Beating swords into ploughshares in N Ireland.
The 20,332-capacity Windsor Park in Belfast is currently used for Northern Ireland’s international football matches.Work has now started to...
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Blatter apologises for apology
Blatter -foot firmly in mouth – has clarified his apology to the Socceroos by issuing a “clarification’ of the...
Video – 2 more goals from Ronaldinho
Three goals to see.Ronaldinho smiled again after scoring 2 against Recreativo...
Video -Rooney’s three against Bolton
The soccer videos are thankfully still around – so here’s Rooney scoring that great hat trick of goals against...
SA World Cup: The danger is not the crime rate but neo-liberalism
We have heard horror stories of the high crime rate in South Africa where more than 50 people are...
English Premiership clubs will dominate future European competition
The Champions Cup was first played in 1955- 56. The first winner was Real Madrid who have won the...
West Ham’s best player: 40 year old Teddy Shearingham
West Ham 2 Blackburn Rovers 1 Teddy Shearingham showed why intelligence and experience over skill is infinitely preferable as...
The Observer profiles Michael Essien
On Michael Essien ” He is nicknamed Bison because of a frightening fearlessness and strength; Dietmar Hamann and Tal...
Video: Luis Garcia scores: Liverpool vs Aston Villa, 3-1
Liverpool is showing signs of life. Great bit of footwork by Gerrard and a perfect finish by Garcia.
Sepp Blatter apologizes to the Socceroos
Sepp Blatter tried to soothe the Socceroos by saying that they deserved to go to the quarterfinals instead of...
Rush Limbaugh, Michael J Fox, and football fakers
Having Rush Limbaugh go berserk with rage at Michael J Fox for faking his symptoms of his disease in...
South Africa World Cup 2010 costs escalate
The South African government will spend 15.1 billion rands on the World Cup. About 40% of it is on...
Rooney scores thrice against Bolton
“Scooney Roars again” scream the headlines.Can’t blame the English sports journalists for getting their headlines mixed up in excitement...
Video: Kaka and Materazzi square off
Kaka is dead on when he says Materazzi sometimes gets nasty on the pitch. A treat for Kaka fans!...
Sheva opens his account: Chelsea vs Boro
Chelski’s 30 million pound acquisition, Shevchenko finally scores his first goal! At this rate he’ll score 4 more for...
Video: Mido opens his account: Spurs vs West Ham
Mido took sometime but he got it in style against the Hammers.
Tony Blair calls Shearer the best.
“We would all like to play football like someone, but this guy was just the best,wasn’t he?” …was Tony...
Defoe’s bark was worse than his bite: The issue is germane
Mascherano was subjected to a nibble by Defoe but the rest that followed, rolling around, holding his face was...
West Ham: Abdication of responsibility
West Ham lies at the bottom of the Premiership – a scenario hardly contemplated by the likes of Alan...
Expert goalkeepers: They have better selective visual search
Do you remember the fantastic goal keeping of Joao Ricardo of Portugal that sent a mortified English squad to...
Real going to sell Beckham ?
Capello gave Beckham his second start in eight games and he provided the freekick which led to the opening...
Where have all the soccer videos gone ?
They are going going gone – alas – because Video-sharing service YouTube has wiped nearly 30,000 files from its...
Giuseppe Rossi starts for Newcastle tonight
Manchester United’s Giuseppe Rossi has represented the Italian national team at the Under-16, 17, 18 and 21 levels .He...
Video: Manchester United vs Liverpool
Paul Scholes and Ferdinand send Liverpool packing
Barcelona in a slump
Frank Rijkaard has taken Barcelona’s defeats against Chelsea and Real Madrid to heart and is also taking the blame...
Rooney turns 21
21 reasons to celebrate Wayne Rooney’s birthday.!!
Video – Real Madrid 2 Barcelona 0
The goals from Raul Gonzalez and Ruud Van Nistelrooy …
Video: Crazy Skills
Normally there wouldn’t be a lampost on the pitch!
Real Madrid 2, Barça 0
Raul and Ruud van Nistelrooy beat up on Ronaldinho and gang. Looks like Capello knows what he’s doing. Unfortunately,...
ManU 2, Liverpool 0
Paul Scholes scored on his 500th appearance. Manchester United left Rafa and gang in the dust when Ferdinand scored...
Andrei Shevchenko – book extract.
He was nine when the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred in April 1986. His village, not far from Chernobyl, was...
Video – Shevchenko scores for Chelsea
Andrei Shevchenko, the most expensive player ever to sign with a UK club scores against Portsmouth. Bonus- you get...
European Player of the Year – Golden Ball nominees
French magazine France Football has released its 50-man shortlist for European Player of the Year.France leads the pack with...
What some legends are up to
Diego Maradona is going to play in seven a side friendly matches next week in Honduras and El Salvador...
Shevchenko and Ballack score in Chelsea win
Shevchenko ended a 10 game goal drought by finally scoring a goal against Portsmouth yesterday.The goal went in off...
Video: Highlights – Chelsea 1, Barcelona 0
10 minutes of fun… Hats off to Chelsea!
Barcelona plays for UNICEF
FC Barcelona and its foundation Fundació Futbol Club Barcelona have announced a public alliance and kicked off a five...
Video : Drogba’s super goal against Barcelona
Didier Drogba”s stunning 47th-minute goal . ‘I’m not superman,” he said later !! Barca face a Ronaldo less Real...
Ronaldinho Shows Off
Left over from the World Cup: Too bad he couldn’t do much on the field when it counted this...
The World Cup Caused Germany’s Economic Boom
The German government will raise its economic growth forecast for 2006 this week to 2.3 percent from a 1.6...
Blatter makes the news again
FIFA President Sepp Blatter criticised government interference in football, just a day after he agreed to set up a...
Hilario has the last laugh for Chelsea
Hilario the goalkeeper had the last laugh. Barcelona were dispatched by a goal from Didier Drogba and Jose Mourinho...
Video : CSKA Moscow vs Arsenal (1- 0)
Match highlights. Poor Thierry Henry got a yellow card for what the referee thought was a handball .Says Henry…...
Video – Read Madrid vs Steaua Bucharest (4 -1)
Beckham makes his 100th Champion’s League appearance and Ruud gets his 50th goal in European football. Great goal.
FIFPro Young Player of the year nominees
The players nominated for the FIFPro Young Player Award are the ones who at the end of the 2005/2006...
Video – Real Madrid vs Getafe
A blurred look at Getafe’s 1 – 0 victory over Real Madrid and Ronaldo’s sending off. Real Madrid have...
Goalkeeping – A dangerous profession
Stephen Hunt was says he is sorry and did not mean to hurt Petr Cech in the collision that...
Video: Johan Cruyff
The sad part of it was that Holland never won a World Cup despite his genius. Instead it was...
Germany – The Best Team in Europe?
Germany mashes Slovakia. The Kaiser thinks we’re the best team in Europe. What a turnaround!
Video: Bolton 2 Newcastle United 1
The El Hadji Diouf show with some great help from the Magpies defence. Bolton comes away with their first...
West Ham: Abdication of responsibility
West Ham lies at the bottom of the Premiership – a scenario hardly contemplated by the likes of Alan...
Should McLaren continue to fail, Allardyce serves notice
Sam Allardyce shakes a fist! Remember this summer’s musical chairs with the England coach in the post Sven era?...
Video: La Liga: Barcelona 3 Sevilla 1
Goals by Ronaldinho, Messi, and Kanoute!
Theo Walcott- Boy Wonder
Theo Walcott – 2 great goals in the under 21 game against Germany and a marvellous performance in Arsenal’s...