Chasing the Big Leagues Sassuolo (Serie B) is a post from: Just Football

Tales from Tier Two is a series on Just Football in partnership with @tiertwofooty, in which we assess the promotion chances of the clubs in tier two of Europe's major leagues at the midway point of 2011/12.

Aston Villa captain Stiliyan Petrov would swap his current situation with any Liverpool player in order to fulfil his dream of playing for the Reds.
The 32-year-old began his career in his native Bulgaria with CSKA Sofia before being granted a move to Celtic in the summer of 1999.
It was not until 2006 that Petrov finally realized his ambition of playing in the Barclays Premier League, when he move to Villa Park for £6.

Two seasons ago Fulham had to wait until the knockout stages before facing any Champions League rejects, slaying the likes of Juventus and Wolfsburg before ultimately faltering to Atlético Madrid in the final.

This season, our group is chock-full of them.

GROUP K
Fulham
FC Twente (NED)
Odense (DEN)
Wisła Kraków (POL)

Boy, lots of red, white, and blue in these badges.

According to Bulgarian sports site Blitz.bg, CSKA Sofia will loan out 22 year old Irish striker Cillian Sheridan to the Portland Timbers during th summer transfer window. They claim it is with 99% certainty...

Of course, we'll still wait until the official word from the Portland Timbers to make any official announcement, but it is quite well known at this point that the Irish international has been trialing with the Portland Timbers for the last few days.

It's been a busy news week for the Sounders and the rest of MLS. The Seattle Sounders invited strikers Cillian Sheridan and Myron Samuel to train with the Sounders this week. Sounders fans were able to see both play in the reserve league game against the Vancouver Whitecaps. The Whitecaps senior team, and their family-friendly fans, will be in town this Saturday for the big rivalry game.

Historia del trofeo:
La Bota de Oro es el trofeo con el que se premia cada año al mayor goleador de las ligas europeas. El trofeo se empezó a otorgar en la temporada 1967-68 y en su elenco de vencedores figuran los nombres de los mejores artilleros de los último 40 años. Don Balón, como miembro de la ESM, es encargado de organizar y entregar el galardón, como ocurrió en el caso del último vencedor: Leo Messi.

Thirty years ago, the football world was a very different place. What we now take to be the Premier League was still the First Division of the Football League, three points for a win were just about to be introduced as Aston Villa won their first league championship since 1910, having fielded just fourteen players all season, and Nottingham Forest had surrendered their name as the champions of Europe after two years with a 2-0 aggregate defeat at the hands of CSKA Sofia in the First Round of the European Cup the previous September, but still finished the season in a creditable seventh place in the table.

Guess what has two thumbs and inadvertently dozed off before posting last night...Let's kick it off with the MLS Goal of the Week nominees - admittedly, not the juiciest bunch ever.Both goals from CSKA Sofia's win were scored beautifully by a young lad named Michel Platini - no, I'm not joking. I also have no explanation for the goal celebrations in Bulgaria.

Jemal Johnson and Lokomotiv Sofia will travel across the city to take on CSKA Sofia on Saturday in a must win game for Lokomotiv if they are to climb into the top three in the Bulgarian A PFG.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland Ukrainian referee Oleh Orekhov has lost his appeal against a life ban from football for helping fix matches. The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Tuesday dismissed Orekhov's appeal against his expulsion by UEFA last March. UEFA found he breached "principles of loyalty and integrity," but did not say which matches were [.

There aren't many things which can put the Bulgarian A Professional Football Group (seriously, that's its name) into the main stage spotlight. Those things include, but are not limited to, brawls, corruption, ultra violence, transfer foibles and Things Vaguely Related To Dimitar Berbatov, for a thousand, Alex.