A Sting In The Tail: Chelsea Tame Barcelona In The Champions League
Possession, then, might only be nine-tenths of the law after all. When push came to shove at the Camp Nou last night, the young tigers of Barcelona were cast aside...
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Chelsea’s Golden Night: Barcelona Are Brought Down To Earth At Stamford Bridge
They came,they saw and they kept possession as ever, but this time they couldn’t quite conquer. Barcelona arrived in West London this evening with the sound of a Spector-esque wall...
A – Partial – Defence Of The Club World Cup
On Sunday morning – if you happen to be in Western Europe – the champions of world club football will be crowned, as the final of the 2011 Club World...
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...
Match Of The Midweek: Barcelona 3-1 Arsenal
Barcelona versus Arsenal, then. This tie might just turn out to have produced a higher acreage of newpaper stories than any other match this season, with comments thrown from one...
Barcelona And The Sacrifice Of Principles
One of the more singular quirks of some football rivalries is an appropriation of the moral high ground by one club over another. It can be seen in some ways...
A Homage To A Catalonian Evening
I will get to actual football in a minute. Please bear with me. In a week when former Tory minister David Mellor bleated on TV about dishonesty in public life,...
Match Of The Midweek: Barcelona 4-1 Arsenal
How, then, do Arsenal solve a problem like Lionel Messi? If he isn’t unquestionably the best player in the world at the moment then he is in the top two...
Sir Bobby Robson – 1933-2009
It has been a very sad day for football on the eve of the new season. We have lost one of us. It is, perhaps, a reflection of the hole...
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...
Three Times Lucky For Manchester United?
How often, then, do cup winners get lucky? Ahead of tomorrow night’s European Cup final in Rome it’s a question worth asking ourselves, because there is a tendency, in cup...
You Want A Conspiracy Theory? I’ll Give You A Conspiracy Theory
Turning to the Guardian’s sports blog this morning, it is disheartening to see that 39.4% of people replying to a poll asking the question of “Are Chelsea the victims of...
A Few Words About Chelsea Last Night
UEFA, according to conspiracy theorists, have “got the final they wanted”. Chelsea were knocked out of the Champions League by Barcelona last night, and the opening line of this post...
Match Of The Week: FC Barcelona 0-0 Chelsea
So, it’s a Champions League semi-final and this isn’t merely Barcelona versus Chelsea. It’s “Mas que un club” versus Chelsea, Catalunya versus Chelsea and Europe versus the Premier League. Has...