La Liga round-up: Jornada 18
La Liga is back with a bang, after a great weekend’s football. Real and Villarreal turned out to be a cracker, and elsewhere Sevilla continued their recent revival, while normal service resumed as...
View ArticleLa Liga Round-Up: Jornada 21
It might seem ludicrous to pronounce a championship dead with 17 games remaining. Okay, a 7 point difference at the head, but dead; utterly dead? In most countries one might be accused of getting ahead...
View ArticleJourney to the Centre of the Europa League – Q/F, second leg preview
Following a cull of big name clubs such as Liverpool, PSG, Man City and Ajax in the last 16, the Europa League quarter-final line-up took on a curious alignment. There were three distinct geographical...
View ArticleJourney to the Centre of the Europa League – Semi-finals Preview
When the Europa League steamboat first chugged ponderously away from its moorings in the hazy midsummer heat, few pundits foresaw such Portugese primacy so near to journey’s end. Now it’s down to the...
View Article¡Hay Liga! La Liga – Season Preview
So here we are and the first jornada of the new La Liga season is upon is; or is it? Well, as you all know, the season was delayed by the strike organised by AFE, the Spanish players’ union, and this...
View ArticleCesare Prandelli’s Azzurri: The Decade’s Dark Horses
Such is Italy’s often underrated resilience, they have triumphed in spite of distractions and adversity. The 1934 World Cup victory, Benito’s Mussolini’s propaganda-dominated tournament, took place...
View ArticleRavel Morrison: A chance to become a club legend
A prodigious talent, a scorer of brilliant chipped goals and a player touted as the most ground-breaking potential Manchester United Academy graduate since Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes. Remarkably, this...
View ArticleThe Old Lady regains her roar
Some may called it long-standing favouritism, the Bianconeri have seen it as their destiny. It all goes back to 1981 and 1982. Juventus’ fans, who had grown disillusioned with the stubborn Giovanni...
View ArticleEuro 2012 will serve as the Trapattoni era’s epitaph
Unsurprisingly, given the controversy-laden history of Irish football before Giovanni Trapattoni’s appointment in 2008 – which included everything from Tony Cascarino’s ineligibility and encapsulation...
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