In eager anticipation of this week’s Champions League semi-finals, we spoke to The Score’s James Sharman. He shared his thoughts on the big midweek fixtures, and Chelsea’s future amongst Europe’s best clubs. Chelsea host 2010/11 Champions League winners, Barcelona, and Bayern host Jose Mourinho’s Real Madrid. Would you have expected Chelsea to have reached the last-four of the Champions [...]
We were lucky enough to be joined by world-renowned Arsenal blogger and author, Andrew Mangan, aka Arseblog What are your thoughts on the season so far? So so, start was very poor. It was a difficult summer for Arsenal, mismanaged. New players joining with some high-profile departures. I was happy with a good run between September and December. Lack consistency, [...]
Renowned Manchester United blogger Dale O’Donnell, founder of StrettyNews.com, joined us to discuss the trip to Basel, United’s squad and season expectations. So for this season Manchester United have been satisfactory but by no means outstanding, what’s missing this season? Since the season began we have faced different issues. It started brilliantly seeing Tom Cleverley link up so well [...]
We were lucky enough to be joined by Dan Levene of the Fulham Chronicle – widely known as the No. 1 independent Chelsea news feed on Twitter. Has Andre Villas-Boas been placed under too much pressure? I’m sure Andre would be the first to say ‘if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen’. Pressure is [...]
Henry Winter of the Telegraph joined us to discuss a wide variety of hot topics in European football. Enjoy. What do you make of the recent suggestion to shrink European Leagues to better suit the Champions League? Is this a viable option, or just pandering to the biggest clubs in Europe? It’s upmarket sabre-rattling as much to do with FFP. [...]
We are joined by Oliver Kay of The Times and Kristian Jack of TheScore.com to discuss some of this year’s Champions League biggest talking points. Enjoy. Which team are you most surprised to see in trouble in the Group Stage? Also how far will Man City go? – from @lpunkari OK: I’m not surprised that City have seven points from four [...]
Napoli, who did well versus Manchester City in match-day one, have also started strongly in the Serie A campaign but do you think they have the ability to continue this rich vein of form into the Champions League? Obviously with the win against Villareal they have put themselves in a very good position. In some way, you wonder if this [...]
After an entertaining start to the Champions League season, we were joined by The Times football correspondent Oliver Kay and BBC Sport’s John Sinnott. Manchester City drew 1-1 with Napoli this week thanks to some classic Italian defensive and counter-attacking football from the Serie A side. Considering the difficulty of the rest of their group, where do you see [...]
With the Champions League group stages just around the corner, we were lucky enough to interview European football journalist Andy Brassell. He knows his Bundesliga football better than just about anyone. Here’s what he had to say. Bayern managed to negotiate the playoff stages but how do you rate their chances in Group A? Manchester City will prove to [...]
After a fantastic playoff win over Maccabi Haifa, Belgian side Genk deserves their Champions League chance. We discuss their chances of success with the Belgian football guru, Chris Mayer. He runs TheBelgianWaffle.co.uk and you can follow him on Twitter First of all, a tough draw for Genk. What do think of their chances vs Chelsea, Leverkusen and Valencia? Very [...]
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