Schalke escapes Spain with tough draw

As the match got underway it was very clear that die Königsblauen boss Fred Rutten was serious about being satisfied with a draw as both ...

late goal by Benjani gives Man City the victory

On the strength of Benjani's goal just past the hour mark, Man City defeated Twente 3-2 in a UEFA Cup match at Eastlands. The match ...

Spartak Moscow falls to Udinese at Luzhniki

After a triumphant victory over CSKA Moscow this weekend, confidence around Spartak Moscow was riding high. However Serie A Udinese brought a taste of reality ...

Milan 1 Braga 0

I am not going to sit here and recap this entire the game, because quite frankly there is not all that much to talk about. ...

a Mario Gómez late show

After a back and forth first half, a late two-goal flurry by Mario Gómez gave die Roten the victory over Belgrade's FK Partizan. As expected ...

Watching from the sidelines...

As the UEFA Cup takes center stage across Europe this evening, one of the teams not participating tonight will be Olympiacos. The Greek Champions will ...

Zhovto-Syni!

Following Champions League losses of Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv it is up to Metalist Kharkiv to save me from this week of despair. ...

Advance Thoughts: 11/6 vs. Dinamo Zagreb

Nothing more fitting can be said about today's game than this: you can watch live on Fox Soccer in the States and, um, nowhere in ...

AC Milan - SC Braga

UEFA Cup: CSKA Moscow v Feyenoord

Valery Gazzaev's CSKA Moscow travels to Rotterdam to face Feyenoord of the Eredivisie in the UEFA Cup. Koni's remarkable thirteen match unbeaten streak came ...

FC Twente match preview

Man City returns to UEFA Cup action with Steve McClaren's FC Twente visiting Eastlands. Mark Hughes will be likely be without Richard Dunne for the match ...

Racing Santander won't roll over like PSG

After a laughable opening match against PSG in which the hapless Ligue 1 lost 3-1 at Veltins-Arena, die Königsblauen face Racing Santander in Spain. It's ...

Wednesday Milan Musings, SC Braga On Deck

The UEFA Cup has not been as much of a curse as everyone has made it out to be. The real curse of being ...

Scary

Die Rothosen delivered their Halloween trick a day late at Hannover on Saturday. And was it ever scary. And not, scary good. More like scary ...

Weekend Review

Man U 4 Hull City 3 Wow what a match that was. As I groggily woke up at 4am to drag myself to the airport to ...

Bayer Leverkusen dominates Wolfburg winning 2-0

In front of their home supporters Bayer Leverkusen dominated Wolfsburg on the way to a 2-0 victory. The tale of the match might be what ...

A little bit of Chievo History;

Before one looks on to the future, the past one must see first! ...

John Carew Treated for "Fatigue." Because Lap Dances Can Do That to a Person

Poor John Carew. The Aston Villa striker has been suffering from "fatigue" lately. It's been so bad that the team docs have had ...

Away to Wigan, the kings of inconsisteny... Predictions anyone?

Sunday 26th October at 3pm sees Villa play Wigan Athletic at the JJB Stadium. Wigan are currently sitting 14th, with just a single point more ...

can we turn the page now or not yet???

Well, let me tell you, yesterday i tried to do everything possible to watch this game somewhere. As always I had my matchtracker on from ...

Quote of the Day: Kevin Kuranyi's Philosophical Moment

"I feel better than yesterday and worse than tomorrow." Kevin Kuranyi's sole post match statement following his great goal and overall good performance against the PSG ...

Name To Remember: Alan Dzagoev

Andrei Arshavin's the now, but the future is fast approaching for the Russian National Team with 18 year old Alan Dzagoev on a meteoric rise. ...

Turkish delight leaves bitter taste for Olympiacos

The revival of the Greco-Turkish rivalry didn't produce a memorable result for Olympiacos on this night, as Olympiacos was narrowly edged by Galatasaray at the ...

an honest effort

Over the last few months as The Offside's PSG blogger I have attempted to present factual information from the (obvious) vantage of a supporter of ...

Google Translate: Paris Saint-Germain to German

I have to give some credit to Google, for not just collecting more and more sensitive data about us, but also making better and better ...

Is Spurs' Heurelho Gomes Just a Brazilian Paul Robinson?

Didn't Tottenham Hotspur replace Paul Robinson because he was prone to horrendous gaffes? If so, were any of them worse than today's UEFA Cup shocker ...

take that weak stuff out of here

Seriously, what was that? I was primed and ready for a tough match, expecting to see PSG roll into a defensive marking system with Claude ...

Aston Villa vs Ajax UEFA Cup Odds

It's Villa vs Ajax tonight as the UEFA Cup gets underway. Two teams with a great European history and two ambitious managers in Martin O'Neill ...

And so the fun begins...

It's been a decade since Villa Park has hosted a significant Euorpean evening, so for Villa fans tonight can't come too soon. The UEFA Cup's ...

In Defence of the UEFA Cup

OK, so it's not the UEFA Champions League. And there are at least 10 things we'd do to improve it. But this season's UEFA Cup ...