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Group Stage Draw and Thoughts
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GROUP A: Ajax Amsterdam – Anderlecht- Dinamo Zagreb- Timisoara
GROUP B: Valenica- Lille OSC – Slavia Prague- Genoa
GROUP C: Hamburg SV- Celtic- Hapoel Tel Aviv- Rapid Vienna
GROUP D: Sporting Lisbon- Heerenveen- Hertha Berlin- Ventspils
GROUP E: AS Roma- FC Basel- Fulham- CSKA Sofia [...]
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Playoff Round: Second Leg Results
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After Tuesday and Wednesday we knew that Anderlecht, Celtic, FC Copenhagen, Levski Sofia, Panathinaikos, Red Bull Salzburg, Sporting Lisbon, Sheriff, Timisoara, and Ventspils would be in the Europa League group stage. Of course, today, there was the little matter of determining which of the clubs that have been trying to reach the Europa League group [...]
Serious Crowd Trouble Should Result in On Field Punishment
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More words have probably been wasted on football hooliganism than any other subject having to do with the game. While some of these studies have been interesting work, the majority of writing on this subject, particularly the gleeful first hand accounts and the equally gleeful ‘field studies’ of many a thrill seeking sociologist, has [...]
Playoff Round: First Leg Results
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I’m currently on vacation and very much out of the regular news loop, although I was able to watch the PSV 4 – Ajax 3 match, and a couple of the Champions League qualifiers on Fox Soccer. At any rate, I have commandeered a laptop and have had a chance to take a [...]
Random Club Affiliation: Part 1, Aesthetics
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A behavior that most, if not all, fans engage in is the development of an affinity or an aversion to clubs that have little or nothing to do with their ‘regular’ club based on seemingly random reasons. The world of football is far too vast to follow impassively. I actually began an abortive [...]
Playoff Round Draw
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PAOK v. Heerenveen
Dinamo Zagreb v. Hearts
Werder Bremen v. Akotbe
Everton v. Sigma Olomouc
BATE v. Litex Lovech
NAC Breda v. Villarreal
Lech Poznan v. Club Brugge
Fulham v. Akmar Perm
Galatasaray v. Levadia
FK Teplice v. Hapoel Tel Aviv
Metalurh Donetsk v. Austria Vienna
FC Twente v. Qarabag
AS Roma v. MFK Kosice
Dinamo Moscow v. CSKA Sofia
Racing Genk v. Lille OSC
PSV Eindhoven v. Bnei Yehuda
Lazio [...]
Third Qualifying Round: Second Leg Results
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We’ve certainly come a long way from Zestaponi v. Lisburn Distillery. The conclusion of the third qualifying round has, for the most part, been a mixture of the big boys starting to throw their weight around and teams with an advantage from the first leg finishing things off in a businesslike manner.
Even [...]
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