The CHAMPIONS LEAGUE draw held today for the last 16 teams gave the following match ups with games
scheduled to begin againthe 16th of Feb 2010.(courtesy from Sport.es)As you can see, out of the
three Spanish Clubs in the draw REAL MADRIDwas matched with the "more difficult" team being
Olympiquede Lyon.
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The French Football Magazine "Onze" has made public the 57candidates in which the public can vote
to make up the "ideal"11 Team for 2009, Best Player for 2009 & Best Coach 2009.The notable news is
that six REAL MADRID & up to 10FC BARCELONA players are included in the list, includingGuardiola as
"Best Coach".
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They Think It's All Over... won't be fussed if Ronaldo and Messi, the world's best players, aren't
in South Africa next year.
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In this article on the official site, Mark Hughes talked about the fact we are not competing in
Europe this season could well turn out to be a positive over the course of the season:
"There was a disappointment at the end of last season
because we weren't able to qualify for Europe, but it could have been a blessing
in disguise.
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The Website "Futebol Finance", a Portuguese portal that specializeson Football Finance issues, has
publish this season transfer Top 20European spending Clubs.SFS thought it might be of interest to
its readers & visitors. Yes, westill are all undergoing a World Wide Economic Crisis...The 20 clubs
that have invested in players 2009/2010:Real Madrid / Spain - € 257,400,000Manchester City
England - €
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Two Spanish Teams, REAL MADRID & ATLETICO DE MADRID beganthe long & difficult road to attempt to
qualify in their respectiveGroups & if possible go all the way to the CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Finalin
Madrid next year.REAL MADRID started well winning 2-5 FC ZURICH in a difficult &complicated match
against a very aggressive & switched on SwissTeam.
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Off the Post 17 September @ 08:27 AM EDT
Champions League Division Two gets under way It is an exciting week in football. We have already
seen all the fun of the Champions League, a tournament which despite all the thrills and spills it
often produces, sometimes makes two exciting teams play out dull games, as Inter and Barca
displayed last night.
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They Think It's All Over... is disgusted that UEFA have revoked Eduardo's diving ban, because it's
taking the game backwards.
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They Think It's All Over... writes a WDKF Wednesday article and tries to determine whether the
Premier League is still the best league in the world, or whether La Liga has taken it's crown.
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They Think It's All Over... thinks that Barca's recruitment of Zlatan Ibrahimovic will prevent them
from recapturing the majestic form of last season.
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Well that's what they say he's going to become, anyway. Javier Pastore, the just-turned-20-year-old
hero of Huracán's championship challenge during the Torneo Clausura, was unveiled as the newest
signing at Palermo, where he told the press, 'my model is Riquelme.' Elsewhere in Europe, various
Argentines played in pre-season friendlies for their clubs, including Javier Mascherano, [.
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REAL MADRID is suffering from its initial success in the transfermarket, dragging along everyone
else in this globalized planet.At every door Real Madrid goes knocking to ask for a price theonly
answers they receive are inflated figures that lead themrunning away. There is an entrenched idea
that the Spanish Clubhas clear publicized necessities & that to achieve them they arewilling to pay
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They Think It's All Over... presents the first ever 'WDKF Wednesday' which looks at why Cesc
Fabregas would be a fool to leave Arsenal in favour of Barcelona.
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They Think It's All Over... wonders to what use Sir Alex Ferguson will put the £80m fee he is to
receive for Cristiano Ronaldo.
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They Think It's All Over... analyses Kaka's blockbuster move to Madrid and thinks about what it
means for the future of the spanish club and the player himself.
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They Think It's All Over... links to its latest contribution to Salient, which is a reaction to
last week's Champions League final and overall analysis of the state of European football.
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Maxi López plays a little later tonight in the Copa Libertadores as his Grêmio side take on
Caracas FC in the first leg of the quarter-final. There have been two very prominent performances
on the other side of the Atlantic tonight though, as the two previous winners Lionel Messi and
Carlos Tevez looked [.
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Sometimes, you have to wonder. Levels of fitness and skill have no doubt improved in football
over the last couple of decades, but perhaps today was the day during which we started to lose grip
with reality. Every British newspaper had a pull-out section, many choosing to lavish extravagant
praise on a match that hadn't even been played yet.
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(courtesy of marca.com)SFS becomes a FC BARCELONA fans & will roar on the "Cules" against
MANCHESTER UNITED in tonights final of the CHAMPIONSLEAGUE - European Cup - FINAL at Rome
(Italy).Barça has the opportunity to add to its collection one of thesebeautiful Cups (see below)
- a 3ºrd if successful - to its collection,& in so doing make Spanish Football History as being
the first everClub to win
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If you open this morning's newspapers, you'll see that, in the opinion of the hacks, it's
already a foregone conclusion that this year's European Cup final will be the greatest football
match of all time. This may or may not come to pass, but it has some stiff opposition to overcome
if it is to join as much as the greatest European Cup finals of all time.
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They Think It's All Over... throws it's hat in the corner of Manchester United for the Champions
League Final, courtesy of some pretty compelling arguments. Have a read to find out what those
arguments are...
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How often, then, do cup winners get lucky? Ahead of tomorrow night's European Cup final in Rome
it's a question worth asking ourselves, because there is a tendency, in cup finals, for those
moments of good fortune to be critically important. In this respect, cup competitions are very
different to league seasons.
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Tomorrow night we will finally know who will be the EuropeanChampion after FC BARCELONA &
MANCHESTER UNITED clash atthe "Olimpico Stadium" at Rome (Italy). It's the perfect final forthe
universal Football (Soccer) fan that should supply plenty of action& lots of goals with a bit of
nail bitting thrown in as well.
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HEGS Award voting season (nominations to the address in that post please) got underway with another
championship for a team with Argentine representation this weekend, as Porto claimed their fourth
consecutive Portuguese crown. Elsewhere Martín Demichelis celebrated the birth of his child with a
rare goal in Germany, and Hernán Crespo started for Internazionale!
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Turning to the Guardian's sports blog this morning, it is disheartening to see that 39.4% of
people replying to a poll asking the question of "Are Chelsea the victims of a UEFA conspiracy?".
Leaving aside the fact that sending off a Barcelona player and leaving it until the ninetieth
minute before Barcelona have their first shot on goal of the match (which would, more likely,
require the compliance of the Chelsea defence rather than UEFA officials or the referee of that
particular match) and that, let's be honest, if UEFA wished to conspire against Chelsea, they could
have found a far more watertight way of doing it than the one that they used, here's an alternative
"conspiracy theory" over what was going on at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night.
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They Think It's All Over... reacts to the appalling standard of refereeing and player behaviour in
the Chelsea-Barcelona match at Stamford Bridge and decides that it's time for action. We're taking
a campaign to the streets!
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UEFA, according to conspiracy theorists, have "got the final they wanted". Chelsea were knocked
out of the Champions League by Barcelona last night, and the opening line of this post is already
being widely repeated as the truth. One would have to have a heart of stone to not feel some degree
of sympathy for Chelsea - they had approximately two and a half strong calls for a penalty waved
away and Barcelona's goal was their only shot on target of the entire match.
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...Plus the European Cup semi-final second legs. That's an easy one to get out the way quickly:
Carlos Tevez didn't feature as Manchester United booked their place in the final, whilst Lionel
Messi had a quiet game for Barcelona but set up a last-gasp equaliser for Andrés Iniesta to put
Barcelona through on away goals [.
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They Think It's All Over... reacts to a devastating opening at Old Trafford in last night's
Champions League Semi-Final, and feels really quite sorry for Kieran Gibbs and Darren Fletcher.
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Well, we haven't done this for a while, so I thought it would make a change to do it this
evening. It's the second leg of the semi-final of the European Cup and it's Manchester United with
a one goal lead from the first leg. The teams are as follows:
Arsenal: Almunia, Sagna, Toure, Djourou, Gibbs, Walcott, Fabregas, Song
Billong, Nasri, Van Persie, Adebayor.
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Well, I must admit I'm excited about the second legs of this season's Champions League semi-finals.
The first legs, granted, weren't quite the classics that we perhaps anticipated, but you have to
admit that they are now nicely set up for some pretty tasty second legs. So who's going to fight on
through and have [.
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They Think It's All Over... finishes drooling over Barcelona's attacking power in time to notice
that the 'greatest team in the world' is a bit rubbish at the back, actually. Can Chelsea take
advantage? I think so.
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They Think It's All Over... looks at Serie A's decision to form a breakaway league in the style of
the Premoer League, a bid to increase revenue to allow them to compete with English clubs. Will it
pay off?
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So, it's Champions League semi-final and this isn't merely Barcelona versus Chelsea. It's "Mas
que un club" versus Chelsea, Catalunya versus Chelsea and Europe versus the Premier League. Has it
come to this? Are Barcelona the only continental club that can take on the swagger of the Premier
League and give them a game?
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