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.

Feb 2011

16th

Why does Arsenal get no respect at all?

Strangely, or predictably, the English consensus is that Arsenal will be lucky not to get a thrashing at the hands of Barcelona, yet outside of the British media the prognosis is much more in favour of an Arsenal win.

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