Les Bleus Least Likely Love Triangle: Ribery, Madame Ribery & Gourcuff
In England, it is not unusual for the private lives of football players to make the front pages of newspapers. Its not unusual for papers to print stories (alleging!) players are sending pornographic photos of themselves to random women across the country, engaging in extra-marital activities and impregnating numerous women along the way. ...
Bayern Munich, Chelsea & Inter Achieve Domestic Double!
This weekend witnessed the conclusion of all of Europe's major football action and there was a unique outcome considering three clubs were able to combine the league and cup trophies together. Bayern Munich won the domestic double in Germany while Chelsea added the FA Cup on Saturday after their triumph in the Premier League the...
Reasons To Love (and Hate) All the teams in South Africa
So with the World Cup coming up, many of you will be looking for a team to follow either as a second team when your team inevitably gets knocked out in the Quarter Finals on Penalties (perhaps that one is just me) or because your team didn’t make it to South Africa. Either way, at...
Mid-Day Ticker: Sex scandal rocks French team; Pompey denied Europe and more
By AVI CREDITOR The red card he received in Wednesday's UEFA Champions League semifinal against Lyon is the least worrisome of Franck Ribery's current problems. The Bayern Munich and French midfielder is at the center of an underage-prostitution scandal that also involves international teammate Karim Benzema, and the two are in jeopardy of being left...
Will Manchester United Beat Bayern Munich Without Wayne Rooney?
Manchester United host Bayern Munich knowing a 1-0 home victory would suffice to advance to the semi-finals. Manchester are well aware of Bayern’s ability to score given the plethora of talent on the German side.
The Bavarians arrive in England carrying a slender 2-1 lead but will be pleased to know they can count on the...
Bayern Munich vs Manchester United
United would start as I predicted yesterday (See Rooney and Ferdinand fit for Champions League) and Bayern with one of their star player, Robben. Everything seemed to be going Man U’s way.
United would get a dream start. Rooney would shake off Zorro (Demichelis) from a Nani set piece to put United up 1-0 after only...
Bayern Munich-Fiorentina: Refereeing Decisions Cost Fiorentina
Bayern Munich will take a slender lead to Florence after a controversial 2-1 win over Fiorentina in a hotly contested match which featured a number of odd decisions by the refereeing crew. Fiorentina’s Coach Cesare Prandelli was aggravated while club skipper Riccardo Montolivo could not believe his eyes and admitted the players are disheartened.
There is no point...
