Articles tagged with "review"
Darren Tilley Can See the Future
By alessio | April 20th, 2009The rivalry between new franchise Carolina and its' "parent" organization Rochester has become something fierce, very quickly. After an increasingly physical and nasty first half, ...
Atlético 3 - Numancia 0
By Al | April 19th, 2009The downside of supporting a smaller club - well, more like a "not as big as Barca or Madrid" - is the fact that it's ...
Getafe 0, Barca 1, a.k.a. "Eleven versus thirteen."
By Kevin | April 18th, 2009So. I don't often cavil about the refs, but I'm going to make an exception today, because of the numbers: two penalties and a goal ...
Bayern Munich 1, Barca 1, a.k.a. "In Pep we trust."
By Kevin | April 14th, 2009I repeat: Trust in Guardiola, for he will steer us home. Here we are, kids, some of the lads saying to the Bayern fans, "Sayonara, suckas, ...
4th Place, Who Wants It?
By Al | April 13th, 2009Screw the title race. Barcelona is 6 points clear and Real Madrid is hot on their tail. Yawn. The only fun there is seeing which ...
Barca 2, Recreativo Huelva 0, a.k.a. "A working rest day."
By Kevin | April 12th, 2009As Ol' Dirty Bastard of the Wu-Tang Clan rapped, "Introducing the ghost ... face ... killaaaah!" Which works just fine for our purposes as well, ...
Barca 2, Recreativo Huelva 0, a.k.a. "A working rest day."
By Kevin | April 12th, 2009As Ol' Dirty Bastard of the Wu-Tang Clan rapped, "Introducing the ghost ... face ... killaaaah!" Which works just fine for our purposes as well, ...
Barca 4, Bayern Munich 0, a.k.a. "It doesn't get any better."
By Kevin | April 9th, 2009Hopefully, everyone had the opportunity to witness, and savor our destructive home leg of the Champions League tie against Bayern Munich. Because it was as good ...
April Fools Came Too Late
By Al | April 5th, 2009Because we just got scored on 4 times by Osasuna, the 16th place team in La Liga. The guys at Gol TV are really good ...
Valladolid 0, Barca 1, a.k.a. "Grinderball."
By Kevin | April 4th, 2009Sometimes, you just have to win. It might not be pretty, or galvanizing, or make the fans slide off their chairs with glee, but it's ...
Barca 6, Malaga 0, a.k.a. "So how was your Saturday?"
By Kevin | March 29th, 2009I spent mine taking apart the lenses on my high-def projection set for a thorough cleaning, then watching the Malaga match twice, the first time ...
Battered And Down From The Clouds
By Al | March 23rd, 2009Typical Atlético. It should be illegal for a team to be this unpredictable. It's not yet time to start getting frustrated at the team because there's ...
Barca v Malaga preview, a.k.a. "How do you spell danger?" 2 p.m. Sunday, on We Can't See it Except on the Web
By Kevin | March 21st, 2009Splish, splash. We all remember the last time we faced Malaga, a team whose name sounds like the sound that you make before you hock ...
Palermo News Roundup
By lorenzo | March 19th, 2009That picture pretty much sums up the afternoon for the rosanero last weekend. A lot of hugging, celebrating and even crying (I'm looking at you ...
No Villarreal, You Cannot Have Points
By Al | March 16th, 2009…said Atlético Madrid after Antonio Lopez scored the match winner. With his goal, a match packed with stupid Villarreal goals and Atlético domination was finally ...
Almeria 0, Barca 2, a.k.a. "Get that kid some braces!"
By Kevin | March 15th, 2009I know, I know. "Whoa, dude! Krkic gets the brace, all his fans are giddy with long-delayed rapture, and you use a picture of the ...
We're Out Of Hurr
By Al | March 12th, 2009Adios, Champions League. We are the only team to be eliminated without losing a match in the competition. It wasn't our year in this competition, ...
Barca 5, Lyon 2, a.k.a. "Get used to conceding goals, kids."
By Kevin | March 11th, 2009Here we are, everyone, in the "couldn't have done it without them" category, Lionel Messi and our Man of the Match, Thierry Henry. That's right, you ...
Barca 2, Athletic Club Bilbao 0, a.k.a. "This one was expensive."
By Kevin | March 8th, 2009Ouch. Dammit. Ouch. This good but not great victory was sufficiently convincing, particularly on the same day that saw Atletico Madrid cock up chance after ...
Good Job, But For The Love Of God... Score!
By Al | March 8th, 2009This right here, friends, is the man of the hour, the holiest of the pretty blonde strikers, Diego Forlán. All I have to say is: ho-ho-ho-holy ...
Real Mallorca 1, Barca 1, a.k.a. "Peeeeennntoooo!"
By Kevin | March 4th, 2009There he is, kids, practicing his mad ninja skills just in case the Jedi mind trick didn't work, Jose Manuel Pinto, who deserves a nickname ...
Atlético 4, Barça 3, a.k.a. "asdjkf NO WAY!"
By Al | March 1st, 2009Now it's MY turn to write one of these posts. If you can't stomach the rambling of an excessively excited Atlético fan, then click on ...
Atletico ****** 4, Barca 3, a.k.a. "And then it was four."
By Kevin | March 1st, 2009I'm just not to sure what to say about this one, other than I am upset, appalled and disgusted. Do I still think that we ...
Jeez, Porto Is Pretty Good
By Al | February 25th, 2009What a hell of a match that was even greater from a neutral perspective. I never said that Porto wasn't a good team, but I ...
Lyon 1, Barca 1, a.k.a. "Adhering to the template."
By Kevin | February 24th, 2009Mmmmmm! Smells like an away goal. Isaiah was spot on about his prediction of the final score, and truth to tell, we got away with ...
Barca 1, Espanyol 2, a.k.a. "And then it was 7."
By Kevin | February 21st, 2009Ye gods, this one felt bad going in. That we let a match of football degenerate into a knife fight means that we deserved what ...
Getafe Does It Again
By al | February 16th, 2009If there's any team in La Liga that I would love removed from football (relegation works fine), it's Getafe. Getafe is like that tick that ...
Betis 2, Barca 2, a.k.a. "We left two points in Seville."
By Kevin | February 14th, 2009Do you know why this man is mad? Because his side left two points on the table. Because he knows that when Gijon loses tomorrow ...
Video: Atlético Learn How To Score Again
By al | February 9th, 2009I haven't seen Atlético play like this since last year, as strange as that sounds. Effortless goals and a great debut for our manager. Should we ...
Barca 3, Sporting Gijon 1, a.k.a. "The Dani Alves Show!"
By Kevin | February 8th, 2009Cross a crazy-great Brazilian fullback with a hummingbird and what do you get? No, besides Man of the Match. You get a player who, at 32 ...
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