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.
Champions League Matchday 6, Serie A Teams: Man Utd Tie Roma to 1-1 Draw, the Milan Teams Finish with Wins, Lazio Eliminated
Matchday 6 of the UEFA Champions League wrapped up this week, in an atmosphere of semi-indifference for 3 of the 4 Serie A teams still in contention. Indeed, with AC Milan, Inter Milan, and AS Roma already through to the next round, the only team left fighting for their lives were Lazio, hanging by a…
Trekking Around Europe: Lyon, PSV, Werder stumble ahead of Champions League clashes, Marseille, Olympiakos, and Fenerbahce stroll
Our European tour starts in France, where Lyon, as is to be expected by now, are standing alone atop the Ligue 1 standings, but aren’t running away with their seventh straight title just yet. With their upcoming Champions League clash with Rangers in mind, Lyon manager Alain Perrin sat several key players for Saturday’s tie…
G14 to expand in order to take on Platini and UEFA
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 on Europe.
Liverpool and other English clubs should work together with Uefa
Everybody’s quite worked up over the Uefa-Liverpool tiff on the behavior of Liverpool supporters at the Champions League final in Athens some 2 weeks ago. The BBC has, as usual, done a good job of collecting the quotes from all the interested parties, so for a quick refresher go read that. To me, the situation…
Is Ribery now out of Arsenal’s and Manchester United’s reach?
With Marseille qualifying for the Champions League, Ribery’s asking price has shot up to 20m at least.
Liverpool beat PSV Eindhoven 4-0 on aggregate to setup Chelsea semifinal
It’s official – another 90 minutes, another boring game but Liverpool fans won’t mind, their side are through to the Champions League semifinals for the second time in three years. Can they go to Athens? If they do, they’ll either meet Manchester United or Milan – teams with which Liverpool has a lot of history.
Will Manchester United Buy Senna and Tevez?
Tired as I am of all these pointless rumours, the current crop, and especially that of Senna, worth mentioning in light of what I said earlier today on Manchester United buying further reinforcements for the midfield and attack. We know that we still need to replace Keano with a holding midfielder, and we now also…
Arsenal vs Villarreal – Champions League Semi-Final Preview
It’s almost time. When Arsenal and Villarreal go head to head in two hours time, I can’t for a second imagine which team will fight harder for the win, with Villarreal being in the competition for the first time and Arsenal having suffered heartbreak after heartbreak for so many years. The betting odds (for now)…
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