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Champions League Winners by Year
By: Ian Rose |
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Of course, we’re about to enter into the knockout rounds of the 19th UEFA Champions League (since being called that) and the 56th including the days of the European Cup. Of the sixteen remaining teams, only one can raise the trophy on May 28th in London. Here is the list of the very [...]
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UEFA Champions League Top Scorers
By: Ian Rose | 9 Comments
The top scorers so far in the 2010-11 UEFA Champions League are as follows. Samuel Eto’o currently leads with seven goals, and better than a goal-per-game average, but Messi and Gomez are only one behind, so it’s still anyone’s title. Messi has been top scorer for the last two seasons, with eight in [...]
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Match Day One: Review
By: Marco | 2 Comments
So, the first week of the 2010 Champions League has passed, and already I find myself apologizing to the masses. Apologizing for the delay on this post and the lack of excitement leading up to the advent of the 2010/2011 Champions League Season. Work has been busy, but that is no excuse. So without further [...]
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2010/2011 Season Ready Willing and Able
By: Marco | 2 Comments
I’ll start off this season with a bit of a promise…Continuity!
Last season, I began my tenure well into the champions league mayhem. So, I can tell you, I was a little flustered with the responsibilities at my feet. Well, after a long vacation and a bit of time off to unwind from my worldly [...]
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Inter v. Bayern: Bigger than the World Cup Final!
By: Marco | 11 Comments
Says the manager not going to be taking part in the world cup this summer in South Africa – Jose Mourinho. Truly Mourinho has recently grabbed many headlines, not so much with the preparations for this the Champions League Final, but rather will he or won’t he be moving to Madrid this offseason!? I’ve often [...]
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OL v. Bayern Munich: Second Leg (0-1 Agg)
By: Marco | 4 Comments
Following an intense first leg, we now move to France, where the German giants arrive with a 1-0 lead from the first leg.
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The Calm Before the Storm *Semi-Final Preview*
By: Marco | 13 Comments
Back to Business in Europe’s premier club football tournament. This coming week promises to be one of the most exciting and ‘fresh’ Champions League Semi Finals in quite some time. For starters it’s the first time since Milan hoisted the cup against Juventus that a squad from England has not featured in a Champions [...]
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Champions League Semi Final Amidst A Cloud of Ash
By: Marco | 3 Comments
As a giant cloud of ash blankets much of Western Europe I begin my new tenure as writer of the Champions League Blog here at theoffside. Having been a long time reader and contributor to various blogs around this site, I’ve decided to throw my hat into [...]
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Champions League Knockout Draw!
By: Rob | 1 Comment
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, [...]
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Reviewing My Predictions Plus What We Learnt From The Groups
By: Rob | 3 Comments
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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Team Blogs
A Match Made in a Monastery: Villareal-Barcelona Preview
It must be a tough place to live in, Pep Guardiola’s head. He quite frankly wants to win everything, and most of the time he has done that remarkable thing. But football life is an endless series of obstacles with sad emphasis on the word endless. Every week contains one or two difficult hurdles. But now, Pep, you’re coming to what is, no way around it, a game apparently designed by Trappist monks. The trap called Villareal.
Jan 27, 2012 | Read this article...
Rant Box: QPR v. Chelsea
Football, thankfully, gets the attention today.
Team news and the like from 6:45am EST.
Jan 27, 2012 | Read this article...
FA Cup preview: QPR v. Chelsea
The magic of the FA Cup. The combined furor of two players - and thus two clubs and two sets of support groups - embroiled in an alleged race row.
And, of course, handshake gate revisited.
Not again
Jan 27, 2012 | Read this article...
This Just In: Alex Completes PSG Transfer
Welp, it's done.
Baguettes & Brioche
Jan 27, 2012 | Read this article...
Milan 3 Lazio 1
I have to admit when I saw Reja’s 3-4-1-2 formation I was nervous that Milan would be unable to cope with Lazio’s width and that they would lose the vital numbers game in the midfield. Cisse’s early goal seemed to affirm that point with a lack of pressure from the midfield causing disarray in the defense and poor marking leading to the goal. But the disarray was only for a fleeting second as Milan began to possess the ball and exploit Lazio’s back three and their inability to link the ball from the midfield to attack with Hernanes looking less like the player he can be and more like a headless chicken.
Jan 27, 2012 | Read this article...
El Clasico As Vintage As They Come: CDR Barcelona 2 - 2 Real Madrid Match Review
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El Clasico at its best, entertaining from start to finish! Real Madrid entered the game knowing they needed a 2 goal clean sheet win or by winning the game with a score line greater than 3 goals to go through to the CDR semis. All that against Barca, at the Camp Nou, and they nearly did it!
Legend that is Sportsmail claims we're in for Pogba, van der Wiel
Sportsmail strikes again. Though we may have to start giving the masked man/woman/thing a little more credit on the back of breaking the Willian negotiations last week. This time around, the Daily Mail's journo in the field, with a little help from the Mirror, suggests Chelsea are ready to make key moves for both Paul Pogba and Gregory van der Wiel.
Alright, alright, alright.
Yes, sensei.
Jan 27, 2012 | Read this article...
Preview: FC Bayern vs. VfL Wolfsburg (Updated)
In Match Week 19 of the 2011-2012 Bundesliga season. Everyone already knows, but just to hit all the necessary weekly notes: Bayern comes off a disheartening 3-1 loss to Borussia Monchengladbach, in which offense, midfield, defense, and (especially) goalkeeping failed to measure up to Bayern standards. Still, we sit at the top of the table, and a victory here would correct a lot of problems. The Wolves have a -10 goal differential, yet still somehow sit in 9th place after winning back-to-back 1-0 games. Climb aboard for the preview, y'all.
Jan 26, 2012 | Read this article...
Catch Up Mode
Okay, I’ve been out for a while with a couple of issues, none of them serious, but all time consuming and important, so I wanted to get an apology out of the way first – yeah, yeah, I know, ‘ings is tough all ovah…
On to more important questions like "How can I watch the Inter Babies beat Sporting?" or "Is Andrea Poli the man to make me forget all about Galloppa?"
Napoli Manager to Miss CL Tie + News & Notes
Whoa. I forgot we were still involved in the CL for a second. More, after the jump:
The Shove Heard Round Naples
Jan 26, 2012 | Read this article...
Video: Salomon Kalou's lethal volley against Burkina Faso
Some good - and some bad - news for Salomon Kalou today at the Africa Cup of Nations.
We'll start with the good, the real good. Kalou opened the scoring for Côte d'Ivoire in their 2-0 win against Burkina Faso tonight. Peep Sal's excellent volley in visual form below.
Expect our Belgian contingent to expand by the end of the week
Buy Belgian. Ho.
We talked yesterday about the club allegedly reentering talks with Racing Genk over the transfer of the young Belgium international Kevin De Bruyne. Those talks (gasp) are actually true.
This according to a spokesman for Genk:
Dirk Degraen is in London and the expectation is that it (the transfer of De Bruyne) will be finished this week. The assumption is that Kevin de Bruyne will be transferred to Chelsea and then will finish the season (on loan) at Genk.
Napoli v Inter - Liveblog
Will The Pandev Effect reign supreme at the end of tonight's proceedings? Join me 15 minutes before game time to find out!
Jan 25, 2012 | Read this article...
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