Stephen Ong reviews the action from the Champions League knockout stages, with Bayern Munich securing their sixth European title. This year’s Champions League truly delivered, with favourites Liverpool and Real Madrid knocked out in the round of 16, and underdogs RB Leipzig, Atalanta, and Lyon pushing through to the quarter-finals of the competition playing their […]
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The most significant transfer this summer? The transfer of domineering power to Europe’s elite few
D espite previous incarnations of the all-consuming circus that is football’s summer Transfer Window, it is not unreasonable to suggest that this summer saw the most emphatic new developments in its recent history: £1.4bn spent by Premier League clubs; last year’s transfer record broken twice, and a dismantling of established norms. This recent window will […]
A renaissance on the Riviera – how AS Monaco turned their fortunes around
After their eighth game in the French Ligue 1, Monaco are sitting second just one point behind Nice and three points in front of the favourites Paris Saint-Germain. So how did this happen to a club that just a few years ago was languishing in the French second division? Monaco’s renaissance began in December 2011 when […]