City and United come together..
Ex Man Utd and City players Vidic and Balotelli remind us of the historic rivalry between these two regional...
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Kerala Blasters blast off at last..
The Opening season of the Indian Super League is nearing the halfway mark and the sleeping giant that is...
Happy Halloween
Soccerblog wishes everyone a Happy Halloween. Here are some examples of folks getting into the spirit of things ..
Manchester City have a singing parrot
Move over Billy Mccaw. Billy could dance on the bar,play the pastoral flute and the moley guitar but it...
Ancelotti wishes Blatter would shut up..
Carlo Ancelotti joins the swelling multitude of people who wish every day that Blatter would shut up…! This after...
Pelle scores a beauty.
Pele will be pleased with this goal his namesake (with one extra l) -Graziano Pelle...
Manuel Neuer has wanderlust…
Manuel Neuer has goalkeeper schizophrenia.He is one of the best goalkeepers in the world. He won Fifa’s Golden Glove...
Moussa Sissoko slices City defence
Moussa Sissoko scoring the second goal in the Newcastle’s 2- 0 win over Manchester City
Newcastle dump City out of Capital One Cup..
City’s game sequence has been draw-loss-loss in their past three matches. So they head into the el clasico against...
The Russians reveal the FIFA 2018 World Cup Symbol
The official emblem of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia was unveiled in an unusual manner. Cosmonauts at...
Anelka makes dreadful debut
Nicolas Anelka returned to football only to see his team Mumbai FC getting beat 5-1 by Chennaiyin in the...
Finally…!
Balotelli finally did some long awaited Super Mario stuff for Liverpool. They were looking to be on the brink...
Chelsea struggle against Shrewsbury
Chelsea had to work very hard to eke out a victory against Shrewsbury to get to the the quarter-finals...
Ballon D’or 2014 – 23 man shortlist
Bale,Benzema,Di Maria,Iniesta,Diego Costa,Gotze,Hazard,Manuel and Lahm.. Ibra,Messi,Pogba,Mascherano,Muller,Neymar,Manuel,Ramos and Robben….. James,schweinsteiger,Toure,Ronaldo and thibaut courtois… The Front Runner… Conspicuous by absence…...
Video evidence of Mourinho not having the last laugh..
His reaction to Van Persie’s last gasp goal for Manchester United….. And more bad news...
Arsenal legend Roberto Pires banned for two matches in the ISL
The All India Football Federation came down hard on FC Goa and Atletico De Kolkata as their ill tempered...
Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa shot dead
Senzo Meyiwa, the captain and goalkeeper of the South African team was shot dead by while trying to stop...
Higuain hat trick
Inter Milan struggling at 9th place in the Serie A table got something to cheer about when Gonzalo Higuain...
Van Gaal has the last laugh
Van Persie gave Manchester United a 94th minute equaliser after Chelsea had gone ahead through a superb Didier Drogba...
Alexis Sanchez’s success lies in not sublimating to Arsenal’s collective
One can only hope Alexis Sanchez’s individualistic and opportunistic streak is not swallowed whole by the Soviet style collectivism...
Sunderland make it 10 goals in two games.
That’s 10 goals conceded in two games.Sunderland’s defensive howlers continue.Alexix Sanchez collected a Wes Brown’s back pass to score...
West Ham beat City 2 -1
Diafro Sakho scored for his sixth consecutive Premier League match, the first time a West Ham player has achieved...
El Clasico turns out to be a bit of a damp squib
The much anticipated return of Luis Suarez El Classico ended up a pretty one sided affair.Barcelona got an early...
League of the Unbeatables
For the first time in history Bayern Munich,1899...
Who’s the funniest of them all ?- in the Chelsea dressing room
Well Lampard going off to play for Manchester City is definitely not funny. But Cesc Fabregas votes Diego Costa...
Eric Lamela wonder goal – better than Marc Janko’s ?
And as Marc Janko was scoring his wonder goal down in Australia Eric Lamela pulled off a brilliantly executed...
Marc Janko wonder goal- better than Ronaldo’s ?
Shortly after Cristiano Ronaldo scored his wonder goal against Liverpool Marc Janko opened his...
Real Madrid outclass Liverpool
Real Madrid were a class apart.Ronaldo scored an Anfield wonder goal. Benzema got the other two. Balotelli remains a...
Soccerblog wishes everyone a Happy Diwali
May the festival of light bring light where there is darkness..
Why would Mario Balotelli swap jerseys with alleged racist Pepe?
This writer remembers Andre Santos sidling up to Robin Van Persie just before the half time to exchange jerseys....
A rabbit pulls Arsenal out against Anderlecht
The Arsenal conundrum Laurent Koscielny can’t come back soon enough. Nacho Monreal without any of Koscielny’s physicality and speed...
Bayern Munich destroy Roma
Bayern Munich scored five goals in the first 36 minutes and went on to beat Roma 7-1. Bayern Munich...
Neymar and Messi are getting to be a lethal combination…
Ajax were at the receiving end of the Neymar- Messi combination which is getting better all the time. They...
Chelsea celebrate Diwali with a huge win over NK Maribor
Chelsea recorded their biggest CL win with a 6 – 0 win over NK Maribor during the course of...
Manchester United’s defending woes continue
West Brom made Manchester United work very hard.This was the 6th away game that Utd played this season and...
Atletico Madrid close the gap
Defending Champions Atletico Madrid moved back to within five points of La Liga leaders Barcelona with a 2-0 win...
Swansea done in by dodgy penalty decision
The Swansea manager, Garry Monk was livid with referee Michael Oliver for giving a penalty when Stoke City’s Victor...
Indian Footballer dies as goal celebration goes wrong…
23 year old Peter Biaksangzuala played for a club called Bethlehem Vengthlang FC in the Mizoram Premier League up...
Liverpool beat QPR in crazy last 3 minutes
Four goals were scored in the last 3 minutes of the game. Liverpool took the lead early in the...
Sunderland sundered 8 – 0
Southampton score their biggest victory over Sunderland for nearly a century. Sunderland have an unforgettable game. The goalscoring glut...
Arsenal salvage a draw against Hull amidst a familiar litany of errors
There is a certain grimness swallowing Arsenal’s fixtures. The inevitability of a letdown despite all the craft and industry...
3,4 ,5 ,6,….goals to zero
The teams which have beaten their opponents 3- 0, 4 -0, 5 – 0 and 6 – 0 are...
Aguero scores all four
Manchester City demolished Tottenham Hotspur 4 – 0 and Kun Aguero did all the demolishing all by himself.
Fikru Teferra scores brilliant goal in Indian Super League..
Fikru Teferra scored this brilliant goal for Atletico Kolkata against Northeast United yesterday. The brilliant lobbed assist came from...
Mourinho hands out handshake related compliments..
José Mourinho dishes out some backhanded compliments to Roy Keane and Paul Lambert, “I appreciate the comments. I think...
Derry City suffer most dramatic collapse…
when a wooden bench on which they were sitting on – collapsed – thereby producing this very interesting team...
Guardiola hates Tiki Taka
Yes you heard correctly. That’s what the man said. He also called it “rubbish” and “pointless.” When you have...
Why Nigeria is a lot like Germany these days …
The German Team is a pale shadow of the team that won the World Cup. And like the Germans...
Ivory Coast upset by DR Congo
DR Congo denied a Drogba less Ivory Coast early qualification to the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations after a...
Juergen Klinsmann’s tactics might be the problem, not the MLS
So would you like to be a big fish in a small pond or a little fish in a...
The Northern end of Ireland are also rejoicing…
The Republic are rejoicing because they held the mighty germans to a 1- 1 draw and Northern Ireland have...
Barca legend’s scribbled contract makes it the famous serviette in history
“In Barcelona, on the 14th of December of 2000 and in the presence of Josep Minguella and Horacio ,...
European clubs could demand payoff if 2022 Qatar World Cup is held in winter
The 2022 Qatar World Cup vanity project everyone except Sepp Blatter, FIFA, and the Qatari royal family want to...
Ronaldo comes good for Portugal at last
Cristiano Ronaldo is the first athlete in the world to have a 100 million facebook fans. And he finally...