Articles tagged with "europe"
China Pulls Its Own League From Television
By chris | November 20th, 2008China has decided to remove TV coverage of their top league due to excessive pitch violence which turns football matches into impromptu martial arts competitions. ...
UEFA Want Your Skill Submissions; Hideous Prize Awaits.
By chris | November 19th, 2008If you haven't checked out UEFA's Training Ground in the past, it's well worth a look now. They take the biggest stars and ask them ...
Oh Hey, Football's Happening
By Abby | November 6th, 2008I've been busy being overwhelmed by awesome, to the point where I can't quite think about football. Also, I was doing a lot of celebratory ...
Watching from the sidelines...
By Peter Katsiris | November 6th, 2008As the UEFA Cup takes center stage across Europe this evening, one of the teams not participating tonight will be Olympiacos. The Greek Champions will ...
James Bond Surveils Ballack-Löw Peace Summit
By chris | October 31st, 2008Though I suppose if it were actually James Bond, the pictures would look a lot less grainy. But still, one can't help but look at ...
Time To Switch Bundesligas
By chris | October 25th, 2008I like goals. Do you like goals? Austria likes goals. Second weekend in a row the Austrian Bundesliga has produced a double-digit goal thriller, though this ...
Turkish delight leaves bitter taste for Olympiacos
By Peter Katsiris | October 23rd, 2008The revival of the Greco-Turkish rivalry didn't produce a memorable result for Olympiacos on this night, as Olympiacos was narrowly edged by Galatasaray at the ...
National pride on the line, as Olympiacos travels to Turkey
By Peter Katsiris | October 23rd, 2008Thursday night marks the opening night of the UEFA Cup Group Stage for thirty-two teams. But one match in particular will be monitored closely, as ...
German Jinxes
By Abby | October 22nd, 2008Apparently, Portuguese giants Benfica have a poor record in Germany. They've played 15 games on German soil and lost 11 of them. They've never won ...
Roman Pavlyuchenko Scores in Russian Politics
By Daryl | October 14th, 2008Congratulations are due to Spurs' Russian striker Roman Pavlyuchenko, who's been elected to the regional council in his home town of Stavropol. Vladimir Putin's United ...
We'll Always Have Otaci
By Abby | October 7th, 2008The UEFA Cup sure has been fun, hasn't it? A few clubs I'd never heard of, a bit of coverage from the Irish press where ...
Tough Draw for Greek Champions
By Peter Katsiris | October 7th, 2008Today's draw for the UEFA Cup group stage created a tough route for Olympiacos who find themselves in a tight Group 2. Other sides joining ...
Olympiacos awaits UEFA Cup draw
By Peter Katsiris | October 6th, 2008The eve of the UEFA Cup draw has brought plenty of excitement to Piraeus, as Olympiacos awaits the results of the UEFA Cup draw. The ...
Olympiacos extends UEFA Cup plans
By Peter Katsiris | October 3rd, 2008It was a triumphant night for the Greek Champions who ran out 5-0 winners over Danish side FC Nordsjaelland to seal a spot in the ...
UEFA Cup group stages linger around Piraeus
By Peter Katsiris | October 2nd, 2008After a 2-0 win in Denmark just over two weeks ago, Olympiacos welcome FC Nordsjaelland to Piraeus for the return leg of their two-legged tie ...
One more chance for Motherwell
By Ian Rose | September 30th, 2008Today is the day that decides the fate of Motherwell's 2008-09 European adventure. Can John Sutton, David Clarkson and the rest of the Well ...
We're Adequate!
By Abby | September 30th, 2008And not much more. A 0-0 draw against St. Patrick's- described, as expected, as "battling"- in rainy Dublin means that we're through to the group stages ...
Urgh.
By Abby | September 29th, 2008Not really the best weekend, football-wise. Normally I'd be avoiding the news until the end of the week, but I have a job to do ...
What to Watch This Weekend
By Daryl | September 26th, 2008Premier League - Everton vs Liverpool When: Saturday, Septemmber 27, 12:45 GMT Where: Goodison Park Why: Some early afternoon red vs blue action in the Merseyside derby. It's ...
Poll: Is Landon Donovan Finally Ready for Europe?
By Daryl | September 24th, 2008Landon Donovan won MLS Player of the Week for his part in LA Galaxy's 5-2 win over DC United this past weekend. With a nice ...
German Footballer Banned for Exposing Himself in Team Photo
By Daryl | September 19th, 2008This cheeky chappy is Sezgin Özhan, of German amateur team Vfvb Ruhrort/Laar. He's a cheeky chappy because for the Ruhrort/Laar team photo he took out a ...
10 Ways We'd Improve the UEFA Cup
By Daryl | September 18th, 2008It's the first round of the UEFA Cup today, with 80 teams playing 40 games to see who makes the group stage. The UEFA Cup ...
We're All Celts Today, Round 1
By Ian Rose | September 16th, 2008Well ... not all of us. Just as Celtic fans can't be asked to root for Rangers in Europe, (and can be forgiven for ...
Not Done Yet, But Not A Bad Place to Be
By Abby | September 16th, 2008A 2-0 win over St. Patrick's Athletic today meant that we're in a good position to advance to the next UEFA Cup round, but it ...
First and Last and Always
By Abby | September 15th, 2008VfL Wolfsburg had their third successive 2-2 draw (that's kind of weird, isn't it?) with Hertha on Saturday, scoring in the first and the last ...
Sutton and Clarkson will be key for Motherwell
By Ian Rose | September 14th, 2008As we continue our ongoing preview of Motherwell's entry into the UEFA Cup this week, I wanted to take a closer look at the two ...
Injury bug hits Piraeus
By Peter Katsiris | September 2nd, 2008The season is only a few days young, but that hasn't stopped nagging injuries to bite some of Olympiacos core players. Predrag Djordjevic is among ...
So Many Things Are Happening
By Abby | September 1st, 2008That it's almost hard to keep up. You wait for news, and then, it appears... First off- Hertha beat NK Interblock Ljubljana 1-0 in Berlin, to ...
Paul Scholes With Possibly the Best Handball Ever
By Daryl | August 30th, 2008It didn't count, and it got him sent off for a second bookable offence. But Paul Schol's handball in the dying moments of Man Utd's ...
Cyprus 2 - Greece 0
By chris | August 29th, 2008According to UEFA, the Greek Super League is more than twice as good as the Cypriot First Division (coefficient ranking of 25.8 to 10.1). Doesn't ...
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