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Benfica v. Chelsea Preview: do Chelsea have another magnificent performance left in the tank?
It’s been a rollercoaster of a season for Chelsea, but while the perennial Premier League title chasers are well off the pace domestically, their hopes for European glory remain alive and well. The Blues are currently floundering – well, floundering by their lofty standards – in fifth in the Premier League table, behind the duo…
Football Team of the Decade: 1960s
The 1960s just might be football’s golden decade. George Best, Garrincha, Pele in his prime and much much more.
Transfer Window Preview: Who do you want your club to sign this summer?
With the domestic leagues finished and only the Champions League final to play on Saturday, football fans across Europe are probably feeling a little blue this week. Work rumbles on, the newest Icelandic ash cloud threatens to disrupt our holidays and, most importantly, the new season won’t get underway until August! But fear not! This…
Unstoppable Porto Set Up All-Portuguese Europa League Final
Three games. Fifteen goals. Even after a sloppy start in which they allowed Villareal to go in 1-0 up at half-time, FC Porto insisted on being brilliant. Having scored five in each leg against Spartak Moscow, Andre Villas Boas’ all-conquering cohort decided to repeat the trick in just one half against Villareal to set up…
Beyond Lionel Messi: An Alternative List of the Top 25 Football Players in the World (25-11)
In my previous article, I argued that the process by which we decide who the world’s best players are has been grossly distorted. A combination of mainstream media hype (backed up with its ‘statistics’ – often little more than a ruse to get people gambling) and a nostalgic longing for the return of the great…
Europa League: Portuguese Navigators Must Beware the Yellow Submarine
These are unchartered waters for Portuguese football. With the national economy in tatters (and crippling international loans looking ever more likely), its football clubs are putting on a remarkable show in the Europa league, in which three Portuguese clubs are all in a strong position to advance to the Semi-Finals. ‘Can We Pay in Goals?’,…
Benfica 1-2 FC Porto: Benfica hand Porto Portuguese Title on a Plate
Porto will be celebrating their 25th Portuguese league title in the dark. So humiliating did the powers that be find their bitter rivals celebrating a deserved title, earned by defeating Benfica on their own patch, that they decided to switch off the floodlights when the final whistle went at the Estadio da Luz (‘The Stadium…
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