A collection of long shots
Martin Palermo’s longshot can be added to the collection below
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Video: Mancester United vs Reading
Gabriel Heinze, Louis Saha and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scored a 3 goal blitz in the first six minutes to...
Clericus Cup Update
The Clericus Cup has witnessed its first miracle already – a motley crew of Latin Americans, Africans and Asians...
Martin Palermo strikes from 52 metres out.
Martin Palermo holds the dubious record of being the one to miss the maximum number of penalties in an...
Drogba’s Goals
and I still say offside on the first goal 🙂
Dimitar Berbatov: White hot in White Hart
Dimitar Berbatov is the tour de force in the Spurs attack. As Robbie Keane and Mido play now you...
Premiership action: Shootout at the Fantasy Factory
Shootout at the Fantasy Factory was a 1973 Traffic album but it could well describe the Premiership this weekend...
Poll strikes again
Graham Poll – who was lying low for while – emerged from the shadows yesterday and made a fresh...
Drogba gives Chelsea the Cup
Drogba’s first goal and his second goal and the injury to Terry and the brawl at the end and...
Walcott’s Goal
Drogba’s are on the way!
What a Game: Walcott Scores, Terry Out Cold, Drogba Scores Twice, Players Brawl, 3 Red Cards, Chelsea Take the Cup
Another bizarre game, but this time it’s for the silverware. Drogba shows why he’s class by saving Chelsea’s behind....
Higuain scores his first goal
Gonzalo Higuain scored his first goal (video) for Real Madrid helping them to earn a point in a 1...
Video :Liverpool vs Sheffield United
Sheffield United didn’t exactly cover themselves with glory after managing to score no goals in comparision to Liverpool’s four...
Video: Ali G interviews Posh and Becks
Oldie but goodie. Posh comes off as far more feisty than Becks.
Eurocentric bias: Blatter and FIFA overstep in Kenya ban
Sepp Blatter is a political animal. His FIFA career has been an orchestration of lining up votes, doling out...
West Ham left dead in the water
Alan Curbishley vs Alan Pardew in the clash of the 500 lbs gorillas and it is Curbs left with...
Zidane,Ronaldo in match against poverty
Football legends Ronaldo and Zinédine Zidane will be among the world’s top players in an all-star line-up for the...
Brazil, Where have You Gone?
That’s what I think when I see this: Is it time to think past Dunga yet? And now Ronaldinho...
Kenya’s FIFA impasse continues
With virtually no soccer being played in their country because of the FIFA suspension, Kenyan players have left to...
Vladimir goes bananas
Hearts majority shareholder Vladimir Romanov issued a convoluted kind of statement on their official website which indicated that refereeing...
Gazza to star in sci-fi horror movie
You’ll soon see Gazza in movie halls in a sci-fi horror movie called Final Run. And no, its title...
British soccer hardmen pale in comparison
Craig Bellamy has impulse control issues, Lee Bowyer is a racist thug, Vinnie Jones enforces by squeezing sensitive body...
Vatican organises football tournament
The two top religions of Italy – Catholicism and football are coming together in a first time international championship...
Inter Milan tie with Valencia
Esteban Cambiasso scored the first with a header.David Villa took the fantastic free-kick shown below to level the score...
Video: David Villa’s bender against Inter
C1 Inter-Valence :1-1 Villa 21/02/07Uploaded by Luca_Toni Villa’s magnificent freekick restores parity for Valencia
Video: Bellamy to Riise, Liverpool 2 Barca 1
Riise 1 – 2 – Barcelona v LiverpoolUploaded by samgoff Bellamy assisted Riise in Liverpool’s second goal as the...
Video: Bellamy’s goal against Barca
Bellamy 1 – 1 – Barcelona v LiverpoolUploaded by samgoff Victor Valdes backs up into his own goal inexplicably....
Barca lose ,Chelsea draw
Some really poor defending from Barca led to their first home defeat in Europe since April 2003.Liverpool beat them...
Video: The fastest recorded shot
Sporting Lisbon’s Brazilian left-back Ronny Heberson, who rocketed in this free-kick against Naval in November 2006, reportedly from 16.5...
What would your Brazilian soccer name be?
Want to know what your name would be if you played for Brazil? Go to this website >> Nick...
Melbourne Victory’s victory: Global game, local connections
Archie Thompson and Fred, Victory’s deadly duo On Sunday, the Melbourne victory crushed Adelaide United, 6-0 at Telstra stadium...
Arsenal go down to PSV
Arsenal were in control of the game against PSV Eindhoven for most of the time but lost anyway.The lone...
Manchester United and a controversial free kick
You can get a good look here at the controversial free kick that helped Man U to a 1-...
Video: Jefferson Farfan, PSV Eindhoven star
Arsenal will be hoping that Farfan’s injury will keep him away from today’s Champions League match. The marauding left...
For your Champions League fix ……….
Lille v Man Utd Celtic v AC Milan PSV Eindhoven v Arsenal Real Madrid v Bayern Munich Barcelona v...
Socceroo on goal scoring spree
Archie Thompson’s previous claim to fame was that he set the world record for goals scored in an international...
Video: Tomas Rosicky, Arsenal’s little gunner
Tomas Rosicky guns them goals directional bias or no directional bias.
Liverpool takes up golf under new owners
It seems under the new US owners, some players have taken up golf, except that they are not whacking...
Tomas Rosicky and directional bias
It happened once. Then it happened again. And when it happened a half dozen times it appeared to be...
Does soccer also have its ‘unproductive’ stars?
Marx addressed the issue of worker productivity and set into motion modern day labour laws. The ILO now records...
Barca lose to Valencia
Ronaldinho got his 16th goal of the season two minutes into injury time.It wasn’t enough because Miguel Angel Angulo...
Ronaldo scores twice to take A C Milan higher.
A brace of goals from Ronaldo (video)moved A C Milan upto 5th place in the Serie A. Inter Milan...
Beckham sees Red
Beckham lost his temper and got himself a red card in the dying seconds of the 0 – 0...
Blues cruise to a 4 – 0 win
F A Cup : Chelsea handed out a 4-0 defeat to Norwich city And Manchester United were held to...
Arsenal held by Blackburn
Brad Friedel made sure that Blackburn will live to fight another day in the FA Cup.Arsenal were held to...
Chelsea and YouTube link up
Chelsea have linked up with YouTube and have launched the first football-branded channel on the internet site.The channel will...
Zidane is moving to Chicago..?
Zidane is moving to Chicago Fire and not to the Red Bulls as rumoured about and joked about earlier....
Site Review: Sportscheat.org
Here’s an interesting site dedicated to fighting cheating in the Premiership. Midnightjester (not his real name, or is it?)...
Matchnight calls it a day
America’s soccer news network “Matchnight in America” has announced that they will be closing shop and shutting down after...
Video: The Police at the Grammys
Police frontman, Sting is a staunch Newcastle supporter. He penned the lyrics to The Black and White Army (Bringing...
Video: Obafemi Martins vs Didier Drogba
Too early to compare him to Drogba but Martins is coming on nicely. So why not? Both are physically...
Obafemi Martins: The best transfer this season
When we look at players who have exploded on the Premiership in their first season and single handedly changed...
A T-shirt says it all
As floods (NY Times, subscription needed) ravage Mozambique, a poignant reminder, soccer as the global game. Beckham’s role in...
Platini says 5 referees
Platini’s bold new move to take the total number of referees refereeing a football match upto five is ”...