Foi a vingança inglesa

O Benfica não conseguiu repetir o triunfo da época passada frente ao Manchester United. Nem jogou mal é verdade, após os primeiros dez minutos equilibrou primeiro e superiorizou-se depois até ao intervalo. Dois amarelos para jogadores ingleses (contra um dos portugueses) e mais dois perdoados aos visitantes, mas em termos de oportunidades praticamente só existiram para os ingleses.

Uma bola perdida no meio-campo um contra-ataque dois para dois e Andersson foi de menos para Saha (deu-lhe demasiado espaço) e depois não conseguiu opôr-se ao remate parando a bola, que ainda lhe tocou, no fundo da baliza.

Este golo afectou os encarnados, Cristiano Ronaldo (o melhor jogador em campo) partia tudo, tirou uns livres perigosos, o 0-2 esteve iminente por três vezes na mesma jogada Quim resolveu, mas Van der Saar nunca foi verdadeiramente incomodado; as substituições encarnadas não resultaram e o Benfica foi derrotado.

No próximo jogo vai a Glasgow jogar contra o Celtic e pode ser o adeus ao sonho.

Em Londres este Porto (100% vitorioso em competições internas) também teima em demonstrar não ser suficiente para o plano europeu. Depois do empate em casa, derrota fora por 2-0, resultado que já acontecia com poucos minutos jogados no segundo tempo.

Joga agora em casa frente ao Hamburgo e se o Benfica não pode perder (joga fora frente ao Celtic) ao Porto impõe-se ganhar.

Resta concluir que a imprensa britânica de amanhã, desta vez, pode delirar com os triunfos ingleses sobre os «portuguesinhos» que ultimamente os tem humilhado. Mas, o poderio económico, às vezes serve para alguma coisa...

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Champions League – Group Stage – Matchday 2

Today Sep 26

Group E
Real Madrid 5 – 1 Dinamo Kyiv [1-0 Nistelrooy 20' ; 2-0 Raul 27' ; 3-0 Reyes 45+1' ; 3-1 Milevskiy 47' ; 4-1 Raul 61' ; 5-1 Nistelrooy 70' (pen) ]
Steaua Bucuresti 0 – 3 Lyon [0-1 Fred 43' ; 0-2 Tiago 55' ; 0-3 Benzema 89']

Group F
Benfica 0 - 1 Manchester United [0-1 Saha 60' ]
Celtic 1 – 0 FC Kobenhavn [ 1-0 K. Miller 39' (pen) ]

Group G
CSKA Moskva 1 – 0 Hamburg [1-0 Dudu 59']
Arsenal 2 – 0 FC Porto [1-0 T. Henry 38' ; 2-0 Hleb 48' ]

Group H
AEK 1 – 1 Anderlecht [0-1 Frutus 25'; 1-1 Júlio César 28' ]
Lille 0 - 0 Milan


Tomorrow Sep 27

Group A
Levski Sofia – Chelsea
Werder Bremen- Barcelona

Group B
Spartak Moskva – Sporting
Internazionale – Bayern

Group C
Liverpool – Galatasaray
Bordeaux-PSV

Group D
Shaktar Donetsk – Olympiacos
Valência – Roma

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On this day in History - Sep 26

• 46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in fulfilment of a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
• 0715 - Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne
• 1342 - John I, ruler of Poland, died.
• 1406 - Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros was born (d. 1430). English soldier and politician.
• 1580 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe.
• 1626 - Wakisaka Yasuharu dies (b. 1554). Japanese warrior
• 1687 - The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed after an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who were besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
• 1711 - Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple was born (d. 1779). English politician.
• 1750 - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood was born (d. 1810). British admiral.
• 1758 - Cosme Argerich was born. Argentine physician, founder of the Medicine School of Buenos Aires.
• 1763 - John Byrom dies (b. 1692). English poet.
• 1764 - Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro dies (b. 1767). Spanish scholar.
• 1774 - Johnny Appleseed was born (d. 1847). American environmentalist.
• 1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
• 1783 - Fayette County, Pennsylvania created
• 1789 - Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General.
• 1791 - Théodore Géricault was born (d. 1824). French writer.
• 1795 - Nascimento de Bernardo de Sá Nogueira (1795-1876), em Santarém. Oficial de cavalaria durante as Invasões Francesas, perderá um braço no combate do Alto da Bandeira, durante o Cerco do Porto, no decurso da Guerra Civil de 1832-1834. Será nomeado sucessivamente visconde, conde e marquês de Sá da Bandeira, alcunha por que era conhecido desde o seu ferimento.
• 1802 - Baron Jurij Vega dies (b. 1754). Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and military officer.
• 1810 - A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
• 1815 - The Holy Alliance of Russia, Austria, and Prussia was formed, after the final defeat of Napoleon.
• 1820 - Daniel Boone dies (b. 1734). American frontiersman.
• 1829 - Scotland Yard, the official British criminal investigation organization, is formed.
• 1840 - Louis-Olivier Taillon was born (d. 1923). French Canadian politician.
• 1849 - Ivan Pavlov was born. Russian physiologist, famous for his Nobel Prize-winning behavioral studies on conditioned reflexes in dogs in the 1890s.
• 1854 - Percy Alexander MacMahon was born (d. 25 Dec 1929). English mathematician. Author of Combinatory analysis (2 volumes: 1915, 1916), An introduction to combinatory analysis (1920), New Mathematical Pastimes (1921).
• 1865 - Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford was born. British pilot
• 1868 - August Ferdinand Möbius dies (b. 1790). German mathematician and astronomer.
• 1869 - Komitas was born (d. 1935). Armenian composer.
• 1870 - King Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm was born (d. 1947) . King of Denmark (1912-1947)
• 1871 - Winsor McCay was born (d. 1934). American cartoonist.
• 1873 - Aleksey Shchusev was born (d. 1949). Russian architect.
• 1873 - Wacław Berent was born (d. 1940). Polish novelist and translator.
• 1874 - Lewis Hine was born (d. 1940). American photographer and social activist.
• 1875 - Edmund Gwenn was born (d. 1959). Welsh actor.
• 1876 - Edith Abbott was born (d. 1957). American social worker, educator, and author.
• 1877 - Ugo Cerletti was born (d. 1963). Italian neurologist.
• 1877 - Alfred Cortot was born (d. 1962). Swiss pianist.
• 1877 - Hermann Grassmann dies (b. 1809). German mathematician and physicist.
• 1886 - Archibald Vivian Hill was born (d. 1977). English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1887 - Edwin Keppel Bennett was born (d. 1958). British writer.
• 1887 - Sir Barnes Neville Wallis was born (d. 1979). British scientist, engineer and inventor.
• 1887 - Antonio Moreno was born (d. 1967). Spanish-born actor.
• 1887 - José Montealegre Fernández was born. President of Costa Rica (1859-1860 e 1860-1863)
• 1888 - J. Frank Dobie was born (d. 1964). American folklorist and newspaper columnist.
• 1888 - T. S. Eliot was born (d. 1965). American poet and editor. 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature. (The Waste Land, Ash Wednesday, Poems)
• 1889 - Martin Heidegger was born (d. 1976). German philosopher.
• 1891 - Charles Munch was born (d. 1968). French conductor and violinist.
• 1895 - George Raft was born (d. 1980). American actor.
• 1897 - Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini) was born (d. 1978). 262nd Roman Pope.
• 1897 - Arthur Rhys Davids was born (d. 1917). English pilot.
• 1898 - George Gershwin was born in Brookly NY (d. 11 Jul 1937). American composer (Rhapsody in Blue). He wrote the music for many popular songs for musicals, with his brother Ira writing the lyrics. His greatest work work was the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), on a libretto by DuBose Heyward.
• 1901 - Leon Czolgosz [1873 – 31 Oct 1901], who on 06 September 1901 shot President William McKinley [29 Jan 1843 – 14 Sep 1901], is sentenced to death.
• 1904 - John F. Stairs dies (b. 1848). Canadian businessman and statesman.
• 1905 - Emilio Navarro was born. Puerto Rican Baseball Player
• 1907 - Anthony Blunt was born (d. 1983). English art historian and Soviet spy.
• 1907 - Bep van Klaveren was born (d. 1992). Dutch boxer.
• 1907 - New Zealand and Newfoundland both become a dominion.
• 1909 - Bill France, Sr. was born. American founder of NASCAR
• 1914 - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
• 1914 - Jack LaLanne was born. American fitness advocate.
• 1917 - Réal Caouette was born (d. 1976). French Canadian politician, leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada
• 1918 - World War I: Battle of Meuse.
• 1923 - Dev Anand was born. Indian actor and film producer.
• 1925 - Marty Robbins was born (d. 1982). American singer.
• 1925 - Cândido de Figueiredo dies. Portuguese lexicographer.
• 1926 - Masatoshi Koshiba was born. Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1926 - Julie London was born (d. 2000). American singer and actress.
• 1927 - Patrick O'Neal was born (d. 1994). American actor.
• 1930 - Fritz Wunderlich was born (d. 1966). German tenor.
• 1932 - Dr. Manmohan Singh was born. Prime Minister of India
• 1932 - Richard Herd was born. American actor
• 1932 - Vladimir Voinovich was born. Russian writer and dissident.
• 1933 - Donna Douglas was born. American actress
• 1934 - Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
• 1935 - Federico Páez Chiriboga assume a presidência do Equador
• 1936 - Winnie Mandela was born. South African anti-apartheid activist
• 1937 - Bessie Smith dies (b. 1894). American singer.
• 1941 - Salvatore Accardo was born. Italian violinist and conductor
• 1942 - Kent McCord was born. American actor
• 1943 - Ian Chappell was born. Australian test cricket player and broadcaster
• 1944 - Anne Robinson was born. British television host
• 1944 - World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
• 1945 - Béla Bartók dies (b. 1881). Hungarian composer.
• 1945 - Bryan Ferry was born. British singer.
• 1945 - Gal Costa was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1945 - Louise Beaudoin was born. Quebec politician
• 1946 - Andrea Dworkin was born (d. 2005). American feminist.
• 1946 - Christine Todd Whitman was born. American politician
• 1947 - Lynn Anderson was born. American singer
• 1947 - Hugh Lofting dies (b. 1886). British writer.
• 1948 - Olivia Newton-John was born. Australian singer.
• 1949 - Clodoaldo was born. Brazilian football player.
• 1950 - United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans.
• 1951 - Stuart Tosh was born. Scottish musician
• 1952 - George Santayana dies (b. 1863). Spanish philosopher.
• 1953 - Aivars Lembergs was born. Latvian politician.
• 1954 - Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
• 1954 - Kevin Kennedy was born. Baseball manager and television host
• 1956 - Linda Hamilton was born. American actress.
• 1956 - Steve Butler was born. American racecar driver.
• 1957 - West Side Story, by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins opens on Broadway .
• 1959 - Rich Gedman was born. American baseball player.
• 1960 - In Chicago, Illinois, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
• 1960 - Longest speech in UN history (4h29m, by Fidel Castro)
• 1961 - Bob Dylan makes his public debut.
• 1961 - Will Self was born. British author
• 1961 - Cindy Herron was born. American singer (En Vogue)
• 1962 - Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed (National Day)
• 1962 - Premiere of The Beverly Hillbillies on CBS.
• 1962 - Melissa Sue Anderson was born. American actress.
• 1962 - Peter Foster was born. Australian con-man
• 1963 - Lysette Anthony was born. British actress
• 1964 - Nicki French was born. British singer.
• 1966 - Jillian Barberie was born. Canadian actress and television hostess
• 1966 - Delfim Pinto dos Santos dies in Cascais (b. 1907). Portuguese thinker, philosopher.
• 1967 - Shannon Hoon was born (d. 1995). American singer (Blind Melon).
• 1968 - James Caviezel was born. American actor.
• 1968 - Portugal : O presidente da República anuncia oficialmente a nomeação de Marcelo Caetano para o cargo de Presidente do Conselho de Ministros, em substituição de António de Oliveira Salazar
• 1969 - The Chicago Seven trial begins.
• 1969 - The Beatles album Abbey Road is released in the UK.
• 1969 - The Brady Bunch debuts on ABC-TV and would run for five years.
• 1969 - Paul Warhurst was born. English football player.
• 1969 - Anthony Kavanagh was born. Canadian comedian, actor and singer
• 1970 - The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
• 1972 - Ras Kass was born. American rapper.
• 1972 - Shawn Stockman was born. American R&B singer (Boyz II Men)
• 1973 - Chris Small was born. Scottish snooker player.
• 1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
• 1974 - Martin Müürsepp was born. Estonian basketball player.
• 1975 - Emma Härdelin was born. Swedish singer (Garmarna and Triakel)
• 1976 - Michael Ballack was born. German football player
• 1976 - Lavoslav Ružička dies (b. 1887). Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1976 - Paul Turán dies in Budapest (b. 28 Aug 1910). Jewish mathematician.
• 1977 - Kaylynn was born. American porn star
• 1978 - Manne Siegbahn dies (b. 1886). Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1980 - Patrick Friesacher was born. Austrian race car driver
• 1981 - Christina Milian was born. American actress and singer
• 1981 - Serena Williams was born. American tennis player.
• 1981 - Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
• 1983 - Ricardo Quaresma was born in Lisbon. Portuguese footaball player (FC Porto).
• 1983 - Australia II, the first non-American winner, wins the Americas Cup.
• 1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
• 1984 - United Kingdom agrees handover of Hong Kong on 01 July 1997 : After two years of negotiation, Great Britain formally agreed to honor the expiration of its 99-year lease on the island of Hong Kong / O governo britânico aceitou o regresso de Hong-Kong à soberania Chinesa em 1997.
• 1986 - Ashley Leggat was born. Canadian actress.
• 1987 - Rosie Munter was born. Swedish singer and model (Play)
• 1988 - Ben Johnson is stripped of his gold medal in the 100 m sprint at the Seoul Olympics for failing a drug test.
• 1989 - Um pequeno avião, que transporta três deputados portugueses, cai ao descolar da Jamba, ficando gravemente ferido João Soares, filho do então presidente da República Portuguesa.
• 1990 - The Motion Picture Association of America abolishes the "X" rating, replacing it with "NC-17," a rating designating a film with content inappropriate for viewers under age 17.
• 1990 - (Alberto Pincherle) Alberto Moravia dies at 82. Italian writer (Woman in Red)
• 1991 - Biosphere 2 opens.
• 1993 - Posat I is launched, the first Portuguese satelite. / O primeiro satélite português, PoSat I, foi lançado para o espaço.
• 1997 - A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234;
• 1997 - An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
• 1998 - Betty Carter dies (b. 1930). American singer.
• 2000 - Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turned violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
• 2000 - Express Samina, capsized after running aground near the isle of Paros. 82 people where killed.
• 2000 - Baden Powell, Baden Powell dies. Brazilian musician.
• 2001 - Star Trek: Enterprise begins airing in the US.
• 2001 - Walter Avancini dies (b. 18 Apr 1935). Brazilian actor and director.
• 2002 - Thirty people are killed in a gun attack at a temple in Gandhinagar, India
• 2002 - Five people are shot dead in a botched bank robbery in Norfolk, Nebraska, United States.
• 2002 - The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000.
• 2003 - Shawn Lane dies (b. 1963). American guitarist.
• 2003 - Robert Palmer dies (b. 1949). British singer.
• 2004 - Marianna Komlos dies (b. 1969). Professional wrestling valet
• 2005 - Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israeli Airstrikes on Palestinian targets continue, with the Israel Defense Forces firing missiles in Gaza, knocking out the power supply to the East of the city, the Khan Yunis refugee camp and Rafah. Hamas had earlier declared an end to rocket attacks following pressure from the Palestinian National Authority and Egypt
• Bureflux (Discordianism)
• European Day of Languages
• Dia Mundial do Mar. Dia de São Cosme e São Damião, Santa Justina e São Cipriano, mártires.

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União de Leiria ganha com arbitragem desastrada

A União de Leiria derrotou o Marítimo por 1-0 no encerramento da Jornada 4, com um golo obtido por Songou aos 77'.

No entanto, este jogo teve uma péssima arbitragem de Paulo Costa e seus auxiliares (?) que anulou indevidamente um golo aos madeirenses concretizado por Lipatin mas anulado por inexistente fora de jogo. Também o marcador do golo leiriense já não deveria estar em campo porque aos 73' atingiu violentamente Wénio vendo apenas amarelo.

Depois do empate com o Beira Mar com razões de queixa dos aveirenses agora foram os madeirenses com bastas razões de queixa da arbitragem em Leiria.

Depois do 1-0 Songou esteve perto de marcar o segundo ao rematar à barra.

Os leirienses prefazem sete pontos subindo ao grupo dos terceiros classificados, enquanto o Marítimo mantém quatro pontos.

Entretanto, árbitros como Paulo Costa já há muito tempo quer deviam ter ido para a "jarra".

Estádio Municipal Dr. Magalhães Pessoa, em Leiria
Árbitro: Paulo Costa (Porto)

U. LEIRIA – Fernando; Éder, Marcos António, Valdomiro e Tixier; Harison (Paulo Machado, 90 m), Paulo Gomes e Faria; Sougou, Paulo César (Cadu, 88 m) e N´Gal (Ivanildo, 62 m).

MARÍTIMO – Marcos; Briguel (M´Besuma, 78 m), Gregory, Milton do Ó e Evaldo; Jardel (José Gomes, 61 m), Wénio e André Barreto; Kanu (Neca, 61 m), Lipatin e Marcinho.

Golo: Sougou (77 m)

Cartão amarelo a Milton do Ó, Valdomiro, Sougou, Neca e Evaldo.

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País Macrocéfalo

Miguel Cadilhe no Expresso do passado sábado em título "País Macrocéfalo" escreve que "o concentracionismo é o que é. É entorse que o crescimento, a eficiência e a acumulação fazem ao desenvolvimento. Uma entorse que os políticos têm o dever de contrariar…".

Porém, o que é que os políticos em Portugal, na realidade fazem?

Sob pretextos de racionalidade económica (que como economista rejeito) as decisões políticas que são tomadas são (quase) todas concentracionistas, de agravamento das assimetrias regionais e de incentivo (em vez de combate) à desertificação do interior.

Para não ir muito longe, no Euro 2004 construiram-se estádios novos e remodelaram-se outros, no total de dez. Qual a localização geográfica? Todos na orla litoral. Nem um (em dez!!) situou-se no interior do país. A que pretexto? A da racionalidade sobre a futura utilização dos mesmos? Como, se vemos, designadamente os Estádios de Leiria e de Faro-Loulé com um número de espectadores invariavelmente reduzido?

Mais recentemente temos a questão das Maternidades. Alegando formalmente, não critérios de racionalidade económica, claro, mas de interesse público de qualidade dos serviços prestados, acabam-se com as maternidades de que cidades / regiões ? E movem-se ou transferem-se os utentes para que cidades / regiões? Não há médicos, as condições não são as melhores?

Pois é! Em vez de se combater as causas eliminam-se os efeitos. Trata-se de terapia sintomática.

E na educação? A mesma coisa. Fecham-se as escolas com menor número de alunos e fazem-se deslocá-los para outras. Mais custos e desconforto para as populações afectadas. Mas as outras escolas têm melhores condições de instalação e melhores condições pedagógicas que compensam aqueles custos ? Não está nada provado sobre isso.

Permito-me terminar como Cadilhe quando escreve "Releio, a propósito «Portugal país macrocéfalo», 1966. O livro mereceria uma adenda, 40 anos volvidos, em jeito de espantosa confirmação das tendências que o jornalista Silva Costa desnudou aos olhos do regime, estava Salazar para partir, Marcelo para chegar".

Pois é .. hoje como há 40 anos, agora aliás, há muita gente a falar (já se pode fazê-lo), mas não se vê os políticos com vontade (e capacidade) de ajudar a resolver o problema.

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