Articles tagged with "world-cup"
Couceiro Watch: Firing Squad Assembled
By Greg | July 16th, 2007Nothing is going on today to get all wacky about... Quaresma looks like he may have another season at Porto while Lucho González is ...
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 ...
Reader Request Hour
By Greg | July 9th, 2007Over on the last article I wrote about honesty in the transfer market, Luis said he'd like to hear my thoughts on the U20 situation. ...
Portugal World Cup Win in 2010 Sealed
By Greg | July 2nd, 2007You heard it here first, folks: Portugal is going to win the World Cup in 2010. In six words I can tell you ...
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, ...
Money!
By Steven | June 3rd, 2007A Borussia Dortmund fan has won a lottery worth €500million, and he is expected to donate all of it to the club! Just kidding. But BVB ...
The Dietmar Hamann Bridge Phenomenon
By Jan | May 31st, 2007Back in 2005 the London Development Agency (LDA) and Transport for London ran a competition to name a footbridge that would lead from Wembley's town ...
Fabien Barthez Goes And Kills His Career As Nantes Plummets
By Sam | April 29th, 2007Parents, please, for the well-being of your young, I plead you not to let them around former/current Nantes goalkeeper and former (for sure) French international ...
Live to Fight Another Day
By Greg | April 26th, 2007It's a slow Portuguese football news day, so Eusebio's successful surgery will allow me to enlighten those who have no idea about the Pantera Negra's ...
One-Man Samba Show Likely Cancelled for Today
By Greg | March 28th, 2007It seems as though Cristiano Ronaldo will not be featured in today's clash between Portugal and Serbia. He apparently twisted his left foot during ...
In Honour of Sir Alex Ferguson
By Andy | March 16th, 2007Now come on!!! Did you really think I would publish a picture of SAF on this site. You are joking me!!! I prefer the blonde ...
Juventus News 3/6/07- The German Dream
By Gianfranco | March 6th, 2007Well all is pretty quiet today as the Italian trio prepare for their decisive Champions League fixtures, and the Bianconeri prepare for their match against ...
Zidane Head Butt Featured in new Italian Clothing Line
By Bob | December 27th, 2006Forget what the Chinese calendar says, 2006 was not the Year of the Dog it was the Year of the Head Butt. One brief ...
Fans Choose some Odd Ways to Show their Displeasure
By Bob | December 15th, 2006For those of you who were looking forward to seeing a replay of the World Cup final between Italy and France so that the real ...
Of Bhoys and Men - The anti-Arsenal Argument?
By Cham | December 11th, 2006There isn't much Dennis Law isn't annoyed about, but a recent story by BBC Sport reports Law's opinions on the growing number of non-Scots on ...
I'm Sorry, What?
By Martha | December 8th, 2006Don't start counting that fourth World Cup just yet, friends -- two groups of fans appeared in a French court yesterday, insisting that the World ...
Argentina Wins the Blind World Cup
By Bob | December 1st, 2006That's Argentina captain Silvio Velo doing what Silvio Velo does best: score a goal. Velo's goal was the difference as Argentina knocked off Brazil ...
Daily Dose 11.28
By Bob | November 28th, 2006Some stories to read while you come up with a better excuse for missing work..... Maybe Liverpool would have better form if their players weren't on ...
Henry Hard on Henry
By Trent | November 15th, 2006Arsenal captain Thierry Henry has heard the criticisms. And he doesn't disagree. "I have had a mixed season so far, I am not in my ...
Brazil is King of the Beach Soccer World Cup Sand Castle
By Bob | November 13th, 2006After a wild and unpredictable tournament that featured brawls and breasts, the Beach Soccer World Cup in Brazil final turned out to be a predictable ...
On Diving
By Martha | November 8th, 2006Call me crazy, but I think the issue of diving is much more complicated than the well-muscled American who shouted about pansies while watching the ...
World Cup Air Lawsuit Smells a Little Funny
By Bob | October 19th, 2006Oh to be an entrepreneur in China and have to deal with those pesky laws that are always keeping good - no great - products ...
Materazzi Writes the Final Chapter on Zidane Affair. Well, probably not
By Bob | October 9th, 2006It was three months ago today that Zinedine Zidane head butted Marco Materazzi in the final of the World Cup. It seems like just ...
Daily Dose 10.05
By Bob | October 5th, 2006Some stories to read while you build a pipeline to smuggle vodka... * Our man Trent has got his Gunner on (Arsenal Offside) * Interesting look at ...
Daily Dose 09.27
By Bob | September 27th, 2006Some stories to read if you don't poke your eyes out reading this one first.....Screech!...... * Marcelo Saragosa is a player worth getting to know (3rd ...
Great Nike Italy Print Ads Featuring World Cup Winners
By Bob | September 26th, 2006While we're still kind of nonplussed by the Nike commercial featuring everyone's favorite headbutt target, we do dig the series of print ads that Nike ...
Where are they now?: Joao Ricardo
By Bob | September 12th, 2006The World Cup seems like it was decades ago despite Sepp Blatter's feeble attempts to keep it alive. In reality, it was almost two ...
Materazzi Fancies Zidane's Sister
By Bob | September 5th, 2006After much erroneous speculation and many failed efforts at lip reading, we finally learn today that magic words that Italy's Marco Materazzi uttered during the ...
Markus Merk Takes a Break from His Break
By Bob | August 1st, 2006Coming off a nice, relaxing vacation following our adventures on World Cup Blog, we can relate to top referee Markus Merk. The German ref ...
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