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UEFA Cup Thursday Preview
By Ian Rose | April 9th, 2008Now that, once again, we've gotten the Champions League out of our systems, with one great game in England, and then that other one, it's time to decide who will be the Final Four in the UEFA Cup. Here are the matches, and who needs what to progress ...
UEFA Cup Thursday Preview
By Ian Rose | April 2nd, 2008Now that all that Champions League nonsense is over for another week, it's time to get back to the tournament everybody really cares about ... the UEFA Cup. *crickets* ... Anyway, we have four quarterfinal matches tomorrow, and the four return legs ...
Still need 6 out of 8 UEFA Cup bloggers
By Ian Rose | March 29th, 2008I know I haven't been quite as regular on this blog as in the past, with my other blogging duties at the Offside and World Cup Blog keeping me quite busy these days, but I wanted to point something out. Of the eight teams remaining in the UEFA Cup, ...
Rangers buy their fans UEFA Cup tickets
By Ian Rose | March 27th, 2008As Rangers try to continue Scotland's impressive year in Europe, they will travel to Lisbon to take on Sporting CP on April 10th, after a home leg at Ibrox on April 3. Now, Rangers have decided to reward their fans, who have watched a near-record nu ...
Rangers and Sporting move on to quarters
By Ian Rose | March 13th, 2008With a fantastic individual performance by keeper Allan McGregor, Rangers have moved on to the UEFA Cup quarterfinals over Werder Bremen 2-1 on aggregate. A late goal in Lisbon for Sporting CP also put them over a toothless Bolton 2-1. So, the last ei
Round of 16 First Leg Wrap-up
By Ian Rose | March 7th, 2008Anderlecht 0-5 Bayern Munich Wow. This always looked like a lopsided tie, but I didn't expect this. With ten goals in their last two European matches, and five different scorers in today's match, Munich is starting to look like the favorite everyone wa
The UEFA Cup "league table"
By Ian Rose | February 23rd, 2008I got to thinking last night about different ways to talk about the 16 remaining teams in the UEFA Cup. Which side really is the favorite? What has their form been like? I decided it might be interesting to look at the last 16 UEFA Cup teams as a leagu





