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January 29th, 2009

The Turk Telekom Arena continues to rise ~~~Pictures!!!~~~

By: Musab | Comments 1 Comment

Our future as a club rests solely on the shoulders of the good men and women working to raise this stadium. When done it will be one of the most modern and technologically advanced stadiums in Europe with a seating capacity of roughly 52,000 fans and a roof that opens and closes in record time. [...]



January 27th, 2009

I hope Sivas burns, Turkish Cup Quarterfinals – Galatasaray 1:1 Sivasspor

By: Musab | Comments 8 Comments

After Saturday’s horrific league match, Sivas traveled over to Istanbul to see what a real stadium looks like. I guess the retards were surprised that grass can actually grow when care is given. Besides the state of the pitch the only difference between the game was that the defense was turned into something a bit [...]

Category Category: Postmatch, Rant
January 26th, 2009

Say “No!” to Turkish Stadiums!!!, Sivasspor 2-0 Galatasaray

By: Musab | Comments 4 Comments

The match on Saturday was another example of points lost due to Third-world Turkish stadiums and malicious Turkish referees. The pitch was completely frozen, the radiators in the visiting dressing room was broken, and football was simply not played. The reaction of Milan Baros after seeing the frozen pitch was pitiful.
SİVASSPOR:2 GALATASARAY:0
Stadium: [...]

January 21st, 2009

State of the Defense and how to prepare for -20 degrees football on an icy pitch

By: Musab | Comments 2 Comments

As we stand right now, we only have one central defender that is able to play against leaders Sivasspor this weekend, 35 year old Emre Asik. Meira and Emre Gungor are banned after accumulating yellow cards and a one match red card ban respectively. Servet Cetin has a dislocated shoulder that the physios are working [...]

Category Category: Daily News
January 14th, 2009

Adnan Polat has been studying his numerology…

By: Musab | Comments 3 Comments

Well I guess what we’ve all suspected has come to be true. Adnan Polat is a master of divination and is able to predict things simply from Turkish car plates. I knew all those numbers had to mean something.
For those of you that don’t know, the last two numbers of every Turkish licence plate corresponds [...]

Category Category: Numerology


January 13th, 2009

Arda further cements himself as a legend: “CimBom to the Death”

By: Musab | Comments 4 Comments

Our golden boy Arda gave an interview with GSTV today in which he made some important points, including some that the younger CimBomlu’s should pay attention to.
“It’s not easy to wear Galatasaray’s uniform. This goes for those who are given the chance to play, as well as those that sit aside for that match. [...]

Category Category: Interviews
January 12th, 2009

Top 10- Greatest Galatasaray players

By: Musab | Comments 7 Comments

In a previous top 10 I listed the top Galatasaray transfers of all time. This time I will put the spotlight on the greatest players to have ever worn “lé sacré jaune rouge”.
1. Hakan Sukur [1992-1995, 1995-2000, 2003-2008] From: Bursaspor
I put Hakan on the number one spot of the last list as greatest transfer of [...]

Category Category: Top 10
January 8th, 2009

An encounter of the old kind- Altay 1-2 Galatasaray

By: Musab | Comments No Comments

In the old days Altay was one of the major players in the Turkish Super league. In addition, they have also reached the finals of the Turkish Cup on six occasions, a record for an Anatolian team, bringing the Cup back home to Izmir twice. However after being relegated, Altay has been in the [...]

Category Category: Postmatch
January 6th, 2009

Gerets to reunite with Umit?

By: Musab | Comments No Comments

Eric “Baba” Gerets will never be forgotten by the CimBom faithful after leading us to an amazing championship in 2006, despite the club being on the verge of completely shutting down after a huge debt was destroying the club from within. The players salaries were not being paid (which is how Franck Ribery was able [...]

Category Category: Daily News



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