Superclásico previews!

Get yer superclásico previews! Fresh off the keyboard in time for the big match! I’ll stop the cockerknee nonsense now. The first competitive superclásico of 2008 is just three days away, and the good folk at Pitch Invasion and Bill’s Sports Maps have previews written by yours truly. For Bill’s I’ve sketched a brief historical [...]

Not the best preparation

Brazilian sides often show a lot of deference to Boca Juniors in the Copa Libertadores, but on Wednesday afternoon in La Bombonera, at 2-0 down Cruzeiro got one back with a stunning strike after 68 minutes to take the wind out of the hosts’ sails and give the Brazilians a potentially crucial away goal to take back [...]