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by Stephen Lunn on February 17, 2010
The first knock out round of the Champions League began last night with a mouth watering fixture between European legends AC Milan and the Premier League's most successful club Manchester United, ...
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by Stephen Lunn on December 19, 2009
The draw has been made for the Champions League and Europa League last-16 stages, and in the questionable style akin only to Uefa we could have predicted the biggest fixtures. Jose Mourinho makes a re...
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by Stephen Lunn on December 9, 2009
Liverpool fans will have been glad to hear that the long awaited 90 minute debut for one Alberto Aquilani has been promised tonight. Manager Rafa Benitez has said that it is perfect to start him in a...
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by Stephen Lunn on November 25, 2009
ITV didn’t expect this. They began the season having the rather illustrious item “Liverpool in Europe”, following a team who were guaranteed to keep the ratings high. Christ, were they wrong. Conde...
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by Stephen Lunn on November 24, 2009
The Champions League Group Stages are reaching their climax. Two of the most important matches to look out for, however, are the two in Group E (Debrecen vs Liverpool and Fiorentina vs Lyon) and Grou...
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by Stephen Lunn on October 21, 2009
Almost half way through the group stage and things are hotting up. While some teams go from bad to worse, others look to cement themselves in a qualification place before reaching the last two games....
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by Stephen Lunn on October 1, 2009
All of the second fixtures of the group stages have been played and we can already see the fate of some teams lying ahead. Some look sure, already, to be fighting for a Uefa Cup place, some look like ...
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by Stephen Lunn on September 30, 2009
The Champions League group stage continues this week and with the first night of matches over, some important games have ended with equally important results, with the scoring of some memorable goals....
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by Graham Fisher on October 16, 2008
After the great decision with ridiculous timing to ban Atletico Madrid from playing home games at their stadium, Uefa has temporarily overturned the ban for the Champions League match against Liverp...
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by Graham Fisher on September 29, 2008
Arsene Wenger is faced with an interesting problem. Last week he watched his youngsters and reserves destroy a decent Championship outfit in Sheffield United, 6-0 in the Carling Cup. On Saturday, he...
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by Graham Fisher on May 21, 2008
The 42nd goal of a quite remarkable season for Cristiano Ronaldo cancelled out by an emotional goal for the phenomenal Frank Lampard saw the Champions League final go to a tense extra thirty minutes...
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by Graham Fisher on May 15, 2008
In the war of words prior to next Wednesday's Champions League final between Chelsea and Manchester United, Chelsea wide man Joe Cole has said that he believes Barcelona's lionel Messi to be...
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by Graham Fisher on April 30, 2008
Two men answered their critics in the best possible way in the Champions League semi-final between Chelsea and Liverpool last night at Stamford Bridge.
Didier Drogba has taken a great deal of criti...
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by Graham Fisher on April 24, 2008
Cristiano Ronaldo's season took a very rare turn for the worse last night in the Camp Nou when he blasted a second minute penalty wide of the Barcelona goal.
As it turned out, that penalty was ...
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by Graham Fisher on April 23, 2008
In a game that was every bit as tense and intense as anticipated, Liverpool held the advantage until the 95th minute when an excellent ball into their box by Chelsea substitute Kalou was headed into...
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by Graham Fisher on April 21, 2008
Liverpool and Chelsea will take to the field at Anfield tonight for the first leg of their Champions League semi-final with behind the scenes goings-on making as much news as anything either of the ...
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by Graham Fisher on April 10, 2008
Manchester United made it three English teams in the last four of the Champions League with a 1-0 win at Old Trafford against Roma to consolidate their 2-0 win in Rome last week.
Although Roma gave...
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by Graham Fisher on April 8, 2008
What a fantastic game Liverpool and Arsenal played at Anfield last night. The quality and pace of the game was as good and high as anything you will see in world football.
Liverpool came through in...
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by Graham Fisher on April 1, 2008
As the Champions League competition reaches the fascinating quarter final stage starting tonight another story from a previous round has almost gone unnoticed.
UEFA have dropped their investigation...
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by Graham Fisher on March 5, 2008
Arsenal produced a wonderful performance to beat Milan 2-0 in the San Siro and march on to the quarter finals of the Champions League.
It wasn't just a great result, it was thoroughly deserved ...
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by Graham Fisher on March 4, 2008
The Champions League returns tonight with three British clubs playing their second leg ties.
Celtic have the daunting task of a visit to the Camp Nou in Barcelona with a 3-2 deficit, Arsenal take a...
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by daryl on November 8, 2007
Scott Brown is one of the very finest talents at the front of the exciting resurgence in Scottish football. But his career could have been over after this horror tackle from Benfica's Augustin Bi...
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by daryl on October 4, 2007
With Liverpool's once promising season beginning to show some wobbliness, it's worth comparing Rafa Benitez' approach to squad rotation with Arsene Wenger's at Arsenal. Specifically it...
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by daryl on August 30, 2007
The balls have been pulled out of the bowls, and so the Champions League group stages have been decided. The complete list is available all over the internets, but I'm not above a spot of cutting ...
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by daryl on May 24, 2007
He may have been "born offside," and he may be the least popular man in Liverpool this week, but there's no doubt Filippo Inzaghi is a proper striker. His first goal on the stroke of ha...
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by daryl on May 2, 2007
I'm no Man Utd fan (except for a brief spell when I was very young and thought Lee Sharpe was the best player ever) but I feel for Alex Ferguson tonight. For some reason I really want him to win a...
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by daryl on December 15, 2006
The Champions League last 16 has been drawn. It looks like this:
PSV vs Arsenal
Lille vs Man Utd
Real Madrid vs Bayern Munich
Celtic vs AC Milan
Roma vs Lyon
Barcelona vs Liverpool
Inter Milan vs Val...
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by daryl on December 6, 2006
Chelsea coasted through to the Champions League second round by beating Levski Sofia 2-0 last night. Four minutes of highlights for Blues fans to enjoy at their leisure.
Nice to see Shevchenko lookin...
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by daryl on November 1, 2006
All three Liverpool goals from the win over Bordeaux.
Two great finishes from Luis Garcia, especially that first one. He's well and truly settled in England. sick of that celebration though. Sure...
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by daryl on November 1, 2006
Maybe YouTube isn't dead for footy highlights after all, Champions League ones at least. This nearly ten minute highlights video of Barcelona and Chelsea battle royale at the Nou Camp is solid ent...
