Trollin’ erryday, even in el Clasico. Madrid wins 2-1 on the road and puts the stranglehold back on La Liga.
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April 22, 2012
Cristiano Ronaldo scores game winner at Camp Nou, tells Barça fans to keep it down.
April 17, 2012
UEFA Champions League semi-finals!
In about 45 minutes, we’ll have the first leg of Bayern Munich-Real Madrid.
At this time tomorrow, it will be Chelsea-Barcelona.
Here are the line-ups for today’s Bayern-Real semi:
RM: Casillas (C), Pepe, Ramos, Coentrão, Arbeloa, Khedira, Özil, Alonso, Di María, Ronaldo, Benzema
Bayern: Neuer, Boateng, Lahm (C), Badstuber, Ribéry, Robben, Alaba, Gustavo, Schweinsteiger, Kroos, Gomez
So, whether first leg only or aggregate — WHO YA GOT?
March 16, 2012
Champions League Quarterfinal/Semifinal draw
Apoel Nicosia v. Real Madrid
to play the winner of
Olympique du Marseille v. Bayern Munich
AND
Chelsea v. Benfica
to the play the winner of
Barcelona v. AC Milan
Thoughts?
February 27, 2012
Cristiano Ronaldo troll-gazed the entire Rayo Vallecano squad by sending a no-look back heel with actual power past the defenders and the keeper for the only score in a 1-nil away win.
Mario Balotelli: take notes.
February 21, 2012
Champions League Round of 16, part 2.
First legs of four more match-ups today and tomorrow, and again, the fact that one of the matches is in Russia means live TV for American viewers for all four games again.
Today:
- CSKA Moscow vs. Real Madrid (noon EST, Fox Soccer)
- Napoli vs. Chelsea (2:45 pm EST, Fox Soccer)
Tomorrow (both matches live at 2:45 pm EST)
- Olympique de Marseille vs. Inter Milan (Fox Soccer)
- FC Basel vs. Bayern Munich (regional Fox Sports or Root Sports cable station)
Also, we may semi-live-tweet the games at TWGBlog.
WHO YA GOT?
February 12, 2012
Every once in awhile, Cristiano Ronaldo likes to remind everyone that he is also unbelievably talented (since he plays in the same general airspace as Lionel Messi). This is his third goal during today’s destruction of Levante by the La Primera Liga leaders, Real Madrid.
December 10, 2011
Tweeting El Clásico.
It’s on ESPN 3 right now for American viewers.
We’re kinda live-tweeting it over at TWGBlog.
September 12, 2011
Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo covers this weekends Sunday issue New York Times Style magazine.
Oh my.
August 18, 2011
Here’s video of Jose Mourinho attempting to eye-gouge (or so it would appear) Barcelona assistant Tito Villanova’s eye during the fracas at the end of yesterday’s Super Cup.
The really good shenanigans start around the :15 mark or so.
(h/t to @bubbaprog of Sports Grid for the vid)
(Source: sportsgrid.com)
August 18, 2011
Super Cup link dump
The Barcelona-Real Madrid fallout continues today. Links to stories if you would like to listen to grown men whine about each other:
Gerard Pique says Jose Mourinho is “destroying” the Spanish game. [Fox]
Mourinho called Barcelona a “small club” after the on-pitch mess at the end. [Guardian]
Cesc Fabregas set up the tie-winning goal in his debut for his hometown club. [BBC]
Lionel Messi was the difference once again. [Goal.com]
Iker Casillas claims Barca acted like children towards the end of the match. [ESPNStar]
Is Mourinho the true winner because of all the discussion about him? [Telegraph]
All of this happened with the threat of a players strike hanging over the start of the La Liga season. [WSJ]
New Barcelona signing Alexis Sanchez will miss at least a week with a leg injury. [MySA]
August 8, 2011
Real Madrid may have just signed a seven-year-old to a professional football contract, but their scouts still have nothing on Carter Blanchard and Ty Keenan.
August 5, 2011
Real allows Sergio Canales to leave but not without restrictions - Sid Lowe - SI.com
This loan clause wherein clubs dictate that the player they loan out cannot play against them has to end if, in the case of Valencia and Sergio Canales, the loaning club is paying his entire salary. If Real Madrid were still paying him while he was out on loan, I’d understand, but that’s not the case here and Lowe is dead on.
There is a very bad limbo that exists if a player is not good enough to make your first team but is too good to play against you.
July 17, 2011
Hate his way, hate his game, hate his popped collar, but you can’t hate on Cristiano Ronaldo’s skill. It may have been only a friendly against the L.A. Galaxy at the Coliseum, but C-Ron gave us a flash of why so many of us loathe and love him at the same time.
(Of course, Real Madrid won 4-1 with what could be called alternate “A” squads for both halves.)
May 5, 2011
"A cursory glance at Roy Hodgson or Carlo Ancelotti proves there are no shortage of managers who could benefit from a crash-course in blame deflection, conspiracy theories and breath-taking hypocrisy that are the Special One’s current areas of expertise, but it’s probably fair to say that Sir Alex Ferguson has forgotten more about all three dark arts than even Real Madrid’s preening, strop-throwing touchline pouter will ever know."
— It’s always extra-fun when the Guardian’s Barry Glendenning is at the helm of the Fiver for the day.
April 27, 2011
Jose Mourinho may rage all he likes at the officials. Both sides played despicably save 11 minutes of brilliance from Leo Messi and Ibrahim Affelay. Real Madrid parked the bus and hoped no one would whistle their fouls; Barça dove like an Olympic team (looking at Dani Alves & Sergio Busquets in particular) while agitating with ref Wolfgang Stark to card RM players. This eventually led to a red card on Pepe which could be debated. I thought it yellow only, but when the studs are up on a tackle one runs the risk of a straight red. This opened up the field for Barcelona.
Mourinho can talk all about how he planned to open up after keeping it at nil for so long afterward, it didn’t happen, and to accuse Barcelona of fixing the refs is a smokescreen from his own craven game-planning.
Bad scene, everyone’s fault.
(via José Mourinho rages at ‘plot’ to put Barcelona in the final | Football | The Guardian)
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