Rob Parker | May 8, 2009
How did you know that?
Chelsea conspiracy theorists still reeling from referee Tom Henning Ovrebo’s performance in the Champions League defeat to Barcelona have got a new line of attack after it emerged that Uefa’s official website predicted the 1-1 result.
A test live match report on the site correctly predicted the correct score and that Barca [...]
Category: Champions League, Chelsea, Oddballs |
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Tags: barcelona, Champions League, Chelsea, chelsea 1-1 barcelona, football, soccer, tom henning ovrebo, uefa, uefa match report
Rob Parker | December 4, 2008
German outfit top Uefa’s paylist for releasing players
Spain might have walked away with the trophy, but German side Werder Bremen have pocketed £935,107 for releasing their players for Euro 2008. Werder benefited from Germany’s success in the tournament as Tim Borowski, Torsten Frings, Clemens Fritz and Per Mertesacker all played with the national team to [...]
Category: Germany, International |
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Tags: euro 2008, football, soccer, thorsten frings, tim borowski, uefa, werder bremen
Rob Parker | October 14, 2008
The battle of the governing bodies
FIFA has taken another kicking over its policy on racism, and this time it was their pals at UEFA taking a swipe at Sepp Blatter and co. The European governing body has revealed that the paltry fines handed out for racism at international matches would be considerably higher if they [...]
Category: Oddballs |
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Tags: football, racism, racist, sepp blatter, soccer, uefa, william gaillard