Five of the Champions League’s biggest knockout round upsets
Atalanta’s maiden venture into the Champions League ended in heartbreaking fashion with a late defeat to Paris Saint-Germain this week, the first-time qualifiers coming…
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Appreciating the seven men to lift the Champions League as a player and manager
The UEFA Champions League is widely regarded as the pinnacle of club football, the continental competition fiercely contested between world football’s biggest clubs and…
Neymar performance a timely reminder of his true standing in the game
In the end it was perhaps the most devastating result for so-called ‘neutrals’ in the history of the Champions League. With just seconds to…
90s Football Hall of Fame: Goalkeeping legend and all-round great guy Neville Southall
Former Everton and Wales netminder Neville Southall is the latest inductee into the 90’s Football Hall of Fame. Southall enjoyed a successful 17-year spell…
Ranking the five goalkeepers with most clean sheets in Champions League history
The UEFA Champions League annually pits together the world’s finest footballers, with only a fortunate few getting their hands on the famous old trophy.…
Difference makers: The player each UCL quarter-finalist will be looking to for inspiration this week
We’ve reached the business end of the Champions League as the quarter-finals begin this evening, each of the remaining eight sides now just two…
Ranking the seven players with most knockout stage goals in UCL history
It’s crunch time in the Champions League this week as football fans across Europe eagerly anticipate the quarter-finals of world football’s best club competition,…
The boys from Bergamo: How Atalanta became everyone’s second favourite team
For all the talk of the Champions League becoming a closed shop, Atalanta have punched through the door of Europe’s elite and are looking…
Picking the best starting XI from Premier League managers who are former players
Great players don’t necessarily become great managers, but the trend of appointing former players – particularly those with previous links to the club –…
Picking the best U23 XI in European Football right now
World football is currently blessed with an abundance of young talent as an emerging generation begin to make their mark on the sport, a…
Ranking the winning points margin in each of Europe’s top five leagues title races in 19/20
Premier League fans often laud England’s top tier as the most competitive league in world football, but Liverpool’s runaway title success this season did…
Ranking the remaining eight teams in this season’s Uefa Champions League
The last eight of the Champions League is here, but not as we know it. The quarter- and semi-finals will be one-off knockout ties,…
Tweets of the Week: Sarri sacked, Sanchez leaves, and Scott Parker’s rhyme
The best tweets of the week from the world of football, featuring Maurizio Sarri’s sacking by Juventus, Man United finally ridding themselves of Alexis…
Golden Oldies: Five top-class footballers still going strong at 35 or over
The careers of professional footballers are now longer than ever before with sports science keeping players at their physical peaks well past previous norms,…
Five of the most pointless Premier League transfers from the 2019/20 campaign
As with every new season, 2019/20 saw some good transfer and some bad ones, but there were also moves that just made you wonder…
In Defense of the Dinosaur: Analysing Jose Mourinho at Spurs
Jose Mourinho is a dead man walking at Tottenham Hotspur. That’s what general football opinion would have you believe, at least. Most have cast…
The best new jerseys of the 2020/21 Premier League season so far
We don’t have to wait very long for the new season to arrive and with that comes a host of excellent new jerseys for…
Rating the 15 players Liverpool have signed from the Bundesliga
Thiago Alcantara continues to be linked with a summer move to Liverpool, the midfielder having informed Bayern Munich of his desire for a new…