Articles tagged with "other-news-from-europe"
UEFA Refuse to rule out tragic anniversary game for Liverpool
By Rob | February 19th, 2009The 15th of April will be the the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, where 96 supporters died during an FA Cup tie against Nottingham ...
Wembley Favourite for 2011 Final
By Rob | January 23rd, 2009Next week, UEFA will announce which Stadia will hold the 2011 final. According to a UEFA source it will "Almost certainly" go to Wembley. You ...
Great News for Torres!...Oh....
By Rob | October 16th, 2008When the Champions League draw was made, alot of people thought, oooh, Athletico Madrid vs Liverpool, Fernando Torres will go back to the stadium that ...
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 ...
Barca tell The Dhino, "No Olympics for you"
By Rob | July 9th, 2008In another bizzare news story, Barcelona have told out-of-favour striker Ronaldinho he isn't permitted to partake in the Summer Olympics, despite being named in Dunga's ...
Steaua to rejoin Champions League
By Rob | July 5th, 2008This season it looked like UEFA was going crazy, banning teams from the Champions League, left right and centre. First Porto, then CSKA Sofia and ...
Klinsmann's 3 A's can get Bayern "To the end"
By Rob | July 4th, 2008Its not often that you take over a club that has just won the domestic double, but Bayern Munich (Sometimes known as Hollywood FC) are ...
Porto Not Out of the CL just yet.
By Rob | June 13th, 2008After standing up to FC Porto and kicking them out of the Champions League, UEFA has decided to annull that descion and start again. After the ...
Steaua to follow Porto out the CL door?
By Rob | June 11th, 2008This news is a few days old, but forgive me, there has been a small tournament going on that has my attention. Anyway, last week ...
Jose finally revealed as coach of Inter
By Rob | June 2nd, 2008After months upon months of speculation, the Jose-Mourinho-Tombola has stopped to reveal the former FC Porto and Chelsea man as the new coach of Inter ...
6+5 and why we have to stop it
By Rob | May 30th, 2008Sepp Blatter got one step closer to getting his controversial 6+5 policy implemented by 2012, after a FIFA congress voted a landslide in favour of ...
The 35 Moments I'll Remember the 2007/8 Champions League for
By Rob | May 29th, 2008This season's Champions League was full of great moments. Below, I list the 35 that made my season. Remind me of the one's I missed ...
Russian Scientists guarentee there will be no rain for the CL Final
By Rob | May 16th, 2008Wouldn't it be awful if Europe's premier showdown got ruined by rain, and just turned into a long-ball defensive fest? Well Russian scientists clearly agree, ...
Wenger to sue Hleb?
By Rob | May 10th, 2008I'll let you re-read that title. It seems that Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has finally snapped. Annoyed at the potential exodus at the Emirates, starting ...
An Open Letter to Ronaldinho
By Rob | May 7th, 2008After reading Daryl's musing on Ronaldinho's fall from grace, I thought about how much I've covered the story for myself, I thought about how much ...
Flamini, Hleb, Gilberto Silva, Fabregas, Theo, Gallas? A few thoughts on Arsenal's Exodus
By Rob | May 7th, 2008The surprise success story of the season, both in the EPL and the Champions League, Most people doubted Arsenal's ability to qualify for the CL ...
Is an Abramovich-type buy out the only way to cope?
By Rob | May 3rd, 2008As the Roma buyout saga continues with lots of 'I'd like to' 'you've done nothing' 'what's going on?' type newstories, Born-in-England-Italian-Roma Midfielder Simeone Perrotta has ...
Race for the Champions League - Fiorentina or Milan?
By Rob | May 1st, 2008Its a strange set of semi-finals in the Champions League, when it features no clubs from Serie A. Already in Italy clubs are looking towards ...
A 'Celebration' of Simulation
By Rob | April 28th, 2008Yesterday I posted a fun post about Rafa Benitez having a go at Didier Drogba for being 'Theatrical'. Over at the Liverpool Offside, they seemed ...
The Champions League Semi-Final Drinking Games
By Rob | April 27th, 2008So we are just a couple of days away from the mammoth second legs in the Champions League semi-finals. To make them even more fun, ...
And Lo, Avram Grant came good on his promise.
By Rob | April 26th, 2008Over here at the Champions League offside, we've been as bemused and frustrated with Avram Grant as everybody else. Adam (a Chelsea fan) especially. The ...
What He Said: This weeks Champions League in quotes.
By Rob | April 24th, 2008As is traditionally fun, a irreverent look at exactly what managers, coaches, and commentators said before, during and after the Champions League football this week. "Winning ...
Thierry Henry - A look at his underwhelming first year
By Rob | April 22nd, 2008While the world is momentarily distracted by Liverpool Vs Chelsea, most of us are more excited about the game tomorrow between Barcelona and Manchester United. ...
A look at what could be a fascinating summer of transfers
By Rob | April 18th, 2008After Sir Alex Ferguson announced today that he intends to 'Stock up' on players over the summer, it struck me this summer could be a ...
Avram Tries Enigmatic. Ends up like Statler. Now With Video!
By Rob | April 18th, 2008In his second bizzare press conference of the week, Chelsea Manager Avram Grant has completely confused the media, by only answering questions for five minutes, ...
The Latest Bizzare Ticket descion for UEFA
By Rob | April 17th, 2008So your team is in the semi-final of the Champions League. Your mind is begining to dream about Moscow, about watching your team lift the ...
Avram Grant: Ever the optimist
By Rob | April 17th, 2008Despite the fact that rumours are flying around that Chelsea manager Avram Grant is not going to be in his job much longer, yesterday he ...
Johan Cruyff finally reveals why he didn't play in 1978
By Rob | April 17th, 2008The answer to one of football's great mysteries has been revealed. In 1974, Holland, led by Johan Cruyff waltzed through the World Cup to a ...
Ronaldinho: It Won't Just Go Away
By Rob | April 16th, 2008So to recap, It all looked a bit odd at Barca, when news broke that Milan wanted to bring the Brazil forward to the San ...
Cruyff: United 'The best' but Barca can exploit them.
By Rob | April 15th, 2008When Johan Cruyff speaks you listen. The best footballer of all time in my book, and a manager who won the Spanish league and of ...
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