JONATHAN WILSON
Monday, May 14, 2012
Shakhtar Donetsk won their sixth league title in eight years last week, a 3-0 win over bottom-of-the-table Oleksandriya ensuring that they would again finish above Dynamo Kiev.
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Monday, May 07, 2012
Having converted a low cross from the right to give Nigeria the lead against Bulgaria, Yekini stood in the goal, arms through the net, hands alternately clenched around the strings and clasped to his face as tears rolled down his cheeks.
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Monday, April 30, 2012
The life of a great football team is brief: as the great Hungarian coach Bela Guttmann observed, “the third season is fatal”.
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Monday, April 23, 2012
After Borussia Dortmund won the league title last season, their coach Jurgen Klopp was determined that nobody should get carried away.
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Monday, April 16, 2012
The only predictable thing about Emelec’s late winner against Olimpia in the Copa Libertadores last week was that it was a Quinonez who scored it.
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Monday, April 09, 2012
To listen to Mircea Lucescu, you’d think everything in Ukrainian football is stacked against him and his Shakhtar Donetsk side.
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Monday, April 02, 2012
Given the — justifiable — excitement over Marcelo Bielsa’s Athletic Bilbao at the moment, it would be easy to overlook just how significant a part Schalke 04 played in their thrilling meeting in the Europa League last Thursday.
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Monday, March 26, 2012
It is rare in modern football to see something quite so startling as Athletic Bilbao’s two victories over Manchester United.
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Monday, March 12, 2012
One of the great joys of South American competition is that nobody knows anything.
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Monday, March 05, 2012
There was something almost cruel about the way the fixtures fell.
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Monday, February 27, 2012
No formation is ever perfect.
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