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05 November 2011
Liga Preview: Athletic Bilbao – Barcelona, ESPN Deportes/ESPN3.com Bilbo Baggins was fond of many games and activities. He was especially fond of hiding in semi-obscurity until something important came his way. That important thing is Lionel Messi on a tear, but it’s also Marcelo Bielsa and the possibility of being an attacking side. It may [...]
Posted in La Liga, Preview39 Comments
04 November 2011
With little fanfare (though quite a few tweets), Barça launched a new version of their website, fcbarcelona.cat. If you haven’t checked it out, go for a little spin through its new pages…or just continue reading and I’ll give you a guide to what’s going on. Some of it you’ll have already seen, but some of [...]
Posted in Nonsense26 Comments
04 November 2011
Hey folks, here’s a podcast I was on to tide you over before I post something about other stuff later. Podcast Powered By La Liga Weekly Standard Podcasts: | itunes |Download | Embeddable Player
Posted in Podcast4 Comments
03 November 2011
In the movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray is forced to relive a single day–February 2, in this case–over and over again until he gets it right. I’ve always been fascinated with the movie for multiple reasons. First, it’s comedic gold throughout. Ned Ryerson? Genius character (and insightful, perhaps). Second, there are the concepts within it [...]
Posted in Thoughts67 Comments
02 November 2011
This is the kind of match that gives fuel for the fires stoked by those who say that certain teams have no business being in the Champions League, that big clubs such as ours, even though Viktoria Plzen is a champion in its own right, can stroll along with a guaranteed 3 points. Those people [...]
Posted in Champions League, Kevin Rating Synthesis, Review122 Comments
01 November 2011
Life has caught up to the BFB team and we’re all unavailable to run the liveblog today. I blame Hleb. We apologize profusely and suggest that you enjoy a match comments post here throughout the game. Open threads are totally sweet, you know. Lineups! Viktoria: 4-4-2; Pavlic, Lmbersky, Bystron, Cisovsky, Rajtoral, Horvath, Jiracek, Pilar, Kolar, Ptrezela, [...]
Posted in Champions League, Match comments post137 Comments