Rob Parker | August 19, 2009
When will footballers ever control their need to get naked after scoring?
Sporting Lisbon were 0-1 down to Fiorentina in the home leg of their Champions League qualifier with nearly an hour on the clock when Simon Vukčević clipped his shot inside the far post. He celebrated through that age-old signifier of an important goal: running [...]
Rob Parker | August 6, 2009
Schteve is inschensched
Ex-England boss Steve McClaren was not best pleased to see his FC Twente side knocked out of the Champions League by a late Sporting Lisbon goal. He expressed his anger verbally to a global television audience!
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Rob Parker | March 23, 2009
Not-so-gracious in defeat
The Portuguese Carlsberg Cup final ended in bizarre scenes as Sporting Lisbon’s Pedro Silva threw his runners-up medal across the pitch after defeat to Benfica. If you are thinking Silva sounds like the ultimate bad loser then you would probably be right, but there was some method to his madness.
Sporting had taken an [...]
Rob Parker | November 26, 2008
Portuguese defender lobs his keeper
When you have fought back from 0-3 down to 2-3 against one of the biggest teams in Europe, what you don’t need is one of your defenders to restore the opposition’s two-goal cushion let alone do it with as much panache as Sporting Lisbon’s Marco Caneira did against Barcelona. You suspect [...]
