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Showing posts with label English football. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English football. Show all posts

Apr 24, 2026

UEFA provides a little FIFA World Cup preview (6 minutes)

The 2025–26 UEFA Champions League is coming to a climax.  There are four home and away semi-final matches over the next two weeks and one final on May 30th.  The four remaining teams heading into the semifinals are Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), Bayern Munich, Arsenal, and Atlético Madrid. 

May 11, 2025

Does Wrexham's Hollywood Script go all the way to the Premiership?

Buying a soccer team in Europe is an extremely high risk investment. It is not like investing in an American franchise where positive returns are not only achievable, but are more likely than not. The English Premier League is a different story. The league is not structured in the same way as the American sports leagues. For instance, it does not have salary caps; and the worst three teams literally get kicked out of the league each season. There are gains to be made but there is also a huge downside risk. That said, with high risk comes high reward. 

Apr 24, 2025

Can the Gunners break the curse?


Arsenal Football Club just beat Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals. They won 2-1 in the second leg at the Bernabéu Stadium last week after winning 3-0 at home in London the prior week. This win secured Arsenal's place in the semi-finals for the first time since 2009. This victory over the Spaniards was very unexpected. Real Madrid is by far the best team in Champions League history. They are, many would argue, the best team in the world and have the best player in the world in Kylian Mbappé. Despite these odds against them, Arsenal just beat Real Madrid not once, but twice in a row. After completing this 5-1 aggregate victory they now face French team Paris Saint-Germain F.C (PSG) in a two legged Semi Final, at home on April 28th and away in Paris on May 7th. 

Mar 19, 2024

Liverpool's Quadruple Hopes Dashed by Man U

The FA Cup, also known as the Emirates FA Cup due to sponsorship, is a storied knockout tournament in England.  It's the oldest national football competition in the world, dating back to 1871.  

The FA Cup is unique and distinct from the Premier League itself in that it involves professional teams from both the Premier League and English Football League, but also some semi-professional clubs. That means hundreds of teams vying for glory!  

Jun 4, 2023

Manchester City win league and FA cup and are on the verge of historic treble in Europe


There is a town in the north of England where soccer (“football” in the UK) is religion. The town is Manchester.  There are two main rival teams there that compete in the English Premier League, the highest professional soccer league in Britain with only the best club teams playing in it. If ticket prices and club valuations and player salaries are anything to go by then, all things equal, the English Premier League is probably the strongest and most competitive sports league in the world, of any sport.