Legends of Arsenal FC
March 26th, 2013
Despite the recent trophy drought, Arsenal remain one of the greatest English teams with their slick, eye-catching possession football. Highbury, the Gunner’s home for over a century, was the home of legends. Here is a compilation of the elite of the elite to have graced the turf of Highbury or more recently, Emirates Stadium.
Goalkeeper: David Seaman. Graced with a ponytail and later an adorable gut. Blessed with cat-like reflexes, he was a renown penalty saving specialist. He formed a foundation for the legendary defenses and it is no surprise that his time coincided with one of the most successful period in the club’s history. He clocked 564 appearances spanning over 13 years. (more…)
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The 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, best known as the Euro2012, will be held from June 8th to July 1st. (For more on the hosts Ukraine see 
If you have never been to a Champions League Final match you have no idea what is in store. It’s the kind of energy that you have to feel to believe. While people talk about going to the Super Bowl and how “amazing” it is to see it in person, the main difference is that at the Super Bowl most of the audience is made up of sponsors and celebrities. This means that if you are a fan you have a tendency to get shut out of the stadium at the Super Bowl. While there are a good amount of celebrities at the Champions League Final, you will also find a vast majority of fans as well. Whether it’s for Barcelona FC or Manchester United, you can be sure that the crowd will be filled with passionate soccer fans who cheer or boo everything that is going on on the pitch, not people who are looking to be seen at the event. 
I have never been much of a football fan, but that all changed when I met my new boyfriend. You could call him the ultimate super fan. He loves everything to do with football and his favorite football team the Chelsea Blues. After a few months of blissfully dating his birthday arrived and I gave him two Chelsea tickets. 
This year Champions league final 2011 will be at Wembley Stadium on May 28th In London. New Wembley was chosen to host the Champions league final 2011. However, there were two stadiums, which had been selected, the Alianz Arena in Munich and Olympiastadion stadium, which is situated in Berlin. Next year finals will be played in Munich. The reason why New Wembley was selected is that in Europe it is the second largest stadium, and it is capable of holding 90,000 fans and this is what makes Wembley a different stadium from the one which hosted Champions league final last year.
Let’s face it: there are some soccer matches that are just destined to go down in history. These are the matches use as reference points in soccer history; the kind that people will always remember where they were when they watched it. The upcoming UEFA Champions League Final has that kind of feeling, if only based on the matchup alone. Here you have two teams that are at the top of their game. In addition, you also have Wayne Rooney, one of the most recognizable players around the world, as well as Lionel Messi, who is considered as the best player in the world by many experts. In addition, you also have, arguably, the two biggest sports franchises in the world going head to head for supremacy. This is not a game that fans wan to miss, whether you have a rooting interest with one of the clubs, or you simply love great soccer. 
You knew it was going to be a classic Champions League tournament when you took a look at some of the matchup’s in the round of 16. Here to had Barcelona FC going head to head with Arsenal, two teams that were hoping to go much further locked in a First Round match. And let’s not discount a early meeting between Internazionale and Bayern, which was a rematch of last years final. Things got even more heated in the Quarterfinals with arch rivals Manchester United and Chelsea facing off for a home and home series. 
If soccer fans had a wish list of which clubs they would see play in the UEFA Champions League Final, Barcelona FC and Manchester United would no doubt be at the top of that list. These are, arguably, the two premier soccer teams in the entire world; the two teams that bring the most eyeballs to the sport, and the teams that give you the best chance of a truly classic final. When they got together two years ago for the 2009 Champions League Final Barcelona’s 2-0 triumph drew a record television audience. 
Liverpool is by far my favorite team and I always love to go see the games. This time I wanted to bring my girlfriend. We’d only been dating a few weeks, but she had never seen Liverpool play and I thought it would be a great opportunity to expose her to something new.
In an eleven month tournament, upsets happen. Teams that were supposed to move on lose to lesser teams, which sometimes leads to an interesting, yet not inspiring, final pairing. In a tournament that features over fifty teams and five rounds, upsets are bound to happen in the UEFA Champions League tournament. While the 2010/11 Champions League tournament has seen it’s share of upset’s, it has also come down to an epic final pairing that most soccer fans were hoping for from the second that that knockout rounds were announced: Barcelona FC V. Manchester United. Not only are these the two biggest soccer teams on the planet, but arguably the two biggest sports franchises in the world doing battle on the pitch of Wembley Stadium to decide the best club team on the European continent for 2011. 