Fans of draws will have been thrilled by Gameweek 1 of the 2022-23 Europa Conference League – ten of the gameweek’s sixteen fixtures ended in stalemate. Only one group (A) featured two wins, groups D and G were completely drawn and group F had the dubious honour of seeing no goals at all across either… Continue reading Europa Conference League 22/23: Gameweek 2 Preview
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Europa Conference League 22/23: Gameweek 1 Preview
September 8th, 2022 will go down in history as a truly momentous date. The world collectively stopped and held its breath in anticipation of the new Europa Conference League campaign. The inaugural Conference League was a thrilling advert for Europe’s newest continental club competition, with teams from as far afield as Kazakhstan and Gibraltar seeking… Continue reading Europa Conference League 22/23: Gameweek 1 Preview
Bone Pizza Dough
Friday night pizza dough recipe coming at ya. Tools Stand mixer Ingredients Hot water (200 ml) Traditional Yeast (3/4 tsp) 1.5 tsp extra virgin olive oil All Purpose Flour (1 cup + 1 tbsp + 2 tsp) *Tipo 00 Flour (1 cup + 1 tbsp) Kosher Salt (1 tsp) * Note: can find Tipo flour… Continue reading Bone Pizza Dough
Europa Conference League: Second Knockout Round Preview
181 teams have participated in the inaugural UEFA Europa Conference League. Now only 16 remain. European Cup winners Celtic were crushed on their journey to the Arctic by budding hipsters’ favourites Bodø/Glimt, while Turkish giants Fenerbahçe were felled 6-4 on aggregate in a nailbiting tie with Slavia Praha. In a frankly unprecedented turn of events,… Continue reading Europa Conference League: Second Knockout Round Preview
Europa Conference League: First Knockout Round First Preview
70 days without Europa Conference League football. In theory this is as nothing compared to the previous 8400+ days of my life without Conference League football, but for all that ’tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all, the losing still hurts. Happily, there is now more Conference League,… Continue reading Europa Conference League: First Knockout Round First Preview
Serie A: A Stroitel Pripyat Perspective After Half A Season Gone (Part Two)
In the first part of this series of four posts, I covered the bottom five teams in the Serie A table, giving a Stroitel Pripyat view on what I thought they would accomplish before the season began, what they have actually done, and what the future may hold for them. It can be read here.… Continue reading Serie A: A Stroitel Pripyat Perspective After Half A Season Gone (Part Two)
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
Eff_Hey’s 2021/22 Fraud List
Football is afflicted by many and various kinds of fraud. Ranging from peccadilloes to outright perversions, they haunt the jogo bonito we all know and love. Fraudulence is not just a property of individuals – clubs and even leagues can fall prey to this curse. Below I outline some of those whom I consider enemies… Continue reading Eff_Hey’s 2021/22 Fraud List
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