If you are looking for more certainty as to which clubs will advance to the knock-out round, Tuesday’s UEFA Champions League results did not help. Draws by the leaders of Groups B, C, and D drew trailing teams closer to the top, and while all the names at the top remain in the same, [...]

Between them, Real Madrid and AC Milan have 16 European titles, finishing second another seven times. In the 54-year history of the European Cup and Champions League, roughly two-fifths of the finals have featured one of these clubs. Milan’s presence has been slightly less frequent, having made eleven finals appearances (winning seven), but [...]

When I had Dave Trotter on Inside the Six to talk about French football, one thing that we agreed upon implicitly but vehemently (so vehemently that it needed no follow-up question) was Lisandro Lopez’s superiority to Karim Benzema. Dave talked about it in response to a question about Lyon, saying how Lopez has [...]