Articles tagged with "michel-platini"
French Football Dose: 11/2/10 and Quote of the Week
By Thomas | November 2nd, 2009First off, we'll have the inaugural Quote of the Week... First Place: When asked his thoughts about the schedule changes for small Ligue 1 sides due ...
Daily Dose: October 7th, 2009.
By chris | October 7th, 2009Stuff to read while you relive some Davor Suker at France '98..... Michel Platini sat cheerfully ignorant as his press conference was crashed. (Reuters) A minority of ...
English Premier League to Grow Their Own
By Daryl | September 16th, 2009There's a bit of a shakeup happening in the world of football right now, with more than one organization taking steps to self-correct the problems ...
Michel Platini Ends The Big Money Era
By chris | September 15th, 2009Michel Platini's been throwing his weight around since assuming the UEFA high throne and, whether or not you agree with his ideologies, he's getting stuff ...
No Foreigners Is No Dice.
By chris | September 4th, 2009Back in June CSKA Sofia made the bold announcement that they'd only be going forward with Bulgarian players. “From now on our policy will be ...
Photo: Michel Platini's Personal Hell.
By chris | September 3rd, 2009Michel looks the part of a man preferring the gallows as he's caught in the cross(hot)winds of his two favorite people, Fergie & Arsene. Do ...
Yellow Cards for Footballers Who Spit?
By Daryl | August 26th, 2009That's what Christophe Rouillon, mayor of Coulaines, France is calling for, as part of his plan to combat swine flu. Rouillon has already banned spitting ...
Stop Worrying About Transfers Fees
By Daryl | July 2nd, 2009Real Madrid's €215m (and counting) spending spree seems to have Michel Platini a bit worried. In a recent interview with French sports daily L'Equipe, the ...
I've Got A Bad Feeling About This
By Wayne Farry | May 14th, 2009Reports coming out of Italy, courtesy of newspaper La Repubblica, say that plans are being drawn up by Ultras to cause massive trouble on the ...
Really boring football cliché's debunked
By Rob | May 7th, 2009After last nights drama in the Chelsea/Barca semi final, there was a bit of an explosion of passion - which is nice don't get me ...
Match-Fixing Alive & Well
By chris | April 27th, 2009Despite the European seasons winding down and races beginning to dwindle, the betting industry has seen some marked spikes in betting. So marked a few ...
Is Limiting Squad Sizes to 25 a Good Idea?
By Daryl | March 25th, 2009Something big is about to change in the football world. I'm not sure exactly what it is yet, but something's about to happen. Might be ...
Platini vs the European Super League
By Daryl | March 18th, 2009Remember the European Super League? The idea for a hyper-exclusive breakaway league featuring Europe's top clubs was often talked about/threatened by the G-14. It would have ...
Daily Dose: March 5th, 2009.
By chris | March 4th, 2009Stuff to read while you notice something coming through your viewfinder at a high speed......... Screw Champions League - talking midtable Slovenian football. (uefa) Viral videos are ...
Offside Rewind: Get Your Own Shorts
By Daryl | February 20th, 2009Seven things you might have missed on The Offside and World Cup Blog this week: World Cup 2010 tickets finally on sale All hail Maraguero Michel Platini plans ...
Can Michel Platini Save Football?
By Daryl | February 18th, 2009I'm starting to quite like Michel Platini as president of UEFA. You can take issue with his various ideas and the way he goes about ...
The Weekend JunkPile: Platini's New Job, Mexico Does Voodoo and More
By Laurie | January 31st, 2009Here's your weekly (or whatever) pile of things that caught my interest or made me smile this week, but didn't warrant a whole post. Newest Member ...
Poll: Did UEFA look the other way with Rooney?
By chris | December 15th, 2008Slow day, which means perhaps the biggest news - it's even made American front pages - is that UEFA has decided not to suspend the ...
Lyon Are Also Becoming Baby Poachers
By Inara | November 12th, 2008Readers of this blog will know how much I detest Arsene Wenger and his policy of stealing the youth players of other clubs. I know ...
Happy Birthday Capitano!
By Marco P. | November 9th, 200834 years ago, on the 9th of November 1974, in a little town called Conegliano in the province of Treviso, one of the beautiful game's ...
Daily Dose: Oct 27th, 2008
By Daryl | October 27th, 2008Something to read while you try to walk home drunk...(use your mouse to stay upright, harder than it sounds) When Friday Comes (101 Great Goals) Why goals ...
The ramblings of a madman (Blatter, not me.)
By Rob | July 10th, 2008Sepp Blatter has described footballers on long-term contracts as "like modern slavery". I'll let you read that back. Players like C-Ron, earning Millions of pounds ...
UEFA Cup's Delusions of Grandeur
By chris | July 7th, 2008In an attempt to get out of the shadow of their much smarter, more handsome and successful older brother, the Champions League, the UEFA Cup ...
Good News/Bad News for Cardiff City
By Daryl | March 15th, 2008First the good news: Though the English FA isn't keen to let Cardiff City represent them in the UEFA Cup, Michel Platini is not so ...
Michel Platini Wants to Give Refs Extra Eyes
By Daryl | January 17th, 2008Not literally. He's not planning some weird bionic implants. But with so much at stake in seemingly every football match, there's a definite clamour for ...
Premier League to Platini: Keep Your Nose Out!
By Daryl | November 28th, 2007UEFA head honcho Michel Platini has spelled out some home truths for English football and why the England national team is currently useless, all without ...
Report: G14 and UEFA kiss and make up
By Bob | November 7th, 2007Just when we thought that the G14 group of rich football clubs was heading for a showdown with UEFA boss Michel Platini over the future ...
G14 Threatening Champions League Boycott
By Bob | November 2nd, 2007The big clubs that call themselves the G14 are quite ok suckling the golden cow known as the Champions League each year. UEFA boss ...
Michel Platini determined to change the Champions League
By Bob | August 28th, 2007You can't fault Michel Platini for trying. The UEFA boss is eager to bring change to the Champions League and to diversify the pool ...
The New President of G-14 (aka Aulas vs. Platini)
By Inara | May 15th, 2007Word on the street is that Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas will be elected president of the G-14 tomorrow. Consisting of the 18 most powerful ...
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