Homeless World Cup final today
Mr. Adolf Ogi, Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace sent his special...
Monthly Archives: September 2006
Mad as a Blatter ?
Blatter’s latest idea about scrapping penalty shootouts may be considered to be one of his better ideas.He has made...
Raul out,Ruud out,Parker in.
Real Madrid’s Spanish international captain Raul has been left out of the squad chosen by national boss Luis Aragones...
Amazing Acrobatics by Peter Crouch
His season’s tally is 10 goals including this scissor kick against Galatasaray on Wednesday .
Drogba’s hat trick for Chelsea
Drogba scored his triad in the 39th, 52nd and 68th minutes against Levski Sofia on wednesday
Euro 2008 mascots unveiled
The official mascots for Euro 2008 were unveiled in Vienna recently. The mascots are a kind of double barrelled...
Saha’s goal against Benfica
Saha scores his fifth goal of the season
Blatter proposes an end to penalty shoot outs.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter believes future World Cup finals should not be decided by penalties . Penalty shoot-outs were...
Saha wins it for the Red Devils
A lone goal by Louis Saha helped Manchester United beat Benfica . Sir Alex Ferguson got the “bloody different...
Homeless World Cup
News and Webcam coverage and Pictures of action from the Homeless World Cup currently underway in South Africa
Chelsea stars in Oscar quest.
Having moved into first place in the Premier League on Saturday after beating Fulham 2-0 .(Goals by Frank Lampard...
Graham poll on yellow card spree again
World Cup 3 yellow card ref Graham Poll has been on a yellow card spree again handing out more...
Pele and the 2014 World Cup
The 2014 Cup is slated for South America, and Brazil is favored.Mexico, who hosted the World Cup in 1970...
Materazzi’s new training program
Nike and Materazzi get together to make sure he’s ready for the next head butt!!!
African football and world cup 2010
Beckenbauer while commenting on the lack of progress in South Africa regarding preparations for the 2010 World Cup said...
Back to the bench [ or Bench – ed like Beckham !]
More difficult times for the former England captain.Despite that 89th minute goal against Real Sociedad he’s back on the...
Video: Becks Scores off the Bench!
From last week’s game against Real Sociedad. A speedy Beckham goes 60 yards to score. Maybe he does want...
Sepp Blatter needs a Bugblatter !
Douglas Adams in his hilarious book “The Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy” writes about a monster called The Ravenous...
Zidane : A 21st Century Portrait
Douglas Gordon’s and Philippe Parreno’s portrait of the world famous French football hero Zinédine Zidane.Filmed during a Real Madrid...
SA to kick off opening game against Chile
Eusébio da Silva Ferreira will kick the first ball of the Cape Town 2006...
Cannavaro backs World Heart Day
Italian World Cup winning Captain Fabio Cannavaro is giving his whole hearted support to World Heart Day which is...
Football’s Dirty Secrets
Sam Allardyce, the Bolton Wanderers manager, was at the centre of allegations about illegal payments in football made by...
Beckenbauer and Blatter worried about 2010
World Cup 2006 organising committee president Franz Beckenbauer said on Tuesday that organisers of the next tournament in South...
What’s up with Rooney?
Now everyone’s picking on Rooney again: “Could it really be that Rooney has fallen out of love with football,...
A New Chelsea Blog
A new Chelski blog with quality photos! Check out bluechampions.com…
Becks: “England don’t need me!”
He’s right. McClaren has done the right thing I believe. He’s taken the teamwork factor up a notch as...
Rooney and Pele again
Roy Keane has said that Wayne Rooney had “achieved nothing” and that he had still got “a hell of...
The lazy magician will be missed
Football fans will regret the end of the international career of Juan Roman Riquelme The midfielder had earned the...
Video: Adebayor! Adebayor! Adebayor!
The best part. Adebayor’s goal against Man Utd. The icing was how that punk Ronaldo lost the ball. Arsenal...
Video: Drogba’s goal: The goal of the season so far
There was nothing Jamie Carragher and co. could have done to stop Drogba. Just look at the perfect balance,...
West Ham hams it up against Roeder and the Magpies, 0-2
“Don’t cry for me Argentina” might be the song that Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano might be singing since...
Video: Nelinho in the 1978 World Cup
Nelinho uses the Magnus effect to score one of the most memorable goals in World Cup history!
SA gears up for Homeless World Cup
The fourth Homeless World Cup kicks off in Cape Town on 23 September, with football teams from 48 countries...
Emir Kusturica’s Maradona: Out in 2006
Maradona shows his solidarity! Look out for Emir Kusturica’s documentary on Diego Maradona in post production now. It is...
A tale of two Arsenals: England and Argentina
Today was a good day if your club was called Arsenal because they all won their matches. There are...
Video: Rosicky’s screamer against Hamburg
Rosicky’s blast in Arsenal’s win against Hamburg, 2-1!
Video: Lyons 2 Real Madrid 0
It could have been much worse if Iker Casillas had not been so stellar in goal. Not the best...
Relegated Juventus gets its first win
Congratulations to the boys in Juventus who stayed back. Pavel Nedved, David Trezeguet, and captain Alessandro Del Piero for...
Gianluigi Buffon’s successor: Federico Agliardi
Palermo put it past Lazio, 2-1. Federico Agliardi, their goalkeeper kept out 12 shots at goal. It would be...
Drogba wins it for Chelsea
Didier Drogba supplied the spectacular winner as Chelsea emerged victorious from another stormy encounter with title rivals Liverpool. Drogba...
Cesc, Lehmann, and Adebayor pull it off against Man Utd
Today was a proud, proud day for all Gooners. Minus Thierry Henry and RVP, Arsenal went to Old Trafford,...
Video: Premiership goals: Andy Johnson again!!
Johnson rolls right on against Wigan with his 5th goal. Lua Lua puts one past Charlton Athletic and puts...
Fabio Cannavaro -“The year of his life”
REAL Madrid’s Italian defender Fabio Cannavaro blamed his side’s fitness levels following their surprise 2-0 defeat to Olympique Lyon...
Marco Materazzi is required reading in Philosophy class
Marco Materazzi who recently disclosed that he fancied Zidane’s sister to his sweaty jersey, waxes eloquent on Inter’s pathetic...
Arsenal at Old Trafford: Better than playing at the Emirates
At this point Arsenal is still seeking its first win of the season and ranked 17th in the Premiership...
Rafa Benitez: Dazed and Confused, tell me it’s not true
Liverpool is going through a mini crisis. A small one, but with this year’s Premiership, with Portsmouth, Everton, and...
Owen Hargreaves out with a broken leg
Owen Hargreaves broke the fibula (shin bone) of his left leg in the Bayer loss against Armenia Bliefeld, 2-1...
Video: Rodrigo Palacios is the new Mario Kempes
Boca 1 River Plate 0. Will Palacios vindicate Mario Kempes faith in him?
Gareth Barry: The best underrated player in England?
Gareth Barry is Aston Villa and Aston Villa is Gareth Berry. In the midst of all the high powered...
Sven to coach USA ?
Sven-Goran Eriksson is being considered as a replacement for Bruce Arena as coach of the United States, the New...
Sebastian Coe appointed FIFA watchdog
Sebastian Coe has been appointed as the first chairman of Fifa’s new ethics commission that will judge all cases...
Video: Maradona Madness
Funny, but we still miss this guy and his antics!
Video: I like this Adidas ad.
Captures the univeral joy of the game, don’t you think?