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Jornada 9 Preview: Portugal’s A Mess 22 Nov 2008 | 09:16 am
This weekend’s matches open in a Portugal that is currently reeling from a National Team perspective. The state of Portuguese football is in a shambles after a 6-2 drubbing at the hands of colonial ri...
Jornada 8 Recap: Leixões Still At the Top 19 Nov 2008 | 08:47 am
Double u tee eff is going on with the league this season? How in the name of all that is holy as well as unholy are Leixões managing to keep up this ridiculous pace? They have 19 points in 8 matches a...
Jornada 8 Preview: 1st Place Leixões (I know!) at 4th Place Sporting 15 Nov 2008 | 10:23 am
It feels as though it’s been like six quadrillion years since we’ve had a league match go down. But let’s not lament what has felt like an eternity since Porto sunk wayyy down into eighth place. Let’s...
No League Matches, Let’s Do the Taça Dance 8 Nov 2008 | 08:24 am
Sorry I didn’t get to a recap of the league this week. I’ll throw one up sometime next week. The aforementioned domestic competition is taking the weekend off for Round Seven Bazillion of the Taça de...
Jornada 7 Preview: Still Lookin’ For A Hero 1 Nov 2008 | 02:20 am
The first six weeks of the season have been somewhat confusing. Sporting rolled out of the gates with three wins and those who were picking them as the favorite to win the league this year were lickin...
Jornada 6: It’s A Big Week For Those Called ‘Braga’ 29 Oct 2008 | 04:29 am
Porto are out of first place already in what probably amounts to their shortest run at the top since I can remember. Unreal. Benfica are actually above both of the other “Big 3″ at this point, sitting...
Jornada 6 Preview: Back to Work 25 Oct 2008 | 06:11 am
The league welcomed the end of the International Break last week with a round of Portuguese Cup matches that I blatantly ignored as it’s not far enough into the tournament for me to care. It’s really ...
Jornada 5 Recap: Familiar Faces in First Places 10 Oct 2008 | 08:47 am
The league really has to change its name. I know that it’s allegedly called “Liga Sagres” after the beer company “Sagres,” but without commercializing it, it’s the “Portuguese Liga.” However, given th...
Jornada 5 Precap: Here We Go Again 8 Oct 2008 | 12:21 am
Well, that lasted a whole four weeks… Jornada five brought us a Porto away win against formerly second place Sporting. Which, as you might have figured, also brings Porto back into familiar territory ...
Jornada 5 Preview: 2 v 4 and 3 v 5 4 Oct 2008 | 03:25 am
It’s a big weekend in Portuguese club football. Second place Sporting welcome fourth spot Porto with open arms and hearts for another iteration of the clássico (which describes seventeen matches durin...
