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Champions League Roundup

Koeman’s time is surely up A Barcelona team in name alone, Ronald Koeman’s side suffered an embarrassing 3-0 loss, as a fluent Benfica’s perfect game plan has surely confirmed that Koeman’s days leading the Nou Camp are numbered. Registering a mere one shot on target, a lack of discipline and quality at the top of […]

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Barcelona on the brink amid arrests and elections

Embarrassing Champions League defeats, calamities contingency planning, an ageing core, and now a disgraced ex-president in custody; you might as well rename the club Barcewoena. However, this is not a laughing matter. This dangerous cocktail of crippling debts, poor on-field performance, and now former and current higher-ups at the club being detained poses a credible […]

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English football continues to underachieve in Europe

The Champions League round of 16 kicked off in style a couple of weeks ago and with the first round of fixtures over, the likelihood of an all English final is looking slim. Chelsea, playing Paris St. Germain in Paris, were lucky to come away with what can only be described as a ‘Mourinho’ away […]

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Barcelona a catalyst for Catalan independence

Catalan independence is, perhaps, not the most obvious topic to be gracing the Sport section of this newspaper.  With recent domestic experiences still fresh in the memory, our Comment writers provide a quite excellent take on what is represented increasingly as a seismic shift in the Spanish political landscape. It sits in this section, however, […]