Borussia Dortmund: Back from the Brink

They called the 1990’s their golden age, as they produced the best team in their clubs history. Back to back league titles and a surprise Champions league final victory in 1997 over one of Europe’s biggest forces Juventus was enough to show the football world what a fantastic team they were.

This was a Juventus side that had the likes of Zinedine Zidane, Alessandro Del Piero, Didier Deschamps and many more world class talents. Not only that, but on route to the final they beat one of the strongest ever Manchester United sides that dominated the Premier League during the 1990’s and later won a Champions League title themselves in 1999.

Borussia Dortmund created one of the greatest German sides ever during the mid 1990’s and at times they seemed unstoppable. It started in 1993, after a loss to Juventus in the UEFA Cup final, which finished 6-1 to the Italian giants on aggregate.

In spite of the poor result the German runners up walked away with

Hodgson on the brink as Liverpool fall to Blackburn

By Shourin Roy on January 5, 2011 8:29 PM | Comments | TrackBacksShare|

Roy Hodgson in all likelihood should have managed his last game as Blackburn felled Liverpool, 3-1. The only thing extending his job in the very short term is there are no readily available options for the Reds. They could crank up an emergency call to Martin O'Neill or come back crawling on all fours to Rafa Benitez. Or bring in Kenny Dalglish, the club's icon. Maybe Juergen Klinsmann can be lured back to managing. All these choices will require convincing.

Martin Olsson opened the scoring aided and abetted by some horrendous defending by Glen Johnson and then it was Benjani, resurrecting his once promising career striking twice for Blackburn. Stevie Gerrard managed to claim a consolation goal.

At the press conference, Hodgson refused to answer questions about his future:

"I am not prepared to talk about that because I am depressed enough with the performance and result," Hodgson said.

Another ex- Liverpool manager is feeling the heat. Under Gerard Houllier's tenure, Aston Villa have gone south. This time they lost to Sunderland. They're now firmly in the relegation zone.

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Champions League: Bremen on the brink push back Spurs

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Cracking start by Tottenham on their CL group stage debut. Gareth Bale just becomes more and more awesome as each match rolls by. He was responsible for the first goal although Petri Pasanen executed it perfectly into his own goal before Peter Crouch got to it. Then it was Crouching Tiger's turn as Van Der Vaart became the Hidden Dragon. It was the Premiership club all over Werder like fungus.

But the German club fought back and just before half time Hugo Almeida glanced the ball past Carlo Cudicini from a curling long cross by Wesley. In the second half, Marko Marin, in the vanguard of the brilliant young German brigade gathered by Joachim Low, with speed and skill finished blisteringly and Werder were level.

A Mikaël Silvestre sighting and by all accounts he did quite well against a club he would be quite familiar with. Harry Redknapp should be quite pleased with the result although there is a feeling that Spurs definitely missed out on a chance to do more damage.

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