Detailed coverage of the Champions League, including play-by-play of all matches from the knockout stages and complete stats from the group stages.
In life there are only a handful of things that are certain. You will watch Big Brother. It will irritate you. MPs will lie through their back teeth (and their front ones). Summer does make girls more attractive. And makes you feel less so. People...
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Written by Neil Jones. 2 comments
A month has passed now from the famous (and for many infamous) Chelsea - Barca semifinal of the Champions League. There’s been plenty of...
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Written by FairFootball.com. 18 comments
When Manchester City were taken over last Autumn by foreign investors with pockets deeper than their oil wells, there was hysteria across the footballing world. The media whipped up a frenzy feasting on a seemingly endless list of managerial and transfer...
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Written by Kristian Downer. 10 comments
So that’s it. The curtain has fallen on another season in English football and what a season it has been too! We’ve seen Manchester United look as though they would win every conceivable trophy and yet their season ends with ultimate disappointment....
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As Chelsea reigned triumphant at Wembley on Saturday, David Moyes cut a disconsolate figure, as you would expect the manager of a losing team in the FA Cup final. Yet the Scot’s comments in the run up to the game said much about cup competitions...
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Written by Gary Andrews. 13 comments
By winning the Champions League on Wednesday evening Pep Guardiola could stand be chucked in the air safe in the knowledge that he had become the first manager in Spain to have won a treble that...
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On the fourteenth episode of the Soccerlens Podcast, Stephen Darwin is joined by the editor of TEAMtalk.com, Simon Wilkes to look back at Barcelona’s triumph over Manchester United in the Champions League...
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For nine minutes, I was smug and self-satisfied, as well as disappointed. My pre-match predictions were being played out in front of my eyes; the men in all-white were on top, and the Catalans were struggling to adapt to the intensity of their play.
Victor...
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Written by Neil Jones. 7 comments
The season isn’t actually over yet, but several managers have quit (or in Sunderland’s case jumped before they were pushed out) and clubs from Celtic to Chelsea are looking for a new manager. Remarkably, Eriksson is not on any shortlist...
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“Ceux sont les meilleurs equips”
“Die Meister, die Besten, les meilleurs equipes, the champions.”
What UEFA has tried to do in the infamous CL anthem played before European nights, during European nights, and even during those...
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Written by Mark Galinsky. 8 comments
