Articles tagged with "sporting"
Why Not Pay for a Good Turndown Service and Some Clean Sheets?
By Greg | June 5th, 2007Check the local transfer rumor (or 'rumour' if you're feeling extra European) rag and you'll see a slew of defenders, midfielders, wingers, strikers, managers, butchers, ...
Lieutenant Columbo reports on the Taça de Portugal
By Greg | June 1st, 2007Just one more thing... Sporting won the Taça de Portugal over Belenenses 1-0 back on May 27th. Liedson converted a cross in the ...
Sporting Starting a New Means of Non-Negotiation?
By Greg | June 1st, 2007I'm really not 100% sure of the intricacies and history of the international football transfer market but I found what took place between Sporting and ...
Portuguese Sam's Club
By Greg | May 31st, 2007Manchester United went to Portugal and bought in bulk yesterday. However, instead of useless packs of 64 ounce steaks, they ended up with two ...
Porto Purchase New Technology, Domination Imminent
By Greg | May 22nd, 2007Porto have apparently purchased a small piece of the Borg ship that Chelsea purchased back when Abramovich bought the team. This will now allow ...
Where the CHiPs Fell...
By Greg | May 22nd, 2007There were nine distinctions handed out on Sunday: One champion, two Champions League group stage spots, one Champions League qualifier spot, three UEFA Cup spots, ...
Europe's On Stage, It's Time for The Final Countdown
By Greg | May 18th, 2007Obviously not all of Europe is on some stage waiting for a countdown to the end of the Portuguese season... I'm just envisioning Swedish ...
Postulations and Probabilities
By Greg | May 17th, 2007After a quick (thank God) conversation with my mother-in-law last night, I realized that there's a few crazy things that could happen this weekend that ...
Where Did I Go Wrong?
By Greg | May 14th, 2007How in the hell did NONE of my predictions come out this past weekend? I mean, the reverse jinx worked and Sporting won. ...
Jornada 29 Weekend Actually, It's More Like My Bachelor Party Weekend
By Greg | May 11th, 2007While I'm in scenic Atlantic City, New Jersey sipping on virgin pina coladas and playing bingo for my bachelor party, a bunch of guys from ...
(Transfer) Window of Opportunity
By Greg | May 10th, 2007Since most European club seasons are now winding down, the speculation has begun in earnest regarding who's going and who's staying. Sir Alex, the ...
Super Extra Special Lisbon Derby Weekend
By Greg | April 27th, 2007While it's not quite Benfica - Porto, this weekend's derby between Benfica and Sporting carries fantastic implications. One of the two teams has to ...
Benfica Resurrected
By Greg | April 24th, 2007Jornada 26 is in the books and the immovable force that is the "Big 3" all won their respective games. Benfica finally got a ...
Two Hat Tricks
By Greg | April 23rd, 2007Porto, Sporting, and Benfica completed a hat trick of wins this past weekend. This means that Porto maintains its four point lead on Sporting ...
Round 26... Fight!
By Greg | April 20th, 2007Sorry, I know it's a really cheap Mortal Kombat reference but constantly saying "Jornada #X Preview" gets boring after doing 3 or 4 of these. ...
Who's Your Dady?
By Greg | April 20th, 2007I'm officially going on a hiatus from predicting games. The only ones I seem to get right are the Porto and Sporting games. ...
Taça Semi Recap and Quick Hits
By Greg | April 19th, 2007Sporting, as expected, defeated Beira Mar in yesterday's first of two semi final games for the Taça de Portugal. Joao Moutinho started Sporting off ...
Taça de Portugal Semi Finals Preview
By Greg | April 18th, 2007The Taça de Portugal (aka the Portuguese Cup or "Goblet of Portugal" per Google's translator) competition continues today with the semi final match between Sporting ...
Bottoms Up!
By Greg | April 17th, 2007Before I even go into discussion about the Liga, I figured I'd just give a quick word of encouragement to Mr. Warnock's men over at ...
Chelsea Defense May Stink Next Year
By Greg | April 16th, 2007Apparently Jose Mourinho is looking to raid his former team further with a link to a move for Porto's Brazilian defender Pepe. The 24 ...
A Look Ahead to Jornada 25
By Greg | April 13th, 2007We head into the 25th round of the Liga with the top of the league still wide open and the trap door looking for two ...
Who are you? Who, who, who who?
By Greg | April 11th, 2007It's a really really slow news day for Portuguese soccer. Maybe everything is being overshadowed today by some small team from England winning a ...
Benfica Need a Nap
By Greg | April 10th, 2007On a weekend where league leaders Porto dispatched of their bottom-of-the-table opponents Setubal, Benfica were handed a cake walk fixture with Beira Mar. What ...
Pre-Recap and Random Bits
By Greg | April 9th, 2007Since Benfica and Beira Mar haven't played yet tonight, I can't call this a full recap of the 24th Jornada. Hence, here's your incomplete ...
Jornada 24 Preview
By Greg | April 6th, 2007Easter weekend is upon us and Portuguese Liga football has a full slate of games for you to enjoy with your chocolates and bunnies. ...
Getting Up to Speed on the Taca de Portugal
By Greg | April 5th, 2007I figured since I have some time to fill between a recap of Benfica's UEFA Cup tie with Espanyol today and the upcoming 24th Jornada ...
Jornada 23 Recap
By Greg | April 3rd, 2007As expected, Sporting defeated Beira-Mar 2-0 on goals from Abel (14') and Liedson (32') to complete the final game of Jornada 23. Rounding out ...
Portugal has Gone Up
By Greg | April 2nd, 2007Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's true. After only one week of toiling in the Coca-Cola Offside League, the Portugal blog has managed to crack ...
Tabletop Football
By Greg | March 27th, 2007No, not THAT kind of tabletop football. This brand involves the two teams at the top of the table in the Portuguese League: FC ...
Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha is a Wanted Man
By Greg | March 23rd, 2007So THAT'S why so many Portuguese and Brazilian footballers are called by a single name... Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha aka "Nani" has allegedly ...
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