Articles tagged with "fernando-torres"
FA Cup 3rd Round: Preston 0, Liverpool 2
By Kai | January 5th, 2009Following the high of our win at St James' Park, Rafa rested Benayoun, Lucas, Kuyt & Reina. Replacing them in the starting lineup are Keane, ...
L'Equipe Names Best XI of 2008
By chris | December 29th, 2008Although less a "Best of XI" and more a "Best of Barca, Spain & ManU". As is the case with so many year-end top whatever ...
Daily Dose 12.23.08
By Laurie | December 23rd, 2008Some news to read as you check out your Christmas card from FC Barcelona: And while we're on the topic of Christmas cards, this one -- ...
Weekly Poll
By CSD | December 11th, 2008Oh you beauty had a good writeup about who they'd like to see in the Champions League knockout phase. I'm in agreement with ...
Ballon d'Or Point Totals Make Franck Ribery Unhappy.
By chris | December 3rd, 2008The Ballon d'Or is nothing if not a lightning rod for controversy and year-long verbal sparring matches with inflatable gloves. Yes, some deserving players win ...
Should This Man Have Won the Ballon d'Or Instead of Cristiano Ronaldo?
By Daryl | December 2nd, 2008Nope, it's not Leo Messi or Fernando Torres. It's Mohamed Aboutrika, the Al-Ahly and Egypt playmaker. In an excellent article on the Guardian's sports blog ...
Is the Ballon d'Or Getting Predictable?
By Daryl | December 2nd, 2008News today is that Cristiano Ronaldo has won the 2008 Ballon d'Or, awarded after 96 football journalists voted from a shortlist of 30 players. Except ...
Rob And Wayne's Big Prem Preview - Gonna Be A Good Weekend!
By Rob | November 28th, 2008After missing last week's due to illness on my part, and a spectacularly dull weekend that came with it (Big four helping themselves to nil-nils), ...
Alan Smith Will Have His Revenge on Newcastle
By Daryl | November 28th, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: Jan 1st, 2009 (happy pretend new year!) Progress: 6th in Prem after 20 games. Remember I predicted my top four challenge wouldn't last? Well, that's ...
Liverpool 1 Marseille 0: Unconvincing but does the job
By Nadia | November 27th, 2008Rafa finally learns how to pronounce ‘dilemma’, some Marseille fans are morons and clearly, we have a goal-scoring crisis CSD was spot-on when he predicted a ...
Weekly Picks - 11/21/2008
By Taylor Rockwell | November 21st, 2008My picks have been a bit off recently, and that’s putting a generous light on the situation. So, it seems obvious that the only way ...
Bolton 0 Liverpool 2: Donde Esta Fernando Torres?
By Nadia | November 16th, 2008What happened? Honestly, I did not concentrate much on this game, because I was quite turned off from the beginning after discovering Torres is not on ...
The Weekly Picks
By Taylor Rockwell | November 13th, 2008I’ve decided that, seeing as how Tuesday was Veteran’s Day in America, each match this week will be marked with an honorary battle name. Because ...
Carling Cup Fun
By CSD | November 11th, 2008I'm excited about anytime that Liverpool play during the week on a day that I'm off, especially against a side such as Spurs who are ...
The Ballon d'Or: Ronaldo or Messi?
By Ale | November 10th, 2008Thierry Henry's verbal fellating of Lionel Messi got me thinking... does Ronaldo really deserve the Ballon d'Or this year? I figured he had it locked ...
Liverpool 3 W.B.A 0: Awesome-ness restored
By Nadia | November 8th, 2008Robbie's brace, Arbeloa knows where the net is, Carra still gets away with fouls and Rafa almost slipped at the sideline again It was business as ...
Daily Dose: November 3rd, 2008.
By chris | November 3rd, 2008Stuff to read while your kibbles 'n bits are assaulted during a corner..... Slovak police in trouble over Hungarian riots. (101 Great Goals) 10 Reasons Why This ...
C-Ron named FifPro Footballer of the Year
By Rob | October 27th, 2008Cristiano Ronaldo has been named World Footballer of the Year by the Fifpro orginisation. Fifpro is the union of footballers around the globe. The award, ...
Weekend Quiz Answers: Whose Tattoos Were Whose?
By Laurie | October 26th, 2008First, if you haven't taken our tattoo quiz, stop by this post, then come back here for the answers. You guys were good at these. ...
Jose Mourinho Names Divers in Attempt to Win Friends
By Daryl | October 21st, 2008Jose Mourinho takes the term "charm offensive" far too literally. He seems to think the only way to charm one group is to be offensive ...
An exciting Week of Champions League Action
By Rob | October 21st, 2008Back then, to Champions League action, today and tomorrow, and some absolutely corking games to look forward to, including the 'Battle of Britian' between Celtic ...
2008 Ballon d'Or Shortlist of 30
By Daryl | October 20th, 2008The Ballon d'Or shortlist is out, and it's even shorter than usual. France Football usually names 50 players before voting, but this year it's only ...
Liverpool 3 Wigan 2
By Nadia | October 18th, 2008What have we learnt... 1. I do have a crystal ball =X 2. Daniel Agger would make a good winger or midfielder. 3. Our opponents should be careful ...
An Exciting New Look Weekend Preview
By Rob | October 17th, 2008So I've been doing the weekly previews and I thought they needed something a little bit more. So over the international break, here at team ...
Great News for Torres!...Oh....
By Rob | October 16th, 2008When the Champions League draw was made, alot of people thought, oooh, Athletico Madrid vs Liverpool, Fernando Torres will go back to the stadium that ...
Pre-Match: Liverpool vs Wigan
By Nadia | October 16th, 2008Last time these 2 teams met at Anfield, it ended in a 1-1 draw. Fernando Torres drew first blood 4 minutes into second half, but ...
Will CR7 Win the Ballon d'Or?
By Rob | October 16th, 2008The shortlists are being sent out, and voting is begining on one of the most prestigous titles in world football - The Ballon d'Or. With ...
Internationals
By CSD | October 15th, 2008Gerrard's first competitive goal for England in 19 months came after a great display from Wayne Rooney. Rooney's really found his form. I'm ...
Weekly POLL: To Vicente or Not to Vicente?
By CSD | October 15th, 2008It seems that the only ones not disappointed in the recent decision to ban Atletico Madrid from playing at home for the next 2 matches ...
Introducing our New HABs Offside Five-Tongue Rating System!
By Amanda Leerat | October 14th, 2008In the comments on the Philippe Mexes post, reader Johonna offered up the following. I am not saying that I dont want to go ...
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