Advantages: sound
Disadvantages: fifa 2005 based

....Computer based football simulation games...Uefa champions league 2004-2005 hit the stores.So what?Who needs another football simulation when fifa and evolution pro are already there?Well the point is that EA sports is trying to get some more attention after Evo pro dominated in the battle for the best football game.They just released another fifa based game with some minor changes(the name of the game).Lets see what have they done there. The first thing that really impressed me was the soundtrack.Yeah...bonobo , LCD soundsystem , Swayzak etc.Its the first ever soundtrack for a football game that didnt include mainstream looking guys like Tiesto.I really liked that so i proceded to the start new game thing hoping to be impressed there too. The main part of this "another EA game" is the season mode.You are able to create your manager (face... Read review

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Advantages: Dogging!
Disadvantages: Dogging!

...…… An away goal early on should tie this one up for Liverpool if they play that way. Sit back away and go a goal down and the world is a very different place. I still think Liverpool are the better team by far here and should make the last 8.Gerrald is the man for me to score that goal with one of those stunning half volleys. If they can win this trophy and secure forth spot then Houlier can survive. Without silverware the five year plan looks beached. Just as a place in the champions league is his incentive to keep pushing it’s also a carrot to attract another big manager. If the Mick’s can jemmy Ferguson out of Old Trafford and get O’Neil in then maybe the genial Irishman will except second best at Liverpool. NEWCASTLE (1) 3 VALARENGA (1) 0……4-1 win agg…… Live SKY 7-45pm. After a scrappy under... Read review

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Advantages: feel in control
Disadvantages: blocky on close ups

...champions league is a realistic challenger to the fifa crown but is not trying to beat fifa at its own game because its set its stall out for sheer playability. The ball dont stick to your feet and you can play a telling pass into space for players to run on to. and you really feel in control of the games so I can play my trademark kick and rush and bring success. Fifa are you listening, your boys took a hell of a beating, winston churchill maggie thatcher... this is good but by no means the finished article.... Read review

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Advantages: Graphics are great, its a bargain at £9.99 and you cna play with past winners
Disadvantages: Old players and referees tend to be biased towards the computer

...The UEFA Champions league 98/99 season. What a great season it was as well Manchester United beating Bayern Munich 2-1 in the dying seconds of the game. This game begins you at the start of that historic season. This opinion will not generate many reads because once again it is on an old game. I brought this game when it first came, because I had previously played a demo of it and I actually thought it was a really good game. The first thing which was great about this game was that when you load it up it has the champions league music and the video like they show on the TV which was really cool because I love that music. To help you understand what the game has to offer I will take you through its various game modes. MAIN MENU – When you have loaded up the game you have 4 choices of what you can do: QUICK START... Read review

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Advantages: European showcase becomes England-only tempting more money to our League
Disadvantages: Little competition for England makes for less high-profile players

...Originally founded in 1955 as Europe's premiere football competition, the European Cup as it was known then was renamed the UEFA Champions League in 1992. Whilst the competition sees 76 teams from all over the continent enter, since 1997 the CL has been operating under different guidelines that mean being the champions of your country does not mean you shall receive instant qualification and rather bigger name teams will enter the competition automatically ahead of those domestic champions of lesser footballing nations. This rule allows four Champions League places in the English Premiership, and only in 2005 did controversy begin to surround this as Liverpool won the competition however failed to finish within the qualifying positions for the following season. UEFA ruled that five teams from England would compete in the following... Read review

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Advantages: The best teams in Europe are brought together in one tournament, great standard of football played, always exciting and there are often one or two shocks
Disadvantages: Tottenham don't play in the tournament

...-Introduction- The UEFA Champions League is Europe's premier cup competition and has been so ever since its creation in the 1992/93 season. It replaced the European Cup, a tournament with such a rich history behind it. The change is said to have taken place, in order to modernise the tournament and the inclusion of a group phase was welcomed. The Champions League is very topical at present and I have thought it necessary to give a bit of background on the tournament, a look at the players and teams over the past 13 seasons and also to look at where it may go in the future. -Competition Format- In its short existence, the actual Champions League format has undergone numerous changes. The tournament has always included Europe's elite teams, in the first season only 8 teams took part compared with the 32 teams that began... Read review

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Advantages: A chance to re-live a night worth remembering forever :-)
Disadvantages: If you're a Bayern Munich supporter :-(

...It was one of the most talked about fixtures in Champions League history before the whistle, and now is the most talked about fixture after the final whistle. A night, which saw a scintillating and a quite breath-taking match, conclude in a largly dramatic fashion. From Manchester United's point of view, it did seem that they had saved their worst game of the season for the last, and most important one. The start that Man Utd supporters were dreading and couldn't dream off, was very soon reality. 5 minutes on the clock and a free-kick was conceded in a dangerous position. Bayern Munich saw this as a precious opportunity and were looking to take full advantage. Quite a few Bayern Munich players could of taken the free-kick, but i knew that it was surely Mario Basler territory. The expert free-kick taker certainly did not disappoint... Read review

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Advantages: It serves from prize to the modest clubs that they carry out good campaigns.
Disadvantages: Competition very devaluated with the reformation of the Champions League.

...After the last remodeling of the Champions League, the U.E.F.A. it is a competition that has lost the whole weight practically that formerly had in Europe. One can say of this competition that is a second European division. And it is not that the teams that play it are bad, because if we see to the teams that were in competition in eighth of end we found to Inter of Milán, F.C.Barcelona, Rome, Liverpool and so many other sport glories. Those some come from being eliminated when being in third position of their group of the Champions