Posts Tagged ‘Champions League 2009-10’
How to save football #1: The Champions League group stage
Liverpool's current campaign looks over after this 1-1 draw. It needn't be this way. Lyon 1 - Liverpool 1- Watch more Sports Videos at Vodpod. The Champions League group stage is utter dross. The occasional shock result only goes to highlight how ineffective it is: The 'minnow' that inflicts the shock is invariably done over in [...]
Champions League lowlights, November 3rd and 4th
November 3rd Jammy Manc buggers. Oh well, at least it livened up the evening. I spent it watching Beşiktaş meekly raising the white flag against the VW boys, while flicking over to the surprisingly entertaining Madrid - Milan match. Manchester United 3 - 3 CSKA Moscow Sir Alex has reacted angrily to Darren Fletcher's booking for diving [...]
European roundup, September 29th and 30th
A quickie... here are all the goals from last night's games: And here are the Englishmen and their foreign friends... Arsenal 2 - 0 Olympiakos Late goals from Robin van Persie and Andrey Arshavin gave the Gunners victory over Olympiakos. I'd already fallen asleep by then though. Arsenal 2 - 0 Olympiakos - Watch more [...]
First Group matches in the Champions League
Liverpool 1 - 0 Debrecen Boring, predictable pointless fixture? I have to agree with you, dear reader. Dirk Kuyt's goal on the stroke of half-time proved enough for a dominant Liverpool at Anfield. Do you really give a shit? Liverpool 1 - 0 Debrecen - Watch more Sports Videos at Vodpod. Standard 2 - 3 Arsenal The Gunners [...]
Do the likes of Beşiktaş stand a chance in the Champions League?
The red peril are in town tonight to play my favourite Turkish team Beşiktaş. Tickets are a not unreasonably priced 75 lira (30 quid / 50 dollars) Will I be going? Will I buggery: here’s why. United's comical elimination in the 2006 group stage remains the only instance in the previous four seasons that any of the eight clubs drawn from pot [...]
More Champions League qualifiers
Celtic midfielder Massimo Donati has rightly called for cheating bastard Eduardo da Silva to receive a European ban after accusing him of diving to win the penalty that enabled Arsenal's safe passage into the Champions League group phase last night. There were also other games, but they were all crap. Arsenal 3 - 1 Celtic 1 (Agg. [...]
Champions League qualifiers
Who cares, honestly? None of these teams are going to win the bloody thing. What a useless format for a crap competition. Bring on the Wenger super league. Atletico Madrid 2 - 0 Panathinaikos (Agg. 5-2) An ugly, ugly game. Panathinaikos' defender Loukas Vintra bagged an own goal from a Diego Forlan 'pass' in the fifth minute. Sergio Aguero [...]
More Champions League qualifiers
I'm finding myself strangely drawn to Arsene Wenger's Euro Super League right now, nothing to do with these crock of shit fixtures, naturally. Panathinaikos 2 - 3 Atletico Madrid The fixture of the evening, but that's not saying much. Ten minutes before the break Panathinaikos saw a Salpingidis goal disallowed for offside, Atletico Madrid [...]
Champions League qualifiers
So, this is where the competition gets exciting, apparently. You could have bloody well fooled me. Arsenal claim first blood in the 'scuffle' of Britain, while a load of other teams who don't have a prayer in Hell of winning the bloody thing also played. Celtic 0 - 2 Arsenal The Gunners have one foot in the group stage after claiming [...]
