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Porto March On, Sporting and Benfica Dominate
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If you don’t know the drill here, you might as well learn. Mondays mean you get the basic score rundown from the weekend’s action. Since there’s basically one game still to be played, I don’t want to take away from the glory that may await our viewing eyes this evening, so I do [...]
Sing it With Me Now… Porto the Magic Dragons Own the Portuguese League
By: Greg | 8 Comments
Ahh good Ol’ Puff the Magic Dragon. Peter, Paul, and Mary pulled quite the coup by having everyone happily sing along to a “children’s” song we all know is really about smokin’ the reefer. Well… enough reminiscing about schmokin’ bones and zany cartoons, let’s get on to this, the 24th Jornada of the [...]
Porto Look to Shut Down The Industry This Weekend
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As if the league isn’t actually over to begin with, Porto can actually lift the cup this weekend if they manage to defeat Belenenses and Benfica and V.Guimarães manage to lose. Benfica losing at home to Paços de Ferreira and V.Guimarães losing at home to Marítimo on the same weekend is highly unlikely, but [...]
Golden Whistle Finally Being Blown?
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A tribunal in Porto decided yesterday that there was enough justification for moving forward in a corruption trial against Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa. For those of you not familiar with the Apito Dourado or “Golden Whistle” investigation, Wiki’s got a good, quick summary:
The Apito Dourado (”Golden Whistle”) affair is a corruption sports scandal [...]
Mourinho Unemployed For 187 Days, Is Almost Through Watching Entire Golden Girls DVD Set
By: Greg | 4 Comments
It’s International Week and it’s also known as the time when your league and club bloggers really show their mettle. I can choose to go the easy route and take the week off and just devote time to the Euro2008 Portuguese National Team blog over at the good ol’ portugal.worldcupblog.org. But no! [...]
Category: Super LigaOnly A Shoot Out Can Save Us Now!
By: Greg | 1 Comment
Sporting and Setubal owe me a good 94 minutes of my life back. These two teams played such a boring, droning, and lifeless match this past Saturday. After two halves of non-Brazilian kaká, the format of the final dictated no extra time (THANK GOD) but was such that the two teams would decide [...]
Carlsberg Cup Final Preview
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As the final of the Carlsberg Cup is upon us, the big question on everyone’s mind here is… Where have all the fans gone?
Attendance in the Portuguese League as a whole is actually relatively poor. After the big three, there is a precipitous (66%) drop off in average league game attendance. [...]
November to Now: The Season In Time Machine Mode
By: Greg | 2 Comments
I figure that since I’ve been gone that the Portuguese Liga has been in dark mode to all of North America. Even though I wasn’t here diligently writing 10 cent a word bloggles, they were actually STILL playing football over on the continent that now uses my fine American currency to light cigarettes and [...]
Portuguese Phoenix From the Flames
By: Greg | 15 Comments
Okay, enough of the elaborately dumb ruse. I’m back. I got a promotion back in November and realized that I had to make time for work-related minutia. At the time, this added responsibility at my paying job pushed my fantastic blog out of my realm of realistic things to get done during [...]
Category: Benfica, Champions League, Euro, Porto, Sporting, Super Liga, Taca de Portugal, UEFA Cup, World CupYou Can’t Open Up Shop Without Proper Security…
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Regularly scheduled blogging coming soon. At least now you know not to mess with the Portugal Offside…
Category: Super Liga
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