Showing posts with label Champion's League. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Champion's League. Show all posts

23 May 2008

Manchester United Champions of Europe

I'll echo everyone around the footie blogosphere who say that Manchester United has been the best team in Europe this year and do deserve to win it.

I also thought though, being a City supporter, that I'd share this random thought I had while walking to work this morning.

Manchester United have won the European Cup as many times as Nottingham Forest

22 April 2008

More Liverpool LULZ from Ahead of the Game

HICKS WARNED TO STAY AWAY
Merseyside Police have advised the Liverpool co-owner to avoid tonight's Champions League semi-final first leg against Chelsea because of fears for his safety. "Advice was given to the club based on a standard ongoing risk assessment," a police spokeswoman said. "The safety of all those attending has been considered." The club still expect Hicks to attend. Well, he'd be mad to miss a European Cup tie at Anfield.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/article3797374.ece


I like the Fiver so much more but Ahead of the Game aka The Fourer comes out first!

12 December 2007

On English teams in Champion's League

There is this interesting theory/fallacy in European football from an English perspective. Basically that in the Champion's League English Teams are infalliable, undestructable, and impossible to beat unless by one of the following teams:

AC Milan
Real Madrid
Barca
Inter Milan (swaps places with Roma depending on Italian Standings).

Liverpool advanced out of Group A in the Champion's League yesterday in second place. That means for the first round of the knockout they will face a first place team from any of the other groups provided that they aren't English.

First place in the other groups (sans English Teams)

AC Milan
Real Madrid
Barca
Inter Milan
(Sevilla if Arsenal don't win today)

If Arsenal don't win today, they are in the same situation as Liverpool. Though for some reason I imagine more people would back Arsenal to come out alive than Liverpool (despite the fantastic Golf Swing Celebration victory at the Nu Camp last year).

The other English teams have a pretty easy road to go as there are some especially weak second place teams from the groups. Though there a couple more undecided.

It's just funny I guess.

07 November 2007

Liverpool 8 - 0 Besiktas - in which our Footie Bird's closet Scouse sympathy comes to light.

I only got to the pub in the 75th minute to meet with the Footie Geeza yesterday. I still got to see 3 goals.

Peter Crouch helps Liverpool to new heights in record win | European Football - Times Online
Liverpool set a Champions League record last night with an 8-0 victory over Besiktas, the most resounding in the competition in its revised format. They may still require victories in their final two group games to reach the last 16, but an emphatic triumph, the club’s biggest in any competition since 1989 and best in Europe for 27 years, has given their campaign a spectacular, if overdue, kick-start.


Kuyt will still start on Saturday because Rafa is a stubborn bastard. I mean he's right in a way--Crouch is rubbish, but he's on form. Even those 10 minutes he gets to play at the end of the match esin the league he's really looking stellar. BUT HE'S RUBBISH omg it makes my head spin.

Another thing that makes my head spin.

ESPNsoccernet - UEFA Champions League - Valencia v Rosenborg Report
VALENCIA, November 6 (Champions League) - Ronald Koeman's Valencia career got off to a dismal start on Tuesday after visiting Rosenborg stunned his new charges in their Champions League Group B clash at the Mestalla.


HOW THE FUCK DID THAT HAPPEN???? Rosenborg who finished 5th in the Tippeligaen (and my beloved IK Start were relegated), and they beat Valencia twice?!?!? Will Rosenborg benefit next year from the Liverpool rule?? If Porto could win so could Rosenborg haha.

They're being raided by all the big sides of their players after beating big clubs so it'll be interesting to see what happens.

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