Europe
This section covers all European clubs (including English clubs) that are outside the Premiership. Features club news, transfer rumours, match reports and goal videos. For european competitions, please refer to the relevant sections: Euro 2008, Champions League, Uefa Cup. For other league competitions: La Liga, Serie A.
Euro 2012 Qualifiers
The draw for the Euro 2012 qualifying stages was held today in Warsaw and the resulting groups left us with few possibilities of upsets. England missed out on qualification last time around but have a relatively easy group to negotiate with the likes of Wales, Montenegro and Bulgaria standing in their way. Switzerland round up…
Serbia’s Endless List of Wonder-kids
For a long time, the scouting networks of most European giants have concentrated on the talent coming out of the youth academies in South America, in particular Brazil and Argentina, and Northern and Western Europe. But now the lesser known teams from the East are catching up with their Western counterparts and leading the stake…
Football’s Greatest Clubs
How does one go about measuring greatness in football? I mean real, obvious, blatant greatness; that rarest of qualities. Today “greatness” is such a woolly, over-used term that sometimes we lose its meaning and start labeling all sorts of mundane, workaday things as “great”. The evolution of language has distilled its meaning, reduced its potency,…
Highlights of World Cup 2010 Qualification: March 28 – April 2, 2009
Watch live World Cup qualifiers here. With the conclusion of FIFA World Cup 2010 qualifiers yesterday we move one step closer to determining which thirty-one other countries will be joining host South Africa to contest for the globe’s biggest sporting honor. A slew of matches across the world at all time zones really reinforces that…
The French Connection: Georgia, Gabon & Giresse
In the spring of 2008, the Georgian National Investment Agency (GNIA) ran a series of short promotional films across the major international news networks promoting the country as an attractive destination for foreign capital. The most notable of these featured an American reporter inside Dinamo Tbilisi’s Boris Paichadze Stadium breathlessly drawing our attention to the…
Manchester City Now Hunting Inter Milan’s Esteban Cambiasso
Premier League club Manchester City have been linked with a number of top draw players since they were taken over by the filthy rich Abu Dhabi-based ADUG and it appears that they are ready to intrude into Italy. According to the British tabloid The Daily Mail, the Eastlands club are contemplating placing a whooping €17…
Transfer Roundup (Dec 2, 2008)- Real To Sign Dutch Striker, Liverpool To Sign Real Defender, Arsenal in for Serie A midfielder and more
The January winter transfer is still a month away but it appears that reigning Spanish champions and European giants Real Madrid have already made their first winter signing. And Premier League clubs Liverpool and Arsenal are looking to add their squad and have been seeking reinforcements.
Transfer Rumors (Dec 1,08): Tevez To Real Madrid, Barry Snubs Liverpool, Man City Hunting Bayern Star And More
Today’s transfer round-up throws up some pretty spicy news indeed. A couple of them are sort of drag-ons, follow-ups rather, but there has been a rather interesting development, or shall we say, a retrogressive development, as far as Liverpool are concerned….. Real Madrid Still Hunting Carlos Tevez Spanish and European powerhoue Real Madrid are in…
The 20 Most Loyal Footballers In Europe
Andy Greeves summed up present-day football’s predicament perfectly when he wrote in “modern footballers are holding clubs and fans hostage“: Football doesn’t want to admit it, but its players have become bigger than the teams they play for. Bigger than the leagues they ply their trade in and bigger than even the national teams they…
African Football Dreams, African Football Slavery
FIFA president Sepp Blatter casually uses the term “slavery” in referring to the £ multi-million contract of Cristiano Ronaldo, who in turn “dreams” of leaving the greatest football club in the world to play in Madrid. Jean Claude Mbvoumin could teach them both some revealing truths about dreams and slavery.
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