How to trap a ball dropped from a very high place
Luis Suarez shows how it’s done. Messi stands by to remind you that this for the experts and not...
Monthly Archives: October 2016
The Balotelli Revival
Sounds like the title of a Ludlum novel. Super Mario Balotelli is continuing his remarkable career revival in France...
Ronaldo is smiling again
Ronaldo put his recent slump in goal scoring form behind him and went and scored a hat trick again....
Chelsea are back to being title contenders
Costa has scored 8 goals and Chelsea after beating Southampton 2 – 0 now have a run of four...
Leicester City rally to hold Spurs
Ahmed Musa was the first to score against Spurs from open play in ten games.After those traumatic collapses at...
Liverpool triumph in see saw thriller
Liverpool eventually beat Crystal Palace 4 – 2 but the margin of victory was not as convincing as it...
Heaton’s heroics keep United at bay
Burnley held out to a hugely entertaining 0 – 0 draw against Manchester United thanks largely to some incredible...
Manchester City end losing streak
Four more games would have made it 10 games in a row without a win. Four goals are what...
Sanchez makes it 50 goals for Arsenal
50 goals in 106 games and counting,with 8 goals in 14 games this season. He should have been on...
Giroud scores brilliant comeback brace
Giroud came on as a late sub against Sunderland and scored off his first touch. And then he scored...
Jose and the law
The long arm of the FA Law may catch up with Jose again – over his mutinous mutterings about...
Six
Six games in a row without a win for Pep as City lost 1 – 0 to Manchester United...
Best Scissor kick of the month
Nacho of Real Madrid – against Cultural Leonesa in the Copa del Rey yesterday.
Sturridge brace sees Liverpool past Tottenham Spurs
Sturridge hasn’t scored any Premier League goals in a while.It’s been six months and 615 minutes since he last...
Arsenal continue winning run in EFL Cup
More happiness for Wenger.He made nine changes from the team that drew with Middlesbrough and they still beat Reading...
What Mourinho really said to Antonio
Mourinho said something to Conte before exiting stage left after his 4 – 0 drubbing at Chelsea. Apparently he...
Ronaldo trailing in Pichichi race
It’s a long way to go to the end of the race yet – but C Ron has had...
Manchester City held by Southampton
The last time Guardiola has gone 5 games without a win – was a long time ago. After coming...
United disintegrate at Chelsea
Four – Zero. Not in his worst nightmares would Mourinho have imagined that result. The first goal came in...
What Wenger will say when he meets God
If God exists and one day I go up there and he will ask: ‘Do you want to come...
Pep on why he won’t change his coaching style.
..because he has won 21 titles playing that way. In 7 years. That’s three titles a year. And he’s...
Pogba comes good for United at last.
Paul Pogba scored two goals in 16 first-half minutes on Thursday against Fenerbahce in the Europa League, the second...
Arsenal hit Ludogorets for 6
Alexis Sanchez started things off with a brilliant chipped goal,Theo Walcott added another beauty and Ozil,having had enough of...
Leo Messi smashes hat trick against Manchester City
Manchester City -it turns out – are merely a work in progress. They got thumped 4 – 0 by...
Buffon rises to new levels of brilliance
Buffon played the game of his life to keep Juventus from going down to Lyon, Superhuman reflexes.He saved Alexandre...
Leicester City top their C L group
Leicester City are keeping their best for the Champion’s League.Riyad Mahrez struck a first-half winner for to beat Copenhagen...
United – Liverpool play out the most boring game of the season.
More of a #DeadMonday this…#LIVMUN pic.twitter.com/e7ZV6FompI — Eurosport UK (@Eurosport_UK) October 17, 2016 There are some who say that...
Brilliant backheel assist
Spectacular back heel assist by Nathaniel Chalobah in Chelsea’s 3 – 0 win over Leicester City. He’s made a...
Arsenal hang in there against Swansea to go to second place.
The Arsenal Swansea game was a bit of a historic affair,with Bob Bradley being the first ever American manager...
Real Madrid beat up Real Betis
Real Madrid ended a run of four matches without a win by beating Real Betis 6-1 in LaLiga.They are...
Messi returns,scores in three minutes
Lionel Messi scored within three minutes of returning to action for the first time in more than three weeks...
Everton hold Manchester City to draw
Heroic goalkeeping from Maarten Stekelenburg saw him keep out two penalty kicks and a host of other attempts at...
Foxes fall apart again
The EPL kicked in again after the international break and Leicester City got beaten 3 – 0 by Chelsea.Diego...
Maradona gets into a scrap in Match for Peace
Soccer legends such as Ronaldinho, Roberto Carlos,Veron,Totti,Maradona and others played an exhibition “Match for Peace“in Rome on wednesday. The...
Argentina miss Messi
Paraguay shocked Argentina 1 – 0 and the absence of Lionel Messi was keenly felt.Which begs the question -what...
Dull as ditchwater
The highlights of England’s ponderous 0- 0 draw against Slovenia are about as interesting as yonder picture of ditchwater...
Germany brush Northern Ireland aside
Germany are looking more formidable than ever as they notched up their third successive win.The northern end of Ireland...
Norwegian Commentators plunge into despair
Norway beat San Marino 4 -1 in their World Cup qualifier.However when the score was 1 – 0,San Marino,by...
Pogba scores winner against Holland
Paul Pogba took France past Holland with a goal struck from way out in the middle distance.The shot was...
Andre Silva scores first hat trick for Portugal
For a change Cristiano Ronaldo got left in the shade.Andre Silva bagged the limelight by scoring his first hat...
Christian Benteke scores fastest World Cup Qualifier goal
Benteke scored a goal in 8.1 seconds. Uefa said the goal was all of 0.2 seconds faster than the...
Omer Toprak scores unfortunate own goal for Turkey
Iceland continue their remarkable run that began in Euro 2016.They have never qualified for the World Cup before but...
Macedonia give Italy a good fright
Minnows Macedonia almost pulled off the World Cup qualifying shock of the century- but then managed to lose to...
Wes Hoolahan demonstrates the defence splitting pass
Since the last post was about Mesut Ozil and his skill in providing assists here’s an example of a...
Ozil finally gets an assist this season
Mesut Ozil had notched up 19 assists last season.He was just one short of Thierry Henry’s record of 20...
The writing on the wall
Rooney needs to get a new set of glasses – because he can’t read the writing on the wall....
Brazil back to their brilliant best.
Neymar ponders the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune after getting an elbow in the face in Brazil’s 5...
France hammer Bulgaria 4 – 1
Mihail Alexandrov scored an early penalty and Bulgaria were in the lead. It was to prove to be a...
Ronaldo goes on a scoring spree.
Ronaldo came back to the national side again and made up for lost time by scoring four goals against...
Wales hold Austria to a 2 -2 draw
Joe Allen’s third goal in as many games was a stunner of a volley. However after that Marko Arnautovic...
Iceland beat Finland with controversial last second goal
Iceland’s Ragnar Sigurdsson scored a controversial dying seconds goal to beat Finland 2 -2. Suspicion that he may have...
Italy ride their luck to hold Spain
Spain dominated the first half and Italy were pretty much outplayed.They were just lucky that Spain could not score...
USA to play Cuba again after 69 years
This friday is a bit more special than many other recent fridays. On Friday the 7th of October USA...
Gianni Infantino wants a 48 nation World Cup
Fifa president Gianni Infantino wants to take the number of teams taking part in the World Cup from the...