Roma

May 6th, 2008

The 2007/8 Champions League. In Numbers.

By: Rob | Comments 2 Comments

This season’s Champions League is quickly drawing to a close. Just two teams remain, Chelsea and Manchester United. So while the CL Offisde team prepares its teams of the tournament, and before we hand over to you to pick your team of the tournament (all will be revealed in due course) here’s a blitz through […]



May 3rd, 2008

Is an Abramovich-type buy out the only way to cope?

By: Rob | Comments 8 Comments

As the Roma buyout saga continues with lots of ‘I’d like to’ ‘you’ve done nothing’ ‘what’s going on?’ type newstories, Born-in-England-Italian-Roma Midfielder Simeone Perrotta has hinted that he would quite like his club to get bought out by someone with lots of backing - not only that but that its the only way to be […]

April 18th, 2008

A look at what could be a fascinating summer of transfers

By: Rob | Comments 1 Comment

After Sir Alex Ferguson announced today that he intends to ‘Stock up’ on players over the summer, it struck me this summer could be a real classic one for big transfers. And in my excitement I decided to bring you this insight into the possible moves this summer.

April 12th, 2008

Quarters review : Last couple in Tango

By: Adam | Comments 4 Comments

My apologies for being late to publish this article. But when your monitor doesn’t work you are left with keyboard and CPU which are still insufficient for any review. We had seen how teams fared on Tuesday’s matches. Lets see how teams performed on Wednesday.
MANCHESTER UTD. vs ROMA - 1-0
This was supposedly be the revenge […]

April 10th, 2008

Inside Old Trafford

By: Rob | Comments No Comments

Its quite strange walking into somewhere you have always been excited about, watching two teams you have affection for battle it out in the best (for all its flaws, it obviously is) club competetion in the world. Thats what walking into Old Trafford is like for someone like me.



April 9th, 2008

Man Utd Can Double

By: Sam | Comments 20 Comments

… but Chelsea can too.
Manchester United beat AS Roma 1-0 (3-0 on aggregate) and will play Barcalona later this month in the semifinals. Chris at Roma | Offside has a very entertaining liveblog, full of expletives and funny nick-names of Man Utd players. I was too depressed and stopped taking notes at halftime. I want […]

April 8th, 2008

Rio’s Ankle Unclear

By: Sam | Comments 1 Comment

Conditions will be ideal for AS Roma on Wedneday evening if Sir Alex encourages Rio Ferdinand to play in their Champions League 2nd-leg at Old Trafford on a 70-percent ankle. Not only would Rio not be himself but his partnership with whomever substitutes for Nemanja Vidić — his usual better-half — will de-stabilize the Manchester […]

April 7th, 2008

Predictions: Its all about the numbers

By: Adam | Comments 20 Comments

We are on the doorsteps for the semis but we don’t know who all will be knocking the door. So we have cleared the confusions by predicting the guests in advance so that there are no surprises (ofcourse its CL and surprises are bound to be there). All the bloggers of the CL blog have […]

April 7th, 2008

The Ultimate QF Second Leg Preview

By: Rob | Comments No Comments

So its nearly upon us. The excitement as 4 more teams dreams of reaching Moscow are cut short and they go home to ponder Rome next season. 4 teams will advance to be one step closer to be being crowned kings of Europe. Will there be any upsets? Maybe. Will there be tears? Guarenteed.

April 6th, 2008

Kevin, Don’t Do It!

By: Sam | Comments 4 Comments

Kevin over at Barca Offside wants a piano dropped on his head because of the frustrating result at nil against Getafe.
It’s okay, Kevin. As I was saying about Man Utd v ‘Boro, the dead air between the two legs of the Champions League quarter-finals tends to produce moribund league results.
Here, our theory is borne […]






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