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In the most exciting of circumstances, Chelsea and Bayern Munich achieved a most unlikely double this week by defeating the two giants of Spanish football in the Semi Finals of the Champions League. Chelsea knocked out reigning European Champions, Barcelona, 3-2 on aggregate on Tuesday night after gaining a 2-2 draw at the Nou Camp whilst [...]

Despite the bookmakers suggesting otherwise before this week’s first legs, Bayern Munich and Chelsea made home advantage count and will take leads into their Champions League Semi Final second leg ties against Real Madrid and Barcelona respectively. The question though is whether their slender leads will be enough to prevent an “El Clasico” Champions League final [...]

Not too many years ago, winning a League Cup and reaching the final of the FA Cup would be regarded as a hugely successful season, no matter where the team finished in the League table. However, those were the days of course of romantic football, when reaching a Wembley final for many was even bigger than [...]

Following their exits from the Champions League Group Stage this season, you could be forgiven for thinking that the two Manchester giants, United and City, would not have made winning the Europa League a priority, with both locking horns in the Premier League title race. However, the strength of the teams that both sides fielded when [...]

Chelsea’s under-fire manager, Andre Villas-Boas, has informed the media this week that the festive month of December will be a crucial one for both him and the team . Six Premier League games and one in the Champions League is on the menu in December for Chelsea and the young Portuguese manager will no doubt by writing his [...]

As most football fans will know the scope of the Ballon d’Or, originally the award given to the European Footballer of the Year was extended last year to become the FIFA Ballon d’Or which is now awarded to the player considered by both FIFA and UEFA to be the best in the world. The 2010 Ballon [...]

With increasing frequency, Manchester is looking the likely destination of the 2012 Premier League Champions with both its teams, United and City, looking set to bound clear of their main rivals at the top of the Premier League despite it still being early in the season. Both teams sit alongside each other on 16 points, with [...]

There’s no doubt that nine months after his transfer from Liverpool to Chelsea, Fernando Torres is feeling the burden of living up to the £50m fee paid for his services. After just one goal in 23 appearances for his new club, critics have been out in force, questioning whether he’s the most expensive flop in Premier [...]

With no European football to act as a distraction during the 2011/2012 season, Liverpool, a team rejuvenated following the return of Kenny Dalglish as manager in January, are being widely tipped to be a major force once again in the Premier League this season. Some people, including Manchester United boss, Sir Alex Ferguson, have hinted that [...]

It has become quite clear that over the last three years, the Spanish football philosophy is way above those of the rest of the world right now and the current European Championship and World Cup holders show no signs of slowing down as a nation as proven when Spain’s Under-21 team won the European U21 Championship [...]