Articles tagged with "uefa"
Chelsea's Champions League Draw and F**K the Rest of Yer!!!!
By Andy | August 30th, 2007I don't care about the other Champions League groups and I won't be publishing the details of them so if you want details go elsewhere ...
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 ...
Grande Kun!!!
By Andrey | August 17th, 2007Atletico defeated Vojvodina from Serbia, 3-0...showing that great offensive style that has Atletico fans excitingly looking to this new season. Here is the match review from ...
Sweden's European Beat-Down, and more...
By Ian Rose | August 13th, 2007It may not seem like it, but going into this big week of European football, with both UEFA Cup and Champions League matches on cue, ...
Partizan Belgrade expulsion confirmed
By Ian Rose | August 8th, 2007After considering their appeal, UEFA has decided against Partizan Belgrade and confirmed their expulsion from the UEFA Cup. They won decisively in the first ...
Should UEFA consider regional issues in draws?
By Ian Rose | July 31st, 2007The Partizan Belgrade affair this week, which saw them first ejected from the UEFA Cup, then maybe-sort of let back in, brings up an interesting ...
Celtic can learn from Cardiff City -- Stay put!
By Ian Rose | July 29th, 2007Another day goes by and another statement from Wee Gordon Strachan about how anxious he is to get his team out of Scotland. Whether ...
A Tote on the Intertoto Cup is a Sure Thing
By Daryl | July 28th, 2007If you're looking for controversy in the 2007/8 football season, look no further than the Intertoto Cup where you'll find two of the worst things ...
Portuguese Football Trade Deficit?
By Greg | June 21st, 2007Portuguese Professional Footballers' Union president Joaquim Evangelista is worried about the fact that just under 48% of players used per weekend in the past Liga ...
Anfield Banter: Bolton want Cisse, Atletico don't want to give up Torres, LFC is the top ranked UEFA CL English club, & Guthrie goes out on loan to Bolton
By Brian | June 21st, 2007* With already two of the 'terrible triumvirate', Bolton is looking to add Djibril Cisse to go with former Reds Nicolas Anelka and El-Hadji Diouf. ...
Anfield Banter: Fernando Torres, Diego Milito, Giandomenico Mesto (huh?), Shearer still hates Bellamy, Mourinho is still an idiot, Who gives a crap about Darren Bent, & Former Tory leader Michael Howard has offered to be a witness for Liverpool fans
By Brian | June 20th, 2007* Apparently we're putting all the chips on Fernando Torres. He wants out of Atletico and who can blame him? I'm not really ...
Platini: "Liverpool fans not to blame"
By Brian | June 5th, 2007In Platini's defense (did I just write that?), he was never the catalyst in pointing the finger at Liverpool fans. It was UEFA spokesman ...
UEFA are classless fools
By Brian | June 5th, 2007Hear that... listen close... it's the wheels of UEFA's spin team desperately trying to divert attention from the incompetency of their organization by blaming fans. ...
A couple of non-Crew related things
By Jim | May 23rd, 2007First, former Columbus Crew player and still our all-time leading goalscorer Jeff Cunningham has been traded from Real Salt Lake to FC Toronto, in exchange ...
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 ...
Bojan Krkic: Goal Poacher
By Isaiah | May 14th, 2007In these harsh days for FC Barcelona, there is a rising star and his name is Bojan Krkic. He is now somewhat of a Spanish ...
The Daily Diatribe: Adios Pongolle, Kids coming to America, A Dunne Deal?, & Athens ticket issues
By Brian | May 5th, 2007* Though it's not a done deal as of this minute, it looks as if Florent Sinama-Pongolle will complete the move to Recreativo Huelva. ...
Ukraine and Poland to Host Euro 2012
By Bob | April 18th, 2007Wroclaw, Dnipropetrovs, Kharkiv….the names just roll of the tongue. Those are just a few of the host cities for the 2010 European Championship. ...
Euro 2012: Well, We Didn't Really Want it Anyway
By Martha | April 18th, 2007Well, hell. All of us who were fantasizing about a football-filled trip to Italy in summer 2012 can just forget those dreams, because UEFA this ...
Champions League: Great, More Violence
By Martha | April 5th, 2007According to The Guardian, 10 Man U supporters were stabbed (none "seriously" though, really, simply being stabbed seems plenty serious to me) in pre-match fighting ...
Another Possible Change to the Champions League
By Bob | March 29th, 2007In their continued efforts to make the Champions League the center of the football universe, UEFA officials are toying with the idea of including domestic ...
Some Brawlers Have Sentences Reduced on Appeal, Others Not So Lucky
By Martha | March 28th, 2007After hearings today, Inter's Maicon and Ivan Cordoba had their suspensions for that whole Valenica throwdown reduced -- clearly UEFA's disciplinary committee is a bunch ...
Valencia Tidbits
By Cesar | March 28th, 2007Lots going on with our Che as they wind down the road to their blockbuster Champions League encounter with Chelsea next week ... -- First ...
And Today in Suspensions ...
By Martha | March 23rd, 2007A couple of disciplinary hearings were held yesterday, both of which affected Italian football. First, Palermo's Francesco Guidolin had his three-game suspension (for that pitch-side ...
Mmm ... Rumors (Transfer and Otherwise)
By Martha | March 19th, 2007Look at all the rumors swirling in the air today! Isn't it great? Why, if there wasn't snow outside, I'd swear it was summer. •First of ...
Murky Charge Could Bar Kahn, Lucio from Milan Match
By Martha | March 17th, 2007According to the UEFA website, Bayern keeper Oliver Kahn and defender Lucio have been charged with improper conduct and will have a disciplinary committee hearing ...
Inter Prepare Indignant Appeal; UEFA Prepare to Ignore It
By Martha | March 15th, 2007Once he stopped sputtering with rage at the injustice done his (of course) entirely innocent club yesterday, Inter boss Massimo Moratti describe UEFA's fine and ...
Platini Proposes changes for Champions League Qualifying
By Bob | March 14th, 2007UEFA president Michel Platini hasn't been on the job very long and he is already ruffling some feathers (odd expression, isn't it?). Platini ran ...
David Navarro will have plenty of time to learn how to fight
By Bob | March 14th, 2007When last we saw Valencia's David Navarro he was running for his life as the Keystone Kops from Inter Milan tried to catch him and ...
BREAKING: UEFA Lays Down the Post-Brawl Law
By Martha | March 14th, 2007UEFA's disciplinary committee just finished their meeting on the Inter-Valencia brawl, and the following punishments were handed down: •David Navarro: Seven months •Nicolas Burdisso: Six matches •Maicon: Six ...
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