Steve McLaren: Bloke on the ropes
Watching Steve McLaren at his press conference after England’s lugubrious victory over Andorra was like watching a man who...
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Costa Rica gets to 1000 before Romario !
While Romario is still waiting to get that 1000th goal the Costa Rican team has gone and beaten him...
Drogba for peace
Drogba is doing his bit to unite the people of his divided nation.He took his African Player of the...
McClaren in Crisis
McClaren’s team struggled to eventually manage a 3-0 win over Andorra in a Euro 2008 qualifier on Wednesday.Gerrard finally...
Ronaldo one of all time greats
Bad news for Portugal.Cristiano Ronaldo is in doubt for Wednesday’s Euro 2008 qualifier against Serbia in Belgrade after suffering...
Carolina for Kibera
Carolina for Kibera supports youth soccer and HIV/AIDS awareness in Nairobi, Kenya: music by Django Haskins and The Old...
Maradona Movie
A new movie called “Maradona, the Hand of God” (or Maradona La Mano di Dio) by Italian filmmaker Marco...
Nine hundred and ninety nine ..!
….and one to go. Romario scored his 999th goal against Flamengo in their 3-0 win at Maracana stadium.
Donovan scores all the goals
Landon Donovan – seen here wearing USA’s all new royal blue uniform -scored all the three goals for USA...
Ronaldo scores two more in Portugal’s Euro campaign…
Portugal dominated the game against Belgium.Nuno Gomes opened the scoring,Cristiano Ronaldo added two and Ricardo Quaresma scored the fourth.All...
Football 4 Peace
While McClaren’s stalwarts huffed and puffed and only managed a goalless draw at the end of all their labours...
Ronaldinho inspires Brazil
Ronaldinho’s first goal in a 4-0 win for Brazil over Chile came off this penalty.The football friendly was being...
Gianpaolo Pazzini’s triple record at the new Wembley
Italy’s Gianpaolo Pazzini recorded his name in the football history books on Saturday by scoring the first ever goal...
Blattertalk
“The executive committee is now convinced South Africa will be a good host for the 2010 World Cup.At our...
Further down the road to South Africa
The flip flop over whether South Africa will be ready for the World Cup by 2010 continues..flip -yes it...
James Morrison foul on Ronaldo
The clip shows James Morrison’s foul on Ronaldo.Bonus – you also get to see Rooney of all people coming...
Match against Poverty
“The message is that everyone can do something to make the world a better place”….words from Zidane in his...
More from the Clericus Cup
For those keeping tabs on the Clericus Cup here is some more nail biting almost live action coverage of...
Compensation for Miklos
A judge in Portugal has ordered Benfica to pay 600,000 euros in compensation to Porto for the sporting rights...
Romario scores another hat trick..!
The hattrick he scored on the 10th of March had taken his tally to 995 goals.Now -believe it or...
F A Cup : Chelsea 2 Spurs 1
Chelsea will face Blackburn in the semis of the FA Cup.The first goal against Spurs came in the second...
Sevilla equal on points with Barca
Meanwhile in the La Liga Frederic Kanoute scored from the penalty spot and Alexander Kerzhakov scored from some other...
Everton stun Arsenal in injury time.
Arsenal will be in a state of shock after a game that seemed to be heading for a draw...
Joy for Barcelona..
….as they win their first away game in La Liga in four months with a 4-0 thrashing of Recreativo...
Chelsea 3 Sheffield United 0
Chelsea are still hot on the heels of Manchester United but are not getting any closer.. Goals from the...
Manchester United 4 Bolton 1
Manchester United celebrated St Patrick’s day like this…..
5 goals short of a thousand
Romario scored three in a recent game for his club Vasco da Gama and says he needs another 5...
Sevilla scrape into UEFA quarters..barely
Holders Sevilla will be playing Tottenham Hotspur in the UEFA Cup quarter-finals.Their entry into the quarters came through a...
Abramovich ready for the third one
Roman Abramovich completed proceedings related to his second divorce somewhere in Russia and announced the same with a press...
Spurs through to UEFA quarters
Dimitar Berbatov scores 2 in the Spurs 3 – 2 win over Braga and they move into the UEFA...
Chelsea narrows the gap again
Frank Lampard’s penalty was the only goal in the game against Manchester City yesterday. Elsewhere Arsenal beat Aston Villa...
Argentina go all the way to the top.
This goal from Javier Saviola gave Argentina a 1- 0 victory over France in a friendly last month and...
Manchester United defeats the rest of Europe
Rooney scored twice in Manchester United’s 4- 3 win over the Europe XI.Ronaldo took a great free kick. Read...
In India following Arsenal is way cool
Mukul Kesavan discovers that Indian schoolkids are warming up to soccer, especially Premiership league. Arsenal is their choice because...
Clericus Cup: The saga continues.
Some youtube George Lucas has come up with this magnificent bit of coverage of another hard fought game at...
Good news: Kenya rejoins international soccer
The Kenyan national squad can now participate in the Africa Nations Cup qualifiers and other international games. Fifa’s Emergency...
Wenger has a point: Arsenal are the most booked team
I may have been a bit too quick to condemn Arsene Wenger’s sense of martyrdom as there are some...
Andrew Jennings: Sepp Blatter’s shell games continue
Sepp Blatter is upto his old tricks with his willing accomplice FIFA’s vice president Jack Warner. At stake are...
Should Mourinho have been let off ?
…..for the obscenity he used against the referee in the Chelsea Spurs match? A strong case that Jose not...
Celtic hearts broken again.
Kaka broke the Celtic hearts the other day with that extra time goal.This time the heartbreak came from a...
Ronaldo’s goal against Inter
This goal from ( now who’s calling me fat ?)Ronaldo was not enough to keep Inter from winning 2...
Chelsea 3 Spurs 3
All the games these days seem to be ending in draws with nailbiting second halfs (halves ?)and spectacular last...
Other leagues show less disparity
Lets look at the other leagues and find where the Premiership stands. The Serie clubs have played a couple...
Goal differential: A tale of two Premierships
The big four Premiership clubs walk away with the lions share of the revenues filling their already swollen coffers...
Messi hat trick spares Barcelona the blushes
Lionel Messi scored an equaliser in the final minute to complete a hat-trick and earn 10-man Barcelona an exhilarating...
Manchester United scrape a draw
Manchester United scraped a 2 -2 draw against Middlesbrough in the FA cup quarter final.Rooney scored first.Middlesbrough equalised and...
Video: Steve Nash shows soccer moxie
Why do I get this strange feeling that Steve Nash might do more to promote soccer in this country...
Steve Nash, NBA All Star: Soccer mad and potential Spurs owner
Steve Nash, Phoenix Suns star trains with NY Red Bulls Steve Nash, the Phoenix Suns point guard, perennial All...
Obafemi Martins fires for Newcastle
Obafemi Martins scored four more goals this season since Shourin wrote this post on him sometime in February.He scored...
High praise for Ronaldo
Bobby Charlton showers high praise on Cristiano Ronaldo as the prospect of an all-English European Cup final remained a...
Wenger’s martyr mentality is taking a toll
I am a great supporter of Arsene Wenger and I find his commitment to nurturing Arsenal’s young players a...