Mourning for their loss
The names and photographs of the players from the team who died can be viewed here… The plane crashed...
Monthly Archives: November 2016
Brazilian football team tragedy
A plane carrying 81 people,which included team members of the Chapecoense team crashed on its approach to the city...
Danish Coach shows off super ball control
Silkeborg head coach Peter Sorensen demonstrates marvellous ball control to take down a wayward ball heading towards him on...
More mourning for Mourinho
Mourinho has more than one reason to be even a bit more mournful than usual.Manchester United played out their...
Chelsea end Tottenham’s unbeaten run
Chelsea have cruised to the top of the table with a 2 – 1 win over Tottenham Spurs.Conte will...
Ronaldo has changed gears
Ronaldo started the La Liga season rather sedately leading some to believe that he wasn’t going to that well...
Aguero Brace takes City past Burnley
Dean Marney scored a brilliant early goal for Burnley but Aguero’s double saw City home.They have slipped to second...
Bob Bradley gets a win – and how
Swansea and Crystal Palace played out the most improbable game of the season – which ended 5 – 4...
Rooney gets a record
Rooney scored in United’s 4 – 0 win over Feyenoord. He now has 39 European goals and broke Ruud...
Steven Gerrard calls it a day
Steven Gerrard called time on a 19 year career. What comes next for him? Coaching at Liverpool. Chatting with...
Puma put out Antonine Griezmann goal celebration Ad
Antoine Griezmann’s legendary Hotline Bling Goal Celebration has now been immortalized in a neat Ad by Puma
Arsenal let PSG away with a draw
Arsenal lost a golden opportunity to top the group when they let PSG come back from being 2 -1...
Messi sends Celtic home
Messi came back to Barcelona and scored both the goals against Celtic.It was always a forlorn kind of hope...
Dortmund and Legia Warsaw combine to create Champion’s League history
Borussia Dortmund and Legia Warsaw scored a ridiculously large number of goals in their Champion’s League clash and created...
Kane cannot work the magic twice
Harry Kane had pulled off a major miracle against West Ham just a couple of days ago.Tottenham were minutes...
Leicester’s run
Leicester City continued their remarkable run in the Champion’s League when they beat Club Bruges 2 -1 and entered...
Midweek bloopers
A couple of bloopers to keep us going as we get to the middle of the week. First here’s...
Klinsmann gets the boot
After 98 matches in charge of the US team – with a 56.12% win ratio Klinsmann has been told...
Puskas Award 2016 shortlist
Shortlist for FIFA Puskas Award 2016 Mario Gaspar (Spain) — 13.11.2015, Spain vs. England, international friendly Hlompho Kekana (South...
Ronaldo scores hat trick in Calderon curtain game
In the highly anticipated last La Liga game to be played in the Vicente Calderón stadium Ronaldo had the...
Toure is the comeback king
The soap opera episode involving Dimitri Seluk-Yaya Toure’s agent,Toure and Guardiola had a very happy ending for City yesterday.In...
Arsenal escape with a draw
Manchester United put up a vastly improved performance and should have won the match easily.However an 89th minute headed...
Feud Renewed
About an hour and a half left to go for Wenger to come face to face with his old...
4 – 0 so Klinsmann should go.
Costa Rica beat USA 4 – 0 on Tuesday and Klinsmann’s eleven are in last place with zero points...
Samba days are back again for Brazil
Tite’s triumphant reign continues.Brazil beat Peru 2 – 0 and not since qualifying for the 1970 World Cup have...
Alexis Sanchez scores a brilliant brace
Arsene Wenger had been holding his breath for awhile now because his star striker Sanchez was to play in...
England concede two late goals against Spain
After taking an early 2 – 0 lead and Jamie Vardy doing an awesome mannequin goal celebration England then...
Messi inspires Argentina to big win over Colombia
After enduring the ignominy and humiliation of that 3 – 0 loss to Brazil,Argentina desperately needed a win against...
Puyol’s Eleven
That’s the lineup that Puyol considers to be the most formidable set of players he has ever played against....
Ronaldo misses penalty,equals record
Not a record of missed penalties.He scored twice against Latvia yesterday – thereby drawing level with Robbie Keane and...
Mexico beat USA with last minute header
Highlights of Mexico’s dramatic win over USA when Captain Rafael Marquez headed in an 89th-minute winner in their 2018...
England,Scotland defy FIFA
England and Scotland played out their World Cup qualifier with arm bands bearing a poppy to remember armistice day...
Uruguay continue their impressive run
Uruguay extended their unbeaten run to four matches with a 2-1 win over Ecuador despite missing a few key...
Brazil thrash Argentina
Brazil made it 5 wins in 5 qualifying games with a 3 – 0 win over Argentina.Coutinho handed them...
Vincent Kompany’s dark thoughts…
…on the US Election results.. @VincentKompany not true, pep is our manager remember — Jamie (@McfcJamie_) November 9, 2016
Ronaldo commits his future to Real Madrid
Ronaldo is not going back to Manchester United.Not till the 30th of June 2021 anyway.His new contract,due to be...
Zlatan scores the 25,000th Premier League Goal
When Zlatan scored his first goal against Swansea yesterday it turned out that it was the 25,000th Premier League...
Arsenal and the November curse
At 1-0 up, Arsenal both blew the chance to beat their ancient rivals Tottenham Hotspur and the chance to...
Bob Bradley braces for a long hard winter
Bob Bradley,still searching for his first win with Swansea,has questioned his players’ commitment following their 3-1 home defeat by...
Liverpool go top with imperious win over Watford
The Watford manager, Walter Mazzarri, after seeing his team getting beaten 6 – 1 said that Liverpool was the...
Moyes gets a win at last
Sunderland got their first win of the season after coming from behind to win at Bournemouth. It was David...
Manchester City lose the top spot
City lost the opportunity of grabbing three points and remaining at the top of the EPL table.They have been...
Conte has transformed Chelsea into a fearsome force
Chelsea beat Everton 5 – 0 yesterday – their 5th victory in a row. In just 11 Premier League...
Bayern Munich have a “rubbish kit” for their next game.
Bayern Munich will play their next game against Hoffenheim in a kit made from recycled plastic found in the...
Goalie gets one year ban for throwing match
North Korean goalie Jang Paek Ho gives a not quite Oscar winning performance of a goalkeeper trying his best...
Fifa and England in ugly unnecessary row over poppies
Fifa and the football associations of England and Scotland have gotten into a scrap about whether it is legal...
The news gets worse for Mourinho
Plenty of bad news for Mourinho. Manchester United went down 2-1 to Fenerbahce in the Europa League. Moussa Sow...
Zlatan might be rethinking this
Current EPL standings Manchester United are holding on grimly to 8th spot. Sometimes it’s wise to mince words –...
Bale scores fastest Real Madrid C L goal ever
Gareth Bale celebrated his new contract with Real Madrid which makes him the highest paid player in the world...
Dortmund enter last 16 without Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Borussia Dortmund,beat Sporting Lisbon to reach the last 16 of the Champions League even though their star stiker Pierre-Emerick...
Higuain both hero and villain in Lyon draw
Gonzalo Higuain played both Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in Juventus’ 1-1 draw against Lyon. He heroically scored off...
Legia Warsaw come back from 2 goal deficit
Why does C R look so sad ? After winning the first leg against Legia Warsaw 5 -1 it...
Is Mourinho unravelling?
When Mourinho was banished from the touchline in Manchester United’s frenetic 0- 0 draw against Burnley he looked pretty...
Ozil magic
A moment of magic from Ozil in the second half ensured that Arsenal qualified for the knockout stages of...