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Champions League End of Season Awards

May 22nd, 2008 · Comments · Frank Lampard, ac milan, andrea pirlo, arsenal, barcelona, carles puyol, carlos tevez, champions league, chelsea, cristiano ronaldo, fenerbahce, fernando torres, john terry, lionel messi, liverpool, manchester united, patrice evra, petr cech, ryan babel, schalke, steven gerrard, theo walcott

So, here we go with my version of the 2007-2008 Champions League awards. The English clubs dominate the awards here but I did single out some players from teams that were knocked out earlier in the competition as they gave some great individual performances.
Player Awards
Most Outstanding Player: Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)
Most Valuable Player: Steven Gerrard […]

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European Roundup: 10 countries in 10 minutes or less!

May 9th, 2008 · Comments · aek athens, bundesliga, champions league, champions league qualifying, fenerbahce, gambrinus liga, hamburger sv, qualifying rounds, schalke, slavia prague, sparta prague, steaua bucharest

This leg of our European tour starts in France where Bordeaux revived their Ligue 1 title hopes when Pierre Ducasse’s stunning 25-metre strike in stoppage time earned them a 2-1 win at Olympique Marseille on the weekend. Second-placed Bordeaux, on 71 points with two games left, are two points behind leaders and six-times champions Olympique […]

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Chelsea v Liverpool Part 3: Revenge of the Russian?

April 9th, 2008 · Comments · arsenal, chelsea, fenerbahce, liverpool

For the third time in four seasons, Liverpool and Chelsea will contest a Champions League semi-final to see who will be in Moscow for the final. The previous two semi-final clashes were extremely tight ties and were more a display of defensive and tactical negation than a reflection of the offensive talent that both squads […]

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Champions League Quarter Finals Second Leg Preview

April 7th, 2008 · Comments · arsenal, as roma, champions league, champions league quarter finals, chelsea, fenerbahce, liverpool, manchester united, schalke

With their other first choice centre-back Nemanja Vidic already ruled out for three weeks with a knee injury, Manchester United now face the prospect of Rio Ferdinand missing out the return leg of the quarter-final against Roma after he limped off with 20 minutes remaining in a 2-2 Premier League draw at Middlesbrough on Sunday.
Ferdinand, […]

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