman would love nothing more than to never speak ...
Joaquin Strikes Back!!
By Cesar | May 21st, 2008I'm honestly trying to write a season review post. I swear I am! It's just that Valencia keeps providing us with news that so succulent, ...
Koeman Speaks!!
By Cesar | May 20th, 2008So before we get to the season in review post where we look back at our dreadful campaign, let's hear once more from our old ...
The Season Ends
By Cesar | May 18th, 2008And so it ends. The 2007-2008 campaign is finally over. The season of QQ Flores, Koeman, Champions League failure, the fired Trio, the Copa Del ...
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 ...
Poll: Messiah Or Cristiano Ronaldo?
By chris | May 16th, 2008Joe Cole made a statement the other day which brings up an important question: Who would you rather have, Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo? Joe ...
Finally Over and New Kits
By Cesar | May 16th, 2008So what do you think? These are supposedly the new kits we'll be wearing in next season's La Liga and UEFA Cup competitions ... not ...
Relief
By Cesar | May 12th, 2008Ahh, sweet glorious relief ... how wonderful it is! The weight of the world has been lifted off our shoulders. The birds are chirping. The ...
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