Match Of The Midweek: Porto 2-1 Arsenal
Sometimes, it feels as if Sol Campbell's entire life might be scripted by someone that was laid off from the Eastenders' writing team. In recent times, there doesn't appear to...
Category "European Club Football"
Match Of The Midweek: Fiorentina 2-0 Liverpool
Liverpool's progress in the Champions League hit an unexpected stumbling block in Florence this evening, where Fiorentina carved them apart and walked away with a comfortable three points. Was this...
FIFA, Chelsea & Gael Kakuta
That the football community in Britain has responded with such surprise the two transfer window ban that FIFA have slapped upon Chelsea is, in itself, quite telling. It has long...
Villa’s European Adventure Ends Early
August comes to an end on Monday, and this year it will have outlived Aston Villa’s time in the 2008/09 Europa League by four days. Villa beat Rapid Vienna 2-1...
Serie A Preview: 2009/10
The Premier League started last weekend and it’s still a couple of weeks until La Liga begins in Spain but this weekend Serie A kicks off in Italy and Paul...
Corruption Allegations Make The Maltese Cross
Football in Malta has started to make a real impression in European competitions over the last couple of years but, as Paul Grech reports, the new season starts under a...
Arsene Wenger’s Super League Odyssey
The Champions League reaches the final knock-out stage this evening, with an all-British match between Arsenal and Celtic taking centre stage as twenty clubs play off against each other for...
UEFA Square Up To The Premier League. Again.
It’s all in the timing. The BBC couldn’t have chosen a better time to run a special report on the state of finances in English football. The eve of the...
Pisa Come Crashing Down Again
Britain isn’t the only country in which football clubs are prone to occasional financial collapse. Paul Grech, from the Italian football blog Il Re Calcio, writes on the rise, fall,...
Ronaldo To Madrid… Possibly
It has been said before that the one single things that all great sides have in common is a player in midfield, aged in his mid to late twenties. That...
Match Of The Week: FC Barcelona 2-0 Manchester United
Sometimes, you have to wonder. Levels of fitness and skill have no doubt improved in football over the last couple of decades, but perhaps today was the day during which...
Five Great European Cup Finals
If you open this morning’s newspapers, you’ll see that, in the opinion of the hacks, it’s already a foregone conclusion that this year’s European Cup final will be the greatest...
My Dream Is To Play For Madrid
I’ve long been a believer that the media can make any story it likes true if it repeats it enough. When Martin Jol was sacked by Tottenham Hotspur, it was...