Image Credit- The Guardian English football is finally back. Exactly 100 days after Leicester City’s 4-0 drubbing of Aston Villa, Premier League football will return to our screens on the 17 th June with a […]
Atalanta’s European Fairytale Continues
A 5-1 defeat to Manchester City in late October looked to have heralded the end of Atalanta’s Champions League debut season. Following the loss in Manchester their group stage record read: played three and lost […]
Football: Fantastic Play or Foul Play?
Long have football press and fandom debated over the “best way” to play the beautiful game, without arriving to any conclusion. The answer most people seem to accept is that each manager usually has their […]
UEFA Ban Threatens to Sheik up Man City’s Champions League Dream
Image Credit: UEFA.com Manchester City this week were banned from all UEFA competitions and fined £25million for a range of charges levelled at them by European football’s top governing body. Uefa found Manchester City to […]
2011: A Year in Sport
Image Credit- The Telegraph The sporting year began in spectacular fashion for England Cricket, who clinched their first Ashes win Down-Under since 1986/7 with an innings defeat of Australia in Sydney. The result clinched a […]
Champions League Roundup
Image Credit [AFP] Another week of Champions League action has passed, with there being drama right across the continent. In Europe’s premier competition, it was a mixed week for the four English clubs. Liverpool and […]
Champions League Preview: Uphill Struggles for the English sides
Image Credit: [The Guardian.ng] The second round of the Champions League group stage will be played out on Tuesday and Wednesday night, with the English sides having a mixture of fortunes in their opening fixtures. […]
Last gasp Firmino strike gets Liverpool off the hook.
Photo credit [Andrew Powell/Getty Images] The matching of these two in Group C was mouth-watering as soon as the draw was made. Liverpool’s attacking trio of Roberto Firmino, Mo Salah and Sadio Mané all came […]
A Tale of Two Halves
Since 1982, the unstoppable Manchester City have only won once at Anfield; and Tuesday night proved that stat will remain until further notice. Liverpool exhibited earlier in the season that their relentless pressing could emit […]
English clubs fail to impress in latest Champions League action
On Tuesday night, Liverpool visited Spain to take on the might of Real Madrid. Despite Brendan Rodgers surprising and alarming fans in equal measure by naming what was definitely not his strongest side for this titanic […]
Mixed week for English teams in Champions League
This was a week of contrasting fortunes for the English representatives in Europe, with 2 wins, a draw and a defeat. MANCHESTER CITY were in action on Tuesday night, hoping to use their visitors Roma […]
Sport | All to play for in the Champions League
The Champions League semi-final stage kicked off on Tuesday, as 2012 winners Chelsea visited Diego Simeone’s high-flying Atletico Madrid for a hotly anticipated first leg encounter at the Estadio Vicente Calderon. The match was not […]