Articles tagged with "porto"
Monday Mixtape: Sporting win the SuperCup and A Dady's Love is So Fickle Sometimes
By Greg | August 13th, 2007Finally, a decent amount of "stuff" to write about. This must mean that the real season is almost upon us. I put together ...
Picture of Quaresma and C. Ronaldo's Pants Off, Hanging Out
By Greg | August 10th, 2007After seeing the fantastic results that Bruno over on the Brazil blog got with his pictures of the female referee removing her clothing for profit, ...
Notes and Nibbles
By Greg | August 9th, 2007Since the news lately is split up among a few different things, I figured I'd give you a sampler platter of what's up in Portuguese ...
Ironbound's Escudo Discussion
By Greg | August 7th, 2007Before I go any further, please allow me to explain the dopey references in my title which was an attempt to be really witty but ...
Decide the League in a Single Game!
By Greg | August 3rd, 2007It seems that Portugal Telecom, the kit sponsor of the triumvirate of Portuguese football has managed to come up with a solution to all of ...
Lost in Google Translator
By Greg | August 2nd, 2007For those of you who can not read Portuguese, it's a bit tough trying to keep up with what's going on in our country's world ...
Fearless Predictions for the 07/08 Season
By Greg | August 1st, 2007I could go the boring, standard-issue route of predicting the season's outcome, but I see no point in doing that. Prognostication when it comes ...
STRASBOURG: Fluorescent Baby Blue, Bitch
By Sam | August 1st, 2007As the start of the season looms, it’s time for the France Offside to give you an in-depth look at each of the 20 teams ...
Stop Whining!
By Greg | July 27th, 2007I have managed to successfully go back to back days with Arnold Schwarzenegger references in my posts. For this, I am proud. The ...
How the Grinch Sold the Portuguese Liga
By Greg | July 26th, 2007(Note the irony of the Grinch's colors, while he takes everything from renowned Portuguese soccer fan Cindy Lou Who and pats her on the head ...
Say It Ain't So, Jose!
By Greg | July 25th, 2007The Associated Press broke today with a story regarding widespread match fixing which allegedly took place in 03/04 at the highest level of Portuguese football. ...
Get João Moutinho and Quaresma Outta Here, For Big Phil's Sake!
By Greg | July 20th, 2007I was sitting here at my desk, avoiding work as usual and thinking to myself "Is there any possible benefit to having all of these ...
Portuguese Liga Starting to Look Like the National Hockey League
By Greg | July 19th, 2007The Portuguese Board of Tourism must be smiling right now. Apparently, their recent advertising campaign in Eastern Europe has paid dividends. As a ...
Going Down?
By Greg | July 18th, 2007No, you sick, sex-crazed beasts, I mean down in the sense of an elevator. Or, in the case of Ricardo, Filipe Teixeira (pronounced Teh-Share-Uh), ...
Big Three Fashion Statements for 07/08
By Greg | July 17th, 2007Most of today's news is simply a reinforcement of the transfer rumors I touched on yesterday. While the asking price for Simao has been ...
Couceiro Watch: Firing Squad Assembled
By Greg | July 16th, 2007Nothing is going on today to get all wacky about... Quaresma looks like he may have another season at Porto while Lucho González is ...
Thank God It's Seixta Feira: Dicky Quaresma to be Royalty, 07/08 Fixture Highlights, and Born Loser Couceiro is Defeated in Tic-Tac-Toe Game Against Himself
By Greg | July 13th, 2007Even though in this blog it's always seixta feira, today it's really Friday and there's plenty of amuse bouches to get to your table, so ...
Portuguese Soccer Pitches Infested with Poison Ivy and Killer Bees With Herpes
By Greg | July 11th, 2007Well, why the hell else would every player be leaving? This time it's (insert hyperbolic superlative here) goalkeeper Ricardo, who has passed his physical ...
Porto Setting Up Well for 3rd Place in 07/08
By Greg | July 10th, 2007Further continuing the mass exodus of top-level talent, FC Porto sold central defender Pepe to Real Madrid for 28 million Euros. That makes a ...
Honesty in the Transfer News World? Finally!
By Greg | July 6th, 2007Fabrizio Miccoli completed his summer transfer saga by signing with Italian side Palermo today. He had previously stated that he would be delighted to ...
The Portuguese Liga is a Slutty Ho
By Greg | July 3rd, 2007No, really: the Liga is taking it for the right price from just about anyone at this point. I'm not saying it's one of ...
Juve Love You Long Time
By Martha | June 28th, 2007Man, it's just all seduction, all the time up in Turin these days: Juve get promoted, and the next thing you know they're the bookies' ...
Weekend Odds and Ends
By Martha | June 16th, 2007•Spurs are supposedly interested in signing Nantes property (and RomaChris' primary object of disdain) Christian Wilhelmsson who, to this point, has spend the off-season in ...
Portuguese Sam's Club
By Greg | May 31st, 2007Manchester United went to Portugal and bought in bulk yesterday. However, instead of useless packs of 64 ounce steaks, they ended up with two ...
Where the CHiPs Fell...
By Greg | May 22nd, 2007There were nine distinctions handed out on Sunday: One champion, two Champions League group stage spots, one Champions League qualifier spot, three UEFA Cup spots, ...
Porto Are Champions
By Greg | May 21st, 20074-1? Come on Aves, you should have put up at least some semblance of a fight. Now, as punishment, enjoy the Liga da ...
Europe's On Stage, It's Time for The Final Countdown
By Greg | May 18th, 2007Obviously not all of Europe is on some stage waiting for a countdown to the end of the Portuguese season... I'm just envisioning Swedish ...
Postulations and Probabilities
By Greg | May 17th, 2007After a quick (thank God) conversation with my mother-in-law last night, I realized that there's a few crazy things that could happen this weekend that ...
Jornada 29 Weekend Actually, It's More Like My Bachelor Party Weekend
By Greg | May 11th, 2007While I'm in scenic Atlantic City, New Jersey sipping on virgin pina coladas and playing bingo for my bachelor party, a bunch of guys from ...
(Transfer) Window of Opportunity
By Greg | May 10th, 2007Since most European club seasons are now winding down, the speculation has begun in earnest regarding who's going and who's staying. Sir Alex, the ...
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