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Its Zlatan and Cassano!!
Its summer 2010 and you are the chairman of a massive European club whose glories are becoming a distant memory. You are being overshadowed by your local neighbors and your squad is ageing. What do you do? That’s right you go and get your team two of the most demanding, pampered players possible who have…
Quique steadies the Atletico ship
Atletico Madrid said goodbye to 2010 in La Liga last night, with a comfortable 3-0 victory over struggling Malaga. 2010 started with the Madrid side in fear of relegation and peaked in the summer with the victories in the Europa League Final and the UEFA Super Cup, over Fulham and Internazionale. The victory in the Europa League…
Pep: He is the Special One
Going into last night ‘El Classico’ at Barcelona’s Camp Nou, the news had been dominated by Real Madrid coach, Jose Mourinho. The self claimed Special One was where he loves being, the focus of the event, more important that the players and the match itself. Mourinho had assured us we were going to be seeing the…
What has happened to Serbia?
Serbia crashed to their first ever home defeat since becoming a indepedent football nation four years ago, losing 3-1 to Estonia in a European qualifier on Friday night. In five months the team have gone from world cup outsiders to fifth place in group C for Euro 2012. After a glorious qualification campaign for World…
Pep’s still working out his Plan B
It was 16 months in the waiting but on Saturday night Pep Guardiola and Barcelona experienced their first home defeat in La Liga and it was to the most unlikely of opponents. Newly promoted Hercules came to Camp Nou with more hope than expectation but left this great stadium with the 3 points after a…
Scots, Wha Hae
Football is all about contrasting emotions; joy and despair, victory and defeat. How emotions swing one way to the other through the 90 minutes of a match is what generates the drama that attracts people to the sport and makes us fans. Scotland 2 – Liechtenstein 1 To see a game dramatically turn in the 7th…
Madrid go top, but its not Real
As the final fixture of the opening weekend of La Liga entered into the 90th minute at the Vincente Calderon on Monday night, the energy and hope was clear to see and hear to all watching. The Stadium was rocking to the hymno and strains of Campeones, with Atleti leading by three goals to nil…
Los Rojiblancos are ready to go
After a busy summer for Quique Sanchez Flores, in which six (well five, Tiago was there on loan last season) new players arrived at the Calderon, the hard work now begins. This Friday Atletico Madrid will face Internazionale in the European Super Cup before starting the 2010/11 La Liga campaign against Sporting de Gijon only three days…
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