Raúl González Blanco Leading Goal-Scorers in the UEFA Champions’ League

All-time Leading Goal-Scorers in the UEFA Champions’ League

 December 19, 2013   Paranjoy Goswami

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With 9 goals so far in this current UEFA Champions’ League campaign, Real Madrid’s flamboyant no. 7 Cristiano Ronaldo set a new tournament-record for the scoring the most goals in the group-stages. His Barcelona rival Lionel Messi only made just three appearances this season yet has 6 goals to his name. Over the past five […]

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Aaron Ramsey

Group F demonstrates its star billing in Champions League

 December 13, 2013   John Welsh

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The fine dividing line between success and failure in football was clearly demonstrated in this week’s Champions League matches, more especially in Group F. This set of four teams had always been earmarked as the ‘Group of Death’, and the outcome was not finalised until the last few minutes of the deciding matches. Arsenal were […]

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Arsenal

Arsenal now looking vulnerable in Champions League Group F

 October 28, 2013   John Welsh

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At the half-way stage in the current Champions League group stage, several of the favourites appear to be in a comfortable position for qualifying for the knock-out phase. It is the opposite case in the so-called ‘Group of Death’ featuring Arsenal, Borussia Dortmund, Napoli and Marseille, where the top three teams have the same points […]

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Match moment Arsenal vs Napoli

Serie A teams displaying modest form in Champions League

 October 3, 2013   John Welsh

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The results of several of midweek Champions League matches may have been fairly predictable but the performances of the Italian Serie A teams were modest by their own standards. Not a single win was recorded among the teams playing and second placed Napoli were definitely second best in their 2-1 defeat against Arsenal at Emirates […]

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Gareth Bale

Journey of Gareth Bale from Tottenham Hotspur to Real Madrid

 September 25, 2013   R K Gupta

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Six years ago, in 2007, Tottenham Hotspur struck a 10 million euro transfer deal with Southampton to get a little known 18-year old footballer going by the name Gareth Frank Bale. No one took any notice. The year 2007 belonged to the superstars like the Brazilian Kaka, Argentinian Lionel Messi and Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo. Other […]

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FC Basel 1893 players celebrate in front of their fans after their UEFA Champions League group stage match against Chelsea FC

Basel and Copenhagen send warning for Champions League favourites

 September 19, 2013   John Welsh

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After the opening exchanges in the Champions League group stage, a certain amount of predictability appeared to emerge with comfortable victories for Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich in particular. However, the performance of FC Basel against Chelsea serves as a reminder that shocks are still possible in Europe’s most prestige club tournament. It was […]

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UEFA Champions League Review: Meet the friends

 March 2, 2010   Prathamesh Dalvi

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The  UEFA Champions League is back and how!!!!. With new avtar,  Round of 16 matches  were played over the period of two weeks which meant more matches were available for viewing and some of the matches were just perfect for the advertisement of what I feel is the best football competition in the world. Of […]

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