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Moutinho Tries the Crying Game, Boavista Officially Sent Down
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After using this space sparingly to pitch a bitch about how the Portuguese Liga has been Le Suck on the news front all summer, finally something concrete and commentable (that’s right, wordsmith in tha hizzouse) came out this past weekend. Let’s walk the transfer wire tightrope, shall we?
Sporting Captain Gets a Manny Ramirez-esque [...]
Fun Foto Filler Friday: Porto Sign a Superhero
By: Greg | 4 Comments
The photo of a human above is that of Porto’s newest signing, Brazilian-born Tokyo Verdy striker Givanildo Souza, aka “The Hulk.” While both “Hulks” look alike, Souza is only 5′10″ and tan, while the Marvel version of The Hulk is 7′, 1040 lbs, and green. Also I’ve never seen the angry guy on [...]
Blogging in a Black Hole
By: Greg | 2 Comments
The title says it all. I decide it’s a great idea to come back in March of this year and hit ya’ll off with a lil’ sumthin sumthin Portuguese, only to be foiled by an early Portuguese exit from the Euro and a summer with somewhat minor transfers (at the moment, the jury is [...]
Do You Buy Into The “New” Benfica?
By: Greg | 5 Comments
In the past fifteen seasons, Benfica have won only two league championships and two league cups. After this most recent, disastrous campaign when they finished fourth and “qualified” for the UEFA Cup, Benfica’s powers that be decided that it was time to take a new direction. They decided to be somewhat bold and [...]
Final Decision Handed Down On Porto’s Champions League Participation This Year
By: Greg | 3 Comments
After a whole ass load of “they’re in” and “they’re out” conjecturing, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has informed UEFA that in spite of the evidence brought forth by Portuguese giants Benfica and flavor of the month Vitória de Guimarães, Porto are to participate in this year’s iteration of the Champions League tournament. [...]
Sporting Chug Along In the Caboose of the Kit Train. Choo, Muthaf’ing Choo.
By: Greg | 6 Comments
Sporting unleashed their new kits on the world today, along with new signings in the defense Fabio Rochemback and Marco Caneira as well as attacker Helder Postiga (see more pics of these dudes in the duds here). One guy who probably won’t be back in Sporting garb next year is keeper Vladimir Stojkovic. [...]
Not to be outdone by Rivals Porto, Benfica Introduce Their New Kits
By: Greg | 7 Comments
As Porto rolled out their “new” home and sea green away kits yesterday, Benfica also made sure not to be late to the party and introduced their new garb to the world.
Their red home kit looks much more aggressive and sleeker in the past with no collar and black accents on the sleeves [...]
Porto Release “New” Home Kits and Vomit Inducing Turquoise / Sea Green Alternates
By: Greg | 2 Comments
Porto released their “new” kits today for the upcoming season. You can click the links contained in the post to be taken to footballshirtculture.com (incidentally an awesome website that you can lost on far too easily) and get a more thorough look at each kit. The front sponsors on that site aren’t accurate, [...]
We Have A League Fixture Schedule. Yay.
By: Greg | 6 Comments
This evening in Portugal, grown men dipped their hands into bowls filled with balls and determined the schedule for the upcoming season. Once they handled the balls and observed them, this is what they determined would be the schedule for the newly named “Liga Sagres” 08/09 season (with home teams listed first and “classicos” [...]
Presidential Beat Down
By: Greg | 1 Comment
Benfica President Luis Felipe Vieira left a meeting last night under duress after he refused to entertain discussion from a number of fan groups.
Benfica are widely recognized as one of the world’s most publicly supported clubs. Benfica pride themselves on the fact that, in spite of not playing in one of the [...]
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