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May 26th, 2008

End of an Error

By: Mando | Comments 2 Comments

Well, it’s what I’ve been saying for weeks and it finally hit. After losing the plot when Tamudo was injured, failing to deal with the fractured locker room early enough, giving up on Europe and giving up on the city, Ernesto Valverde quit today as coach of RCD Espanyol.
“The atmosphere around the club at [...]



May 21st, 2008

Take me out of my misery

By: Mando | Comments 1 Comment

The miserable second half is over ladies and gentlemen, our promising season that looked headed for European glory, was sucked in and spit out by the twin menaces of complacency and greed. Good riddance to the over-hyped imbeciles who looked at the Monopoly money in Europe, away from the Montjuic and decided that being an [...]

Category Category: Espanyol
May 15th, 2008

Two Easy

By: Mando | Comments No Comments

Where have we been since my last post? Twin scoreless defeats to two of the top teams in the Primera. We were again listless in both matches, comfortable and secure in our place at the table, yet weeks gone from the promise of a guaranteed European slot. The mistakes are killing us. I can think [...]

May 8th, 2008

Que verde Valverde

By: Mando | Comments No Comments

I won’t bother with explaining away the poor performance against arguably one of the worst sides ever to have played in La Liga with Levante, but instead I’ll just let our “green” trainer explain it for himself.
“Today we were not a good team because we didn’t win, and we couldn’t win because we could [...]

May 2nd, 2008

The Valencia disease

By: Mando | Comments 1 Comment

Originally this started out as an answer to a comment on my previous post and I knew it was going to grow into a bigger deal so instead I tacked it here.
Well, I mentioned earlier that Espanyol is suffering not from a lack of quality but from a lack of effort; they stopped competing. [...]

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