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European Restructuring Part Two: New Boots and Contracts
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The decision to expand the UEFA Champions League was one of the most significant in the modern history of the European game. As discussed in part one, the emergence of vast sums of television money fundamentally altered the club landscape in favor of the richest and most powerful. After systematically robbing Europe’s smaller leagues [...]
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Hertha In Europe: Sensible Bites
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Remaining objective about the team you support is one of the great challenges in football. Even if you aren’t writing about it, there’s always the impulse, as a fan, to view every decision against as a grave injustice, to confuse the affection you have for a player with a realistic assessment of his skills. [...]
European Restructuring Part One: The Wealth of Nations
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European competition used to be relatively straightforward. There was the European cup, for domestic champions, the Cup Winners’ Cup, for domestic cup winners and the UEFA Cup, to reward teams that completed a successful league campaign. All three competitions paired teams from an open draw into knock out ties against each other all [...]
UEFA Cup Final: The Day the World Turned Day-Glo
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Shakhtar Donetsk 2 – Werder Bremen 1
Although it was an engaging contest, I do not believe that the 2009 UEFA Cup final is going to have everyone who compiled their best of lists during the last couple of weeks scrambling to get any quick rewrites done. Werder Bremen, depleted through injury and suspension, were [...]
Top 5 UEFA Cup Finals: # 1
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1975-1976 Liverpool 4 – Club Brugge 3
At least this didn’t get shoehorned into Sloop John B…
UEFA Cup Final: Consider Shakhtar the Favorites
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It took a couple of abortive attempts to write a preview primarily focused on Werder Bremen before I reached an important realization: Shakhtar Donetsk are the favorites in the UEFA Cup final. The difference between Bremen and Donetsk is hardly a titanic one, but every time I started to examine a different aspect [...]
Top 5 UEFA Cup Finals: # 2
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1980-1981 Ipswich Town 5 – AZ Alkmaar 4
Top 5 UEFA Cup Finals: # 3
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1987-1988 Bayer Leverkusen 3 (3) – Espanyol 3 (2)
A collapse that can only be described as utter.
Top 5 UEFA Cup Finals: # 4
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1988-1989 Napoli 5 – Stuttgart 4
Napoli’s finest hour, featuring a classic, yet underrated, Maradona performance.
Top 5 UEFA Cup Finals: # 5
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The last UEFA Cup final is going to be an event that launches a thousand lists, so no points for originality here. There are five days until this year’s final, so I’d like to spend them counting down my top five UEFA Cup finals.
2006-2007 Sevilla 2 (3) – Espanyol 2 (1)
A stand out among [...]
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