

Articles tagged with "taca-de-portugal"
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 ...
Taça de Portugal Final: Sporting 2 - 0 Porto
By Greg | May 19th, 2008In front of what looked like about three hundred people at the Estadio Nacional in Jamor, Sporting won this year's Taça de Portugal, defeating Porto ...
Preview of the Taça de Portugal Final: Sporting CP v FC Porto
By Greg | May 16th, 2008The climax of the season is upon us, as this Sunday's Taça de Portugal final will be contested between Paulo Bento Box's second place Sporting ...
Jornada 30 Recap: Final Whistle Blown On Season
By Greg | May 12th, 2008With the league still smarting from the Golden Whistle punishments handed down on Friday, the players took to the pitch to earn their money finish ...
Top of the Table Run In Probability Game
By Greg | April 23rd, 2008I'm something of an amateur prognosticator / absolute genius, therefore I'm going to take a look into the future with the final three weeks of ...
Jornada 27 Recap: Come On the Chels!!!
By Greg | April 22nd, 2008Don't be confused by the Chelsea badge, it's there for my boys in blue who are going to take it to Fernanda Torres and Co. ...
Taça de Portugal - Match of the Season Edition
By Greg | April 17th, 2008Simply put, I haven't watched / been a part of a match that was this exciting or entertaining for at least a year... Taça ...
Taça de Portugal Recap / Preview
By Greg | April 16th, 2008Ever since my return, I've largely ignored the Taça de Portugal. I even mistook it for a competition where you don't actually gain a ...
Carlsberg Cup Final Preview
By Greg | March 21st, 2008As the final of the Carlsberg Cup is upon us, the big question on everyone's mind here is... Where have all the fans gone? ...
Portuguese Phoenix From the Flames
By Greg | March 19th, 2008Okay, enough of the elaborately dumb ruse. I'm back. I got a promotion back in November and realized that I had to make ...
Jornada 0.875 results and a Small Club's Manager is Out
By Greg | August 20th, 20077/8ths of the first Jornada are complete, but apparently it's never too early to start the coaching carousel a-turnin'. The first boss out for ...
Ironbound's Escudo Discussion
By Greg | August 7th, 2007Before I go any further, please allow me to explain the dopey references in my title which was an attempt to be really witty but ...
Fearless Predictions for the 07/08 Season
By Greg | August 1st, 2007I could go the boring, standard-issue route of predicting the season's outcome, but I see no point in doing that. Prognostication when it comes ...
A New Competition From Colin Farrell's Nutritionist
By Greg | July 12th, 2007"I don't go to the gym or practice yoga. And the closest thing I have to a nutritionist is the Carlsberg Beer Company. I just ...
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 ...
I'm Back... Back in a New York Groove!
By Greg | May 8th, 2007Fresh off a business trip to San Diego, I'm back and ready to shout into the dark. Let's just screw the pomp and circumstance ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...





