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UEFA Champions League MegaMix Round of 16 Preview (Part 1): Man City-Barcelona, Leverkusen-PSG, Arsenal-Bayern, Milan-Atlético

February 17, 2014 — by Rob Kirby

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Set your DVRs, plan your late long lunches, etc. The Champions League is back. If you're a follower of European club football, you're excited as we are. If not, but you plan to watch the World Cup this summer, this is the competition you need to watch to get ready. Here are our previews of this week's four first leg matches, with a focus on which players to watch on each team (and a particular focus on players that will feature prominently at the World Cup this summer): Man City-Barcelona, Bayer Leverkusen-PSG, Arsenal-Bayern Munich and AC Milan-Atlético Madrid.

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A Good Friday on Guardian Football

February 16, 2014 — by Suman

Mourinho rows, hipster journos, Lloris and Moyes, and finally...Edinho. All on one massive Friday.

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Juventus 3-0 Roma: The Scudetto Slips Away?

January 11, 2014 — by Suman

Editor's note: It's been a while since we've done any match reports on CultFootball--not like the good old days, when trunchfiddle might watch a Bundesliga match over the weekend and write up a quick post and title it "Borussia Dortmund beweisen ihren Wert" Of coures, it's not as if trunchfiddle and the rest of us have stopped watching matches--we've just stopped writing about them. But even that's not entirely true--in what's become a bit of a double-edged sword, most of our typed match-related output has migrated to our email listserv. It better fits the transient nature of match commentary So here is a compilation of some of our thoughts, pre- during, and post-game of last weekend--the match in question being Sunday's late Serie A matchup in Turin, which ended in a decisive 3-0 win for league-leading and two-time defending domestic champion Juventus over unexpected challengers Roma. This match, at the

CultFootball’s Best (and Worst (and Random Medium)) of 2013

January 1, 2014 — by Suman

2013 was a relatively quiet year on the pages of CultFootball. A mere 20 posts (which is actually more than I would've guessed), and the majority of those in Q1. Keeping us afloat with quality content, to a large extent, was Tyrannosoccer Rex's ongoing (we hope) Dictators and Soccers series. We have grand plans to pick things up in 2014, in particular in preparation for our 4th anniversary, which happens to coincide with a little footy tournament to be played in Brazil this summer (or should we say winter? That's going to be confusing) But for now, here's a group-post--our best and worst of 2013: Via PoliticalFootballs: Best moments of the year I will send over soon, but I'd be able to give you the worst ones much quicker. West ham 3-0 at the lane Liverpool 5-0 at the lane City 6-0 at the Etihad One of the best was

Suárez Scores Goals, Rocks Boats, Alienates People—–Breaking News

December 6, 2013 — by Rob Kirby

Liverpool striker Luis Suárez is in amazing form, the kind of form that makes a Big Red fan forget about the summer past. That whole lark about the Uruguayan wanting to leave the club, doing anything to leave the club, saying he had a verbal agreement with the club that he could leave, and then the manager Brendan Rodgers essentially called him a liar. None of this matters now at LFC, because he's in the form of his life, leading the goal charts in England despite missing the first six matches of the season by dint of violent conduct (with his teeth). Suárez's run has displayed the sort of impeccable form you can't help but admire, possibly with jealousy, as an opposition fan, though it doesn't remotely trigger the Red Liverpuddlian amnesia regarding his back-to-back biting incidents at Ajax and Liverpool. Nor his alleged punch on a Chilean defender in

Jacques and The Brothers G

October 14, 2013 — by Tyler

The story begins with young Jacques, a troubled lad with three older brothers named Barry, Robin, and Maurice.

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My first, and last, afternoon as a Fulham fan

September 25, 2013 — by Edhino

[Editor's note: Edhino, although a supporter of Arsenal (since around the time of Fever Pitch) and Leeds (since watching them during their heyday on the sole televised match of the week as a boy in Singapore), scored tickets to Chelsea-Fulham for his extended London layover last weekend. Certainly he couldn't support the Blues--hence the headline.] But before I disparage Fulham, first let me say that Chelsea pies are terribly disappointing. All those millions spent on players and they can't muster a decent pie?!? (Pies: a quintessential part of the footballing experience. To date, the pies at the Joburg stadium still the best in my limited experience...) My 1st row seat turned out to be upper tier but awesome nevertheless a mere 30 feet from the goal posts so close I could smell Petr's deodorant when he raises both arms up in that surrender pose that keepers do at corners. Unfortunately I

Jaffe Wins the 2013 Golden Baby

August 6, 2013 — by Kyle Schriner

This past weekend in Berkeley, California, the 2012-2013 winner of the Sexy Power Division of the Fantasy Premier League, Craig Jaffe, was presented with the league's famous "Golden Baby" trophy. Mr. Jaffe won the the division with 2,199 points and had a global ranking of 12,982 out of over 2.5 million. Jaffe, alias Numnuts, noted the secret to his success this year was not participating in the craze surrounding Robin Van Persie. RVP led all players with 262 points for the season but cost north of 13 million pounds. Instead of spending so much money on one player, Jaffe spread the money to upgrade mid-market players and increase his overall point total. When pressed on the subject of RVP, Jaffe pointed out the bias for giving big name players bonus points is ridiculous as players like RVP simply have to walk on the pitch and are handed two or three

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