uefa Stories - Sounder At Heart
Champions League Final: Weighty Expectations, Foregone Conclusions
Nearly every preview I've seen thus far on Saturday's Champions League final between Manchester United and Barcelona (1:45pm Central time on Fox) has focused on what, if anything, Man U can do to stop the mighty Barcelona offense. There is no doubt that Barcelona's strength going forward is...
El Clásico: As Explosive as El Dragón
Note: it's the football offseason, and there are plenty of fans of the other football around BC, so if it's not your bag, baby, click on to the next post. On Tuesday, Spain's two biggest teams, Real Madrid and Barcelona, play. Again. Thanks to the two teams' success, this is the fourth time they've...
Meet the Champions: FC Barcelona's 2010/2011 La Liga Victory Parade in Barcelona
As I promised myself, yesterday, with my beloved Luis Enrique jersey, I went to "Les Corts", the neighborhood where Camp Nou is located, to take a look at the parade and see what was going on around the stadium. The parade was set to begin at 7.30 pm, Barcelona time. Given the time I didn't expect...
UEFA gives Arsène Wenger, Samir Nasri one-match bans
Arsène Wenger and Samir Nasri will both miss one match of their next European competition after UEFA handed down its punishment from the "incident" following Arsenal's loss to Barcelona last week in the Champions League. In addition, Wenger will have to pay a fine of ten thousand...
Has Arsène Wenger gone too far?
By now, most Arsenal supporters and football fans have probably seen Arsène Wenger's remarks from his press conference this morning about the incidents during and after the UEFA Champions League match against Barcelona on Tuesday (press conference available to ATVO subscribers here). The...
SAFC and Financial Fair Play...
With UEFA's Financial Fair Play Rule coming into effect soon, I decided to look at how it would affect Sunderland. Then It all got a bit mind boggling, so I contacted someone who knows his stuff. The Swiss Ramble is one of the best blogs out there, and they were kind enough to explain a few things,...
Are UEFA's Financial Fair Play Rules Behind Chelsea's Slow Transfer Window?
UEFA's rules are slightly opaque to me, so I can't speak with anything approaching authority on the matter, but an article by ESPN Soccernet is claiming that the reason Chelsea have been so slow to complete the David Luiz transfer - and why they've been hesitant to spend ludicrous sums in general...
Full Champions League and Europa League Draw Tables
Edit: The results of the draw may be found at the end of this post. With the last round of Europa league matches just finishing up (Liverpool and Manchester City both finished at the top of their groups, although it was looking pretty dicey for City for a while), we know who'll be going to the...
Possible Points Won by Region - Updated
So I eat a bit of crow. Europe looks likely to win the Cup at this point, but did the region win often enough to justify the representation it has at the World Cup? Here are the numbers at the end of the Group Stage Region Wins Draws Played % Pts...
Shooting Stars
'Its just not good enough' as the bloke about ten rows behind me has taken to near constantly singing. He has a point if he is referring to the 'strikers' currently plying there trade for city.The worst thing about today is probably the fact that it wasn't too bad a performance shooting aside and...
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