The Cinderellas are in group B, not A. Cluj was the underdog-come-good story to start out the campaign, and deservedly so. They beat Roma - though who didn't earlier in the season - and nil-niled (yes, that's a verb) with a then high-flying Chelsea team. Now, however, they've come back down to earth, and will be [. Click to continue reading...

Chelsea visited Transylvania to play CFR Cluj in the Champions League this week, and didn't make a particularly good impression on their Romanian hosts. Apparently they were way too picky about what goes on their plates. Much as it pains me to quote anything from The Daily Mail: The players, who flew into the famous Dracula country [. Click to continue reading...

If you're looking for a place to find fantastically dramatic happenings and off-beat footballing stories, Romania, even Eastern Europe as a whole, is probably your place. If you're a coach looking for an owner who isn't an entire suit short of a full deck, it probably isn't. As is the case with small-ish Eastern European league, [. Click to continue reading...

4 seeds are the new 3 seeds; or, Transylvanians, Cypriots & Belarusians are legit. BATE were very fortunate to be eying a blonde Austrian rather than a turban-sporting Italian in net, but they were never predicted to sneak a deserved point. Cluj proved their Roma win was no fluke, even if they used a vastly different [. Click to continue reading...

In Transylvania, Chelsea simply sucked. The Blues unleashed one of the most flatigious displays in recent memory against CFR Cluj on Wednesday. But the goalless draw was not even the half of it. Striker Didier Drogba suffered what appeared to be the nastiest of nasty knee injuries during the second half.

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Champions League surprises, Brazilian brawls and the troubles at Tottenham feature in this week's good, the bad and the ugly. Click on the links after each story below to find out more. Good Yet again Romanian side Cluj and Cypriot team Famagusta feature as their Champions League dreams stay alive. Cluj drew at home to fancied Chelsea [. Click to continue reading...

There's no getting away from the fact that some team names are a little less familiar than others in the Champions League this season. But if we were expecting the likes of Romania's CFR Cluj and Belarus's FC BATE Borisov to roll out the welcome mat and let the more famous teams trample all over [... Click to continue reading...

How cliche that Transylvania is the setting for today's Champions League encounter between Cluj and Chelsea, given of course that it's Oct. 1 and we're about to be bludgeoned for the next 31 days with the images and sounds of Halloween. Just check out the nearest Target or Wal-Mart if you don't believe me. Click to continue reading...