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Monthly Archives: December 2014
Who will win the Fallon d’Floor award ?
The Ballon D’Or ceremony will be staged in January and Cristiano Ronaldo is the most likely winner. Lionel Messi,Manuel...
And the Globe Soccer Award 2014 goes to….
Cue Roll of Drums….
Rodgers halts the slide
Liverpool registered their biggest win since beating Tottenham 4 -0 in march – putting 4 past Swansea and conceding...
Manchester City fall short of Club record…
Manuel Pellegrini ponders the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Manchester City were chasing a club record of 10...
Mourinho claims conspiracy
Southampton held Chelsea to a 1 -1 draw during the course of which Fabregas was given a yellow card...
West Ham can’t stop Arsenal
Arsenal’s injury depleted team are getting there. Only goal difference is keeping them out of the Champions League places....
Boxing day Commemoration
On the night before Christmas things are traditionally supposed to be pretty quiet as far as football games go...
Sterling matchwinner again
Raheem Sterling grabbed a goal out of nowhere in a game that until then had seemed to be going...
Wenger joins Fergie in the 400 club
Arsenal’s win over QPR made Wenger the second manager in EPL history to win 400 games. Ferguson who totalled...
Olivier Giroud does a Zidane
Olivier Giroud suffered an unusual rush of blood and got a red card for doing a Zidane on QPR...
West Ham fall to Chelsea
West Ham were full of joy to the world when they started the game against Chelsea. Fourth place in...
City and United post identical wins on Boxing Day
Van Gaal’s United chalked up their 8th consecutive win. Newcastle were at the...
West Ham Christmas Poem
Sam Allardyce has taken West Ham from the relegation end of the table into the top four .A Christmas...
Soccerblog wishes everyone a Merry Christmas
And here are a few bloopers created by Arsenal to watch while you wait for Santa Claus to arrive...
Not the season to be jolly for Zlatan
Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter has found itself at the receiving end of the not inconsiderable ire of a deeply...
Wenger on why Arsenal let in that injury time goal…
His defenders don’t talk.
Fabulous Fabregas
Fabregas and John Terry gave Mourinho the perfect Christmas present.A goal each against a belligerent Stoke City side ensured...
Martin Skrtel scores injury time equaliser for Liverpool
What will add insult to the injury that Wenger will feel at the injury time equaliser is the fact...
Suarez breaks La Liga duck
Image of Suarez apparently biting his hand with glee at finally scoring a La Liga goal.Pedro,Pique and Messi were...
Falcao returns
Christian Benteke put Aston Villa ahead but the returning Falcao scored the all important equaliser off a pass from...
Bayern Munich break their own record.
What I thought was the final game of the year was apparently only the semi final game of the...
Cricketing legends battle it out in the inaugural finals
What are two cricketing legends – Saurav ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar – doing on a blog dedicated to soccer...
Sterling sets up clash with Chelsea
Two goals from Rahim Sterling and another from Markovic gave Liverpool victory and Bournemouth their first loss in 13...
Bayern Munich say a Psychedelic goodbye for the winter
Bayern Munich predictably won their final game of 2014 – which turned out to be a 2-0 win over...
Chelsea enter semi – finals..
Chelsea defeated Derby County 3-1 at Pride Park to secure a place in the Capital One Cup semi-finals.
Barcelona 8 Huesca 1
Barcelona thumped Huesca 8-1 on Tuesday to cakewalk into the next stage of the Copa del Rey. The aggregate...
Brendan Rodgers – the end in sight ?
Liverpool has plummeted spectacularly from the loftiest heights to the lowliest low.The team that came tantalisingly close to winning...
Everton prepare for Christmas by telling terrible jokes..
This has nothing to do with the smile on Wenger’s face. Everton players tell each other bad Christmas jokes...
The smile is back on Wenger’s face..
Arsenal came back into attack mode and the 4-1 win over Newcastle made it their fifth win in six...
Lampard’s brilliant form continues…
Frank Lampard’s Premier League days seemed to be over after he signed off from Chelsea after 13 years of...
Chelsea remain steady on course..
Chelsea held off a tigerish Hull City and remain steady on course at the top of the table with...
CR on course for new Pichichi record
The Pichichi trophy is an annual trophy awarded by Spanish newspaper Marca in memory of Athletic Bilbao striker Rafael...
How long does it take to score an own goal?
Forever….. Trabzonspor’s goalie Fatih OzturkLegia got fed up of all the foostering around going on around his goalmouth and...
Chelsea outclass Sporting Lisbon 3 – 1
Cesc Fabregas, Andre Schurrle and John Obi Mikel sent Sporting Lisbon into the Europa League.
Barcelona beat PSG 3 – 1
Zlatan Ibrahimovic took PSG ahead after 15 minutes but Lionel Messi equalised and took his CL goal tally to...
Manchester City defy odds – go through
Manchester City – without Vincent Kompany,Yaya Toure and Aguero qualified for the Champions League last 16 for a second...
Real Madrid sets yet another record
Ronaldo is in such incredibly good form these days that he breaks records before he even breaks into a...
Galatasaray outgunned..
Arsenal beat Galatasaray 4 -1 to get into the last 16 of the C League- but ending up as...
Neymar goes for a ride
Neymar teams up with world rally champion Sebastien Ogier to become a rally co-driver for a day.
Manchester United go third…
Two goals from Van Persie .Utd beat Southampton 2 -1 and are now third in the standings but are...
Messi and Ronaldo in the battle for Hat Tricks
Messi matched Ronaldo hat trick for hat trick when he scored 3 in Barcelona’s 5 – 1 win over...
23 hat trick record
Ronaldo scored a record-breaking 23rd Primera División hat-trick while Real Madrid equalled the Spanish record of 18 successive victories...
Zlatan double
Zlatan’s imperious double helped Paris St Germain beat Nantes 2-1 and go to the top of the table… PSG...
100 goals for Ribery
Franck Ribéry bares his teeth like Luis Suarez after scoring his 100th goal for Bayern Munich.They go 7 points...
City win but lose Aguero
Manchester City kept their lead with a 1 – 0 Toure (soft) penalty win over Everton. The bad news...
Arsenal miss chance to catch up with Chelsea
Chelsea’s 2 -1 defeat at Newcastle had reignited the faint hope of Arsenal coming back into the title race.That...
Messi the movie…
The official trailer..
Chelsea come unstuck at St James Park
Chelsea’s unbeaten record went down the drain when Newcastle beat them 2 -1 – Papiss Cisse scoring both goals...
Arsenal have highest number of injured players..
A visual of how the teams compare with regard to the number of walking wounded at this stage of...
Blatter washes his hands..
Sepp Blatter said that FIFA was not responsible for the welfare of migrant workers building World Cup stadiums in...
Sanchez -14 goals in 18 games
Sanchez was saviour for Arsenal last night when he scored the crucial winner in the 89th minute.
Chelsea stay in the lead
Tottenham haven’t beaten Chelsea at home for the last 24 years and they did not beat them last night...