Michel Platini, UEFAchief, has called in experts to provide advice on the best possible way to stop super clubs from spending millions. The likes of Real Madrid and Manchester City have been spending huge sums of money in recent times on buying players. Platini wants the situation to be curbed so it will make competition [...]

Eduardo has had his ban for diving over turned by UEFA in a bizarre move. Eduardo was given a two-match suspension after the Champions League play-off match against Celtic only a couple of weeks ago. Many people praised the move after television replays quite clearly showed that the Celtic goalkeeper had made minimal conflict with [...]

Yossi Benayoun says he has already accepted that he probably won’t play in the UEFA Champions League opening group match for Liverpool later this week. This is despite the fact he hit a hat trick at the weekend to give Rafael Benitez further options ahead of the start of Liverpool’s European campaign for this season. [...]

Barcelona won their third European Cup last night after they beat Manchester United 2-0 in Rome. It was a thoroughly efficient and dominant display and United had no answer to Barcelona’s superiority. Goals from Samuel Eto’o and Lionel Messi were enough to see the Catalan club home, as United could not convert any thing that [...]

As soon as Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson leaked his starting-11 to the press last week, the smart money was placed on Barcelona. The Spanish giants winning the Champions League yesterday (May 27th) was about as predictable as snow in Alaska. The so-called “greatest manager in Britain” made a brutal rookie mistake by leaving Dimitar Berbatov [...]

Manchester United fans are bringing their team’s Gladiator spirit to Rome but will they return victorious or defeated? That’s the question on everyone’s lips as the Red Devils prepare for their historic showdown against Barcelona in the Stadio Olimpico. One way or the other, history will be made.Barcelona have already won the Primera Liga title [...]

Alcohol is not going to be top of the agenda when Manchester United meet Barcelona in the Champions League final in Rome. How refreshing. Perhaps football will take centre-stage rather than how many pints fans can get down their neck before kick-off. Most people like a drink or two as part of their entertainment but [...]

Innocent until proven guilty may be the old adage but it will be interesting to see how Didier Drogba and Jose Bosingwa defend themselves against UEFA action. Both have now been charged by the governing body after Chelsea lost their Champions League semi-final to Barcelona. The disciplinary action claims they insulted the referee and made [...]

Didier Drogba and Jose Bosingwa are to be charged by UEFA for the post-match antics in the Champions League semi-final defeat against Barcelona. Drogba was seen leaping off of the Chelsea bench before swearing directly into television cameras and hurling a volley of verbal abuse at referee, Tom Henning Ovrebo. Bosingwa has also been found [...]

Amongst all the fuss following Chelsea’s furious exit from the Champions League, favourite quote of the week has to be courtesy of Frank Lampard. “I don’t know what people expect,” he is reported to have commented. “When you have eleven grown men battling to get to the final and at least three penalty decisions don’t [...]