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Delicious Lisbon Derby Day
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Well boom-chicka-boom, if it isn’t time for the two small clubs from Lisbon to go head-to-head in their first derby of the year. The first version will take place at the Da Looze tomorrow. It’s only the 6th week of the season but this game looms rather large beyond the fact that it’s [...]
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Our Lady of Fatima Answers Her Fans’ Prayers
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Okay, it’s not exactly when the US Hockey team defeated the USSR in 1980’s Olympics, but it’s an upset nonetheless. Liga da Honra (t-minus two months till DMX releases album entitled “Da Honra”) side Fatima beat Porto on penalties. I’ll be honest, I didn’t watch any of these games. I didn’t actually [...]
Do Europeans Do Anything Besides Drink and Gamble?
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Look out on the pitch this weekend. Check the clubs’ shirt sponsors, the boards behind the touchline, and maybe even the name of the league or competition the clubs are participating in. I’m willing to bet that between the kits, the ads, and the tie sponsors, you’ll find that a great many of [...]
Warm Up The Bus
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When I was in high school, we had rather dominant sports teams. We’d go to watch the basketball team run up 40 and 50 point leads by halftime and then begin with the chant from the subject line, “Warm up the bus.” Through this taunt, we were jokingly suggesting that since the game [...]
All Your Points Are Belong to Porto
By: Greg | 4 Comments
Another week, another Porto win. They’ve taken 15 of a possible 15 points thus far this season. Games 1-5 are just as valuable, points-wise, as games 26-30. So to say that it’s still early is not only true it’s also a relatively ineffective tonic given how easily Porto have dispatched the majority [...]
Jornada 5 Preview: The Special One Edition
By: Greg | 9 Comments
I feel the itching need to gain some blog closure on the Jose Mourinho situation as he closes the chapter on his Chelsea reign. Human beings are prone to labeling things. Por ejemplo: “The Best _______ I’ve Ever Had” or “That was classic / awesome / unbelievable.” We feel the need [...]
Cozido à Portuguesa
By: Greg | 10 Comments
There’s a nice big stew’s worth of news and stuff to get to today, so I’ll just jump right in…
Mourinho’s Gone – Unless this is the first football news site you look at when you wake, you know this already. If this isn’t the first site you see and you still didn’t know [...]
APB Out for Steven Gerrard and Half of Liverpool Starting XI — Benfica Understanadbly Worked — Go Sporting, Woo!
By: Greg | 7 Comments
Day one is done and in the books. This is how each game looked to me and what I expect from today’s encounter in Lisbon:
Porto 1 - 1 Liverpool — For Liverpool’s sake I hope this isn’t how they’re planning on playing the rest of their games in Europe. Porto worked and frustrated [...]
Liverpool to Attack the Dragon and Rui Costa’s Return
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That’s right, you’re getting corny English dragon-slaying references as I talk about Liverpool coming to the Dragao today. Then there’s the lovely storyline to be considered of Rui Costa heading back to the San Siro where he won the Champions League with Milan in 2003. In the end really, it’s all back page [...]
Santos, and Manny, and Chalo Make Three Today
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Four matches complete, three coaches sacked. Naval let manager Fernando Chalo go after a poor start to the Spring of ‘07. I could say poor start to the season which recently culminated in a 3-0 defeat to Benfica, but the guy hasn’t won since the birds and the bees started their annual procreational [...]
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