Pele statue vandalised
Vandals in Brazil broke off the two arms of a bronze statue of Pele, Brazilian media reported on Tuesday.The...
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Thaksin’s insistence on Sven Goran is bad news for Man City
Sven Goran Eriksson is Thaksin Shinawatra’s first choice as the coach for Man City. This is a bad choice...
Real Madrid destroy Israeli peace initiative
An Israeli-Palestinian football team organised by the Peres Centre for Peace -– found themselves at the receiving end of...
Hawkeye’s here
If you imagined some kind of masked caped superhero chap leaping over tall buildings in a single bound –...
Arsenal’s winning combination minus Thierry Henry
Arsenal supporters will sooner or later have to contemplate life without Henry. Barca or Inter are ready to swoop...
Goal II – out in USA sometime soon.?
Goal! 2 the second part of the Football movie trilogy Goal! was released in the UK in February.The U.S....
Pele’s choice
Pele names Kaka “the best player in the world“, ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo.”Cristiano Ronaldo is the best player in...
Alexi Lalas says that the Premiership is inferior
Alexi Lalas in an interview says the Premiership is all hype and this inferior product is sustained through clever...
Barcelona are second best…
…despite a thumping 5 -1 victory over Gimnastic. Goals below….
Video: Real Madrid 3 Mallorca 1
Real Madrid 3 – 1 Mallorca – Madrid Win La LigaUploaded by FootballHeaven …and Becks called it a dream...
Could Juande Ramos be Man City’s new manager?
Man City must be born under a bad sign. Sam Allardyce was courted and turned the job down, joining...
Real lift the Liga title through Reyes
Jose Antonio Reyes seems to have RCD Mallorca’s number. The first match he scored the winning goal and in...
Victoria Beckham has her own reality show
That’s the one benefit of coming to the USA. Any thing and everything can become a reality show including...
Mallorca should not give up late goals
Mallorca is one of the tougher defenses conceding 44 which compares quite favourably with Real’s 39. However a majority...
Simon Kuper: Germans are feeling good about themselves
Its good having San Marino in your group. You can run up the scoreboard with wins of 13-0 and...
Nigel Layton is the new villain
Pini Zahavi, the Israeli super agent is back in the news after being implicated in the bung report by...
Morocco are first to qualify …
Morocco became the first qualifiers for the 2008 African Nations Cup in Ghana after Malawi’s goalkeeper Simon Kapusa made...
Video: Ryan Babel Gunner prospect
Ryan Babel the fleet footed Ajax striker that Marco Van Basten has called the heir apparent to Thierry Henry...
Motivational payments for Mallorca players?
In a short while we will find out if Beckham bows out with a title in hand. Real is...
Rio Ferdinand meets the president….
…of Uganda.Ferdinand met President Yoweri Museveni in connection with the setting up of a Proline Soccer Academy which will...
Arsenal acquire FK Haugesund’s Havard Nordtveit
Not exactly one of Thierry Henry’s super signings but a very highly rated defender playing for Norway’s second division...
The US enters the CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinals
The US made the CONCACAF semi-finals by beating Panama, 2-1 and meet Canada who beat Guatemala, 3-0. Landon Donovan...
FIFA backs club over country.
In another example of biased decision making Mahamadou Diarra and Frédéric Kanouté have been ordered to play for their...
CONMEBOL to take on FIFA
CONMEBOL- CONfederación SudaMEricana de FútBOL – The South American Football Confederation are unanimous in their opposition to the FIFA...
Honduras score the biggest win
Carlos Pavon scored four goals, three in the first half, to take Honduras to a 5 – 0 win...
Video: Copa Libertadores Finals: Boca Juniors 3 Gremio 0
Boca Juniors riding high with Juan Roman Riquelme shredded the Gremio defense. Martin Palermo, Riquelme, and Ledesma scored as...
Boromir bats for the Blades
Lord of the Rings fans are really going to like this.Boromir alias Sean Bean is taking a break from...
Lyon asks £17m for Malouda
The Guardian reports that Florent Malouda’s price tag is £17m. Matt Scott also explains why this price could benefit...
Bolivia’s pres takes his protest to a new high
Bolivia’s president Evo Morales, left for Sajama, a mountain in the western Andes, on Tuesday to play a game...
Usa vs El Salvador: Beasley scores 2 out of 4
DaMarcus Beasley scores the first goal… …and the fourth. Match report ..
In the world of transfers, goalies get no love
Most soccer pundits and fans alike agree that the last World Cup was a coming out party for many...
Fabianski challenges Lehmann, Henry challenges Arsenal boardroom
Lukacz Fabianksi has said that he did not come to Arsenal to sit on the bench and will challenge...
Nistelrooy:One more goal to share the boot
Ruud van Nistelrooy with 26 goals to his name is one behind Roma’s Francesco Totti.With one more game left...
Becks for now remains with LA: He will go later
Soccerblog had made the prediction that Real would try and buyout Beckham back from the LA Galaxy at the...
Franco Foda thankfully did not play in Portugal or Brazil
The Guardian’s Knowledge has an entry on soccer players with unusual names like Norman Conquest and Bongo Christ but...
San Lorenzo win the 2007 Argentine Clausura
San Lorenzo won their tenth title after beating a tough Arsenal di Sarandi side, 4-2 through game winning goals...
Honduras score historic victory over Mexico
CONCACAF Gold Cup Action.Four time champs Mexico went down by two costly goals.Carlos Costly scored two second-half goals for...
Africa’s new slave trade
A very informative write up in the Guardian yesterday on the lucrative trade in young players -children in Africa...
The future MLS could be in a similar situation as the MLB
William Rhoden has an article (subscription needed) in the NYT about Gary Sheffield’s new book, Inside Power. Sheffield is...
Angel’s MLS form should pique Jorge Luis Pinto’s interest
There is a lot of speculation in the English media about how David Beckham’s selection to the English squad...
Wenger pledges next season in Arsenal
Not unexpected. It would have been unlike the man to suddenly move on. But it is good to hear...
Gordon Brown’s first order of business: Thierry Henry
Gordon Brown, the man taking over Tony Blair’s job recently met Titi. Brown was asked if Henry had said...
Spanish League Action – all the goals
All the goals from the Real Madrid vs Real Zaragoza and Barcelona vs Espanyol games – including another look...
Video: Lionel Messi “Hand of God” goal keeps Barca in the hunt
Leo Messi just emulated Maradona’s infamous 1986 goal against England.
Beckham revisited
There is no doubt that the uptick in English fortunes in the recent Brazil friendly and the Estonia win...
Bob Bradley improves his win record
Clint Dempsey’s first half goal took USA to a 1-0 win over Guatemala in their opening CONCACAF Gold Cup...
A free kick for the record books
Silvio Spann scored from 42-yard’s out and gave Trinidad and Tobago a 1-0 lead over El Salvador in the...
Video: Copa Libertadores: Boca Juniors 3 Cucuta Deportivo 0
Heartbreaking loss for Cucuta whose magical run to the Copa Libertadores final ended with a classy Riquelme fueling the...
Gunners charge for Florent Malouda
Lyon left winger, Florent Malouda could become the second signing of the season for Arsenal. It appears Liverpool’s bid...
Eddie Johnson disappears again
Tentative. That is the word to describe the US, especially in the second half. I think Bob Bradley needs...
David Villa – bicycle kick
David Villa scored twice – the second a spectacular bicycle kick – to take Spain to a 2-0 win...
Owl holds up a soccer game..
An owl held up play for 6 minutes in Finland’s Euro qualifier against Belgium.It landed on the field and...