Articles tagged with "spain"
Real Madrid
By Cesar | April 18th, 2007I have mixed feelings about Real Madrid. I know a lot of Valencianos hate the Merengues ... scarves fly with the words Antimadridista printed on ...
Villa Gives Life to Valencia
By Cesar | April 16th, 2007I managed to make my way to the local pub and watched a surprisingly good performance by Valencia. Consider me humbled, as I predicted a ...
Another Game of the Year
By Cesar | April 14th, 2007The Mestalla Chronicles keep on keeping on, with Valencia involved in a chase to the finish line for a spot in the Champions League next ...
Let's Focus on Europe! (plus Ayala stays?)
By Cesar | April 13th, 2007So the attention shifts somewhat, with our heroes banished from the Champions League. Where do our eyes turn and our necks crane? You guessed it. ...
And So It Ends
By Cesar | April 11th, 2007It's over. I thought about posting some comments from the players, the coaches, maybe some reports about the game ... but I'm too emotional to ...
On an Emotional Night ...
By Cesar | April 10th, 2007This is an appropriate blog entry by Pablo Lopez of Spain's MARCA newspaper. Pretty much sums it all up. Let's do it tonight! A POR ...
Quique Speaks
By Cesar | April 9th, 2007Valencia coach Quique Sanchez Flores speaks and we listen. More on tomorrow's match from today's press conference ... Flores has predicted a cliff-hanger of a ...
More Valencia-Chelsea & a Prediction
By Cesar | April 9th, 2007Tomorrow's the big day and here's some news on the game plus my prediction! Chelsea are sweating Michael Essien. Will he or won't he be ...
How did we lose this? (1-0, Bilbao)
By Cesar | April 7th, 2007I'd love to do a full report on today's game, but not only am I angry we lost (1-0 in Bilbao) and remain 6 behind ...
A Grimsby Town Fan Gets Stuck in Tenerife -- Goes to Watch Some Local Football
By Nick | April 6th, 2007When you can't watch your local team -- why not do what the locals do...
Next Up: Bilbao
By Cesar | April 6th, 2007After the euphoria and ups and downs of midweek against Chelsea, our beloved Che are back for more action. With tired legs and minds wandering ...
Reactions
By Cesar | April 5th, 2007It wasn't a classic, but it was an all-out knock-em-dead slobberknocker at Stamford Bridge. 1-1 and if someone had told me this before the game, ...
Predictions
By Cesar | April 3rd, 2007I've written enough about the game ... if you want news, you know where to go! Right now? Let's just get it on! I managed ...
Valencia are Confident and So Am I ...
By Cesar | April 2nd, 2007Valencia are off to London today for their European clash with English giants Chelsea. Although my stomach is in knots and I can't seem to ...
Valencia 3 Espanyol 2
By Cesar | April 1st, 2007It was a thoroughly entertaining affair at the Mestalla last night as both Valencia and Espanyol came out to attack ... and that they did ...
Bad News
By Cesar | March 29th, 2007And this is why I hate international football. Although Spain battled & won a hard-fought game against Iceland, 1-0 yesterday in the pouring Mallorcan rain, ...
Valencia Tidbits
By Cesar | March 28th, 2007Lots going on with our Che as they wind down the road to their blockbuster Champions League encounter with Chelsea next week ... -- First ...
Two Artists [Morientes and Villa] ... but Spain Suffer
By Cesar | March 26th, 2007So our Valencia boys did more than ok in a tense encounter at the Santiago Bernabeu. Goals from Valencia strikers David Villa and Fernando Morientes ...
I Can't See The Game!!
By Cesar | March 24th, 2007Up in the mountains of upstate New York for the weekend and I don't have access to a television to watch the Spain-Denmark Euro 2008 ...
Valencia is Spain
By Cesar | March 23rd, 2007Catalunyans like to say that 'Catalunya is not Spain'. That may or may not be true, but for the upcoming Euro 2008 qualification games, Valencia ...
A Penny for your Call
By Bob | March 16th, 2007Now here is a fun way to protest against poor refereeing decisions. After the Spanish provincial side CD La Redondela's match against Olont CF ...
All the goals from La Liga
By Isaiah | February 25th, 2007Marca, as always, has a page of all the goals from this weekend in La Liga. Eto'o is back (more on that tomorrow) and he ...
Henry: Left Out or Actually Leaving (Again!)
By Trent | February 5th, 2007The Rasputin of Arsenal transfer stories is back. The rumour mill, up and running as it always must be, has the Gunner talisman moving ...
Needing to win by 11 Goals, they did
By Bob | January 26th, 2007Long before Malta became a juggernaut in international football, they took part in one of the strangest games in history. The minnows faced a ...
Real Madrid President Ramon Calderon Dislikes Everyone
By Bob | January 16th, 2007Pity poor Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon. Here we are living in an age of cell phone cameras, YouTube and blogs and yet he ...
The 1713 Treaty of Utrecht Rears its Ugly Head
By Bob | December 6th, 2006Think back to your days in high school history class. You sat at your desk hoping the cute cheerleader sitting on the other side ...
Norway offers the Greenest Pastures for European Footballers
By Bob | November 27th, 2006Forget England and Spain. Don't even think about signing to play in Italy or France. If you are a footballer who wants to ...
El Clasico: Real Madrid vs. Barcelona
By Bob | October 20th, 2006It is a big weekend for football rivalries with Liverpool and Manchester United squaring off in England, but no rivalry is bigger than the one ...
How Hurt is Freddie Ljungberg ?
By Trent | October 9th, 2006Let's review. The date: October 7, 2006. The place: Sweden. The international supermodel: Freddie Ljungberg. The distressed muscle: calf. During Sweden's 2-0 ...
Optometry might not be the Best Profession for this Linesman
By Bob | September 20th, 2006We're not sure which is worse these days, the requirements for becoming a referee or the requirements for becoming an optometrist in Spain. Apparently ...
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