Articles tagged with "super-liga"
Jornada 5 Recap: Familiar Faces in First Places
By Greg | October 9th, 2008The league really has to change its name. I know that it's allegedly called "Liga Sagres" after the beer company "Sagres," but without commercializing ...
Jornada 5 Precap: Here We Go Again
By Greg | October 7th, 2008Well, that lasted a whole four weeks... Jornada five brought us a Porto away win against formerly second place Sporting. Which, as you ...
Jornada 5 Preview: 2 v 4 and 3 v 5
By Greg | October 3rd, 2008It's a big weekend in Portuguese club football. Second place Sporting welcome fourth spot Porto with open arms and hearts for another iteration of ...
Jornada 4 Recap: Logjammin' At the Top O' The Table
By Greg | September 30th, 2008Four matches have been played and only three points separate first place from tenth. While I don't necessarily expect Nacional and Leixões to be ...
Jornada 4 Pre-Cap: Benfica Protect the Fortress da Luz
By Greg | September 29th, 2008Since O Belem and Sexy Leixy still have a match to play today, I'll reserve the weekly superlatives (as I have in the past) for ...
Jornada 4 Preview: Benfica v. Sporting Derby Time!!!
By Greg | September 26th, 2008As you're all well aware (and according to the big bosses, I've made you too aware) I've been away for a while with vacation and ...
Back From Vegas, Back In The Saddle
By Greg | September 24th, 2008I'm back. Back from three days in Virginia for work and four days in FABULOUS, FUCKING AMAZING, SUPER AWESOME NEVER WANT TO LEAVE, Las ...
Vacation Extends Through Weekend
By Greg | September 12th, 2008The league international break continues through the weekend and the next meaningful league matches are going to be played at the end of next week. ...
Thursday Table Talk
By Greg | September 4th, 2008We're two matches into the season and the table is starting to take some sort of shape. I used to boycott putting the table ...
Jornada 2 Recap: Nacional in First Place, Classico Ends In A Draw
By Greg | September 2nd, 2008I'm in surprisingly decent shape this morning after a torrid weekend of drinking my face off and manning the grill for twenty people yesterday. ...
Jornada 2 Preview: Class-ee-koh Time
By Greg | August 29th, 2008It's week two and already we have a massive match to be played between Benfica and Porto at da Luz. Benfica looked abysmal last ...
Jornada 1 Recap: Benfica Need To Wake Up Fast
By Greg | August 25th, 2008What a frigging weather nightmare Tropical Storm Fay was this past week. My wife and sister in law had the bright idea of visiting ...
Tropical Storms Are Fun!
By Greg | August 21st, 2008I'm sorry I haven't posted in a few days, but I'm on "vacation" in Florida and have a Tropical Storm bearing down on where I'm ...
Workweek In Review: 8/11 - 8/15
By Greg | August 15th, 2008Since I only blog during the week (sorry, I get even MORE drunk on the weekends than on work days, so I probably couldn't even ...
UEFA Qualifier "Fun" Time
By Greg | August 14th, 2008I don't understand how they find these matches to be played on equal terms. Certain leagues are in full swing (Guimarães faced a team ...
Joh-Zay Mourinho Rooting for Vitória de Guimarães
By Greg | August 12th, 2008Since Mourinho, like the Irishman "Stephen" from Braveheart, speaks directly with God (and makes sure that God picks up Jose's Armani suits from the cleaners), ...
Some Benfica Bits and Times, They Are A Changin'
By Greg | August 5th, 2008Benfica 2 - 1 Vitoria Guimarães -- Benfica have had an exciting transfer period with a round of crappy pre-season results thrown in. Before ...
UEFA Competition Draws Released, Assume the Position
By Greg | August 1st, 2008I understand that monster clubs like Barcelona, Arsenal, and Liverpool are actually involved in the third qualifying round for the Champions League this year. ...
Moutinho Tries the Crying Game, Boavista Officially Sent Down
By Greg | July 28th, 2008After using this space sparingly to pitch a bitch about how the Portuguese Liga has been Le Suck on the news front all summer, finally ...
Fun Foto Filler Friday: Porto Sign a Superhero
By Greg | July 25th, 2008The photo of a human above is that of Porto's newest signing, Brazilian-born Tokyo Verdy striker Givanildo Souza, aka "The Hulk." While both "Hulks" ...
Blogging in a Black Hole
By Greg | July 22nd, 2008The title says it all. I decide it's a great idea to come back in March of this year and hit ya'll off with ...
Do You Buy Into The "New" Benfica?
By Greg | July 17th, 2008In the past fifteen seasons, Benfica have won only two league championships and two league cups. After this most recent, disastrous campaign when they ...
Final Decision Handed Down On Porto's Champions League Participation This Year
By Greg | July 15th, 2008After a whole ass load of "they're in" and "they're out" conjecturing, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has informed UEFA that in spite of ...
Sporting Chug Along In the Caboose of the Kit Train. Choo, Muthaf'ing Choo.
By Greg | July 11th, 2008Sporting unleashed their new kits on the world today, along with new signings in the defense Fabio Rochemback and Marco Caneira as well as attacker ...
Not to be outdone by Rivals Porto, Benfica Introduce Their New Kits
By Greg | July 9th, 2008As Porto rolled out their "new" home and sea green away kits yesterday, Benfica also made sure not to be late to the party and ...
Porto Release "New" Home Kits and Vomit Inducing Turquoise / Sea Green Alternates
By Greg | July 8th, 2008Porto released their "new" kits today for the upcoming season. You can click the links contained in the post to be taken to footballshirtculture.com ...
We Have A League Fixture Schedule. Yay.
By Greg | July 7th, 2008This evening in Portugal, grown men dipped their hands into bowls filled with balls and determined the schedule for the upcoming season. Once they ...
I'd Make This Into A TV Advert for The Blog If I Had Any Cash...
By Greg | July 3rd, 2008Want to get into Portuguese football this upcoming season? Aside from reading this blog... we've got goals.
Rui Costa's Successor Is....
By Greg | July 1st, 2008Carlos Martins. The Portuguese (somewhat) international will be the next to wear the #10 shirt for Benfica and, hopefully for them, usher in a ...
Mourinho Returns to Portugal
By Greg | June 30th, 2008Well, kinda. Inter Milan and Benfica have announced today that they will be squaring off in a preseason match that will be the inaugural ...
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