Articles tagged with "uefa"
6+5 or 4+4 = Inter 2009?
By Johonna | May 8th, 2008Today Joseph S. Blatter, the president of FIFA had a press conference to explain why he feels that "6+5 Rule" is integral for the future of soccer, especially in Europe. Under this rule, clubs will have to field 6 players at each match who are eligi ...
TFC- Daily Dose Question 6 + 5 = ?????
By nicholas | May 8th, 2008If you have been a regular reader of my little blog, you will have no doubt know where what my opinion is on the whole 6 + 5 rule Sepp Blatter is trying to implement. For me the TFC blog has always been my little soap box to rant and rave ab ...
Another Champion Crowned In An Odd Manner
By chris | April 30th, 2008You've got to love Eastern European football. While the rules of the game may be the same, the entire region seems to have these little quirks which turn mundane sentences into newsworthy nuggets. The Bulgarian Premier League is quickly becoming one ...
C.U. Loves Liverpool
By Kyle | April 30th, 2008Here’s an interesting look into the Colorado soccer scene (or the Boulder soccer scene at least; for those not from Colorado, Boulder is very different from the rest of Colorado, and both parties usually prefer it that way). I’m a student at CU ...
Episode 20: Champions League Semifinal Preview
By Ian Rose | April 22nd, 2008It's the most wonderful time of the year ... perhaps not, but it's pretty damned close. European football seasons, both domestic and continental, are coming to a close, and not far off over that horizon is the joy of Euro 2008. We focus on the big ...
Cardiff Might Get UEFA Cup Spot After All
By Laurie | April 8th, 2008A few weeks back, when Cardiff City was in the middle of its rise to the FA Cup final, Daryl reported that even if they won they competition they would not be able to play in the UEFA Cup. The issue being that the English FA rules say that the UEFA ...
Motherwell Preview
By Matt | April 4th, 2008Saturday is the start of another busy period for the Bhoys, with two of the next three games facing Motherwell, with the third of course being again against Rangers. After these three games, the likelihood of Celtic being able to contend for the lea ...
Round of 16 - The FIFA 08 Offsides Cup
By Dave Martinez | March 30th, 2008All teams, check your emails. Passwords, League Name, and all details have been sent. Just to revue: This round shall feature a three game aggregate. You will be measured by Wins and Goal Differential. In the case where an absolute t ...
Red Bulls 1 - 0 Carolina Railhawks
By Dave Martinez | March 28th, 2008Always nice to go into a season with a win. I just watched the replay. For you guys. So I hope you appreciate it. ;) First off, Claudio Reyna was the man of the match, hands down. And he did it within a strange line up . . . check this ou ...
UEFA Slaps Lyon's Wrist
By Inara | March 20th, 2008Remember when a Lyon fan "attacked" Cristiano Ronaldo with a laser beam during the Champions League knockout rounds? At the time, the UEFA suits didn't think it was such a big deal, though after a month of "deliberation," they've decided that shining
THE OFFSIDE CUP: Week 1 Standings and Scores
By Dave Martinez | March 19th, 2008Hey everyone! Well, the first half of Group Stages is through, and I figured it would be a great time to give you guys the Group Standings. AS OF TODAY 5pm: GROUP A .........................W.....L......T....PTS Palermo...............2...
Lazio - Udinese
By salvatore | March 15th, 2008With all the hoopla going round about Uefa being fixed (big surprise there), and Rioma heading back to Manchester (enjoy, it’s a lovely place) there is still the little matter of this weekend’s Serie A games. The Biancoceleste are off to Friuli, w
Random Parma Video 11: Cup Winner's Cup 92/93
By Francesco | March 6th, 2008The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (in Italian, Coppa delle Coppe) was a cup that included all the national cup winners of each European nation and put them in a competition. In 92/93, after winning the Coppa Italia the previous season, Parma entered their fir
Should UEFA have a say on hard tackles?
By Ian Rose | February 28th, 2008The media uproar around Martin Taylor's tackle on Eduardo, and the horrifying break that resulted, has begun to subside, leaving the questions of why this sort of tackle is so routinely allowed in England, and what to do about it. The question that inter
Random Parma Video 10: One of the Greatest Comebacks of All Time
By Francesco | February 21st, 2008After watching Inter fail miserably in England this week, they have to put in a masterful performance at the San Siro and score 3 goals without conceding any to go through to the next round. So with the theme being set as "Great Comebacks", we shift to th
CL: A Greek Tragedy?
By Jack | February 19th, 2008Two words about Chelsea's Champions League match against Olympiakos in Athens on Tuesday: Trap game. This is no doubt going to be a tricky fixture for the Blues, against a fairly in-form Olympiakos. The Greek outfit is undermanned, but former Portsmo
UEFA slaps SFA in the face, denies appeal
By Ian Rose | February 16th, 2008I can't tell you how much this angers me. In my opinion, UEFA exists to coordinate the European leagues, to make sure they all adhere to basically the same rules, and to stage the major continental competitions. As far as how leagues choose their partic
Episode 10
By Ian Rose | February 13th, 2008This podcast is brought to you by the Roman numeral X. We venture into the unknown world of double digits with our tenth podcast, expanding our boundaries to include South American football as we welcome Christian Reyes from the River Plate Offside and
Galatasaray 6-3 Manisaspor- Now that's a match.
By Musab | February 12th, 2008Well nobody was surprised by the number of goals. G.Saray-Manisa matches almost always turn out large quantities of goals. But this game was special. In front of a stadium packed with fanatical CimBom fans, the boys tore their opponents apart. GALATASA
The Club World Cup: An alternative scheme
By Ian Rose | December 10th, 2007With the FIFA Club World Cup in full swing, the time's come round again to criticize the format of the tournament. For my part, I'm glad that there's a consistent world championship format that gives a chance for the best from Europe and South America (a
Liverpool record win under investigation
By Ian Rose | December 5th, 2007Technically, this is Champions League news, and not UEFA Cup, but I'm trying to stay on top of the developments on this, so what the hell ... Anyway, looks like the UEFA matches being investigated for suspicion of match fixing might not just be early q
Two UEFA Cup matches under investigation
By Ian Rose | December 1st, 2007The news is still pretty sketchy, but among the 15 matches in UEFA's report to Interpol about match fixing are apparently two from our dearest UEFA Cup, both from either this or last year's competition. Since the investigation is ongoing, there won't be
Happy Birthday Del Piero; Moves Into Second Place All-Time Appearances
By roberto | November 9th, 2007What more could you ask for as a career? Not much more if your Alessandro Del Piero that's for sure. 'Il Pinturicchio' turns 33 today two days before our game against Parma Sunday. Once again Alessandro will sport his very familiar (and slimming), white a
Random Parma Video 1
By Francesco | November 3rd, 2007As you may know, we are not Milan, Inter, Juve, or Roma. Therefore, we don't have news everyday and some days there is no news at all. So on such days, I'll dig into the vault and just post a Random Parma video for all to enjoy. So Here's Random Parma Vid
Wanted: Dead Or Alive
By roberto | October 30th, 2007Here are a just a handful of those wanted dead or alive after last Saturday's horrific display. If you haven't heard by now since you've been sleeping under a soiled matress for the last three days (like most Neapolitans), Juventus was blatantly robbed. N
Still Frustrated – Spurs Need League Wins!
By Richard | October 12th, 2007I don’t even know where to begin. I had planned to pen a blog on Monday following what was really an impressive showing by Spurs, one they should and could have won by all accounts. I was so impressed by our midfield during the game. Jenas played p
Djibril Cissé likes to party, gets sued....
By Magnusson | September 29th, 2007While the entire city was losing sleep over the multiple defeats of our team, while our coach was counting the last minutes of his tenure and his bosses were trying to figure out if it was worth it or not to let him lead us to Anfield, some players like L
Scotland could be 2 seed at WC qualies
By Ian Rose | September 27th, 2007After being drawn as the four-seed in the group of death in Euro 2008 qualifying, Scotland was understandably concerned. But now, after two wins over France and carrying a lead in the group into the final three games, our position is somewhat different.
Next Two Weeks Could Decide Spurs Future
By Richard | September 19th, 2007The fixtures will come fast and furious at Spurs during the next two plus weeks, starting with tomorrows tie against Anorthosis Famagusta and followed by what could possibly be a winnable visit to the Reebok v. Bolton. The UEFA cup is Spurs main f
Saturday Morning Hangover
By Gianfranco | September 1st, 2007Congrats to AC Milan UEFA Super Cup champs. Hats off to everyone for making it a memorable game, with both teams sporting Antonio Puerta’s name on the bottom of their jerseys. Sevilla started off this game with a bang and by the looks of things were g
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