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Jose Mourinho: One Manager To Rule Them All
Real Madrid wrapped up the La Liga title last weekend, with Jose Mourinho leading the Santiago Bernabeu outfit to their first Spanish top-flight success in four years. A convincing 3-0 away win over Europa League finalists Athletic Bilbao sealed the triumph, and broke Barcelona’s stranglehold over the game in Spain. The achievement has not gone…
Andre Villas-Boas to bring youthful exuberance and flair to Chelsea
Andre Villas-Boas will become the seventh Chelsea manager in the same number of years as owner Roman Abramovich activated his staggeringly high release clause totalling £13.3 million from FC Porto. At just 33-years of age, Villas-Boas delivered an array of success and dominance during his inaugural – and last – season in charge of the…
Unstoppable Porto Set Up All-Portuguese Europa League Final
Three games. Fifteen goals. Even after a sloppy start in which they allowed Villareal to go in 1-0 up at half-time, FC Porto insisted on being brilliant. Having scored five in each leg against Spartak Moscow, Andre Villas Boas’ all-conquering cohort decided to repeat the trick in just one half against Villareal to set up…
Tottenham, Inter and Juventus potential destinations for Porto’s rising stars
FC Porto have been one of European football’s revelations this season, as Andre Villas Boas’ side have swept all-comers aside domestically and in Europe. The side from the Estadio do Dragao finished third last season in the league, but have had a barnstorming and unbeaten run this campaign, winning the title back at a canter,…
Beyond Lionel Messi: An Alternative List of the Top 25 Football Players in the World (25-11)
In my previous article, I argued that the process by which we decide who the world’s best players are has been grossly distorted. A combination of mainstream media hype (backed up with its ‘statistics’ – often little more than a ruse to get people gambling) and a nostalgic longing for the return of the great…
The year of the underdog in the UEFA Champions League
As Schalke gears up for arguably the biggest game in their history against Manchester United in the UEFA Champions League semi-final on Tuesday night, their passage to the last-four brings back memories of that telling year of 2004 where the underdogs reigned supreme. As Europe’s elite fell like a stack of dominoes during that frantic…
Europa League: Portuguese Navigators Must Beware the Yellow Submarine
These are unchartered waters for Portuguese football. With the national economy in tatters (and crippling international loans looking ever more likely), its football clubs are putting on a remarkable show in the Europa league, in which three Portuguese clubs are all in a strong position to advance to the Semi-Finals. ‘Can We Pay in Goals?’,…
Andre Villas Boas: The New Jose Mourinho?
The young coach has already cemented his place in Porto history with an unstoppable march towards the league title.
Benfica 1-2 FC Porto: Benfica hand Porto Portuguese Title on a Plate
Porto will be celebrating their 25th Portuguese league title in the dark. So humiliating did the powers that be find their bitter rivals celebrating a deserved title, earned by defeating Benfica on their own patch, that they decided to switch off the floodlights when the final whistle went at the Estadio da Luz (‘The Stadium…
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