Tagged with UEFA Champions league
Dec 2011
8th
How Champions league money is distributed.
Except for the small amount earned for actual games played Champions league TV money has nothing to do with how many teams left in the competition at this stage and everything to do with your domestic tv market combined with how well you do in your league.
Sep 2011
29th
Arsenal 2-1 Olympiacos.
We’ve done pretty well at home against the Greek champions in the past, but an away defeat year taught us that playing a second string side in the champions league not without risk.
Dec 2010
9th
Arsenal eases past Partizan to next round.
Thoughts turn to the round of sixteen, where there is a 50 percent chance of a meeting with one of the Spanish giants. The question now is whether it’s better to meet them earlier on in the draw or avoid as much as you can?
Nov 2010
24th
Not quite the fightback we were hoping for.
We were shit, but I don’t believe we are a shit team, a win at home against Partizan will be enough to qualify for the next round. If Braga can get some confidence from their victory and go on beat Shakhtar then we could still win the group.
Sep 2009
30th
Arsenal 2 – 0 Olympiacos — Patience pays off for Arsenal
Perhaps determined not to have a repeat of Standard Liege, Arsenal came out with all guns blazing. Unfortunately the gun-sights were not correctly calibrated.
Aug 2009
19th
Celtic 0 – 2 Arsenal. A solid start to the campaign.
It would be wrong to say that the players might have suddenly discovered a magic formula over the off-season break, but Arsenal has so far showed an edge to their game that they didn’t have at the same time last year.
Apr 2009
7th
Champions league Villarreal preview
There is a lot of talk about Pires, and yes it will be emotional, but to me the player that will trouble us the most is Marcos Senna