Articles tagged with "sporting"
Big Three Fashion Statements for 07/08
By Greg | July 17th, 2007Most of today's news is simply a reinforcement of the transfer rumors I touched on yesterday. While the asking price for Simao has been ...
Thank God It's Seixta Feira: Dicky Quaresma to be Royalty, 07/08 Fixture Highlights, and Born Loser Couceiro is Defeated in Tic-Tac-Toe Game Against Himself
By Greg | July 13th, 2007Even though in this blog it's always seixta feira, today it's really Friday and there's plenty of amuse bouches to get to your table, so ...
Portuguese Soccer Pitches Infested with Poison Ivy and Killer Bees With Herpes
By Greg | July 11th, 2007Well, why the hell else would every player be leaving? This time it's (insert hyperbolic superlative here) goalkeeper Ricardo, who has passed his physical ...
What Do You Call a Striker Who Doesn't Score?
By Greg | July 5th, 2007Reports are coming out of Europe that Sporting are interested in Argentine bench warmer Maxi Lopez. Maxi scored on his debut as a sub ...
The Portuguese Liga is a Slutty Ho
By Greg | July 3rd, 2007No, really: the Liga is taking it for the right price from just about anyone at this point. I'm not saying it's one of ...
Stream of Bad News Day Consciousness
By Greg | June 28th, 2007Okay, it's day two of "Deuce Watch." As in there's DEUCE going on right now that's newsworthy. Therefore, I figured I'd share some ...
No News Is Bad News
By Greg | June 27th, 2007I won't resort to fluff and fill tactics in order to complete my daily submission today, OH NO. I'm clearly above that. There ...
Nani's Replacement Comes in on a Choo-Choo Train
By Greg | June 20th, 2007Sporting today signed Marat Izmailov from Lokomotiv Moscow as an apparent replacement for Nani. While we're on the subject of locomotives, what the hell ...
When 'Tipping' Becomes a European Custom
By Greg | June 15th, 2007I sat in a bar in Terminal C of Newark Liberty International Airport a few weeks ago and observed some interesting goings on. For ...
A Name to Remember: João Moutinho
By Bob | June 13th, 2007It would be easy to believe that with Manchester United's recent shopping spree that all of the best young talent in Portugal has been bought. ...
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 ...
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