Champions League Knockout Draw!
Technical issues meant no liveblog of the draw, but its all pretty interesting nonethless. The highlight is perhaps Jose Mourinho returning to Chelsea with his Inter side. Elsewhere the other Milan team also face English opposition as they play Manchester United.
Defending Champions Barcelona take on Stuttgart, while Bayern Munich play host to Fiorentina.
Lyon are perhaps the unluckiest club, drawing Real Madrid in this years knockouts – they always seem to get one of the really big clubs.
Full draw after the jump.
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Reviewing My Predictions Plus What We Learnt From The Groups
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Predictions, a fools game. They really, really are. You can never ever know what’s going to happen. But they are fun. And even more so when you can look back smugly and…oh. When you can look back and chuckle and how very wrong you [...]
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The Last Round of Group Games: Who Needs What
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So, we approach the last round of group games and its make or break for some of the teams in this years Champions League. Some big names are still in doubt, and could find themselves on Thursday morning in the draw for the next round of the [...]
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Who Needs What in Pernultimate Group Matches
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So, last but one week in the Champions League, and who needs what you ask? Who could be heading to the UEFA Cup today? Bigger sides than you might think. It is a big big week all over Europe and the Group Stage is properly exciting now. [...]
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Who is through and who is in Trouble
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Week 4 provided celebrations for some and left some others looking over their shoulders, seriously staring the UEFA Cup in the face. So who is happy and in the the knockout round, and who has alot of work to do?
Here is your group by group [...]
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What to Watch as the Champions League gets Interesting
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Matchday 4 then, and it’s going to be an interesting one. At the half way stage of the Champions League groups, and alot of the big teams are not in the comfortable positions we might have expected.
So which are the picks of the next two days? [...]
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Tuesdays Clips or And You Thought The Group Stage was dull?
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And there you were, just going around in your daily life, thinking that the Champions League group stage was basically meaningless, pointless, and entirely predictable. Well, last night showed you, didn’t it? What an incredible set of results. Liverpool falling into further turmoil. The European Champions beaten by Rubin Kazan. 7 Goals between Fiorentina and Debrecen. [...]
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What To Watch on Matchday 3
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So here we are again, on another Champions League Tuesday. And here are my pick of the games that are worth watching this evening, and as a fun bonus, tomorrow night as well. The groups are beginning to take shape now, and some of the bigger teams [...]
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Highlights from Week 2 in the CL
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So a big week of Champions League has been and gone, and it threw up a few surprises. And a few games went as expected. So here are the most interesting highlights, that I could find. The two biggest upsets came from Italy. Above, misfiring Milan suffered a shock defeat [...]
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What To Watch In This Weeks Champions League
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So, its another round of Champions League group games, and again you’ll be feeling that one day is a touch better than the other, I think. Still both days give you more than enough to watch, and here is a rough guide [...]
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Team News
WAG Alert! Schweini's girl Sarah Brandner's SI "Swimsuit" Video
Bastian doesn't need the glasses for Sarah..
Next time she ought to try actually mentioning Bayern, and maybe doing the shoot in a Bayern kit rather than that awful red monstrosity of a national team trikot.
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Chamakh Reportedly Signs with Arsenal
Sport is reporting that Bordeaux striker Marouana Chamakh has signed a pre-contract with Arsenal. If true, he will join the club at the end of the summer for pre-season training after the World Cup.
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Breaking News: Van Buyten out of Cup Match with Flu
FC Bayern reported on its official website that central defender Daniel van Buyten will miss Wednesday's DFB Pokal match because of the stomach flu. The team's site went on to speculate that Holger Badstuber would shift inside to replace Van Buyten and Danijel Pranjic would get the start at ...
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Arsenal to Pen Letter to Barcelona Over Repeated Attempts to Unsettle Cesc
The report is that Arsenal, through CEO Ivan Gazidis, will write a letter to FC Barcelona regarding their repeated, flagrant attempts to unsettle a player under contract with the club. And we here at the Arsenal Offside have, in a huge coup for investigative journalism, obtained a copy of an early draft of the letter, which is reprinted below the jump:
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Happy Birthday Charles Kaboré!
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A very happy birthday as Charles Kaboré turns 22 years old today. If you're wondering as to why out of all OM players I've decided to make an article for Kabore well I'm trying something new for the blog. Basically it give me the excuse to talk about an individual player when its their birthday. Their performance thus far and what we as fans like/dislike about them.
Match Preview: Liverpool v. Arsenal, 02.10.10
Don't worry, I'm actually much better looking and have better hair. No offense, stock photo guy.
Things only get tougher for both sides Wednesday at the Emirates.
What Guti's "Current" Success Tells Us.
This is my debut article at writing something that is not a review or a preview of a game. So bare with me as i ramble on. I will be helping Corey with mostly reviews of games and some fluff pieces, but i wanted to shed light on the following matter. So here goes nothing.
We are Real Madrid. We want the best of the best playing their football in front of the Bernabeau. Whether those players are home bread (Casillas and Raul), or imported (CR9 and Kaka), they should be playing for us! So after the big overhaul that happened after Perez took over his second reign at the club, we saw around 250 million being spent for players this summer. With around 7 world class players coming in this summer, and around 10 players leaving, the club got an overhaul in its exact meaning. A new coach was also brought in. As expected, the team took a while to gel and depended on players like CR9, that have the ability to lift the team on his own shoulders, to win games!
FC Bayern Munich vs SpVgg Greuther Fürth: DFB Pokal Quarterfinal Preview
Wednesday brings 2nd division Greuther Fürth to the Allianz Arena to contest the DFB-Pokal quarterfinal against FC Bayern Munich. The match will air live on ESPN 360 beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern time. The Bayern Offside will be here with a liveblog for the match.
Feb 08, 2010 | Read this article...
Coming Soon: New Ideas
I need something to write about for the midweek duldrums. I am currently fresh out of ideas for new posts, and I do not have much of a pipeline for posts in the future. I going to leave it up to all of you to provide me with ideas for ...
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