Sir Alex Ferguson has backed Rafael Benitez’s complaints over the Premier League fixture scheduling and has claimed that clubs like Manchester United (and by extension, the other 3 big clubs – Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool) are being punished by their … Read More→
Group D sees two rivalries from the last season resurrected as Benfica and Celtic meet again in the group phase and Celtic come face to face with last season’s 2nd round opponents and eventual winners AC Milan. While you’d expect … Read More→
In Group C, Real Madrid take on Werder Bremen, Lazio and Olympiakos in a very competitive and open group. While Real Madrid will be expected to qualify as group winners, any of the 3 remaining teams could end up as … Read More→
Back from international week and the Premier League is raring to go with Liverpool, Everton, Chelsea and Arsenal all on 10 points and all teams looking to increase their lead at the top of the table. As usual, we’ve got … Read More→
The 18 clubs comprising the high-powered, highly influential, filthy rich and extremely pompous and self-involved G14 plan to expand their group in order to create a ‘representative lobby group’ that can challenge the madness that Platini is aiming to inflict … Read More→
It’s been fascinating to see Rafa Benitez change over the last couple of months. His bullish nature had always been there before Liverpool games (especially when playing Chelsea or in Europe), but he’s taken it to a whole new level … Read More→
Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea take on Valencia, Schalke and Rosenborg in a tricky group. Rosenborg are unlikely to be more than spectators but both Schalke and Valencia will be fighting hard for qualification and matches between these two sides could easily … Read More→
Premier League giants Liverpool take on Porto, Marseille and Besiktas in Group A of the 2007/2008 Champions League. There isn’t much history between these clubs which makes this a fascinating and somewhat unpredictable group. Let’s look at the fixtures list … Read More→
Sep 2, 2006 – England beat Andorra 5-0 in a somewhat pointless Euro 2008 qualifier. Having beaten Greece convincingly some time before in a friendly, McClaren’s “new England” are buoyant and enthusiastic about their future. Sep 12, 2007 – England … Read More→
Marco Pantanella from mCalcio.com points us to the Gazzetta dello Sport publishing the salaries of all 20 clubs in the Serie A. AC Milan, Inter Milan, Juventus and Roma lead the salary numbers (predictably). Kaka tops the list with 6m … Read More→
We’ve heard arguments about how the influx of foreign players is hurting English football (and have those arguments suitably refuted). Now we have Jonathan Moynihan, a Barcelona fan, talking about why foreign players give the Premier League its much-vaunted ‘elite’ … Read More→
An excellent performance by England, defensively and offensively, although they had Michael Owen and Ashley Cole to thank the most for this win. Owen’s two first-half goals were capped by a rare Ferdinand finish as England weathered Russia’s late attacks … Read More→
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