Articles tagged with "porto"
Porto Win Their 23rd Title But Could Be Relegated
By Inara | April 6th, 2008Porto cruised to their third successive title today after beating Estrela Amadora 6-0 at home. Now that's what I call winning with style. Watch Lucho ...
Jornada 25 Preview: Time for Porto to "Wrrrap it Uppp"
By Greg | April 4th, 2008I recall as a young kid having my friend Elliot over (who is still incidentally 15-20 years later still one of my best friends) to ...
Jornada 24 Recap... Made Possible By Viewers Like You
By Greg | April 1st, 2008The league is basically a done deal what with Porto ahead of 2nd place Benfica by more points than Robert Downey, Jr has on his ...
Porto March On, Sporting and Benfica Dominate
By Greg | March 31st, 2008If you don't know the drill here, you might as well learn. Mondays mean you get the basic score rundown from the weekend's action. ...
Sing it With Me Now... Porto the Magic Dragons Own the Portuguese League
By Greg | March 28th, 2008Ahh good Ol' Puff the Magic Dragon. Peter, Paul, and Mary pulled quite the coup by having everyone happily sing along to a "children's" ...
Porto Look to Shut Down The Industry This Weekend
By Greg | March 27th, 2008As if the league isn't actually over to begin with, Porto can actually lift the cup this weekend if they manage to defeat Belenenses and ...
Golden Whistle Finally Being Blown?
By Greg | March 26th, 2008A tribunal in Porto decided yesterday that there was enough justification for moving forward in a corruption trial against Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa. ...
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 ...
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