Articles tagged with "xavi"
L'Equipe Names Best XI of 2008
By chris | December 29th, 2008Although less a "Best of XI" and more a "Best of Barca, Spain & ManU". As is the case with so many year-end top whatever ...
Renewals, Cantera Style
By Isaiah | December 22nd, 2008In case you weren't paying attention over the last few days, we've had two big contract renewals: Xavi and Sergi Busquets. Our vice-captain renewed until June ...
Uefa Team of the year Vote
By Rob | December 9th, 2008Its december, which can only mean one thing. Its time to have a look at the nominees for Team of the Year on the Uefa ...
Ballon d'Or Point Totals Make Franck Ribery Unhappy.
By chris | December 3rd, 2008The Ballon d'Or is nothing if not a lightning rod for controversy and year-long verbal sparring matches with inflatable gloves. Yes, some deserving players win ...
Rob And Wayne's Big Prem Preview - Gonna Be A Good Weekend!
By Rob | November 28th, 2008After missing last week's due to illness on my part, and a spectacularly dull weekend that came with it (Big four helping themselves to nil-nils), ...
FifPro Team of the Year
By Rob | October 27th, 2008The Fifpro orginisation has announced its Team of the Year, as voted for by pro players across the world. They elected Cristiano Ronaldo as player ...
Wednesday Roundup!
By Rob | October 22nd, 2008After the amazement of yesterday, today was always going to be a bit of a comedown, but there were still plenty of talking points in ...
Daily Dose: October 21st, 2008.
By chris | October 21st, 2008Stuff to read while you evade a police chase in a golf cart..... Back to normal in the Bundesliga. (Guardian Unlimited) Draw for the next round of ...
10 Things We Learned From Champions League Matchday 2
By chris | October 2nd, 20084 seeds are the new 3 seeds; or, Transylvanians, Cypriots & Belarusians are legit. BATE were very fortunate to be eying a blonde Austrian rather than ...
Meet Your Captains!
By Isaiah | September 23rd, 2008Come get your Captains! Get your Catalan captains here, full of piss and vinegar! 4 for the price of 1! Rebajas rebaixas savings! There's little else ...
Champions League Day One Roundup!
By Rob | September 16th, 2008Big story of Day One is undoubtedly from Rome. Little known Romanian side Cluj pulled off a 2-1 win against Serie A runners up Roma ...
Champions League: Barça - Sporting CP, Tuesday 2:45pmEST
By Isaiah | September 15th, 2008The Champions League group stage is back! There is always a different feel to the Champions League games and this one is no different. It's ...
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
By chris | August 19th, 2008The Good Brazilians in London: Yeah yeah, Portsmouth ain't exactly on their level, but Big Boss is going to be mighty pleased this season with Luiz ...
Barca 2-Boca Jrs. 1, or "All's Well That Ends Well"
By Kevin | August 16th, 2008Yee. Freakin'. Haa! This triumphant pose, struck by our saviour, also perfectly captures my mood after today's Trofeo Joan Gamper victory. I don't give a ...
Celtic and Sevilla to duke it out for Barca wunder-kid
By Matt | July 28th, 2008Celtic have been linked with 20 year old Barcelona midfielder Marc Crosas, but it seems will be competing for his services with Barca's La Liga ...
Euro Wrap, and more Musings
By Gianfranco | June 29th, 2008Congratulations to Spain, since the first days I played and watched this game I realized the importance of losing and losing to the best, and ...
How to Build a Better Team (and have fun doing it!) part 2
By Isaiah | May 22nd, 2008Before, in Part 1, we covered both Voldemort and the defense, so today it's only fair that we cover the midfield. I'm not going to ...
The Readers CL XI - Central Midfielders
By Rob | May 12th, 2008We're begining to get to the buisness end now. If you haven't been paying attention, at the CL Offside, we've been offering you the chance ...
The Morning After: Injury Report
By Isaiah | April 10th, 2008The injuries just keep right on coming, that's for sure. Do we have a quota we have to fill or something? The biggest news is ...
The Ultimate QF Second Leg Preview
By Rob | April 7th, 2008So its nearly upon us. The excitement as 4 more teams dreams of reaching Moscow are cut short and they go home to ponder Rome ...
Copa: Barcelona 1 - 1 Valencia (Deification Edition)
By Isaiah | February 28th, 2008The game came down to the hands of a man Ray Hudson screamed was a "black jungle cat" and yet another late, late, late heroic ...
Barcelona 5 - 1 Levante (Holy Balls Edition)
By Isaiah | February 25th, 2008Squashed between several big matches in the Champions League, Copa del Rey, and even La Liga itself, was a little visit from old Levante. Any ...
Celtic Green, Barca News & Fat Spurs
By JT | February 14th, 2008Not that we didn't already know that Celtic are one of the top twenty clubs in the world (actually top 1), Deloitte's Football Money League ...
Barcelona 1 - 0 Osasuna: Holy Bejesus Hay Liga Edition
By Isaiah | February 4th, 2008Going from a bored, downtrodden fan wishing his team would show some life to a beaming, screaming, semi-intoxicated imbecile with a blaugrana shirt on takes ...
Barcelona 3 - 0 Atletico de Madrid: Review and Highlights (Holy crap, we're good edition)
By Isaiah | October 8th, 2007I have to admit right here and now that I was not expecting this sort of scoreline. It wasn't even particularly flattering, but I did ...
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mr. FC Barcelona
By Isaiah | October 4th, 2007If you read the Barcelona-based football press, you're probably pretty scared about the future well-being of Barcelona's players. Both Sport and the infinitely more reliable ...
Ronaldinho Comes to America
By Isaiah | March 26th, 2007It's the international break and so I too took a break from the action. I'm back now and here's a little roundup of all that ...
Zaragoza 1 - 2 Barcelona
By Isaiah | February 28th, 2007Barcelona have defeated Real Zaragoza away 1-2 to claim a spot in the Copa del Rey semifinal. Unfortunately I was unable to watch the game ...
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