Articles tagged with "friendlies"
Our Galaxy Guys Will Head to New Zealand
By Laurie | September 19th, 2007Because sucking in three countries isn't enough. The original list of countries where the Galaxy will suck ply their trade this year: US ...
The Traveling Celts: A Great Week
By JT | September 13th, 2007Its been over twenty four hours since Scotland's fantastic 1-0 win in Paris over France, so I find it positively incredible that we haven't heard ...
Repeat After Me: Preseason Results Don't Matter
By Martha | August 13th, 2007That's the mantra currently being chanted in the boardrooms of a lot of big clubs today after pretty much all of them -- Juve excepted ...
Don't Forget the Ladies
By Inara | August 9th, 2007I'm ashamed to say that in the 140 posts I've written for this blog, I haven't devoted a single one to OL Féminines. I did ...
Boruc Out Up To Three Weeks, Andy Cole to Parkhead?
By JT | July 30th, 2007Its on. Finally the time has arrived to do away with excuses for poor performances, and arguments about who is atop the power rankings ...
Its Waterslide Sunday and Celtic 1-0 Parma
By JT | July 29th, 2007Sorry for the lame link dump today, but its "Waterslide Sunday" in my world. I love those stupid things, but kids annoy me in ...
Can Lyon Make it Six out of Six?
By Inara | July 27th, 2007Tomorrow is Ligue 1's traditional season opener, the Trophée des Champions, otherwise known as the French Supercup. It pits the winner of the league against ...
Magpies Stuff Celts, No Need to Worry
By JT | July 27th, 2007That look from King Artur says it all. A frustrating first-half performance against Newcastle saw Celtic down 3-0 at the break, and an improved ...
Celts Visiting St James' Park Tonite!
By JT | July 26th, 2007I'll keep my remarks relatively brief today, because I need to mentally prepare myself for the first meeting of the new season for the Supporters ...
Superb Keano-Kill Michael Owen Cartoon!
By JT | July 25th, 2007In honor of tomorrow's friendly for the Bhoys against the perpetually injured Little Mickey Owen and Fat Sam's Geordies, I implore you to view the ...
Lessons from the Trip to the States
By JT | July 24th, 2007The Celtic Football Club recently completed a two match, week-long trip to these United States, and while its difficult to draw too many concrete conclusions ...
Chicago Fire 1-1 Celtic FC Highlights
By JT | July 23rd, 2007Highlights from Celtic's less than impressive draw with the Chicago Fire yesterday. Deek Riordan's goal was of undeniable quality as was the play of ...
Do Friendlies Exploit Supporters?
By JT | July 22nd, 2007As I saw the looks on the faces of Celtic supporters towards the end of the club’s atrocious performance against the MLS All Stars, I ...
Celtic Shorts 07.22.07--Playing with Fire
By JT | July 22nd, 2007The Hoops finish up their US tour this afternoon with a match against Chicago Fire in their brand spankin' new stadium, Toyota Park. It'll ...
Lyon Win Peace Cup
By Inara | July 21st, 2007Hard to believe, I know. But somehow Lyon broke their "Bottling Up Big Matches" curse and actually won a final. Granted, it's the Peace Cup, ...
An Absurdly Haphazard MLS XI vs Celtic Preview
By JT | July 19th, 2007OK, so it turns out that the friendly with the MLS All Star XI is tonite rather than Friday nite. You can see how ...
Lyon 3 - 1 River Plate
By Inara | July 19th, 2007!!!!!!!!!!! That was the best Lyon game I've seen in a long time. And to think it was only a friendly! River Plate only needed a ...
Scotland NT to face South Africa
By Ian Rose | July 18th, 2007This is turning out to be a very happy day for your friendly neighborhood Scotland blogger. First, I get to report on a new ...
Squillaci Will Be Okay!!!
By Inara | July 17th, 2007The football gods must have heard my prayers because I woke up to the wonderful news that Sebastian Squillaci's probable ligament damage in his right ...
Hey Lyon, Wake the %#$@ Up
By Inara | July 16th, 2007Lyon lost to Reading today. Reading. You know, that team that placed eighth in the EPL, that just got promoted from the Championship? The team ...
Lyon Take Care of J-Pulse. Next Up: Reading
By Inara | July 13th, 2007Lyon's first Peace Cup game was successful, with a final score of 2-0. It wasn't thrilling or impressive, but it got the job done and ...
Lyon's Korean Adventure
By Inara | July 11th, 2007It's Peace Cup time!!! (\__/) (=' '=) ('') ('') The official Peace Cup Bunnies say hi! (visit their photo album for more Peace Cup Bunny goodness). Today, after a ...
Lyon Win Friendly With Lille
By Inara | July 8th, 2007'Tis the season for pre-season friendlies. Earlier today, Lyon met Lille in Albertville for a relaxing, enjoyable encounter which served no other purpose than to ...
FC Basel 0-1 Celtic, MLS All Star XI
By JT | July 6th, 2007“Pre-season friendlies are like foreplay: they titillate yet never satisfy.” Or so says the The Herald, but I’m inclined to agree. Celtic took ...
Talkin' with Strachan About the Armband
By JT | July 5th, 2007Ahead of today’s first preseason friendly in Switzerland against FC Basel, the papers are chock full of Celtic manager and quote machine Gordon Strachan. ...
Lyon's Pre-Season and 2007/2008 Schedule
By Inara | June 15th, 2007It's not entirely fixed yet, but so far, Lyon's schedule this summer looks pretty busy. If you're a Les Gones fan near any of these ...
Lyon in Peace Cup
By Inara | June 11th, 2007This July, Lyon will be taking part in Korea's biannual Peace Cup. This is a great opportunity for the players to injure themselves stay in ...
Galaxy to Play in Minnesota in October
By Laurie | May 22nd, 2007The Galaxy continue to cement their reputation as the whores of the league with yet another exhibition match planned for this year, this one on ...
I Need Your Help - Which Foreign Teams Are Playing in the U.S. this Year?
By Clint | May 9th, 2007Ok, I have to start making some summer vacation plans and what I want to know is (and finding this out each year is like ...
What do Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry, Riquelme, and Roberto Carlos all have in common?
By Inara | May 6th, 2007They'll be at Lyon on June 11th! Sonny Anderson will be having a jubilee as a sort of post-retirement party. For those of you who don't ...
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