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Manchester United v Benfica Preview: A Tasty Home Win Awaits
Manchester Untied play Benfica tonight at Old Trafford in our fifth Champions League group-stage game of the season, in what no doubt will be an exciting match of football.
Bosnia-Herzegovina v Portugal Highlights – Euro2012 Qualifiers
Ronaldo struck twice, including a wonderful 35-yard free-kick after just eight minutes, to set the tone for a goal fest, with the hosts triumphing 6-2 on the night and on aggregate. After a 0-0 draw in Zenica last week, the pressure was on the Portuguese to deliver in Lisbon in the second leg of the [...]
Bosnia-Herzegovina v Portugal Highlights – Euro2012 Qualifiers
Bosnia & herzegovina 0-0 Portugal: Ibisevic wasteful for the hosts as play-off-clash ends in stalemate . Neither side managed to score in a fairly balanced game in which both teams failed to take their chances, leaving qualification for Euro 2012 well and truly open.
Chelsea Target Signs New Contract In Portugal
Over the summer Chelsea were chasing numerous players and one in particular almost signed, but because a fee could not be agreed Alvaro Pereira remained in Portugal with Porto. Even after the transfer window closed the links remained strong and it was …
Benfica v Manchester United Preview: No Game In Europe’s Easy
Manchester Untied play Benfica tonight at the Estadio da Luz in our first Champions League group-stage game of the season, in what no doubt will be an exciting match of football.
A Quick Chat With A Benfica Fan
You may recall a couple of months ago I sat down with Ricardo Soares - @RicardoWSTldn - a football coach & top chef in London who I know from my contacts in football and got his take on Manchester United’s past European clashes …
Bebe Ruled Out For Six Months With Knee Injury
In sad news today, it’s come to light that Manchester United’s winger Bebe who is due to be on-loan at Besiktas this coming season faces six months on the sidelines after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament.
My Thoughts On Van Persie, Ramsey and Sagna Vs Benfica
So it wasn’t the result we wanted but it wasn’t exactly the worst performance and the score line could have ended up with several different numbers either side of that dash line. The important thing is that the fans realize why we lost that…
Talk is cheap – summer transfers
This silence appears constant but for a faint rattling of a newspaper as every man becomes an agent or football manager vying for his team to sign one of football’s megastars. The last few years have seen a departure from every man and his dog being linked with United – it’s a much more readable…
Amaury Bischoff alive and well – and playing for Arsenal!
Now how many Arsenal supporters knew that Amaury Bischoff still played for Arsenal. Hands up! In fact I found an article from two years ago where Bischoff himself told L’Equipe that Arsenal had decided not to renew his contract! Read it yourself …
United troops ins, outs and on national service
Interruptions to the Premier League for international matches have never been welcome but Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is breathing a sigh of relief for the respite that his troops can…
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How do you solve a problem like Bebe? Patience.
Enough has been said about Saturday’s performance against Crawley in the FA Cup. There has been a million miles worth of column inches dedicated to that very issue so I won’t be carrying it on. What I do want to talk about is the criticism that has been aimed at certain players, specifically at Bebe. [...]
Tevez dropped by Batista
Carlos Tevez has been dropped from Argentina’s squad for a glamour game against Portugal next month, despite Sergio Batista already having to make do without injured Real Madrid star Gonzalo Higuain.
The City captain is paying the price for boss Sergio Batista wanting to try Lionel Messi as the central striker in a 4-3-3 formation.
“Lionel doesn’t need to win a World Cup to prove that he’s the best player in the world,” said Batista., “We’re looking at one of the best players ever. We have to build a team around him.”
It …
Braga vs Arsenal preview: Will we have learnt anything!?
The million dollar question after Saturday is: Will the last defeat have thought us anything? I don’t know the answer to this. In fact the answer will only be given at the end of the season because simply words don’t matter now, results do and they…
Arsenalistas? Accept no cheap imitations
Braga (aka arsenalistas) who are they?
Well they pipped porto to second last year in the liga
Seem to play counter attacking football in a 4231 in their last game v porto on weekend which they lost 3-2
Braga let porto have lion share of the possession…
[Video] Was this volley the best goal score last night?
Its international week and nothing much to report, apart from France losing 0-1 at home to Belarus (Clichy played and was at fault for the goal) England hammer Bulgaria 4-0 and a massive turn up for Portugal who drew 4-4 with Cyprus. But I did come acr…
Neil Lennon – Braga won’t be easy, but Celtic should come through
The Celtic manager Neil Lennon is not too upset about having to play Portugal’s Braga in the Champions League Qualifiers, but admits that they are unlikely to be pushovers. He thinks there are a few factors that have worked in Celtic’s favour: “They had a decent run in the UEFA Cup in the last few [...]
Spain v Portugal World Cup Highlights
The European Champions Spain went into this game as favourites, and yet again their was no place for the Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas.
Spain dominated the play as Portugal’s Ronaldo was hardly noticed on the pitch, and David Villa’s winner came as no surprise to the watching fans as Spain outplayed Portugal all over the pitch.
The [...]
Spain 1-0 Portugal
CasillasRamos Pique Puyol CapdevilaBusquets AlonsoIniesta Xavi VillaTorresEduardoCosta Carvalho Alves CoentrãoPepeRonaldo Tiago Meireles SimãoAlmeidaGoals:Villa 63′Villa, Villa, Maravilla…Outside of the opening ten minutes, with Torres’ early strik…
Portugal v North Korea extended World Cup highlights
Portugal were very lacklustre in qualifying for this competition, and a 0-0 draw in their first game against the Ivory Coast didn’t augur well for their chances of getting past the group stages, but suddenly yesterday they found their form and destroyed North Korea 7-0.
Their manager Carlos Quieroz, seemed to be elieved as well as [...]
Portugal v Ivory Coast extended highlights
This is one game that you would expect to see lots of goals in, as it featured both Didier Drogba’s Ivory Coast team, and Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal side.
But it wasn’t to be. Like a lot of these opening matches it was like both teams were scared to lose, and the first half was just about [...]
Sexy Katie Green looks even better topless!
The gorgeous model Katie Green has just been on holiday with her mates in Portugal, and she just loves going topless. With a figure like hers she certainly has no need to hide it anyway.
Can you believe that Wonderbra sacked her for being too fat, they really need to sort out their priorities because [...]
Sexy Soccer Fans From Around The World!
With the World Cup soon to arrive on our screen, I thought it time for a quick look at all the sexiest football supporters from around the World, and as usual my favourite is a Brazilian beauty.
I won’t write too much as the pictures themselves will do the talking…….. So enjoy!
And last but not least [...]