Tag: Champions League

Arsene Wenger doesn’t care about Champions League success anymore

In the film Groundhog Day, after Bill Murray’s character lived the same day over and over and over again, he eventually lost his will to live and began to try and end his life so his repetitive torment would finally be over. Only it didn’t work, and the same day began anew regardless of his fatal actions. Well, this appears to be the position in which Arsene Wenger currently finds himself in the Champions League.

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Andy King’s expert analysis of the Champions League group stage draw

Hi. I’m Andy King. I’ve played for Leicester City since 2006 and I’ve won League One, the Championship, and now the Premier League with the club. It’s been a crazy ride and it’s about to get crazier as we prepare to play in the Champions League — a thing I was pretty sure Claudio Ranieri made up, like that “dilly-ding dilly-dong” stuff. Anyway, here’s my expert analysis of this amazingly real competition.

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Roma deny Francesco Totti a final appearance in the Champions League, Totti not amused

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Francesco Totti’s final season is off to a less than ideal start. Porto beat Roma 4-1 on aggregate in Champions League qualifying and Totti didn’t make it off the bench in either leg of the tie. During the final minutes of the second leg, with Roma down to nine men after red cards to Daniele De Rossi and Emerson in the first hour of play, Totti’s displeasure with his status as an unused substitute was evident as he stopped warming up and leaned on corner flag, staring daggers at the pitch.

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Mark Clattenburg follows Sergio Ramos’ lead on body art

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(Mick Mahon Tattoo/Facebook)

Mark Clattenburg was the referee for both the 2016 Champions League final and the Euro 2016 final — an impressive combination of honors that few people would ever talk about since, you know, he’s a referee. But the never attention shy Clattenburg came up with a way to make this a topic of conversation amongst anyone who sees his left arm by getting tattoos of the competitions’ logos/trophies.

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Red Bull Salzburg player wears Red Bull Leipzig shirt during Champions League qualifier

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Oh, the problems of modern football. Red Bull Salzburg played a Champions League qualifier against Latvian champs FK Liepaja and defender Andreas Ulmer was caught wearing a Red Bull Leipzig shirt. If you’re wondering how this could go unnoticed before it ended up on Ulmer’s back, let’s compare the two shirts.

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