Articles tagged with "spain-la-liga"
Real Madrid Start The Spanish Season In Style
By chris | August 25th, 2008It was "only" the Super Cup, but it's impossible not to think of this as a demoralizing, crushing blow for Valencia, and as a warning ...
Ruud van Nistelrooy Looks a Bit Like a Horse. So What?
By Daryl | August 8th, 2008Sometimes footballers have a passing resemblance to something or someone else, and sometimes it's worth a chuckle. But most of the time it isn't. Especially ...
Rubbing Shoulders with FC Barcelona
By Dave Martinez | August 6th, 2008It was an afternoon of fun and surprises as Barcelona, teaming with the AYSO and MalariaNoMore.org, took part in a 4 v 4, eight team ...
The Offside Euro 2008 Champion: Charles Snyder
By Dave Martinez | July 11th, 2008Over three weeks of tournament action and only one country stood tall: Sweden. Ibrahimovich proved to be unstoppable in the virtual world, earning ...
Squad Breakdown and Notes
By Cesar | July 10th, 2008So the Juan Villalonga era has begun. Villalonga, an international businessman who was the former president of Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica, reached an agreement with ...
Have Your Say: United Strike Back over Ronaldo
By Ian Rose | June 9th, 2008The player has had his say. He wants to go to his childhood dream club. The buyer has made their interest clear. ...
Incredibly Short, Incredibly Tedious Valencia Season in Review
By Cesar | May 28th, 2008So I've wanted to write this Valencia Season in Review for some weeks now, but one thing or another got in the way. Life has ...
It Never Ends ...
By Cesar | May 23rd, 2008Just when I think I can put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and type an 'End of Season' post, something comes up to ...
As Your World Turns, Valencia Edition
By chris | May 22nd, 2008Good lord. You'd think that after the abysmal stretch they spent together Valencia players and Ronald Koeman would love nothing more than to never speak ...
Joaquin Strikes Back!!
By Cesar | May 21st, 2008I'm honestly trying to write a season review post. I swear I am! It's just that Valencia keeps providing us with news that so succulent, ...
Koeman Speaks!!
By Cesar | May 20th, 2008So before we get to the season in review post where we look back at our dreadful campaign, let's hear once more from our old ...
The Season Ends
By Cesar | May 18th, 2008And so it ends. The 2007-2008 campaign is finally over. The season of QQ Flores, Koeman, Champions League failure, the fired Trio, the Copa Del ...
Levante Players to Down Tools This Weekend
By Daryl | May 16th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTXYs8gdVUw&[/youtube] Levante's players are sick of not getting paid. For two years now, they haven't been paid properly. They've tried threatening to strike, only for the ...
Poll: Messiah Or Cristiano Ronaldo?
By chris | May 16th, 2008Joe Cole made a statement the other day which brings up an important question: Who would you rather have, Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo? Joe ...
Finally Over and New Kits
By Cesar | May 16th, 2008So what do you think? These are supposedly the new kits we'll be wearing in next season's La Liga and UEFA Cup competitions ... not ...
Relief
By Cesar | May 12th, 2008Ahh, sweet glorious relief ... how wonderful it is! The weight of the world has been lifted off our shoulders. The birds are chirping. The ...
Safety
By Cesar | May 10th, 2008I'm keeping this one short as I battle a torrid head cold that just won't go away ... the players better not catch anything either, ...
Photo of the Day: Upended
By Laurie | May 8th, 2008"Upended" is a not a bad description here, both for what's happening to Leo Messi in the photo and for what Real Madrid did to ...
End of an Era at Barcelona
By Daryl | May 8th, 2008Wednesday was an unhappy night for Barcelona. In a semi-low key El Clásico at the Bernabéu, Barcelona's players had to give newly crowned champions Real ...
Random Thoughts Before Today's 'Game of the Year'
By Cesar | May 7th, 2008Valencia v. Real Zaragoza. Game of the Year. How many times have I said that? (Look at that scrumptious paella. Since footie pics haven't been ...
Spain Euro 2008 and Awards Time
By Cesar | May 6th, 2008With Valencia's season winding down, I'm going to be concentrating more effort on Spain's Euro 2008 campaign. That's right, Euro 2008 is just around the ...
Title Watch Update
By Laurie | May 5th, 2008A couple of titles were settled this weekend, and a couple of challenges got more complicated. Here's what the Title Watch looks like after ...
The Abyss of Segunda
By Cesar | May 5th, 2008NADA ... that's what Valencia gave us yesterday. Nothing ... As today's front page of Foroche puts it, that's what Valencia gave us. And there's ...
Highest Paid Footballers (and Guess Which MLS Star is #1?)
By Laurie | May 2nd, 2008The numbers are out. Guess who the #1 highest-paid footballer is? You'll never guess. I'll give you a hint. Plays in ...
Frank Rijkaard's Employment Status "Outed"
By chris | May 2nd, 2008(I swiped that brilliant picture of The Curls from SoccerLens) I don't know whether to laugh, cry or throw myself off the end of a building ...
More Bad News: Villa to Madrid
By Cesar | May 2nd, 2008You want more bad news? You know, besides being near relegation, being in massive debt, having to offload our talent, etc?? According to MARCA and ...
The End of an Era
By Cesar | May 1st, 2008So this is how it ends. Valencia CF fight their way through the last four matches of the season, clawing past relegation and into next season’s ...
The Worst News Valencia Fans Could Hear ...
By Cesar | April 30th, 2008There's a bevy of news out there regarding our beloved ahead of tonight's dull 2-1 Liverpool win over Chelsea in a competition we only dream ...
Marco Senna Has Some Serious Range
By chris | April 28th, 2008You know a goal must've been fantabulous when it makes the Sportscenter Top 10 and makes its way down to the number one spot. In ...
Weekend Recap: Burning Up
By Laurie | April 28th, 2008How did those weekend games we talked about on Friday come out? Saturday Chelsea 2-1 Manchester United Chelsea's Michael Ballack put away a penalty in the 86th minute, ...
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