The Twohundredpercent Review Of 2011: The Ascent Of The Blue Sky Thinkers
That 2011 should have seen a trickle of new ideas on the subject of how to reorganise English and European club football should come as no great surprise. Last year...
Category "European Club Football"
Lost In Transit: The Story Of Hugo Enyinnaya
A Nigerian player that burst onto the Serie A scene in 1999 has finally turned his back on European football after twelve years of trying to establish himself. Here’s Paul...
City & United Fall From The Champions League
Anyone taking a bet at the start of the season would not have been able to predict how this would all end up. Manchester City and Manchester United kissed goodbye...
City & United’s Misadventures In Europe Do Not Constitute A Crisis
Both of the Manchester clubs came unstuck in Europe last night. The Champions League campaigns of both Manchester City and Manchester United was certainly been amongst the biggest curios of...
A Celtic Encounter
Every so often events conspire to make us question whether there is indeed some footballing god directing proceedings from, somewhere. After UEFA’s initial decision to remove Swiss club FC Sion from...
Match Of The Midweek: Birmingham City 1-3 SC Braga
There was nothing concrete upon which to link Birmingham City winning the League Cup with their relegation from the Premier League at the end of last season, of course, but...
Europa League Matters: A Calm Rather Than The Storm?
As the results began filtering through from the different corners of Europe as Europa League matches concluded, a feeling that this tournament means something, despite its marginalisation as UEFA’s second...
Rainbows, Wanderers & Hibernians: The Start Of The New Season In Malta
The new season in Malta is just about to begin, and Paul Grech is here to tell us all about what we can expect there over the next few months....
Match Of The Midweek: Heart of Midlothian 0-5 Tottenham Hotspur
The phrase “European competition” had a somewhat redundant feel to it this evening, after Tottenham Hotpur cruised to a comfortable win against Heart of Midlothian at Tynecastle in a match...
The Dangers Of A European Super League
The news that the biggest club sides in Europe may be looking to cast UEFA and FIFA aside and form their own breakaway league will come as no great surprise...
When Squared Sausage Meets Currywurst: Scottish & German Clubs Collide
With the speed of a cheetah after it identifies its prey, the Scottish Premier League season approaches. As players in other top flight leagues wake from their midsummer’s naps and...
Thursday picture: Finding Mourinhos
Portuguese football’s baffling alacrity at finding young, charismatic and highly skilled coaches continues to baffle everyone in England, where Sam Allardyce remains a credible candidate for the role of national...
Hopelessly Romantic: Remembering Works Teams
When a football legend parts from the game either through retirement or death, ink splatters as tributes are furiously written to consider the man’s style of play, his memorable moments on the pitch,...
1860 Munich Appear In the Clear, But Is 50+1?
It has come to pass, then, that German football sees its first Arab investor with last week’s announcement that Hasan Ismaik bought a 49% ownership stake in 1860 Munich. The thirty-four year old Jordanian...
The 2011 UEFA Champions League Final: Barcelona 3-1 Manchester United
Manchester United and Barcelona at Wembley, then. These are two clubs whose European histories have become interwoven with each other as well as this venue. When Manchester United became the...
Barcelona vs Manchester United: A Preview, Of Sorts
Tomorrow evening at Wembley, in front of what will probably be described as “a world-wide television audience of seventeen billion people”, Manchester United play Barcelona in the final of the...
Unexpected Faces Head The Dutch Top Scorers List
Ajax may won the Eredivisie this season, but the traditional powerhouses of Dutch football were frozen out in the top goalscorers list where, as Luke Edwards explains, the names at...
Tangled Up in Blue: 1860 Munich Has a New Challenge
One of the best lines from that cinematic masterpiece Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby, is “If you ain’t first, you’re last.” While not entirely apt, denizens at Maine...
Match Of The Midweek: Schalke 04 0-2 Manchester United
This, it has been implied, is a foregone conclusion. Much of the talk over the last few weeks has been centred upon which of the Spanish behemoths Manchester United would...
When Relegation Is Preferable: The Fight for FC St. Pauli’s Soul
Wearing denim jeans and a black T-shirt emblazoned with the Jolly Roger skull and crossbones so closely associated with the Kult Club’s supporters, FC St. Pauli’s manager Holger Stanislawski appears in...