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Reflecting on the January announcement that Pep Guardiola would take charge of Bayern Munich this summer, allied to the superiority of the country’s representative youth teams, Arsene Wenger declared that ‘tomorrow’s football will be played in Germany, certainly’. The Arsenal manager’s...read more »

International football still divides opinion. Some see it as an unnecessary disruption of the domestic season and others wait for the days at Wembley to watch teams of Brazil’s stature. One thing is for certain, international sides are becoming more...read more »

Whenever I get into a conversation about European football, the same question always arises. What is the best Football league, La Liga, or the Premier League? Certainly the two most prolific football leagues. Both are home to some of the...read more »

The biggest disappointment of Euro 2012? Seeing Ashley Young flop on the big stage. The Manchester United looked great all season long and even managed to impress at International level during the run-up to the tournament. When it came down...read more »

We keep hearing how we haven’t had to settle for a 0-0 draw as of yet in this year’s Euros. Whilst it’s hardly been a deluge of free-flowing attacking football (with Spain’s effective tippy-tappy football hardly lighting up the Stadium’s...read more »

The Euros have unleashed their magic over the nation of football and England have so far ensured the absence of grey clouds over moods. A totally different situation in Poland where their elimination not only saddens me, as their efforts...read more »

Petr Cech's Penalty Prowess  It must have been said at least a thousand times as the Champions League final headed towards a penalty shootout that the Germans 'don't lose' in the dead-ball scenario. Therefore, it was going to take something special to stop...read more »

Having come out of a seemingly never ending tunnel of pure darkness Arsenal are now on the verge of securing Champions League football, the utter of such suggestion after their 8-2 mauling at the hands of Manchester United would have...read more »

As we look forward to the second leg of Champions League games, every team has their eyes upon the semi-final places for this year’s competition. With Real Madrid, Chelsea and Bayern Munich winning their first game, they’re certainly on the front...read more »

This season more so than any other has seen an explosion of great goal-scoring talent spring up all over Europe. There’s Robin Van Persie scoring goals for fun in the Premier League, Mario Gomez who can’t stop scoring for Bayern...read more »