Posts Tagged ‘Manchester City’

Why Was Mancini Considering AS Monaco?

Thursday, November 15th, 2012

This post was guest-blogged by Soccerlens.

The English Premier League is one of the most attractive options in the world, not just for top players, but for the top managers in the world. From José Mourinho to Pep Guardiola, these days no ambitious manager considers his CV to be complete without a stint managing one of the big English clubs – and nowadays Manchester City are unquestionably one of those clubs. Therefore, the news that current manager Roberto Mancini was seriously considering bailing out of the Etihad towards the end of last season to take a job managing French outfit AS Monaco (who are now in the French second division, no less) is surprising to say the least.

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UEFA Cup Quarter-Finals Draw (2008-09): Udinese Get Werder Bremen

Friday, March 20th, 2009

UEFA Cup

The draw for the Quarter-Finals of the UEFA Champions League took place at the House of European Football in Nyon, Switzerland, today at 13:00 CET (I liveblogged the event on Soccerlens).

Udinese, the only Serie A team remaining in Europe, can be moderately satisfied. They have the chance to avenge AC Milan, but will have to watch out from conceding too many goals. Despite a rather bleak Bundesliga campaign this year, Bremen have grown accustomed to scoring lots of ‘em in recent years.

I’ll make a more elaborate analysis later in the day, but for now here are the draw results.

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2008/09 UEFA Cup
Quarter-Finals
to be played April 9 and 16

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Hamburg
Hamburg
vs.
Man City
Manchester City
Paris SG
Paris SG
vs.
Dynamo Kiev
Dynamo Kiev
Shakhtar Donetsk
Shakhtar
vs.
Marseille
Marseille
Werder Bremen
Werder
vs.
Udinese
Udinese


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2008/09 UEFA Cup
Semi-Finals
to be played April 30 and May 7

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Werder/Udinese
vs.
Hamburg/Man City
PSG/D.Kiev
vs.
Shakhtar/Marseille

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Top 50 Worst Things About Modern Soccer

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Football is one of the greatest things in the world but it’s not perfect. It used to be perfect. Before money and television and the Bosman ruling and Baby Bentleys and roastings and tattoos and takeovers and no standing and agents and prawn sandwiches and rotation.

English newspaper The Times takes a stab at the “50 Worst Things about Modern Football”, or soccer as they call it North America. They also add “it could have been 500″.

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