Ryan previews the rest of the upcoming match-ups from the Champs League knockout stage.

Ryan previews the upcoming knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League.

A brave attempt to determine history’s most successful clubs, Western Europe edition.

A list of books, blogs, and news sites to help you develop your newfound appreciation for the sport. Additions welcome!

This is the first entry in a series designed to explain the very basic tenets of world soccer to American sports fans. This will be my attempt at serving as a kind of digital soccer missionary, spreading the gospel to the unwashed savages of North America.

The dramatic conclusion of the Champions League group stage preview. Well, I don’t know how dramatic.
GROUP E

The teams: Liverpool (ENG), Lyon (FRA), Fiorentina (ITA), Debrecen (HUN)

The 2009-10 Champions League is set to seriously begin a little less than 2 weeks from now, on September 15th. (I say seriously because, thrilling though the run by Andorran champs UE Sant Julià probably was, let’s be honest and admit that those matches are basically worthless.) This is the first year of the new …