Articles tagged with "levante"
Spanish Club Wants To Get Paid, Drops Pants.
By chris | February 10th, 2009Without a single fact to back this up at the moment, it seems the financial crisis has hit Spanish football the hardest - mainly because ...
Reports of Match-Fixing Rock Spain
By chris | December 4th, 2008Match fixing in football is, unfortunately, nothing new. Some may even say it's par for the course, particularly if we're talking about Eastern European football ...
Who Needs News When You Can Just Make Stuff Up?
By chris | October 8th, 2008Have you ever known that the percentage of outlandish news and rumors seems to spike during international breaks? You know, stuff like finding Cesc & ...
Levante Players to Down Tools This Weekend
By Daryl | May 16th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTXYs8gdVUw&[/youtube] Levante's players are sick of not getting paid. For two years now, they haven't been paid properly. They've tried threatening to strike, only for the ...
Relief
By Cesar | May 12th, 2008Ahh, sweet glorious relief ... how wonderful it is! The weight of the world has been lifted off our shoulders. The birds are chirping. The ...
Safety
By Cesar | May 10th, 2008I'm keeping this one short as I battle a torrid head cold that just won't go away ... the players better not catch anything either, ...
What's the Difference Between UEFA Cup and Nothing? Ask Belenenses.
By Greg | April 30th, 2008The Portuguese Football Federation's Council of Justice has handed down its verdict in the case of Belenenses' illegal transfer of Cameroonian striker Meyong. They ...
Players Going on Strike is the Latest Fashion
By Inara | April 19th, 2008Players from Boavista have announced that they will be on strike this weekend due to the fact that their salaries are two months overdue. The ...
Samuel Eto'o Invents a New Goal Celebration
By Daryl | February 26th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDsPwcbZ69w[/youtube] There are only so many goal celebrations out there, but Barcelona's Samuel Eto'o added a new one on Sunday. After completing a hat-trick during the ...
Barcelona 5 - 1 Levante (Holy Balls Edition)
By Isaiah | February 25th, 2008Squashed between several big matches in the Champions League, Copa del Rey, and even La Liga itself, was a little visit from old Levante. Any ...
Barcelona - Levante: Sunday 1pm EST
By Isaiah | February 22nd, 2008The fortune teller in me is saying the end of this weekend will be just like it began: 5 points back of Real Madrid, but ...
Weekend Watch Recap: A Mixed Bag
By Martha | January 28th, 2008Saturday Liverpool v Havant and Waterlooville: The minnows acquitted themselves magnificently, twice going ahead in a first half in which they were, by all accounts, the ...
Weekend Watch: Rooting for the Little Guy
By Martha | January 25th, 2008Saturday Liverpool v Havant and Waterlooville: Havant earned their way into the FA Cup fourth round with a 4-2 seeing off of Swansea, a team ...
You Think Your Club's in Trouble? At Least They're Not Levante.
By Martha | January 15th, 2008Levante are bottom of La Liga. Distant, distant bottom: They've got eight points through 19 matches, nine fewer than Deportivo La Coruña, their closest rivals. ...
Liveblog: Levante v Real Madrid
By Steve | January 13th, 2008Hala Madrid! Los Merengues play in their 19th match of the season, the halfway point of this campaign. They're away to Levante, and ...
Two Strikers Desperate to Move
By Martha | January 10th, 2008As of this morning, Christian Riganò is still in Spain. He's stuck on the bottom of La Liga with the hapless Levante -- nine points ...
Keepers, Keepers and More Keepers
By Martha | January 7th, 2008As Fiorentina can tell us, there's nothing like an outstanding keeper to help your team survive the bad days intact. And, even if you can't ...
Copa Del Rey Injury Time Drama
By Martha | January 4th, 2008Levante v Almeria Just as the FA Cup swings back into action in England, the Copa Del Rey finishes another round in Spain. There were no ...
Things Going From Bad To Worse In Valencia
By chris | December 7th, 2007Most people know about the plight of Valencia CF this season. They've been man-handled a couple of times in La Liga, sacked their coach Quique ...
Monday Odds n Ends As Milan Are Victimized Again and Again
By Martha | November 5th, 2007•For the Milan fans among you, this morning I stumbled upon a fantastic gallery of screenshots of all the refereeing errors to which your team ...
Levante 1 - 4 Barcelona: Review and Highlights
By Isaiah | October 1st, 2007For all of you (ahem, us), who wondered if Henry had lost his scoring touch, Saturday's game at Levante should have send you/us into rapturous ...
Deja Vu All Over Again, Or: Riganò Sold to Two Clubs at Once
By Martha | August 15th, 2007Yes, that's right: Another player has apparently been sold to two different teams -- and this time there's no way anyone can blame Massimo Moratti ...
More Anfield Banter: Yossi Benayoun, Gabriel Paletta, 2005 CL Final, Xabi praises Coleman, & those delusional Evertonians
By Brian | July 9th, 2007* It looks as if we've agreed on the contract terms for West Ham midfielder and Israeli National team captain, Yossi Benayoun. All we ...
The End is Near ...
By Cesar | June 11th, 2007Nothing good came out of the Valencian derby this weekend. Save for Levante who ensured they will be playing La Liga football next season after ...
A True Derby: Levante UD
By Cesar | June 8th, 2007I have a special place in my heart for Levante, also known as Llevant Unió Esportiva (in Valenciano) or Las Granotas (The Frogs). I used ...
Barcelona 1 - 0 Levante: Eto'o grabs 3 points
By Isaiah | April 30th, 2007Well, we got 3 points, even if it turned out to be pretty much the hardest way we could do it while maintaining a clean ...
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