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Pondering the Possibilities of the Atlantic League

by Double Pivot on October 14, 2009 · 7 comments

While the Aughts have been full of speculation/proposal about the Old Firm join­ing the EPL, the 90’s was about the Old Firm join­ing what was dubbed as the Atlantic League. It was a joint pro­posal from the big clubs in the Nether­lands, Scot­land and Por­tu­gal. ESPN is report­ing that there may be another attempt at […]

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Bundesliga Attendance Figures Dominate Europe

by Double Pivot on June 16, 2009 · 22 comments

RheinEn­ergi­eS­ta­dion I used the stats fea­ture at ESPN Soc­cer­net to cal­clu­ate the clubs with the best atten­dances. Out of the top 20 atten­dances in Europe, Ger­many had 9 clubs. This post is to equip you with a tool to help pro­mote our great league. Because, while we are in a slump in the Cham­pi­ons League […]

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The Silly Season (€54.5 million! What Recession)

by Double Pivot on May 26, 2009 · 2 comments

Armin Veh was announced as Wolfsburg’s new man­ager after their title cel­e­bra­tions. The ex-Stuttgart man­ager will now try and repli­cate his 2008 Cham­pi­ons League form. It should be eas­ier with the immi­nent loss of Dzeko and Mis­i­movic. Mario Gomez became the most expen­sive player in Bun­desliga his­tory, swap­ping Stuttgart red for Bay­ern red. Bay­ern paid […]

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