Articles tagged with "sporting"
Rui Costa's Successor Is....
By Greg | July 1st, 2008Carlos Martins. The Portuguese (somewhat) international will be the next to wear the #10 shirt for Benfica and, hopefully for them, usher in a ...
Quarta-Feira Quantum Leap
By Greg | June 25th, 2008Like I mentioned yesterday, most of the Portuguese footballing world (including myself) was so enraptured with the Euro that league news turned into middle of ...
The Euro Pwns Your League News
By Greg | June 2nd, 2008For the next month or so you can pretty much expect a quick run down of a number of league-related stories coming out of Portugal, ...
Who's Going to the 2008 Euro?
By Greg | May 29th, 2008Now that the final teams have been set, we can make a list of the fourteen players from the Portuguese Liga who will be representing ...
Tuesday Trainer Tidbits
By Greg | May 20th, 2008I'm sorry about the headline, really I am. I'm just so into alliteration lately that I can't contain causing conflagrations and cacophonies of concurrent ...
Taça de Portugal Final: Sporting 2 - 0 Porto
By Greg | May 19th, 2008In front of what looked like about three hundred people at the Estadio Nacional in Jamor, Sporting won this year's Taça de Portugal, defeating Porto ...
Preview of the Taça de Portugal Final: Sporting CP v FC Porto
By Greg | May 16th, 2008The climax of the season is upon us, as this Sunday's Taça de Portugal final will be contested between Paulo Bento Box's second place Sporting ...
Porto Are Champions, But Are They Champions League?
By Greg | May 15th, 2008As we are all well aware at this point, Porto were "punished" for their involvement in match fixing and referee bribing during the 2003/04 season. ...
Convenient Alliteration Day: Transfer Tuesday
By Greg | May 13th, 2008Concerned that all league-related news would be overshadowed by the naming of the twenty three brave Portuguese (Cape Verde, Brazilian, Congolese, etc) players that ...
Jornada 30 Recap: Final Whistle Blown On Season
By Greg | May 12th, 2008With the league still smarting from the Golden Whistle punishments handed down on Friday, the players took to the pitch to earn their money finish ...
Jornada 30 Preview: Final Preview of the Season and a Tribute to Rui Costa
By Greg | May 9th, 2008*** Completely Unrelated, Somewhat Breaking News *** The final verdict in the Golden Whistle trial is going to be handed down at around 10:30 Eastern ...
List of Clubs Up To Date on Wage Payments Is Released
By Greg | May 8th, 2008Since there's been a whole huge hullabaloo over getting paid this past season, the Players' Association did us all a favor and released a list ...
Hump Day Quickies
By Greg | May 7th, 2008Since there's no one huge news story today, I figure I might as well take it easy, enjoy the 78 degree New Jersey weather, and ...
A First Look At Summer Transfer Targets
By Greg | May 6th, 2008Every summer, Manchester United (especially recently) and other prominent clubs look to strengthen their teams by purchasing a number of young Portuguese league stars. ...
Jornada 29 Review: Nacional Take Six Points From Porto
By Greg | May 5th, 2008When the boys of Nacional are sitting around the dressing room at the end of the season to discuss what took place over the course ...
Jornada 29 Preview: Thank God It's Friday My Ass
By Greg | May 2nd, 2008Man, do I love Fridays. Actually, the only thing I hate about Friday is that people over acknowledge the day as being one to ...
Jornada 28 Recap: Big Three Winner Weekend
By Greg | April 29th, 2008Now that V.Setúbal and E.d.Amadora have recorded their draw, let's check them results once more: Braga 2 - 1 P.Ferreira Benfica 2 - 0 Belenenses Nacional 0 - 3 Académica Naval 1 ...
Jornada 28 Pre-Recap: Porto's Big 'F You' To The League
By Greg | April 28th, 2008Ever since the heat has been turned up on the Golden Whistle proceedings, Porto have taken the extra warmth of the spotlight and turned it ...
Jornada 28 Preview: Why AS Roma and Its Fans Need to Go Away
By Greg | April 25th, 2008I usually start each preview off with some witty banter but this week I have to discuss AS Roma and its huge fan base which ...
Top of the Table Run In Probability Game
By Greg | April 23rd, 2008I'm something of an amateur prognosticator / absolute genius, therefore I'm going to take a look into the future with the final three weeks of ...
Jornada 27 Recap: Come On the Chels!!!
By Greg | April 22nd, 2008Don't be confused by the Chelsea badge, it's there for my boys in blue who are going to take it to Fernanda Torres and Co. ...
Jornada 27 Pre-Recap: Sporting Hammered, Porto Rampant
By Greg | April 21st, 2008The weekend's action saw Porto absolutely dominate Benfica with two goals from Lisandro Lopez, putting him on twenty four goals for the season thus making ...
Jornada 27 Preview: Clássico Time
By Greg | April 18th, 2008These matches this weekend have a huge amount of expectation to live up to after the Sporting v Benfica cup semifinal. As if a ...
Taça de Portugal - Match of the Season Edition
By Greg | April 17th, 2008Simply put, I haven't watched / been a part of a match that was this exciting or entertaining for at least a year... Taça ...
Taça de Portugal Recap / Preview
By Greg | April 16th, 2008Ever since my return, I've largely ignored the Taça de Portugal. I even mistook it for a competition where you don't actually gain a ...
Jornada 26 Recap: Formula For a Happy Ending (Updated)
By Greg | April 15th, 2008Once more, here's them scores... Benfica 0 - 3 Académica E. Amadora 0 - 2 Belenenses V.Guimarães 1 - 0 Boavista V.Setúbal 1 - 2 Porto Nacional 1 - ...
Jornada 26 Preview: Fight For Porto's Scraps
By Greg | April 11th, 2008Now that King Porto have been crowned champions for the third successive season, all that is left for the other clubs is "to be or ...
What do The Offside and Boavista FC Have In Common?
By Greg | April 10th, 2008If you guessed "They both make you toil away in the world of football for no pay," then you're the winner, winner, galinha dinner. ...
UEFA Cup Second Leg Preview: Sporting v. Rangers
By Greg | April 9th, 2008The Royal Crown Cola of European club competitions kicks off the second leg of its quarterfinal round this Thursday. Sporting, the last remaining "Great ...
Jornada 25 Recap: Porto-guese League Champions
By Greg | April 8th, 2008As you all know by now, this was Porto's weekend to pat themselves on the back for their third consecutive league championship. There's still ...
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