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Wednesday UEFA Cup wrap-up
By: Ian Rose |Final scores from today’s UEFA Cup round of 32 first leg matches at the end of this post. Everton continue to look unstoppable after taking the only road victory of the day, and are making a serious bid for favorite to take home the Blender. The two Greek sides in play both took […]
Late results: Viola go nuts, Aberdeen get a point
By: Ian Rose |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 […]
Early results: Bolton take shock point in Munich
By: Ian Rose |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 […]
Group Stage Matchday 1: I fail at prediction
By: Ian Rose |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 […]
UEFA Cup Group H Preview
By: Ian Rose |Okay, it’s finally here. We’re done with all that Champions League nonsense and now it’s time for the real tournament. Just kidding. Even I don’t like the UEFA Cup THAT much. Anyway, tomorrow, the group stage of the UEFA Cup gets underway, and this is the last of my eight group […]
UEFA Cup Group G Preview
By: Ian Rose |It’s almost time to get back to that tournament everyone in the soccer world cares about more than any other … and, it’s also time for its ignored little brother, the UEFA Cup. Here is the seventh in my soon-to-be-completed eight part series on the UEFA Cup groups.
Group G is, in order […]
UEFA Cup Group F Preview
By: Ian Rose |We are almost through the previews, and there’s only a week or so until I can start tallying up exactly how many games I got wrong. The sixth of the eight groups, Group F, includes nearly everyone’s favorite for the Cup, as well as a struggling English squad and a very dangerous four seed. […]
UEFA Cup Group E Preview
By: Ian Rose |The fifth of eight groups in the UEFA Cup might just be the most interesting. There might not be any English or Italian teams in this one, but representatives from France, Germany, Russia and the Czech Republic make this one of the toughest groups out there. And that little team from Switzerland that […]
Off Topic: Go Luxembourg!
By: Ian Rose |Okay, this has nothing to do with the UEFA Cup, but since the I like to talk about little minnow teams on this blog, I had to make a quick shout-out to the Luxembourg National Team, who beat Belarus 1-0 yesterday in Euro 2008 qualifying, for their first Euro qualifying points since 1995. That […]
UEFA Cup Group D Preview
By: Ian Rose |Fourth part, yada yada, eight parts, yada yada. Here’s my preview of Group D of this year’s UEFA Cup.
Group D is, in order of seeding:
Basel (Switzerland), Hamburg (Germany), Rennes (France), Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia), Brann (Norway)
The matches:
Basel v. Rennes, 25 October
Basel doesn’t lose often at home, and will gain some of the respect they deserve […]






