Ross County F.C. v. Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. (Saturday) Between the fixture pile-up resulting from this past winter’s rougher-than-usual weather, County’s run in the Scottish Cup, and their position in the league, the month of March is going to be an epic one for the northernmost professional team in the U.K. This weekend sees a [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Your Weekend Preview: “Was Deuce wearing purple boots yesterday?” Edition
Posted in Argentine Primera Division, Bundesliga, Champions League, English Premier League, Europa League, Homerism, La Liga, Ligue 1, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Scottish Premier League, Serie A, South America, Weekend Preview on March 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
About Last Night
Posted in About Last Night, tagged Albert Riera, Arsenal, Arsenal Victimes, Arsene Wenger, Atletico Madrid, Bayern Munich, Benfica, CFR Cluj, Clint Dempsey, Crystal Palace, David Villa, English National Team, Europa League, Fulham, Galatasaray, Hamburger SV, Juventus, Lacina Traore, Lille, Liverpool, Louis van Gaal, Olympique de Marseille, Owen Hargreaves, Panathinaikos, Park Ji-Sung, Roy Hodgson, RSC Anderlecht, Rubin Kazan, Sean Combs, South Korean National Team, Sporting Clube de Portugal, Standard Liege, Valencia, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen, William Gallas on March 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
What you missed while Fulham was enjoying the best night their club has ever had on the European stage…
The Thursday Challenge: An Old Favorite Returns Edition
Posted in Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on March 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Last week I was a bit rough on all of you, so I thought I’d revisit one of the most popular (infamous?) forms that the challenge has taken over the last eight months. This time, however, not all of the teams are in their country’s top division and not all of the teams are taken [...]
Afellay’s Best Gerrard Impression Gets Him a Three-Match Ban
Posted in English Premier League, Eredivisie, Refereeing, tagged Ajax, Eyong Enoh, Ibrahim Afellay, Liverpool, Michael Brown, Portsmouth, PSV Eindhoven, Steven Gerrard, The FA on March 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Liverpool fans have, of late, been a little irked with Steven Gerrard’s behavior. First it was the V-sign flick at Andre Marriner, then the forearm shiver to the back of Mike Brown’s head: two games, two instances that could’ve (and should’ve) resulted in straight red cards. Instead of being punished, though, Gerrard has escaped without [...]
Last Call – St. Patrick’s Day doesn’t mean we’re drunk already. We’re getting drunk as we go along!
Posted in Last Call, tagged Last Call on March 17, 2010 | 34 Comments »
So here we are, another Wednesday, and now, we know the final eight in this year’s iteration of the Champions League. To review, we’ve got Manchester United [England], Arsenal [England], Lyon [France], Bordeaux [France], CSKA Moscow [Russia], Bayern Munich[Germany], Internazionale [Italy] and the defending champions, Barcelona [Spain]. You’ll notice that the field is now spread [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in Bundesliga, English Premier League, Scottish Premier League, South America, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on March 17, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Last week I asked you to find the names of the pair of people- one a footballer, one not- to which each clue referred. “Name” could mean first, last, nicknames or some combination of them. Before we go any further, let’s get one little bit of ugliness out of the way- I screwed up the [...]
Steward, Speed Bump, Same Thing
Posted in Champions League, tagged Chelsea, John Terry Behaving Badly on March 17, 2010 | 6 Comments »
After last night’s Champions League loss to Inter, Chelsea players probably couldn’t get away from Stamford Bridge fast enough. Drogba wanted to be gone so badly he got himself sent off three minutes from time, Jose Mourinho went into the tunnel before the final whistle had even blown, and the crowd sure as hell didn’t [...]
