Articles tagged with "sporting"
The Atlantic League: A European Not-Quite-Super-But Still-Quite-Good-League for Celtic, Rangers and Others
By Daryl | October 12th, 2009There were some pretty bold claims made in Glasgow late last week. First, Celtic chief exec Peter Lawwell had this to say: "We're looking for an ...
Daily Dose: September 3rd, 2009.
By chris | September 3rd, 2009Stuff to read while you watch Nike's continued focus on the Brazilian kit.... The La Liga debut on ESPN netted a decent audience. (Unprofessional Foul) The skinny ...
Champions League Qualifying: No Room For Cinderella.
By chris | August 19th, 2009What is the official name of this new round anyway? Fourth round? "Playoff bracket"? How about "the mere formality", because that's what it turned out ...
The Darwin Awards Come To Lisbon
By chris | August 19th, 2009You know that rule which states that if you take off your shirt for a yellow it's an automatic, non-negotiable yellow? Of course you do, ...
Champions League: Who Needs Group Stages?
By chris | August 6th, 2009Missed it, didn't'cha? Drama, drama, drama all the time in the Champions League. While champions Barca are off in the States working on their tan and ...
A Rough Quide to New CL Qualifying Plus the latest Draw
By Rob | July 17th, 2009So we're well and truely back. Except UEFA have decided to complicate Champions League qualifying in an attempt to improve TV viewership of the qualifying ...
UEFA's Elite Football Stadia - Part 2.
By chris | April 17th, 2009Click here for Part 1. Intro: After a severe bout of curiosity resulting in far too much time perusing the internets, we finally came upon a ...
Is There Any Room for Mercy in Football?
By Daryl | March 11th, 2009Think it's fair to say that Bayern Munich gave Sporting CP an absolute kicking in the Champions League yesterday. 7-1 one on the night, which ...
Champions League Round of 16 Leg Two Tuesday Deadblog.
By chris | March 10th, 2009Due to server issues which you may have already encountered (we've decided the internet is dying), we will be eschewing a liveblog in favor of ...
Tuesday's Champions League - Here's Where The Fun Starts
By Rob | March 9th, 2009Tuesday, and the Champions League is back. Most of the ties are delicately balanced, with one side having a slight advantage perhaps. But we can ...
Some European Weekend Man Love
By Amanda Leerat | March 7th, 2009How can I show my love for you? Let me count the ways. I can hold your hand. And again. Or we can engage ...
Been a While...But Im Back!!!!
By Carlos | March 4th, 2009So what sort of results has Benfica put forth this new year??? Well here is a good recap.......(More recent first) ...
Champions League Predictions: Who's Going Through?
By Daryl | February 23rd, 2009It's been a looong wait, but the Champions League finally returns tomorrow. And it's got some biiig clashes. The sort that necessitate the overuse of ...
Taça da Liga semi-final preview
By j | February 4th, 2009The Taça da Liga continues today with the Dragões traveling to Lisbon to face Sporting at the Estádio de Alvalade. Jesualdo Ferreira has left Cristian ...
City confirmed in the hunt for Miguel Veloso
By j | January 27th, 2009As per PA Sport, City have been confirmed in pursuit of Sporting's midfielder Miguel Veloso. The twenty-two year old Portuguese international is hotly pursued by ...
Round of 16 Draw Liveblog - Now Live!
By Rob | December 18th, 2008So I'm here. Live draw supposedly at 11 GMT. I say supposedly, because of course, UEFA will want to play their theme about 50 times, ...
10 Things We Learned From The Champions League Group Stages
By chris | December 11th, 2008It's Barcelona's to lose. Even the four one seeds teams who find themselves as potential opponents (Chelsea, Arsenal, Lyon & Inter - and they're Barca's only ...
The State Of Play In The Final Week Of The Groups
By Rob | December 9th, 2008So, I hear you ask, What is the point of watching the Champions League this week? Has everything not already been decided? Well no. Only ...
5 Things We Learned From Matchday 5: Wednesday Edition.
By chris | November 27th, 2008The Cinderellas are in group B, not A. Cluj was the underdog-come-good story to start out the campaign, and deservedly so. They beat Roma - though ...
Its Crunch Time In The Champions League
By Rob | November 24th, 2008Back to Champions League action this week guys and gals, and indeed, some excitement is afoot as we reach the climax. With just this and ...
Jornada 9 Preview: Portugal's A Mess
By Greg | November 21st, 2008This weekend's matches open in a Portugal that is currently reeling from a National Team perspective. The state of Portuguese football is in a ...
Jornada 8 Recap: Leixões Still At the Top
By Greg | November 18th, 2008Double u tee eff is going on with the league this season? How in the name of all that is holy as well as ...
Porto defeats Sporting in Taça de Portugal
By j | November 10th, 2008Jesualdo Ferreira's Porto rejoice as they defeated defending cup-holders Sporting on penalties and now safely advance the next round Taça de Portugal, a title that ...
No League Matches, Let's Do the Taça Dance
By Greg | November 7th, 2008Sorry I didn't get to a recap of the league this week. I'll throw one up sometime next week. The aforementioned domestic competition ...
Sporting defeats Shakhtar Donetsk
By sasha | November 5th, 2008Shakhtar Donetsk's hopes to advance in the Champions League ended with a 1-0 loss to Portuguese super-power Sporting. The match was tightly played before the ...
Shakhtar will be satisfied with a win only
By sasha | November 4th, 2008As Mircea Lucescu's Shakhtar Donetsk ready to face Portuguese giant Sporting in Lisbon, they have seen their league play improve recently included this past weekends ...
Jornada 7 Preview: Still Lookin' For A Hero
By Greg | October 31st, 2008The first six weeks of the season have been somewhat confusing. Sporting rolled out of the gates with three wins and those who were ...
Europe's Unexpected Table Leaders
By chris | October 27th, 2008If you've looked at the tables across Europe, you might find yourself doing double takes to make sure that is the name you saw up ...
Jornada 6 Preview: Back to Work
By Greg | October 24th, 2008The league welcomed the end of the International Break last week with a round of Portuguese Cup matches that I blatantly ignored as it's not ...
late shocker sinks Shakhtar Donetsk
By sasha | October 22nd, 2008Head scoreless throughout the match Shakhtar Donetsk appeared to have found a way to control Sporting's tremendous attack. Mircea Lucescu's need to have Brandão's production ...
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