uefa Stories - Bitter and Blue
Meet the Champions: FC Barcelona's 2010/2011 La Liga Victory Parade in Barcelona
As I promised myself, yesterday, with my beloved Luis Enrique jersey, I went to "Les Corts", the neighborhood where Camp Nou is located, to take a look at the parade and see what was going on around the stadium. The parade was set to begin at 7.30 pm, Barcelona time. Given the time I didn't expect...
UEFA gives Arsène Wenger, Samir Nasri one-match bans
Arsène Wenger and Samir Nasri will both miss one match of their next European competition after UEFA handed down its punishment from the "incident" following Arsenal's loss to Barcelona last week in the Champions League. In addition, Wenger will have to pay a fine of ten thousand...
Has Arsène Wenger gone too far?
By now, most Arsenal supporters and football fans have probably seen Arsène Wenger's remarks from his press conference this morning about the incidents during and after the UEFA Champions League match against Barcelona on Tuesday (press conference available to ATVO subscribers here). The...
SAFC and Financial Fair Play...
With UEFA's Financial Fair Play Rule coming into effect soon, I decided to look at how it would affect Sunderland. Then It all got a bit mind boggling, so I contacted someone who knows his stuff. The Swiss Ramble is one of the best blogs out there, and they were kind enough to explain a few things,...
Are UEFA's Financial Fair Play Rules Behind Chelsea's Slow Transfer Window?
UEFA's rules are slightly opaque to me, so I can't speak with anything approaching authority on the matter, but an article by ESPN Soccernet is claiming that the reason Chelsea have been so slow to complete the David Luiz transfer - and why they've been hesitant to spend ludicrous sums in general...
Full Champions League and Europa League Draw Tables
Edit: The results of the draw may be found at the end of this post. With the last round of Europa league matches just finishing up (Liverpool and Manchester City both finished at the top of their groups, although it was looking pretty dicey for City for a while), we know who'll be going to the...
Possible Points Won by Region - Updated
So I eat a bit of crow. Europe looks likely to win the Cup at this point, but did the region win often enough to justify the representation it has at the World Cup? Here are the numbers at the end of the Group Stage Region Wins Draws Played % Pts...
Shooting Stars
'Its just not good enough' as the bloke about ten rows behind me has taken to near constantly singing. He has a point if he is referring to the 'strikers' currently plying there trade for city.The worst thing about today is probably the fact that it wasn't too bad a performance shooting aside and...
UEFA Cup final official launch
The run-up to next year’s UEFA Cup Final in Manchester got underway today (Thursday 6 December 2007) with an event to reveal the designs to publicise the event. This year’s designs have been created by celebrated Manchester-based artist Liam Spencer, one of the rising stars of the British...
Platini to implement the softest of caps
Well, it looks like tomorrow a new era in European Football will start. One where revenue will determine what kind of players can be signed, NOT reputation, nor Arab monies. I'm betting that al-Fahim is thrilled to be getting in on Portsmouth just in time to find out that an actual business plan...
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