Articles tagged with "valencia"
Ups and Downs
By Elisa | May 14th, 2008Games In Brief OK we beat Murcia away midweek, but then we drew against Racing this past weekend. We're safe, but a chance at Europe is slipping through our fingers. We still lack that self believe, that winning confidence. Luck was not on ...
The 2007/8 Champions League. In Numbers.
By Rob | May 6th, 2008This season's Champions League is quickly drawing to a close. Just two teams remain, Chelsea and Manchester United. So while the CL Offisde team prepares its teams of the tournament, and before we hand over to you to pick your team of the tournament ...
The 2007/8 Champions League. In Numbers.
By Rob | May 6th, 2008This season's Champions League is quickly drawing to a close. Just two teams remain, Chelsea and Manchester United. So while the CL Offisde team prepares its teams of the tournament, and before we hand over to you to pick your team of the tournament ...
In other news...
By salvatore | April 29th, 2008As expected, Sunday's apathetic and depressing performance brought out another round of finger pointing, fan protests and possible replacements for Delio. Thankfully, there have been some other developments in the last couple of days to help us g ...
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 ...
Weekend Recap: Burning Up
By Laurie | April 28th, 2008How did those weekend games we talked about on Friday come out? Saturday Chelsea 2-1 Manchester United Chelsea's Michael Ballack put away a penalty in the 86th minute, and suddenly we have a title race. Manchester United could have essentiall ...
Ronald Koeman Not Missed In Spain, But Wanted Everywhere Else
By chris | April 25th, 2008It's been a hectic year for Ronald Koeman, swapping hilly Holland for Spain, and it appears he's the type that doesn't stay single for long, with a host of suitors already knocking on his door. At least that's according to the always-reliable agent. ...
Tin Tin thrown to the Lions!
By Elisa | April 22nd, 2008Our boys from Athletic Bilbao thrashed Valencia 5 -1 at el Catedral, San Mames!!! It all started with a Guard of Honor for the new Copa Del Rey champs and ended in a gran victory for Los Leones. Javi Martinez, our leader in the midfield, kic ...
Drama at the Mestalla
By chris | April 21st, 2008Bittersweet week for Valencia. They managed to pick up some unexpected silverware on Wednesday after defeating Getafe in the Copa del Rey final. Usually that's enough to get you through the week on a good note no matter what else happens. Well not at ...
A look at what could be a fascinating summer of transfers
By Rob | April 18th, 2008After Sir Alex Ferguson announced today that he intends to 'Stock up' on players over the summer, it struck me this summer could be a real classic one for big transfers. And in my excitement I decided to bring you this insight into the possible moves ...
Hey, Valencia Actually Won
By chris | April 16th, 2008Tis true. They'll at least be going home with some silverware after defeating Getafe 3-1 in the Copa del Rey final. Perhaps more importantly - with their La Liga status next year still up in the air, much less in contention for a spot in Europe - ...
Back to Earth
By Elisa | April 14th, 2008A little Basque humor~* OK, let's get it over with. We were smashed, thrashed and bashed yesterday by Team Depor. We were outplayed and outmaneuvered. We couldn't handle their 5 man backline. We got cocky, we let our X Factor, Markel ...
Dear, Oh Dear. Relegation guide.
By Shane | April 7th, 2008Dear oh dear, Osasuna's route to salvation will be as hard as the Olympic torch reaching china, they are both destined to suffer till the end. Once again the three points have escaped Pamplona. Once again, the opponents did nothing to deserve the ...
What could have been...
By Jeremy | March 30th, 2008Guiza..Arango...Guitierrez...Ibagaza..Navarro.. Those names combined with some other youngsters were ready to make this Mallorcas year. With Guiza coming on board to put goals in the net, this was the year Mallorcas fans were hoping for a return to E ...
Barca-Valencia preview (Thursday, 3:30 p.m. ET, GolTV), a.k.a. "Remember the Getafe," a.k.a. "Ronnie needs a smack"
By Isaiah | March 19th, 2008Right. This is the first, for-real, no messing about, bring-the-silver ass game. We all remember what happened last year. All we had to do was take care of business against Getafe, of all teams, and we laid a big, fat, stinking, 5-goals against egg. Ugh.
Lucarelli’s Back for a 6 pointer
By Marco | March 15th, 2008What ?: Serie A - Matchday 28 Who ?: Livorno (16th, 26 points) vs Parma (17th, 25 points) When ?: Sunday 16 March 2008, 15:00 CET Where ?: Stadio Armando Picchi, Livorno Why ?: So we can show Cristiano all the fun he’s missing playing for the wro
FIFA 08 Tourney - need your info
By Dave Martinez | March 15th, 2008There are 4 teams that are basically MIA. I need an answer regarding your participation by Monday at 5pm. If not, I will dip into the list of replacements. REMEMBER PEOPLE - If you want in this tourney, pick one of the below teams. If their use
Livorno – Catania in the Drop Zone, 17 certainties and Wesley Snipes
By Marco | March 1st, 2008Remember this crap-chute of a movie? If so; why the hell haven’t you erased that memory form your Brain Frame? If not; well lucky you. See the link just there ? Relegation + Drop Zone + Wesley Snipes + All around suckiness + Money problems
Copa: Barcelona 1 - 1 Valencia (Deification Edition)
By Isaiah | February 28th, 2008The game came down to the hands of a man Ray Hudson screamed was a "black jungle cat" and yet another late, late, late heroic strike from Xavi. If not for Timo Hildebrand's freakish ability to tell where the ball was going and his absurd luck, the game wo
Copa del Rey! Copa del Rrrrrreeeeyyyyyyy!!!!
By Isaiah | February 27th, 2008Remember this is what happened last time we played a Copa del Rey semifinal at the Camp Nou: Tot el camp és un clam som la gent blaugrana tant se val d'on venim si del sud o del nord ara estem d'acord, estem d'acord una bandera ens agermana b
LQ ; Tavano Interview and 78 ways to satisfy your woman!
By Marco | January 19th, 2008Francesco Tavano is garnering a little bit of media hype as of late, seeing how he has scored as many goals as Kaka and Del Piero this season. So let me jump on this media bandwagon before it speeds off to somewhere hotter. The 6M$ dollar summer signi
Silva to Chelsea??? Not really.
By Jack | January 9th, 2008Valencia winger David Silva is coming to the Bridge. Well, so says Wikipedia. Really, Wikipedia??? Yesterday, according to the web's only interactive encyclopedia, Silva has signed a pre-contract with Chelsea. "On January 8 David Silva signed a preco
101 Great Christmas Gifts: A Valencia Kit for Rafael van der Vaart
By Jan | December 20th, 2007"Wait! He already got one," some of you may say. The white one, with which he posed this summer to force his transfer. That's why his team mates chose Valencia's orange away kit for his Christmas present instead; complete with his number 23 and the na
Valencia - Barcelona: Preview (Saturday, 4pm EST)
By Isaiah | December 15th, 2007Saturday's matchup at the Mestalla is not just between two heavyweight contenders in the La Liga title chase, but also between The Offside crew. Cesar over at the Valencia Offside has vowed that his team will come roaring back, echoing Cañizares' thought
Fred is "Injured" and Other News
By Inara | December 7th, 2007~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Apparently, Fred still hasn't recovered from the slight knock to his muscle from last Friday and won't be part of the squad that travels to Caen. He might not even travel to Glasgow. Raise your hand if you didn't see that one coming
Champions League Matchday 5: Late Bloomers
By Jan | December 1st, 2007Just as the Bundesliga clubs were all a little late to the Champions League party, I'm a little late with this short wrap up. But if you know your way around The Offside, you might have noticed that all matches have been covered by the Scotland Offside, t
Is Tavano Back?
By Marco | November 28th, 2007Francesco Tavano Born: March 2, 1979 Birthplace: Caserta Height: 5-10 Weight: 161 lbs He’s played for Empoli, Pisa, Fiorentina and Livorno. With a stint in Siena he would have officially hit for the Tuscan Caroussel The 6 million doll
Champions League: Ifs and thens
By Jan | November 6th, 2007One half of this week's Champions League matchday is over, though since Stuttgart is basically dead already, I can start sketching out my favourite scenarios for the final two matchdays. And I'll start off with one of the two surprise teams of tonight - t
Great Duels: The German Goalkeeper vs. German the Goalkeeper
By Jan | November 5th, 2007Here's Valencia's goalkeeper and German international Timo Hildebrand and RCD Mallorca's goalkeeper German Lux - who is Argentine, and actually played for Argentina in the 2005 Confederations Cup in Germany. The two stood on opposite sides of the pitc
Liveblog: Valencia v Real Madrid
By Steve | October 31st, 2007Hala Madrid! Okay, I have some bad news and I have some good news. The bad news is, the match tonight against Valencia is only on tape-delay on Sky Sports 2 in the UK. Not sure about the situation in America, but streaming shouldn't be affected. The g
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