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Carlsberg Cup Fifth Round, Second Leg, Row Thirty Five, Seat A
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The I Couldn’tcarelessberg Cup is continuing tonight. The second leg of the tournament’s pre-group stage takes place as the real stories here are the teams that stand to be recognized as giant killers. Benfica and Sporting are the two big clubs left and Sporting are staring elimination square in the face at the [...]
Porto Challenging Mourinho For Station in Life
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Jose Mourinho once said, when referring to the fact that he could have stayed at Porto and lived the easy life, that in Portugal it was “God, and after God, me.” While The Special One still looms large over Portuguese football and the media in general, Porto may have something to say about that [...]
Jornada 8 Pre-Recap and Joyous Dish Of Joybeams
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I’m home today waiting for both the gas and satellite installation technicians. I couldn’t care less about cooking gas being enabled, and given the frequency at which my wife actually uses the stove I can pretty safely say that she probably couldn’t care less either. However, now that I’ve vacated my previous premises [...]
Porto Season Pwnage Round 8
By: Greg | 6 Comments
Well, Braga drew at Bolton yesterday 1 - 1, summarily crushing another prediction of mine (I had Braga 1-0 winners). It’s gotten so bad that I have readers requesting that I predict their favorite team will lose just to ensure that they’ll be victorious the next time around. Therefore I predict a Porto [...]
If My Predictions Are Wrong, I Don’t Wanna Be Right
By: Greg | 2 Comments
When it comes to football, I consider myself a Vulcan in a human being’s body. I’m logical, level headed, and can tend to be pretty condescending when it comes to discussing the game. However, when applying this same Vulcan-esque level of wit and logic to my predictions, I seem to almost always come [...]
Washboard Abs to the Rescue! AND Benfica Can’t Afford to Luz
By: Greg | 10 Comments
Porto at Olympique de Marseille, 2:45 Eastern – Ricardo Quaresma brings his magic feet, washboard abs, and a bus load of sex appeal into the Thunderdome Vélodrome where he and his Porto compatriots can expect to face a confident Mad Max Marseille team who are currently first in the group and hot off a win [...]
It’s the “Champions” League, Stupid…
By: Greg | 5 Comments
…NOT the “Play like you deserve the points and get a tough break here or there” League (Do you think the 1970 Stuyvesant High School Math Team pictured at left had any room for excuses in their pocket protectors? No!). In their loss yesterday, it seemed as though for long spells that Sporting [...]
Category: Super LigaWho’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? and The Offside As a Microcosm (Boooo Roma chris!!!)
By: Greg | 6 Comments
Aside from giving us all a fantastic place to come and chat about football, The Offside also provides us with a nice battleground from which we can draw comparisons to real life. Today’s Champions League clash between Sporting and Roma (boooo) pits our green and white precision Portuguese pistol against the colossal Calcio cannon [...]
Category: SportingCarlsberg Cup Indifference Fest
By: Greg | 5 Comments
Give me a moment and clear your mind completely. Don’t just clear your mind a-la Ray Stantz, do me a favor and really give it a good mental douching since I don’t want to be held responsible for any 100 foot tall marshmallow men.
Now, keeping in mind the fact Porto have lost [...]
Six Thousand Feet Means Six Thousand Feet
By: Greg | 6 Comments
How in the hell do people live in Colorado? I was in Colorado Springs this past week for a conference and experienced what sports teams who come into the place experience on a weekly basis. It is no joke. The resort I was staying at actually offered citrus or non-scented oxygen by [...]
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