Video: Momo Sissoko: A future Red legend
Sissoko’s talent is immense and he is fast becoming one of the Kop’s favourite. Read on why Momo’s performance...
Monthly Archives: August 2006
Video: FA Community Shield: Liverpool vs Chelsea, 2-1
Riise’s goal, Crouchy’s goal!
Video: Robbie Fowler: Back at Anfield
Robbie’s return, 5 goals in 14 appearances. This man is capable of much much more when healthy. So what...
Craig Bellamy and a healthy Robbie Fowler: The Liverpool firepower that they need
Top goal scorers: 2005- 2006 season Scorer Goals Team Thierry Henry 27 Arsenal F.C. Ruud van Nistelrooy 21 Manchester...
Premiership predictions: Liverpool tops, Aston Villa improves dramatically
Today’s FA Community Shield Championship should have gone someways in answering who will contend for the top title. Liverpool...
How Chelsea is ruining the game?
The number of players that Chelsea has given away at a loss to the club is obscene. It is...
Stock markets crash on the uncertain future of metrosexuality
Stock markets crashed on the announcement that Steve McLaren had dropped David Beckham from the English squad and his...
Video: MLS All Stars vs Chelsea, 1-0
Chelsea’s Mikel John Obi in action. The Blues were not very impressive and the MLS showed nice bits of...
Video: Nigerian superstars: Aiyegbeni Yakubu
Middlesborough striker Yakubu scores and the Blues suffer again. Just get all these Nigerian strikers together and Chelsea will...
Video: Nigerian superstars: Nwankwo Kanu
Arsenal’s Kanu scoring his hat trick over Chelsea and much much more!
Video: Nigerian superstars: Jay Jay Okocha
Without doubt the finest player in recent times never to have played the World Cup, joining Tony Yeboah and...
Video: Nigerian superstars: Sunday Oliseh
Piledriver!
Is Bayern missing Michael Ballack?
Roy Makaay, Bayern Munich striker Not really. The Bundesliga season began with Bayern shutting out Dortmund 2-0, with Roy...
Simon Kuper on Michael Ballack’s debut
Ballack, who should make his official debut for Chelsea in the FA Community Shield against Liverpool tomorrow at Cardiff’s...
Steve McLaren: A man in control or plain doggone rash
Steve McLaren has already shown that he is ready to take outsized chances. He has booted out Beckham in...
Video: Ali G gets it on with Posh and Becks
Funny, funny, funny! Becks was a good sport but you could see Posh was struggling a bit. She looked...
David Beckham: The decline and fall of metrosexuality
I hope it is over. Can I go and wallow in my body odour without feeling like I have...
Hollywood calling the Beckhams: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
David Beckham and Tom Cruise are good buddies “Having my baby.” Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have unveiled their...
Video: Beckham’s best
For all those Beckham wellwishers!
Its curtains for David Beckham
There was no way a sane manager was going to take David Beckham back into the team to play...
John Terry is the England captain
John Terry or Steven Gerrard, both would be great captains but Steve McLaren has this to say about Terry:...
Neuromuscular anatomy and football skills: Crossover dribble or nutmeg?
Pele, Garrincha, Eusebio, Puskas, Boniek, Maradona, Cruyff, Platini, Bergkamp, Ronaldinho, have some pretty amazing ball dribbling skills, you’ll agree....
The rise of Maggie Thatcher: The decline in England’s football fortunes
The only good thing that came out of the Margaret Thatcher and Ronnie Raygun lovefest in the 1970’s across...
Guus Hiddink’s biggest challenge: Russian indifference
Melancholy is a big part of the Russian nature. It is a theme that runs deep in Russian literature,...
Inside track: Gerrard edges Terry for England job
There seems to be a gradual consensus that Steven Gerrard is the better candidate for the captain’s job than...
Video: More Aaron Lennon
More reasons why we should not waste anymore time on Beckham. This guy is England’s and Tottenham’s future.
Video: Aaron Lennon owns John Terry
I am sure Steve McLaren remembers this moment and so does John Terry. Seriously, you would have to be...
Video: Goodbye, David Beckham! Time to bring Aaron Lennon
Steve McLaren and Terry Venables should be unsentimental: Bring Aaron Lennon in. He deserves a full 90 minutes. Lets...
The Big Market
Is the United States starting to enjoy the beautiful game? I believe so. I’ve never heard so many Letterman...
Arsenal bludgeons Dinamo Zagreb, 3-0
Arsenal stayed on course for the European Championship beating Dinamo Zagreb through Van Persie’s goal, and a pair by...
Franck Ribery’s song: Tombes des Nues by Zebda
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Steven Gerrard set to take over as captain
He could be wearing England’s armband I think it is a step closer. The news that we are waiting...
Video:More Ribery
Ribery feast from his days at OM and Galtasaray! Ljungberg, Henry, Rosicky, Walcott, and now Ribery. Arsenal’s speed kings!
Video: Ri- be- ry, Ri- be- ry, Ri- be- ry!!
Check this piece of fancy footwork by Ribery. This is the year Arsenal gets it all back from the...
Franck Ribery to Arsenal; Gallas too?
This is a great bit of news for the Gunners. Ribery has been snapped up by Wenger for £13.5m...
Politician owners of football clubs? Never vote for them
Why owning a football club should be a red flag for voters electing politicians? Silvio Berlusconi, owner of AC...
Video: Pele’s nightmare before there were cards
These were the ’70s before there were cards for the sort of stuff you’ll see on this video. The...
Video: The legend that was Garrincha
Jaw dropping stuff! As Eduardo Galeano writes, “There never was a right winger like him. In the ’58 World...
Video: In which Spurs legend Jimmy Greaves becomes a hero
Spurs legend Greavesie gets dribbled on by a dog, an incident that so amuses Garrincha, that he takes it...
Frank Lampard misses with this one too
What is with these football players? All of them seem to be in self confessional mode. A book by...
Video: Mido’s year at White Hart Lane
Yeah, the Keano and Mido show! We still want him back. So let the rumours fly.
Thaksin Shinawatra: Remember me, Liverpool FC!
Writing the article about Liverpool’s finances reminded me of those days when everyone was going nuts about the reported...
Womens World Cup 2007: Testesterone involved
It’s all that testesterone, Brandi! Scientific studies have shown that competitive sports increase testesterone levels in men. This is...
Liverpool FC: In performance far more than its monies worth
Liverpool is the most storied English football club there is with 18 League titles and 5 European Championships. Of...
Soccer crooks: Bernard Tapie, folk hero or snakeoil charmer?
Marina Zenovich finally meets Tapie Soccer as with every professional sport has its share of crooks and swindlers. The...
Who wants Franck Ribery?
Franck Ribery is not happy at Olympique Marseille joing a long list of disillusioned players in this very active...
Does country size have anything to do with soccer prowess?
Perusing the list of largest countries in the world, one is struck by the fact that very few of...
Pascal Chimbonda: Is his price worth it?
Wigan just paid £5.5 m pounds for Emile Heskey and now they want to recoup that by dangling Pascal...
Franklin Foer’s analysis: Which form of government is most likely to win the World Cup?
I read Franklin Foer’s afterword in the The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup. In it he discusses...
ANC faultlines: Jacob Zuma, the GINI coefficient, and South Africa 2010
Jacob Zuma, ANC deputy president (L); Thabo Mbeki, SA’s president (R) The ongoing trial of Jacob Zuma, former deputy...
Zidane’s song: Coup De Boule (The Headbutt)
Thanks to ems we have the translated song of the summer hit “Coup De Boule”. Who said the French...
German soccer: Olli Kahn bows out
Timo Hildebrand: vfB Stuttgart’s goalie and Germany’s future Joachim Low our new national coach will not have the services...
Man U misses the bus again: Vieira signs with Inter
After all Man U’s huffing and puffing and reported interest in Patrick Vieira, finally Inter bags him. I don’t...