Europe

May 1st, 2008

Zenit looks to finish what Getafe could not

By: Ian Rose | Comments 12 Comments

Apologies all around. Unfortunately, due to other crap on my schedule, I can’t liveblog the matches today as I did last week. However, I did want to point out that currently, we are in the 57th minute of Zenit v. Bayern, and Zenit St. Petersburg leads 3-0, 4-1 on aggregate. Luca Toni […]

Category Category: Europe


February 28th, 2008

Should UEFA have a say on hard tackles?

By: Ian Rose | Comments 3 Comments

The media uproar around Martin Taylor’s tackle on Eduardo, and the horrifying break that resulted, has begun to subside, leaving the questions of why this sort of tackle is so routinely allowed in England, and what to do about it. The question that interests me is why the larger international bodies seem to have […]

Category Category: Europe
February 21st, 2008

Russian league takes #6 spot

By: Ian Rose | Comments 10 Comments

As predicted last week, the Russian Premier League has taken its place as the sixth-ranked league in Europe. Their current UEFA coefficient of 40.75, added to by Spartak Moscow’s 2-0 win over Marseille today, puts them just over Romania and into the coveted 6th position, with its 3 Champions League spots. This is […]

Category Category: Europe
February 15th, 2008

Russia’s next win will be massive

By: Ian Rose | Comments 1 Comment

Now that the UEFA Cup is back, and this blog along with it, I wanted to take a look at the UEFA league coefficients, that awkward and confusing system that makes it possible for England to send four teams to the Champions League while the likes of Scotland and Ukraine send two. Every time […]

Category Category: Europe
December 10th, 2007

The Club World Cup: An alternative scheme

By: Ian Rose | Comments No Comments

With the FIFA Club World Cup in full swing, the time’s come round again to criticize the format of the tournament. For my part, I’m glad that there’s a consistent world championship format that gives a chance for the best from Europe and South America (and the rest) to compete. But that doesn’t […]

Category Category: Europe


December 5th, 2007

Liverpool record win under investigation

By: Ian Rose | Comments 6 Comments

Technically, this is Champions League news, and not UEFA Cup, but I’m trying to stay on top of the developments on this, so what the hell …
Anyway, looks like the UEFA matches being investigated for suspicion of match fixing might not just be early qualifiers between low-ranking Eastern European countries. According to ESPN, the […]

Category Category: Europe
November 9th, 2007

Missed opportunity for Romanian football

By: Ian Rose | Comments 4 Comments

As Bob so fittingly put it this week:
Every year there is at least one team in the Champions League that makes you wonder how in the world they even qualified for the thing. This year it is Steau Bucharest. The Romanian club has been simply awful.
It’s true. In the last two seasons, the three […]

Category Category: Europe
November 8th, 2007

Late results: Viola go nuts, Aberdeen get a point

By: Ian Rose | Comments No Comments

Italy has had a rough UEFA Cup, with three out of their four teams failing to make the group stage. But the single Italian representative, Fiorentina, staked their claim on the knockout rounds today with a classic win over an outmatched Elfsborg team, 6-1. The Viola victory was one of only two home […]

November 8th, 2007

Early results: Bolton take shock point in Munich

By: Ian Rose | Comments 7 Comments

The early matches of UEFA Cup group stage day 2 are over, and there are some real shocks. Bayern Munich, nearly everyone’s favorite for the Cup title, dropped their first points at home today, as Bolton shocked them with a 2-2 draw. It’s the third draw in four matches of the Megson era […]

October 25th, 2007

Group Stage Matchday 1: I fail at prediction

By: Ian Rose | Comments 6 Comments

That’s right. My OWL in Divination is in serious doubt. We had a great first matchday in the UEFA Cup group stages … but my first try at tournament prediction did not go well. Here’s a look at today’s matches:
Group A:
Zenit St. Petersburg v. AZ Alkmaar
Predicted: Home win, Actual: 1-1 Draw
The Dutch […]






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