Serie A: A Stroitel Pripyat Perspective After Half A Season Gone (Part One)

All but two teams in the Italian top flight have now played nineteen matches this season, and apart from those two teams everyone has faced everyone once home or away in Serie A. A much clearer picture has formed of the lay of land than existed in August. Now the twenty (or possibly nineteen, we’ll… Continue reading Serie A: A Stroitel Pripyat Perspective After Half A Season Gone (Part One)

Europa Conference League: Gameweek 6 Preview

“τετέλεσται”, Jesus cries on the cross in the Gospel of John. “It is finished.” That great cosmic drama, the endpoint of a divine plan an eternity in the making, ended on a Judean hillside almost 2,000 years ago, and tonight marks the culmination of the similarly divine inaugural Europa Conference League group stage. Thirty-two teams… Continue reading Europa Conference League: Gameweek 6 Preview

Europa Conference League: Gameweek 4 Preview

We’re heading towards crunch time in the Europa Conference League, as the groups begin to take their final shapes and a range of teams big and small stare down the barrel of elimination. With three different bands of kickoffs, the afternoon and evening are chock-full of action from Europe’s most thrilling continental competition. Early Kickoffs… Continue reading Europa Conference League: Gameweek 4 Preview