Articles tagged with "benfica"
Back To the DRAWing Board...
By Greg | August 21st, 2007Well wasn't that just a bunch of sister-kissing that went on this past weekend? Only three clubs (Sporting, Porto, and Maritimo) took maximum points ...
Jornada 0.875 results and a Small Club's Manager is Out
By Greg | August 20th, 20077/8ths of the first Jornada are complete, but apparently it's never too early to start the coaching carousel a-turnin'. The first boss out for ...
Some Amuse Bouches and... Fixture Facts 2.0!
By Greg | August 17th, 2007A quick aside before I do that damn thing: I just noticed, that in the fury to race out of my apartment (a new ...
They Want to Make You Do WHAT?!
By Greg | August 15th, 2007The operative answer to the question posed in the headline is: work. For some reason, yesterday, the powers that be at my job actually ...
Monday Mixtape: Sporting win the SuperCup and A Dady's Love is So Fickle Sometimes
By Greg | August 13th, 2007Finally, a decent amount of "stuff" to write about. This must mean that the real season is almost upon us. I put together ...
Benfica to face København In Champions League Qualifiers
By Greg | August 8th, 2007FC Copenhagen (København to you breakfast pastries) defeated Israeli side Beitar Jerusalem FC 2-1 on aggregate to win the right to face Benfica in the ...
Decide the League in a Single Game!
By Greg | August 3rd, 2007It seems that Portugal Telecom, the kit sponsor of the triumvirate of Portuguese football has managed to come up with a solution to all of ...
Lost in Google Translator
By Greg | August 2nd, 2007For those of you who can not read Portuguese, it's a bit tough trying to keep up with what's going on in our country's world ...
Fearless Predictions for the 07/08 Season
By Greg | August 1st, 2007I could go the boring, standard-issue route of predicting the season's outcome, but I see no point in doing that. Prognostication when it comes ...
Much Adu About Freddy? (Sorry, So Necessary)
By Greg | July 30th, 2007As you probably know by now, the deal bringing Freddy Adu to Benfica is in the final stages (medical, etc). I know I'm going ...
Stop Whining!
By Greg | July 27th, 2007I have managed to successfully go back to back days with Arnold Schwarzenegger references in my posts. For this, I am proud. The ...
How the Grinch Sold the Portuguese Liga
By Greg | July 26th, 2007(Note the irony of the Grinch's colors, while he takes everything from renowned Portuguese soccer fan Cindy Lou Who and pats her on the head ...
Say It Ain't So, Jose!
By Greg | July 25th, 2007The Associated Press broke today with a story regarding widespread match fixing which allegedly took place in 03/04 at the highest level of Portuguese football. ...
Get João Moutinho and Quaresma Outta Here, For Big Phil's Sake!
By Greg | July 20th, 2007I was sitting here at my desk, avoiding work as usual and thinking to myself "Is there any possible benefit to having all of these ...
Portuguese Liga Starting to Look Like the National Hockey League
By Greg | July 19th, 2007The Portuguese Board of Tourism must be smiling right now. Apparently, their recent advertising campaign in Eastern Europe has paid dividends. As a ...
Going Down?
By Greg | July 18th, 2007No, you sick, sex-crazed beasts, I mean down in the sense of an elevator. Or, in the case of Ricardo, Filipe Teixeira (pronounced Teh-Share-Uh), ...
Big Three Fashion Statements for 07/08
By Greg | July 17th, 2007Most of today's news is simply a reinforcement of the transfer rumors I touched on yesterday. While the asking price for Simao has been ...
State of the Club
By AJ | July 17th, 2007Well... Let's see here... Yea, I know I haven't been bloging, but I'll explain that in a future post. I wanted to give you a ...
Couceiro Watch: Firing Squad Assembled
By Greg | July 16th, 2007Nothing is going on today to get all wacky about... Quaresma looks like he may have another season at Porto while Lucho González is ...
Thank God It's Seixta Feira: Dicky Quaresma to be Royalty, 07/08 Fixture Highlights, and Born Loser Couceiro is Defeated in Tic-Tac-Toe Game Against Himself
By Greg | July 13th, 2007Even though in this blog it's always seixta feira, today it's really Friday and there's plenty of amuse bouches to get to your table, so ...
Honesty in the Transfer News World? Finally!
By Greg | July 6th, 2007Fabrizio Miccoli completed his summer transfer saga by signing with Italian side Palermo today. He had previously stated that he would be delighted to ...
The Portuguese Liga is a Slutty Ho
By Greg | July 3rd, 2007No, really: the Liga is taking it for the right price from just about anyone at this point. I'm not saying it's one of ...
Weekend Transfer Rumors and the Gignac Dispute
By Julien | July 1st, 2007A couple transfer rumors have emerged regarding Lille this weekend. Girondins de Bordeaux is planning on transferring Julien Faubert to West Ham. The Bordelais want ...
More Strikers On the Move (Or Not)
By Martha | June 29th, 2007If reports in the Italian press are to be believed (and at least one of them has already been denied), a couple of desirable strikers ...
Stream of Bad News Day Consciousness
By Greg | June 28th, 2007Okay, it's day two of "Deuce Watch." As in there's DEUCE going on right now that's newsworthy. Therefore, I figured I'd share some ...
Juve Love You Long Time
By Martha | June 28th, 2007Man, it's just all seduction, all the time up in Turin these days: Juve get promoted, and the next thing you know they're the bookies' ...
No News Is Bad News
By Greg | June 27th, 2007I won't resort to fluff and fill tactics in order to complete my daily submission today, OH NO. I'm clearly above that. There ...
Nuno Gomes in Italy Return? God, Don't Tease Us So!
By Martha | June 27th, 2007Early in his career, Portuguese international Nuno Gomes spent a couple of very productive years at Fiorentina, even winning the Coppa Italia during his first ...
Roundup of Rumors and Other Assorted Nonsense
By Martha | June 26th, 2007•Fact: Roma's money guy girl has flown out to Barcelona for a "supper" of negotiations. Multinational rumor (tracked by our own, never-sleeping, Roma-obsessing Chris): Cristian ...
Pair of Lost Boys Set to Return
By Martha | June 19th, 2007Late last week, Benfica's Juventus-owned Fabrizio Miccoli got into some weird brownies and started sending "messages of love" towards Palermo, specifically to the club's nutso ...
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