Articles tagged with "porto"
November to Now: The Season In Time Machine Mode
By Greg | March 20th, 2008I figure that since I've been gone that the Portuguese Liga has been in dark mode to all of North America. Even though I ...
Portuguese Phoenix From the Flames
By Greg | March 19th, 2008Okay, enough of the elaborately dumb ruse. I'm back. I got a promotion back in November and realized that I had to make ...
Big Preview for a Big Wednesday
By Rob | March 4th, 2008So four more teams have bitten the dust. And three more will join them. Arsenal, Fener, Man United and Barca made it through (Adam will ...
Champions League Knockout Rounds Commence
By chris | February 19th, 2008After what has seemed like eons of dormancy, the greatest competition in the club world has returned. Basically, there are two ginormous games and two ...
Photo of the Day: Halitosis
By chris | February 13th, 2008This pic is from way back - last year's Porto - Chelsea game I believe - and just came across it recently. I think it ...
Quaresma Re-Ups with Porto
By Martha | January 23rd, 2008Ricardo Quaresma, one of the brightest young(ish) talents in Portugal, yesterday extended his stay at Porto, adding two years to a contract that was due ...
"Le point sur" Lyon and Marseille's Chances in the Champions League
By Sam | December 1st, 2007After the results were final in Matchday 5, Lyon knew their hopes of going through to the knockout stages of the Champions League, which they ...
Liverpool: One win away from the Champions League last 16
By ed | November 28th, 2007Phew, that was close! In many ways, tonight's game was very similar to how I believe our season will go. We start well (Torres 1-0) but go ...
Jornada 10 Wrap Up Cursed By You Guessed It... Frank Stallone
By Greg | November 14th, 2007Heyyyyyyyyyyy everybody. Sorry I didn't make it around to bloggin' yesterday, I got a small pang of concsience and decided to let my "career" ...
Porto Drop Points Again?! A 3-0 Sporting Loss?! US Dollar Worth Less Than Canadian Dollar?
By Greg | November 12th, 2007True. True. True. It was an interesting and exciting weekend in Portuga football, as you can see from the scores below. ...
Skip to the Asterisks If You Came Here Wanting to Read Only About Football
By Greg | November 9th, 2007I'm faced with a dilemma. I'm sincerely interested in having a nice weekend filled with football, folks, and fun. However, my wife seems ...
Two Match Recap One Match Preview
By Greg | November 7th, 2007All the news today is going to be about Liverpool's 8-0 win over Beşiktaş. Historic? Yes. Shocking achievement? Yes. A ...
Swinging Around for the Second Leg Thrillers
By Greg | November 6th, 2007Now that each team has faced one another in the Champions League groups, it's time for the second legs of each fixture to be played ...
Jornada 9 Ends Porto's Win Streak
By Greg | November 6th, 2007As you found out here yesterday, Belenenenenenenenses (1 'en' for every one of Porto's wins prior to the draw) slowed Porto's avalanche down Mount Portugal ...
Jornada 9 Pre-Recap and The Curse of Frank Stallone
By Greg | November 5th, 2007It's finally happened. Porto have dropped points. I'm convinced that this is a result of Frank Stallone's appearance on last week's preview. ...
Jornada 9 Preview Brought To You By... You Guessed It...
By Greg | November 2nd, 2007Frank Stallone. Another day, another dollar. There's somewhat of a shot that Porto actually drop points this weekend but I'm not holding my ...
Porto Challenging Mourinho For Station in Life
By Greg | October 30th, 2007Jose Mourinho once said, when referring to the fact that he could have stayed at Porto and lived the easy life, that in Portugal it ...
Jornada 8 Pre-Recap and Joyous Dish Of Joybeams
By Greg | October 29th, 2007I'm home today waiting for both the gas and satellite installation technicians. I couldn't care less about cooking gas being enabled, and given the ...
Porto Season Pwnage Round 8
By Greg | October 26th, 2007Well, Braga drew at Bolton yesterday 1 - 1, summarily crushing another prediction of mine (I had Braga 1-0 winners). It's gotten so bad ...
European Round-Up: Lyon Awakens, Marseille Rides Luck, UEFA Cupsters Kick Off
By Sam | October 25th, 2007Here's an interesting role-change: Usually French clubs are lacking a bit of everything in the Champions League, and solid in the UEFA Cup. This week's ...
If My Predictions Are Wrong, I Don't Wanna Be Right
By Greg | October 25th, 2007When it comes to football, I consider myself a Vulcan in a human being's body. I'm logical, level headed, and can tend to be ...
Washboard Abs to the Rescue! AND Benfica Can't Afford to Luz
By Greg | October 24th, 2007Porto at Olympique de Marseille, 2:45 Eastern -- Ricardo Quaresma brings his magic feet, washboard abs, and a bus load of sex appeal into the ...
Carlsberg Cup Indifference Fest
By Greg | October 22nd, 2007Give me a moment and clear your mind completely. Don't just clear your mind a-la Ray Stantz, do me a favor and really give ...
Jornada 7 Full-On Recap
By Greg | October 9th, 2007PortoFest 2007 marches right along as last night's matches bring the seventh week to a close in this year's already decided season. And aaaaaa-way ...
5/8ths of Jornada 7 In The Books, Porto Make it Lucky Number 7 ::Yawn::
By Greg | October 8th, 2007Seven games, seven Porto wins. Even after Sporting put together a dominating second half against rising stars V.Guimarães, I still have no faith that ...
Jornada 7 and FixtureFacts 2.7
By Greg | October 5th, 2007As the work week comes to a close, Portuguese teams ended up being 2-1 in the Champions League and had only one out of four ...
Dicky Quaresma Sticks It Late, Benfica Still Firing Blanks
By Greg | October 4th, 2007Beşiktaş 0 - 1 Porto -- Ricardo Quaresma can play for my team any day. After a tepid first half by Porto which saw ...
Lions, and Eagles, and Dragons... Oh my!
By Greg | October 3rd, 2007The second games of group play in the Champions League conclude today. Here's what we're looking at from a Portuguese perspective at this point:**Sporting ...
Jornada 6 Wrap and Sans-Pareil Soccer Sodality Sneak Peek
By Greg | October 2nd, 2007Another week of PortoFest 2007/08 is in the books. I'm now on a permanent table-posting boycott until Porto drop some sort of league points. ...
Let's Hope Porto Become the New York Mets of the Portuguese Liga!
By Greg | October 1st, 2007And fall victim to a monumental collapse, because if they don't, this'll be the most boring season EVER. Yup, you guessed it... Porto ...
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