The group stage concluded on Wednesday Dec 10th night. The eight teams who finished in third place in their respective groups have advanced to the knockout stage, which begins in February of 2009 with 32 participants. Joining FC Zenit St. Petersburg as qualifiers are FC Girondins de Bordeaux, Werder Bremen, FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Olympique de Marseille, Aalborg BK, ACF Fiorentina, and FC Dynamo Kyiv. The top two teams in each group are still in contention for Champions League berths, and therefore not yet assured of spots in the UEFA Cup. …
Monthly Archives: December 2009
An Indepth Look at Singles in Liverpool
Liverpool is one of the most interesting places in Europe and the world. It is the mainstay of inspiration and land of some of the greatest music legends. This is the place where John Lennon lived with his aunt when he was young; he wrote many of his early songs. Singles in Liverpool therefore have a reason to sing and dance. They meet in many venues of entertainment to seek and cement relationships. Singles in Liverpool like to meet new people, this is evident in the fact that the night …
7 Things You Didn’t Know About Liverpool
Why, are the residents of Liverpool called ‘Scousers’? Scousers are named after the local dish Scouse. Scouse is a type of lamb stew made according to a traditional recipe, known locally in the same way Cornish pasties are known in Cornwall. Obviously there are variations and arguments over whose mum cooks the best ‘pan-o-scouse’. However,my mum’s Scouse is by far the best and on a cold winter’s night it cannot be beaten! In the past, visitors to the city became aware that the locals seemed to thrive on the stuff. …
Barcelona Travel Guide
is a heaven and it just happens to be on Earth, it would probably have been conceived, designed and built by Antonio Gaudi and as an aside he probably would have built some of it by hand himself but as they say that is another story. So it if there is a heaven on Earth it can only be in one place and that is Barcelona because that is where the majority of Gaudi?s most beautiful buildings were built and for so many other reasons that cannot be crammed into …
Night Life in Barcelona
The city of Barcelona itself has a population of just over 1.6 million, with more than double that in the outlying areas. A quintessentially Mediterranean city, Barcelona was home to the 1888 World’s Fair, which catapulted the city onto the international scene as an icon for culture and the arts. Today, the city is a riveting study in contrast: Modern skyscrapers reflect their shadows over the city’s Gothic center, which is preserved, almost completely intact; historic Barcelona is a maze of narrow streets, while the 19th century Eixample district, for …