Articles tagged with "real-madrid"
Oh those crazy Spaniards
By Isaiah | June 7th, 2007Here's a fairly clever Futbolitis cartoon found in Sport: The translation is: Diego Milito (left): My brother and I would like to inform all the cules that ...
Real Honestly Seem to Want Adriano. Crazy Basatards.
By Martha | June 7th, 2007Though the reports will doubtless be denied before this post even goes live, word from Spain today is that Adriano's agent Gilmar Rinaldi recently met ...
An Interesting Debate: Head-to-head vs Goal differential
By Isaiah | June 4th, 2007This topic has already been covered somewhat by my colleague and now fierce rival, Mauricio. Eloquent though he may be in describing why Madrid deserve ...
Barcelona 1 - 0 Getafe: Review and Highlights
By Isaiah | May 28th, 2007Well, Barca got revenge, at least in part. Still tied with Real Madrid on points, but trailing on head-to-head. The big story is, of course, ...
Saturday Newsie Bits: Hurrah for Frey!
By Martha | May 26th, 2007•In what is clearly the most important story of the day, mercurial France manager Raymond Domenech has finally called Fiorentina's genius keeper Sebastian Frey into ...
Unsurprisingly, The Beast Looks Like a Goner
By Trent | May 24th, 2007Not a real shocker, but it looks as if The Beast, Julio Baptista, will not be kept on at the Arsenal. Instead, the on-loan ...
Barcelona - Getafe: Venganza!
By Isaiah | May 24th, 2007Revenge. It is a brutal word most of the time, even in sports. But now is not the time to be squeamish about such things ...
Madrid is Evil
By Isaiah | May 24th, 2007Now, I know that no true cule can believe anything other than what is stated in the title of this post, but there are always ...
Short But Sweet and a Finals Prediction
By Cesar | May 22nd, 2007This one's a quickie as I am swamped at work. I didn't get to see Valencia's stunning 1-0 victory over Real Mallorca on the weekend. ...
Madrid stay top with another comeback, Barca crush Atletico
By Daryl | May 20th, 2007Real Madrid are still top of the Spain's Primera Liga after pulling off yet another Roy of the Rovers comeback. Real started the day level ...
NO ES UN SUEÑO (It's Not a Dream!)
By Cesar | May 15th, 2007Why not? Why can't we win the league? It's not impossible ... 4 points back with 4 to play ... Is it crazy to think ...
Is Madrid's name on the Spanish title?
By Daryl | May 12th, 2007After masterminding last week's comeback against Real Sociedad, Fabio Capello did it again today. Madrid trailed Espanyol 3-1 at halftime, after Walter Pandiani had destroyed ...
Yet Another "Sort Yourself, Out, Son" Talk for Adriano
By Martha | May 12th, 2007Since apparently the warning from the Brazil staff and his time in the Inter doghouse didn't take, Adriano received yet another stern admonition about his ...
Real in For Ibra? Please, Don't Make Me Laugh.
By Martha | May 11th, 2007While I'll admit Ibra is, at times, enough of a pain in the ass to fit in with Real's irrational buying patterns, the mere suggestion ...
Sergio Ramos loves Betis: maybe they should get married
By Isaiah | May 10th, 2007According the Madrid-based newspaper/rag Marca, Sergio Ramos is pulling, "just a little," for Real Betis this weekend when the verdiblancos visit the Camp Nou. Normally ...
Real Looking for Trouble, Want Adriano
By Martha | May 10th, 2007Spanish sports newpaper AS (I can't link directly to the story, but do a search for "Adriano" and you'll find it) this morning is all ...
Cheer on, boys
By Isaiah | May 9th, 2007SFS pointed out another pretty good Futbolitis: Translation: Capello: We have studied the calendar and we know what we need to do to win La Liga... Calderon, Guti, ...
The perfect gift for your favorite cule
By Isaiah | May 8th, 2007The Barcelona-based and -biased newspaper/rag Sport today had a cartoon up that I thought I'd share with all of you: The translation, for non-Spanish speakers: Get the ...
Whither Ribery?
By Martha | May 8th, 2007The rumors about Franck Ribery's possible departure from Marseille have been in the air EVER since his fantastic display at last summer's World Cup, and ...
Copa del Rey and a Brief Look at La Liga
By Isaiah | May 7th, 2007While you're probably reading little other than the fact that supernovas are popping up left and right, there is still a very tight La Liga ...
Guti leads Real fightback
By Daryl | May 6th, 2007With leaders Barcelona winning 2-0 at Real Sociedad yesterday, the clash between second place Sevilla and third place Real Madrid meant that one of them ...
The Plot Thickens: The Great Weekend
By Isaiah | May 1st, 2007El Pais, "the most widely circulated paper in Spain", suggests that Barcelona have the easiest final 6 games of the top 4 teams. I would ...
Player Profile: Javier Saviola
By Daryl | April 28th, 2007Full Name: Javier Pedro Saviola Born: December 11, 1981, Buenos Aires, Argentina Position: Forward First some stats. Saviola made his debut for River Plate aged 16. Argentina's Apertura ...
The Buffon-to-Milan Rumor is Back
By Martha | April 26th, 2007When Milan gave Dida an extension through 2010, the assumption the club would spend all summer as part of the fleet of teams trying to ...
Mmm ... Cavani
By Martha | April 25th, 2007As soon as he scored with that spectacular volley on his Palermo debut, you knew teams would come running after Edison Cavani, and it looks ...
Lyon in Champions League Semifinals
By Inara | April 23rd, 2007For the first time ever, Lyon have made it past the cursed quarterfinal stages and are now two games away from the chance to finally ...
Losing to Madrid Always Hurts ...
By Cesar | April 22nd, 2007Well, this match hurt ... I went to work in the morning but complained of an 'upset stomach' so I could get out and watch ...
The Santiago Bernabeu
By Cesar | April 20th, 2007Playing Real Madrid at the Bernabeu is always a special occasion. The home of Los Merengues is the Cathedral of Spanish Football (with all apologizes ...
The Daily Diatribe: Add Saviola to the list, Rafa wants one more?, Real the rejected, & Real the jealous brother
By Brian | April 19th, 2007* Apparently, the newest striker added to our ever expanding wish list is Barça's Javier Saviola. His contract expires at the end of the ...
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