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Champions League tips, 19/09/12

September 19, 2012

Chelsea v Juventus, 19:45 Although they have had a few wobbles in recent weeks Juventus have to be considered one of the form clubs in Europe, as they haven’t lost in forty or so league matches and provided the core of the fairly successful Italian side in the European Championships. Chelsea’s position as winner of [...]

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Champions League tips, 18/09/12

September 18, 2012

Montpellier v Arsenal, 19:45 On paper this isn’t the ideal draw for Arsenal, with a team that comes from one of the improving leagues in Europe ready to dethrone one of the former greats, but Montpellier have had a shocking start to their domestic campaign and the press is France generally seems to be focussing [...]

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Free Footy tips, 19th May 2012

May 19, 2012

Bayern Munich v Chelsea, 19:45 It seems as though there has rarely, if ever before been a Champions League final as big as this for so many reasons. Just the semi-finals cost Europe’s top club their visionary boss after Pep Guardiola proved he doesn’t cope quite as well with defeat as victory, and after several [...]

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Real Madrid v Bayern Munich tips, 25th April

April 25, 2012

Real Madrid v Bayern Munich, 19:45, (agg. 1-2)   Real Madrid at present is ‘the team Jose built’ and although the Special One hasn’t been there as long as a Ferguson, for example, his reign may prove a useful lesson for the club owners. Chopping and changing used to produce results in the days of [...]

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Free Footy Tips, 24th April 2012

April 24, 2012

Barcelona v Chelsea, 19:45 In his press conference yesterday evening Roberto di Matteo made a sincere promise to be positive and attacking in his efforts to guide his team into the Champions League final, but I’m pretty certain the man who penned those words also had a hand in composing Ryan Giggs’ wedding vows and [...]

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Champions League tips, 18th April 2012

April 18, 2012

Chelsea v Barcelona, 19:45 We all know that Chelsea felt cheated last time they lost to Barca at this stage of the Champions League, and most of us also remember the disgraceful behaviour of their players as they threw childish paddies about the defeat. Didier Drogba in particular should never live that down, but with [...]

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Champions League tips, 17th April 2012

April 17, 2012

Bayern Munich v Real Madrid, 19:45 Amazingly, Bayern have never lost a home match to Real Madrid, and in the three semi-finals between the sides the Spaniards have only emerged victorious once. Madrid are in extremely clinical form this season, not having lost a single game in the Champions League, but the Bayern team is [...]

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Champions League tips, 4th April 2012

April 4, 2012

Cheslea v Benfica, 19:45 (agg. 1-0) The winner of this tie will go into the last four knowing they are not expected to make any kind of impact on the final. As good as the Benfica team is at present, they can’t honestly say that anyone is putting them on a level with Bayern, Barcelona [...]

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FA Cup/Champions League tips, 27th March 2012

March 27, 2012

Benfica v Chelsea, 19:45 It’s getting quite tough to know what to expect from the Blues at the moment, especially in Europe. Playing the way they did against Napoli at Stamford Bridge they should progress past Benfica, but the reality is that the Portuguese side are more than capable of knocking Chelsea out and Roberto [...]

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Chelsea v Napoli tips, 14th March 2012

March 14, 2012

Chelsea v Napoli, 19:45 (agg. 1-3) Roberto di Matteo is not a man many people give a snowball’s chance in hell of getting the Chelsea job full-time, but the one prize that has so far eluded all of Roman’s hired men is the Champions League, and if the Italian could do the impossible and deliver [...]

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