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The season of Sevilla has been a bumpy roller coaster ride both on and off the pitch, starting from the summer and continuing with the inconsistent form on and off. The summer of 2017 once again saw many of Sevilla’s key figures leave: Jorge Sampaoli, Iborra (Sevilla Captain), Vitolo, Rami, and Mariano. But the most…

Well, THIS is weird. It wasn’t that long ago that gloom and misery stalked the halls of Culerville after the second-best player in the game scuttled to Paris, in search of more sun than shadow. His ostensible replacement broke while doing, of all things, a backheel, and needed surgery. A dour man nicknamed The Ant…

The return of the Champions League. As the Champions League returns, back-to-back champions, Real Madrid, return in surprising form. They’ve been struggling this season due to many key players being off form and blunders from manager Zidane has also cost them, as a result, Real Madrid are realistically out of the title race and are…

An eye-catching draw for the Champions League last-sixteen saw the fate of the experienced, well-oiled Bianconeri come head-to-head with the fearless, youthful Tottenham Hotspur. A tale of two very different teams has the ingredients of a scintillating draw. On one hand you have Juventus – a side as glorious and as glamorous as they come, with years…

It has been nothing short of a phenomenal season so far for Manchester City, who currently sit sixteen points ahead of their local rivals. Having such a cushion in the Premier League, only adds more pressure on City to perform in the Champions League, a competition Guardiola was brought in to challenge for. Last season…

Liverpool enter the Champions League Round of 16 in a hesitantly optimistic manner. After making headlines by scoring the second-most goals in the group stage and finishing first in Group E, the Reds return to a level of the competition they haven’t reached since 2009 when they defeated Real Madrid 5-0 on aggregate. Drawn in…

In the summer, Basel had to make changes on top, as the chairman, the director of football and the whole board had to be replaced. New director of football Marco Streller decided to sack manager Urs Fischer and replace him with former Swiss international and Basel U21 manager Raphael Wicky. The team largely stayed intact…

It’s a tough cup tie coming up for Porto vs Liverpool, but is it mission impossible? I certainly don’t think so. This 2 leg playoff between both these clubs is difficult for one just as it is for the other. FC Porto have been a whole new club under Sergio Conceicao and have been the…