Juventus striker Mario Mandzukic is a doubt for his side’s Champions League last-16 second leg against his former club Bayern Munich on Wednesday. The Italians, who came from 2-0 down to draw the first leg 2-2 at home, will also be without striker Paulo Dybala and midfielder Claudio Marchisio. Bayern …
Read More »Barcelona vs Arsenal – Match Preview
Defender Laurent Koscielny returns from injury as Arsenal attempt to overturn a two-goal deficit against Barcelona in the second leg of their Champions League last-16 tie. The Gunners trail 2-0 from the first leg and must score twice at the Nou Camp to have any chance of progressing. Editor’s Note: …
Read More »Manchester City vs Dynamo Kiev a few quick thoughts
Manchester City progress to the Quarter Finals of the Champions League for the first time but it comes at a price with two Centre Backs coming off injured Vincent Kompany is ruled out for a month after a recurrence of his calf injury While Nicolas Otamendi also came off injured …
Read More »Last Night’s Champions League action in less than 60 seconds
Two stalemates last night and to be honest not a classic night of Champions League action. Manchester City although progessing to the Quarter Finals for the first time now have to deal with Vincent Kompany out injured again for a month. While 2014 finalists Atletico Madrid squeezed past PSV Eindhoven …
Read More »Aston Villa vs Tottenham a few very late thoughts
Apologies for the delay but I thought I would wait until after the Leicester game to give the thoughts a bit more context After closing the gap to two points and putting a bit more pressure on Claudio Ranieri’s side, frustratingly for us they have managed to pull that gap …
Read More »Bolton begin to imagine life without Lennon
It was announced earlier that Neil Lennon and Bolton have parted company by mutual consent. With the side bottom of The Championship and 11 points from safety it can’t have come as the greatest of surprises to anyone when the news broke at Lunchtime. With Dean Holdsworth’s consortium of owners …
Read More »Real Football Men – Fantasy Football Round Up Gameweek 30
There’s now only 8 weeks to go and there’s been quite a bit of movement in the race for the first ever Real Football Men FPL championship. Let’s see how the runners and riders fared this week. Well there was no change at the top as David McDonagh holds on …
Read More »Have You Reddit?
I’ve finally caught up with the rest of the internet and got myself a Reddit page, which you can access here https://www.reddit.com/r/realfootballman/ To start with it will be just another place to host links for the blog and try to tap into that large audience, in due course hopefully there …
Read More »Atletico Madrid vs PSV Eindhoven – Pre Match Stats
With thanks to the Guys at Sporticos
Read More »Manchester City vs Dynamo Kiev – Pre Match Stats
With thanks to the guys at Sporticos
Read More »