Champions League
Benfica and Guimarães Didn’t Hear No Bell
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In the spirit of Rocky Balboa’s trainer Mickey, Benfica and Guimarães refuse to acknowledge a final bell signaling a knock out. Apparently there is no stopping them in their quest to get Porto the hell out of European competition for the upcoming season. After UEFA recently granted Porto a stay of execution and [...]
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Porto Back In 08/09 Champions League, Officially
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UEFA have announced that due to a procedural snafu in handling the case, they can not examine the overturning of the appeal before the start of the next edition of the Champions League tournament. If they ultimately decide that any sanctions are necessary, they will be applied to the following season. This leaves [...]
Porto Out of Next Season’s Champions League
By: Greg | 4 Comments
There’s no way of putting it other than what the title suggests. As a result of the information submitted to UEFA by the Portuguese football ruling body, UEFA have decided to suspend Porto’s participation for one year in the Champions League competition.
From what I can tell based on a number of sources [...]
Tuesday Trainer Tidbits
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I’m sorry about the headline, really I am. I’m just so into alliteration lately that I can’t contain causing conflagrations and cacophonies of concurrent consonant… [shit, quick, someone give me a hard 'c' word for sound!].
The news day is a bit slow on the league front, with the Champions League final to [...]
Preview of the Taça de Portugal Final: Sporting CP v FC Porto
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The climax of the season is upon us, as this Sunday’s Taça de Portugal final will be contested between Paulo Bento Box’s second place Sporting and Geraldo Rivera’s Jesualdo Ferreira’s first place Porto in Jamor at the Estadio Nacional.
The match itself represents the last shot at salvaging some sort of silverware this season [...]
Porto Are Champions, But Are They Champions League?
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As we are all well aware at this point, Porto were “punished” for their involvement in match fixing and referee bribing during the 2003/04 season. The investigation, initially called “Golden Whistle” and then “Final Whistle” (kind of a Desert Shield/Storm type of thing) when the decisions were handed down, yielded a six point penalty [...]
Jornada 30 Recap: Final Whistle Blown On Season
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With the league still smarting from the Golden Whistle punishments handed down on Friday, the players took to the pitch to earn their money finish out the end of a controversy-filled season. Here’s how it all shook out:
Nacional 1 - 2 Belenenses
Braga 2 - 1 Académica
Naval 0 - 2 Porto
U.d.Leiria 1 - 1 P. Ferreira
Leixões 0 - 1 Marítimo
Sporting 2 - 1 Boavista
Benfica 3 - [...]
Jornada 29 Review: Nacional Take Six Points From Porto
By: Greg | 3 Comments
When the boys of Nacional are sitting around the dressing room at the end of the season to discuss what took place over the course of the thirty jornadas that comprised the 2007/08 season, they can proudly stick their chests out and say: “We handed Porto two of their three losses this year.” In [...]
Jornada 28 Recap: Big Three Winner Weekend
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Now that V.Setúbal and E.d.Amadora have recorded their draw, let’s check them results once more:
Braga 2 - 1 P.Ferreira
Benfica 2 - 0 Belenenses
Nacional 0 - 3 Académica
Naval 1 - 0 Boavista
Leiria 1 - 3 Leixões
V.Guimarães 0 - 5 Porto
Sporting 2 - 1 Marítimo
V.Setúbal 0 - 0 E. Amadora
Porto’s out right smoking of formerly second place V.Guimarães is a rather emphatic stamp of pwnage when [...]
Top of the Table Run In Probability Game
By: Greg | 3 Comments
I’m something of an amateur prognosticator / absolute genius, therefore I’m going to take a look into the future with the final three weeks of the Portuguese Liga season. I’ve been saying for the past two or three weeks (no, really, this blog has been here for even longer than that) that the top [...]
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