

Taca de Portugal
Taça de Portugal Final: Sporting 2 - 0 Porto
By: Greg |In front of what looked like about three hundred people at the Estadio Nacional in Jamor, Sporting won this year’s Taça de Portugal, defeating Porto 2-0 with a pair of extra time goals from late substitute Rodrigo Tiuí (shown left).
The match itself was dominated offensively by Sporting (catch some highlights below), in spite [...]
Preview of the Taça de Portugal Final: Sporting CP v FC Porto
By: Greg |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 [...]
Jornada 30 Recap: Final Whistle Blown On Season
By: Greg |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 - [...]
Top of the Table Run In Probability Game
By: Greg |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 [...]
Jornada 27 Recap: Come On the Chels!!!
By: Greg |Don’t be confused by the Chelsea badge, it’s there for my boys in blue who are going to take it to Fernanda Torres and Co. today. The race at the top (save Porto) is getting even tighter and more interesting with the following results taking place this past jornada:
Académica 0 - 0 V.Guimarães
Marítimo 4 [...]
Taça de Portugal - Match of the Season Edition
By: Greg |Simply put, I haven’t watched / been a part of a match that was this exciting or entertaining for at least a year…
Taça de Portugal Semifinal — Sporting 5 - 3 Benfica — I watched this game at a Portuguese bar that was probably 75% Sportinguista. Suffice it to say the first [...]
Taça de Portugal Recap / Preview
By: Greg |Ever since my return, I’ve largely ignored the Taça de Portugal. I even mistook it for a competition where you don’t actually gain a spot in Europe by winning. However, as I was corrected on yesterday’s recap, the Carlsberg Cup (formerly known as the League Cup) is simply a drinking vessel and the [...]
Carlsberg Cup Final Preview
By: Greg |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. [...]
Portuguese Phoenix From the Flames
By: Greg |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 [...]
Jornada 0.875 results and a Small Club’s Manager is Out
By: Greg |7/8ths of the first Jornada are complete, but apparently it’s never too early to start the coaching carousel a-turnin’. The first boss out for the 07/08 BWINLiga season is… Fernando Santos! Come on down, Fernando and we’ll tell you what you’ve won!
I usually would simply give notes of a manager [...]







