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Group Stage: Match Day 4
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It’s match day four in the Europa League. While we’re very much in the business end of the group stage at this point, some groups are no closer to being decided than they were on match day one.
Here in the US, the major televised early game was, for some reason, Hamburg v. [...]
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Group Stage: Match Day 3
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It’s certainly been a fun week for European football; the Europa League did its part to keep things going. So, let’s get into what happened on match day 3.
There were a couple of notable thrashings in matches that we probably thought would have been closer affairs. Benfica, led by Javier Saviola and [...]
I Don’t Love the 90s: The North Atlantic league is still a terrible idea.
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As long as the North Atlantic league proposal is back on the table, let me just preemptively mention a few other things from the late 90s that I emphatically hope do not enjoy the same sort of revived popularity. These things are as follows: the phrase ‘is that your final answer,’ Limp Bizkit, [...]
The Joy of Shameful Joy
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In club land, the international breaks are something like an enforced naptime. But, in anticipation of the Uruguay – Argentina match that might send the Argentines crashing out of the 2010 World Cup, I have been thinking a lot about Schadenfreude. If Argentina did fail to qualify, I would have a good laugh, [...]
Group Stage: Match Day 2
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There was a little bit of everything on match day 2 in the group stage: redemption, surprises, and some consolidation of power already.
In the first batch of games, Red Bull Salzburg scored another surprise victory. Unlike their late smash and grab against Lazio, the caffeinated advertisements enjoyed a comfortable 2-0 victory against [...]
A pre-match rant about Rapid Vienna – Celtic
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Does it get more simultaneously pathetic and irritating than the whining we’ve had to put up with from Celtic for the past few weeks? In case you’ve missed Celtic stop just short of accusing Rapid Vienna of war crimes, a recap of the situation can be found in today’s Guardian.
In fairness [...]
Crime committed, celebrities not involved.
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In case you hadn’t already heard, UEFA is investigating a rather significant number of European qualifying round matches from recent seasons for evidence of match fixing. There really isn’t a whole lot to say about match fixing that doesn’t invite a response of ‘duh, really?’. That altering the results of sporting contests for [...]
Group Stage: Match Day 1
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After two days of eminently predictable action in ‘the world’s premier club competition,’ the Europa League group stages kicked off. I have to say, given that it’s only the first match day out of six, and way too early to overreact to results, it was not bad for a day’s work.
I definitely [...]
The Pesants Revolt
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Sometimes, the rule breaking by the rich and powerful is so blatant that even the proper authorities cannot ignore it, and are compelled to actually enforce the laws on the books. I suspect this is how we arrived at Chelsea’s transfer ban, and the investigations into the dealings of Manchester City and Manchester United. [...]
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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