Video: Baraja goal ensures likely Juande Ramos exit
Link: Real lost to Valencia, 0-3 on the heels of their most humiliating loss at the Bernabeu in 38...
Monthly Archives: May 2009
The 5 most infuriating players in the Premiership
These players are central to their clubs fortunes but they always manage to live in the twilight zone with...
Video:Ronaldo and the blaze of glory
Ronaldo was involved in a blaze of glory recently.His team Corinthians completed an aggregate victory over Santos and...
Iniesta deja vu
It turns out that this wasn’t the first time that Andres Iniesta scored a last-gasp winning goal against Chelsea.In...
SPL’s hand forced by Setanta’s crucial exposure
Setanta is now negotiating a lower contract for the TV rights to the SPL matches as a way of...
Mohammed Bin Hammam gifted a birthday present
Sepp Blatter sent his legal team to ensure that the elections to the FIFA executive committee went off smoothly...
More ways of looking at Ballack chasing the ref…
…while the debate continues…
Politics poison Asian football on election day
An Arabic metaphor is misunderstood by South Korean football officials and sets the tone for the poisonous state of...
Bendtner does some product placement
Nicklas Bendtner has a wardrobe malfunction and is very contrite. Armani will be very happy. Arsene and Arsenal not...
Video: Hamburg’s comedy of errors guides Werder to UEFA final
Link: The Frank Baumann winner was a comedy of errors as Michael Gravgaard’s clearance hits a piece of debris...
Video: Ilsinho’s gem takes Shakhtar to the UEFA final
Link: A beauty of a goal. Iniesta’s superb strike broke Chelsea’s heart in the 93rd minute and became the...
Drogba apologizes: Norway calls him a sissy
The Norwegians are not taking this too kindly. Today, Drogba’s apology was posted on the Chelsea website. “I was...
Ballack goes for the ref…
The Norwegian referee Tom Henning Ovrebo had to change his hotel in secret and has had to be smuggled...
Memories of Andres Frisk
In the first leg of a 2005 second round match against Barca, the referee Andres Frisk sent off Drogba,...
Video: Drogba might face a ban till Christmas
If Hiddink was looking for a graceful exit back to Russian national team duties, he is not going to...
Burnham’s most controversial proposal is not new
The NFL has been revenue sharing for decades and because of it American football has become the most highly...
Rudo y Cursi: Two brothers, destiny, and a soccer match
The hit of the Tribeca Film Festival opens May 8th and follows Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal as...
Adebayor in damage control mode
Adebayor was virtually non-existent in the CL semi-finals. His lackadaisical performance was roundly panned (its not just Arsenal fans...
Iniesta, a heavenly goal!
The Spanish media reacts.
Chelsea were a bunch of petulant spoilsports
Drogba’s eyes zone on the ground, his best friend all night Drogba spent a lot of times flopping and...
Video: Barca vs Chelsea: The sublime and the ridiculous
Link: Link: Chelsea lost a heartbreaker in the 93rd minute due to a fabulous Iniesta strike. The aggregate was...
The morning after: The view from the bottom up
The reaction is varied: Arseblog: “My solution is simple and it’s something I’ve said all season long: Arsene needs...
How not to celebrate a goal
If Barcelona do beat Chelsea tonight here’s one goal celebration technique they need to avoid.
Video: The whole horror show: Man Utd v Arsenal: 3- 1
Link: I feel very badly for Gibbs. He looked so gutted. Almunia was a trifle too late in reacting...
Arsenal: The longest 80 minutes
It was all over in 11 minutes. It must have been bewildering and frightening to find the team down...
Emirates: Turn up the volume!
Arsenal v Manchester United UEFA Champions League Tuesday, May 05, 2009, 19:45 Go Gunners! An appeal to all the...
Didier Deschamps installed at Marseille
A familiar face returns to Marseille. Deschamps was part of the Bernard Tapie revolution of the late 80s and...
Video: Juninho primer
The look of terror on the goalie’s face at 1:34 is priceless. For Juninho’s free kicks refer to the...
End of the road for Juninho?
This may not be a familiar sight anymore As Juninho rose, Lyon did too. The Brazilian is now at...
Finally! Arsenal wins silverware!
The ladies. So don’t get your knickers in a twist. They are the best in the land and have...
Liverpool still in the hunt…
Benitez is waiting for not one but two mistakes that Man U is supposedly going to make..: “Manchester United...
Video:Best own goal of the year ….
In the Turkish league crossbars can be a goalkeeper’s deadliest foe.Kayserispor goalkeeper Souleymanou Hamidou learned this bitter lesson in...
Maurice Edu gains Walter Smith’s confidence
Edu played all 90 minutes in Rangers win against Hearts this weekend. The former Toronto FC man is relishing...
Villa close out Hull: Relegation looms large
The weekend misery for all the drop zone clubs continued with Hull losing to Villa after John Carew scored...
Franck Ribery: Man with long scar much wanted
What is Man U using? AIG bailout money? Ribery is definitely not worth £63m. Great on and off the...
Arsenal: Its time to play, not for board room politics
Arseblog has more on the war brewing between Usmanov’s Red and White Holdings (the dark forces) and the Stan...
For Arsenal to be effective, Nasri has to define the left
The big dance is tomorrow. Arsenal finds out whether they can pull off what will be one of their...
Florentino Perez jumps the shark, umpteenth edition
Florentino Perez declares May 14 as the day Real football was saved. His signing wish list include Kaka, Cesc,...
Thierry Henry may miss the CL second leg
Thierry Henry suffered a knee injury during the Real match and is likely to miss the second leg against...
Alan Shearer is no Gary Megson
Good read. I have always wondered why Newcastle resorts to inspirational figures in its past to pull its way...
Top ten things that can happen with Klinsi out of Bayern
– Replace Bruce Arena at the Galaxy and get them to win two games, back to back. – A...
Add Sunderland to those unable to create daylight
The upper echelon had its way with the lower echelon. There were no spoilers this weekend. It got bleaker...
False equivalence
After the Chelsea’s win over Fulham, the English media indulges in some false equivalence to try and take the...
Video: Arsenal gets it done against Pompey
Link: 9+ minutes video. Good stuff from mostly the youth squad. Carlos Vela getting his first goal in the...
Premiership: Bad news weekend for drop zone clubs
Its been all bad news for drop zone clubs this weekend. Stoke started it off by losing to the...
Freddie Ljungberg sighting
Tyrone Marshall half volley jab of a Ljungberg corner scored a late equalizer for Seattle against the Fire. The...
Its Bruce Arena over Robert Warzycha
With the Barca vs Real El Clasico, the world comes to an end. But the real news is that...
Deep thought: Where are you, Bernd Schuster?
It seems like aeons ago, that Real won the title but it was just last season and the coach...
Video: The most painful defeat in Real’s history
Link: Anish’s video of Barca vs Real has been posted below. But we can’t get enough of how Barca...
Barca and Chelsea warm up with wins..
Barca gave Real Madrid a 6 – 2 mauling in the Spanish League. And in the English League Chelsea...
Stan Kroenke is recession proof
Stan Kroenke will not be denied. As his Colorado Rapids muddle along, Stan Kroenke upped his stakes yet again...
Video:Fergie gets mad at a bus…
Turns out it wasn’t a balloon he was chasing but a bus…!
Swine flu leaves Mexican stadiums empty
Hector Reynosa of Club Gualdajara uses Sebastian Penco of Chile’s Everton as a spittoon. The Chilean media saw this...
5 things Chelsea need to do…
“How can you prepare to play against a man who doesn’t even know what he is going to do...