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What's the German for "Ouch"? After Barcelona was emphatically beaten by Bayern Munich on Tuesday night, the chances of the same thing happening to Real Madrid were duly reflected in the odds offered by the bookmakers. Dortmund to win by the same mar...

As Manchester United players confirmed the club's 20th league title with a 3-0 triumph over Aston Villa on Monday night and five games still to play, the race at the other end of the table was thrust into the limelight. For United followers, who w...

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This is no title decider. The title was decided long ago. The odds of Manchester City retaining the Premier League are now roughly the same as the odds of being hit on the head by two meteorites on the same day. -- Curtis: Manchester power shift ...

Following the emphatic 3-1 win over Serie A champions Juventus last November, it was thought Andrea Stramaccioni and his Inter squad could actually defy the odds and challenge the Turin side for the 2012-13 Scudetto title. Now half a season on fro...

Norwich City's Premier League point at Sunderland was a heroic exercise in obduracy against the odds. Wes Hoolahan's opener was no more than City deserved before Craig Gardner slammed home an equaliser from the penalty spot in a game that ended 1-...

Three goals down and without an away goal to ease the pressure, that is the situation the Inter squad face as they enter the second leg of their last 16 Europa League game against Tottenham in the familiar surroundings of the Giuseppe Meazza. Is this...

"We are prepared...are you?" was the message put out by Malaga CF this week in their viral video ahead of perhaps the biggest game in the club's history. It conjured up medieval imagery reminiscent of 300 or Game of Thrones, with an epic soundtrack, ...

Coming into the match against Fiorentina at the Stadio Artemio Franchi, the odds were most definitely in Inter's favour. On the back of two convincing wins against Chievo and CFR Cluj, and playing against a Viola side that have been unable to beat th...

In the shadow of the Stadium of Light stands a statue which reads: "The man, the messiah, the moment." The figure stood atop its base is Bob Stokoe, his pose an homage to the 1973 FA Cup winning team that overcame monumental odds to beat favourit...

On Tuesday a largely second-string Wigan Athletic side travels to Dean Court to play Bournemouth in a third-round FA Cup replay. So what are the odds of Wigan pulling off a victory? Shouldn't a team composed of Premier League squad players be expecte...

In many ways, all the pre-match previews and tactical plans for Arsenal against Manchester City went out the window Sunday when Laurent Koscielny was sent off in the first 10 minutes. The odds were stacked against Arsenal, and even though the resulti...

Norwich City's players relish proving the doubters wrong, but even the Canaries' collective ability to defy the odds will be tested over a brutal festive period in the Premier League. Chris Hughton has engineered a top-flight club record 10-match ...

What started as a seemingly far-fetched rumour before apparently progressing past "plausible" en route to "probable" is now officially the odds-on most likely thing to happen, and nobody in South Wales can believe it - Barcelona's David Villa (potent...

Inter's Coppa Italia campaign continued Wednesday night in the last 16 against Serie B side Hellas Verona, who had already claimed the scalps of two Serie A sides, Genoa and Palermo, to get to this stage. The odds were against the minnows from the ou...

In stoppage time Arouna Kone looked odds-on to net an equaliser, after being put through by a great flick from Franco Di Santo. It might have helped Wigan get a result they would have scarcely deserved following a lackluster performance. In the event...