Articles tagged with "europe"
First Qualifying Round- First Leg Results
By Dan | July 2nd, 2009Competitive football returns: in gamecast form for me, visually for luckier individuals. Sutjeska Niksic 1 - MTZ RIPO 1 Lahti 4 - Dinamo Tirana 1 ...
How to Ruin a Religious Celebration, by Espen Nystuen
By Daryl | July 1st, 2009This is quite the coincidence. Just a few seconds after publishing this post about whether footballers should be allowed to celebrate with relgious gestures, I ...
Random Thoughts on the First and Second Qualifying Rounds
By Dan | June 29th, 2009Even taking UEFA’s excessively long ceremonies for its competition draws into account, no one is going to accuse the early qualifying rounds of the Europa ...
Mark Your Calendars
By Andrea | June 27th, 2009Sorry for the long delay between posts, but the important thing is that they're here now. So what has gone on during that time? Well, ...
Red Bull, Again
By Dan | June 23rd, 2009Just when it seemed that I could not possibly write another piece on news going on outside the transfer window, comes a head-in-hands piece of ...
Leave The Capitol: Foreign Player Limits Come to Bulgaria
By Dan | June 17th, 2009One of the major issues that invariably comes up as part as proposed reforms to the game is a return to the days of limits ...
The Accused Fixed Match In Russia
By chris | June 16th, 2009Another day, another accusation of match fixing in Eastern Europe. No surprise it's Russia, where the rumblings are around on a seemingly permanent basis. Terez Grozny ...
Debt and the Maiden
By Dan | June 11th, 2009Despite Real Madrid’s best efforts to buy everybody, I still consider this time of year, the first few weeks after the end of the season, ...
Goodbye Lenin (and Cottbus)
By Dan | June 6th, 2009As 2009 progresses, it seems that nearly every day that goes by is the anniversary of a significant landmark of East Germany’s dissolution. For ...
Europa League to Host Referee Experiments
By Dan | June 3rd, 2009If you have not seen Daryl’s entry on the front page, UEFA has declared that their experiments with two extra officials, placed behind the goals, ...
Goal-Line Refs for Europa League
By Daryl | June 2nd, 2009As mentioned in yesterday's Daily Dose, UEFA is going ahead with that extra goal-line referee idea first proposed in Juanuary 2008 and recently trialled during ...
Poll: The Coaching Selections.
By chris | June 2nd, 2009It's no surprise that coaching changes are typically swift. The selection for the sidelines can impact everything that happens throughout the summer - from the ...
The Champions of Europe.
By chris | June 1st, 2009Barcelona took continental honors last week but now, with virtually every European league that runs from fall-spring having closed its doors for the season, it's ...
Idle speculation about next season.
By Dan | June 1st, 2009With the exception of the Romanian qualifiers, next season’s Europa League teams are now firmly in place. UEFA probably could not be more pleased ...
European Restructuring Part Two: New Boots and Contracts
By Dan | May 27th, 2009The decision to expand the UEFA Champions League was one of the most significant in the modern history of the European game. As discussed in ...
Hertha In Europe: Sensible Bites
By Dan | May 24th, 2009Remaining objective about the team you support is one of the great challenges in football. Even if you aren’t writing about it, there’s always ...
European Restructuring Part One: The Wealth of Nations
By Dan | May 23rd, 2009European competition used to be relatively straightforward. There was the European cup, for domestic champions, the Cup Winners’ Cup, for domestic cup winners and ...
UEFA Cup Final: The Day the World Turned Day-Glo
By Dan | May 21st, 2009Shakhtar Donetsk 2 - Werder Bremen 1 Although it was an engaging contest, I do not believe that the 2009 UEFA Cup final is going to ...
Top 5 UEFA Cup Finals: # 1
By Dan | May 20th, 20091975-1976 Liverpool 4 - Club Brugge 3 At least this didn't get shoehorned into Sloop John B... As we all know, and probably could comfortably live for ...
UEFA Cup Final: Consider Shakhtar the Favorites
By Dan | May 19th, 2009It took a couple of abortive attempts to write a preview primarily focused on Werder Bremen before I reached an important realization: Shakhtar Donetsk ...
Top 5 UEFA Cup Finals: # 2
By Dan | May 19th, 20091980-1981 Ipswich Town 5 - AZ Alkmaar 4 Bobby Robson's Ipswich Town are one of the great forgotten English teams. A steadily improving side throughout ...
Top 5 UEFA Cup Finals: # 3
By Dan | May 18th, 20091987-1988 Bayer Leverkusen 3 (3) - Espanyol 3 (2) A collapse that can only be described as utter. In terms of names, this was hardly a marquee ...
Top 5 UEFA Cup Finals: # 4
By Dan | May 18th, 20091988-1989 Napoli 5 - Stuttgart 4 Napoli's finest hour, featuring a classic, yet underrated, Maradona performance. The close aggregate score actually flatters Stuttgart, who were not awful, ...
Top 5 UEFA Cup Finals: # 5
By Dan | May 17th, 2009The last UEFA Cup final is going to be an event that launches a thousand lists, so no points for originality here. There are ...
Dutch football: reshaped by modern forces?
By Dan | May 15th, 2009As followers of Dutch football will already be well aware of, the 2008-09 campaign has concluded without Ajax, PSV or Feyenoord, the traditional big clubs, ...
UEFA Cup 1982: Hooray for Sven
By Dan | May 14th, 2009Here's a fun UEFA Cup final from days of yore, when UEFA Cups were not handed out like so many supermarket samples of an exciting ...
Henrik Larsson Still Has Excellent Aim
By Daryl | May 12th, 2009This is too good not to share. It doesn't really need explaining, but let's do it anyway: Swedish goalscoring legend Henrik Larsson (formerly of Celtic, Man ...
Milan Jovanovic: Football's Mike Tyson.
By chris | May 11th, 2009No, Milan doesn't have a devastating hook or a comedic lisp. Nor does he have a giant tattoo on his face - though I suppose ...
The Woodwork Is Not Necessarily A Goalkeeper's Best Friend.
By chris | May 4th, 2009"Expect to see this clip on a cheesy sports TV show, and probably a number of other football websites, at some point soon." Ask and you ...
Game of the Weekend
By chris | May 3rd, 2009Would you believe it wasn't in Spain? You shouldn't...but it wasn't. No, it was actually in Greece and not even in the Super League, which ...
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