UEFA Cup


June 27th, 2008

Benfica and Guimarães Didn’t Hear No Bell

By: Greg | Comments 2 Comments

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 [...]



June 25th, 2008

Quarta-Feira Quantum Leap

By: Greg | Comments No Comments

Like I mentioned yesterday, most of the Portuguese footballing world (including myself) was so enraptured with the Euro that league news turned into middle of the rag afterthoughts for the most part. For now, here’s wuzzup wit da “Big Tree” since we’ve last hugged via fiber optic arms…
F.C. Porto – Continue to raid [...]

June 4th, 2008

Porto Out of Next Season’s Champions League

By: Greg | Comments 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 [...]

May 15th, 2008

Porto Are Champions, But Are They Champions League?

By: Greg | Comments 2 Comments

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 [...]

May 12th, 2008

Jornada 30 Recap: Final Whistle Blown On Season

By: Greg | Comments 2 Comments

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 - [...]



May 5th, 2008

Jornada 29 Review: Nacional Take Six Points From Porto

By: Greg | Comments 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 [...]

April 23rd, 2008

Top of the Table Run In Probability Game

By: Greg | Comments 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 [...]

April 22nd, 2008

Jornada 27 Recap: Come On the Chels!!!

By: Greg | Comments 4 Comments

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 [...]

April 9th, 2008

UEFA Cup Second Leg Preview: Sporting v. Rangers

By: Greg | Comments 3 Comments

The Royal Crown Cola of European club competitions kicks off the second leg of its quarterfinal round this Thursday. Sporting, the last remaining “Great Chop Hope” in European competitions will welcome Rangers to the Estadio José Alvalade tomorrow afternoon. The first leg at Ibrox resulted in a nil-nil draw which obviously benefits Sporting. [...]

Category Category: Sporting, UEFA Cup
April 3rd, 2008

UEFA Cup Recap: Sporting 0 - 0 Rangerzzz zzzzz zzzz

By: Greg | Comments 4 Comments

I’m going to do the considerate thing and not subject you to a recap of a match that can only be summed up by the gentleman in the picture shown here. What a boring, sleep-inducing, and atrocious “contest.” If I were a paying spectator, I’d be storming the box office right now at [...]

Category Category: Sporting, UEFA Cup





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