A frustrating day

Every cloud has a silver lining, and every bright day has some shadow somewhere (or uncomfortable mugginess, car fumes… you get the drift). Independiente star Daniel Montenegro came through training with no problems at all on Tuesday, but now El Rojo are going to be missing another big player, Leandro Gioda, for two or three [...]

Votes needed

You’ll notice from our sidebar that I’ve been nominated in the ‘Best Sports Blog’ category for the Blogger’s Choice Awards, so here’s a shameless request for your votes. You’ll find the award nominee page for HEGS here. Simply register, and cast your vote (or, if you think someone else is more deserving, vote for them). Voting closes [...]

Look who’s back… again.

After his second-half penalty salvaged a point for River Plate away to San Lorenzo in their first appearance of the 2007 Apertura, Ariel Ortega had team-mates and managers almost fighting amongst themselves to praise him.
Ramón Díaz, who is a great friend of Ortega’s as it is - they were team-mates at River for two years [...]