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Roundup of European Domestic League action

May 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Stuttgart, Valencia, ac milan, arsenal, as roma, atletico madrid, barcelona, bayern munich, champions league, champions league group stage, champions league qualifying, chelsea, hamburger sv, inter milan, internazionale, liverpool, manchester united, ronaldinho, uefa cup, villareal, werder bremen

As we wait for the Champions League final, it’s a good time to look at the leagues around Europe and see who will be part of next season’s competition. In this first report, we look at what I would call the “bigger” leagues in Europe — England, Italy, Spain and Germany. In part two, we’ll […]

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Laying down the law….sort of..

March 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Brann Bergen, UEFA, atletico madrid, bolton, everton, fc zenit st petersburg, marseille

On Thursday, UEFA’s Control and Disciplinary Committee imposed fines on several clubs for incidents from recent matchdays in both the Champions League and UEFA Cup.
+ Lyon were fined 3,200 Euros for what has been noted as “incidents of an unsporting nature” in the first leg of their knockout tie against Manchester United. This relates […]

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UEFA Cup Round of 32 First leg Preview

February 12th, 2008 · No Comments · atletico madrid, bayern munich, bolton, everton, slavia prague, tottenham, uefa cup

After a nice long break from the action both the Champions League and UEFA Cup competitions will kick off their knockout rounds. We’ll first look at the UEFA Cup as their Round of 32 first leg fixtures take place this week.
Spanish clubs have dominated this competition in recent years but Germany, with 5 clubs, and […]

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