The Favorites and Underdogs for Advancing in Europe

It's that time of year again, and after a few qualifying rounds, both the UEFA Champions League and the newly branded Europa League have drawn ...

Rising From The Ashes

It's been a hellish pre-season - and last 18 months generally - if you're an AEK Athens fan, with the departure of presidents, managers and ...

Let's Get This Party Started.

Hello Bremen fans! My name is Jamie and I'll be handling the Offside blog now. I plan on updating quite often, so be sure to ...

Sure it was only a Europa league qualifier, but....

Kennedy Bakircioglu is an Assyrian-Swede who began his career with Assyriska Sodertalje. According to the infallible Wikipedia, he trialled with Manchester United before ...

Video: First 5 games of the season

Here's a short compilation made up of Francesco's highlights of the season so far:

Revenge and New Rivals Mark Celtic's Europa League Group

After failing to get past Arsenal in the Champions League qualifier, Celtic will finally get another chance at an old European foe for a previous ...

Elfsborg, Europa League, Transfer Talk And An Injury Crisis: A Day In The Life Of Lazio

I have a lot to get through as you might have guessed from the title. Last night, we succumbed to a poor defeat against Elfsborg ...

Perm, crunching the numbers

Similar in style to the turd sandwich Chelsea left at the Nou Camp last May, Fulham’s display in the Urals was nothing to write home ...

Group Stage Draw and Thoughts

GROUP A: Ajax Amsterdam – Anderlecht- Dinamo Zagreb- Timisoara GROUP B: Valenica- Lille OSC – Slavia Prague- Genoa GROUP C: ...

Playoff Round: Second Leg Results

After Tuesday and Wednesday we knew that Anderlecht, Celtic, FC Copenhagen, Levski Sofia, Panathinaikos, Red Bull Salzburg, Sporting Lisbon, Sheriff, Timisoara, and Ventspils would be ...

Elfsborg - Lazio

In a couple of hours, Lazio will hope to close out their tie against Elfsborg in Sweden as they seek to advance into the Europa ...

Serious Crowd Trouble Should Result in On Field Punishment

More words have probably been wasted on football hooliganism than any other subject having to do with the game. While some of these studies ...

The Perfect Start

You can't get off to a better start in Serie A. Three points in the bag, a clean sheet to boot and all this with ...

Lazio - Atalanta

Serie A is back and tomorrow, this 'new' Lazio will take on a revised Atalanta side in our own backyard. Both sides ended last season ...

Eastern European Fans Strike Again.

Inside the stadium, outside the stadium - it matters not to fans of Eastern European football. Where there's a crime to be done, a protest ...

Norway Beats Valencia & Vice-Versa

Valencia CF is probably growing some fierce dislike for the country of Norway. In the fall of '07, back when Valencia were supposed to be ...

Daily Dose: August 20th, 2009.

Stuff to read while you watch Kaka praise Jesus and fist-pump the pk for 5-0 in a friendly..... Cesc to Barcelona: mark it down (eventually). (Fanhouse ...

Eastern European Football Is Back; Or, 150 Arrested.

Football is back, which means fans are back. Eastern European football is also back, which means Eastern European football fans are back. And this means ...

Playoff Round: First Leg Results

I'm currently on vacation and very much out of the regular news loop, although I was able to watch the PSV 4 - Ajax 3 ...

Lazio - Elfsborg

Lazio's latest European adventure is about to begin. Tomorrow evening, the esteemed Stadio Olimpico will host one of Sweden's finest, IF Elfsborg as both sides ...

Let's get it on!

After an interminably long offseason, the Bundesliga kicks off today with the spotlight match going to Wolfsburg v Stuttgart. Good thing HSV plays at Freiburg ...

Playoff Round Draw

PAOK v. Heerenveen Dinamo Zagreb v. Hearts Werder Bremen v. Akotbe Everton v. Sigma Olomouc BATE v. Litex Lovech NAC Breda v. Villarreal Lech Poznan ...

Europa League/North Curve

A preview of tomorrow's Supercoppa Italia will be posted later today but in the meantime, there are other, more immediate issues to contend with. The ...

Roy Hodgson decided to not give any first teamers a break heading into lull heading into opening day as the usual starting lineup easily dispatched ...

Third Qualifying Round: Second Leg Results

We’ve certainly come a long way from Zestaponi v. Lisburn Distillery. The conclusion of the third qualifying round has, for the most part, been ...

One comeback down. Can there be another?

Congratulations to Celtic today, who came back from a 1-0 opening leg deficit to beat Dinamo Moscow, on the road 2-0, and move on to ...

Eastern Europe 3 - Scotland Nil

Last season was a tough one for Scottish football in Europe. Rangers dropped out of the big show early to Hearts' feeder team (which ...

Third Qualifying Round: First Leg Results

I have to say what a joy it is to watch live, competitive football again. I was able to watch Roma v. Gent, in ...

Finally

HSV have a meaningful match this evening/afternoon, as they take on Danish outfit Randers FC in the Europa League third round qualifying. About eff'ing time ...

Second Qualifying Round: Second Leg Results

The second round of Europa League qualifying is complete. The second leg games that took place today proved to be rather eventful, as there ...