Wenger has a point: Arsenal are the most booked team
I may have been a bit too quick to condemn Arsene Wenger’s sense of martyrdom as there are some...
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Andrew Jennings: Sepp Blatter’s shell games continue
Sepp Blatter is upto his old tricks with his willing accomplice FIFA’s vice president Jack Warner. At stake are...
Other leagues show less disparity
Lets look at the other leagues and find where the Premiership stands. The Serie clubs have played a couple...
Goal differential: A tale of two Premierships
The big four Premiership clubs walk away with the lions share of the revenues filling their already swollen coffers...
Video: Steve Nash shows soccer moxie
Why do I get this strange feeling that Steve Nash might do more to promote soccer in this country...
Steve Nash, NBA All Star: Soccer mad and potential Spurs owner
Steve Nash, Phoenix Suns star trains with NY Red Bulls Steve Nash, the Phoenix Suns point guard, perennial All...
Wenger’s martyr mentality is taking a toll
I am a great supporter of Arsene Wenger and I find his commitment to nurturing Arsenal’s young players a...
Video: A closer look at OM’s Samir Nasri
Born in Marseille just like Marseille’s favourite son Zinedine Zidane as well as sharing Algerian ancestry, it is inevitable...
Video: OM’s Samir Nasri vs Franck Ribery
Now you see why Wenger wants this duo in Arsenal. He has to fight off Milan and Real to...
Jack Kachkar: Olympique Marseille’s new owner
Jack Kachkar, L’OMs new owner L’ OM’s fortunes have been on the wane for over a decade since Bernard...
Cricket fades as the West Indies takes to soccer
Every four years we have cricket’s version of the World Cup and this year the West Indies is hosting...
Who wants to bet against Liverpool now?
We called it foolhardy when Rafa Benitez sent his squad a week before the game against Barca in the...
Drogba’s award sells African soccer short
A bow to the Premiership and its selling power as it rules the roost in global viewership. But if...
Drogba’s Goals
and I still say offside on the first goal 🙂
Dimitar Berbatov: White hot in White Hart
Dimitar Berbatov is the tour de force in the Spurs attack. As Robbie Keane and Mido play now you...
Premiership action: Shootout at the Fantasy Factory
Shootout at the Fantasy Factory was a 1973 Traffic album but it could well describe the Premiership this weekend...
What a Game: Walcott Scores, Terry Out Cold, Drogba Scores Twice, Players Brawl, 3 Red Cards, Chelsea Take the Cup
Another bizarre game, but this time it’s for the silverware. Drogba shows why he’s class by saving Chelsea’s behind....
Video: Ali G interviews Posh and Becks
Oldie but goodie. Posh comes off as far more feisty than Becks.
Eurocentric bias: Blatter and FIFA overstep in Kenya ban
Sepp Blatter is a political animal. His FIFA career has been an orchestration of lining up votes, doling out...
West Ham left dead in the water
Alan Curbishley vs Alan Pardew in the clash of the 500 lbs gorillas and it is Curbs left with...
Brazil, Where have You Gone?
That’s what I think when I see this: Is it time to think past Dunga yet? And now Ronaldinho...
Kenya’s FIFA impasse continues
With virtually no soccer being played in their country because of the FIFA suspension, Kenyan players have left to...
Gazza to star in sci-fi horror movie
You’ll soon see Gazza in movie halls in a sci-fi horror movie called Final Run. And no, its title...
British soccer hardmen pale in comparison
Craig Bellamy has impulse control issues, Lee Bowyer is a racist thug, Vinnie Jones enforces by squeezing sensitive body...
Video: David Villa’s bender against Inter
C1 Inter-Valence :1-1 Villa 21/02/07Uploaded by Luca_Toni Villa’s magnificent freekick restores parity for Valencia
Video: Bellamy to Riise, Liverpool 2 Barca 1
Riise 1 – 2 – Barcelona v LiverpoolUploaded by samgoff Bellamy assisted Riise in Liverpool’s second goal as the...
Video: Bellamy’s goal against Barca
Bellamy 1 – 1 – Barcelona v LiverpoolUploaded by samgoff Victor Valdes backs up into his own goal inexplicably....
Video: The fastest recorded shot
Sporting Lisbon’s Brazilian left-back Ronny Heberson, who rocketed in this free-kick against Naval in November 2006, reportedly from 16.5...
What would your Brazilian soccer name be?
Want to know what your name would be if you played for Brazil? Go to this website >> Nick...
Melbourne Victory’s victory: Global game, local connections
Archie Thompson and Fred, Victory’s deadly duo On Sunday, the Melbourne victory crushed Adelaide United, 6-0 at Telstra stadium...
Video: Jefferson Farfan, PSV Eindhoven star
Arsenal will be hoping that Farfan’s injury will keep him away from today’s Champions League match. The marauding left...
For your Champions League fix ……….
Lille v Man Utd Celtic v AC Milan PSV Eindhoven v Arsenal Real Madrid v Bayern Munich Barcelona v...
Video: Tomas Rosicky, Arsenal’s little gunner
Tomas Rosicky guns them goals directional bias or no directional bias.
Liverpool takes up golf under new owners
It seems under the new US owners, some players have taken up golf, except that they are not whacking...
Tomas Rosicky and directional bias
It happened once. Then it happened again. And when it happened a half dozen times it appeared to be...
Does soccer also have its ‘unproductive’ stars?
Marx addressed the issue of worker productivity and set into motion modern day labour laws. The ILO now records...
Zidane is moving to Chicago..?
Zidane is moving to Chicago Fire and not to the Red Bulls as rumoured about and joked about earlier....
Video: The Police at the Grammys
Police frontman, Sting is a staunch Newcastle supporter. He penned the lyrics to The Black and White Army (Bringing...
Video: Obafemi Martins vs Didier Drogba
Too early to compare him to Drogba but Martins is coming on nicely. So why not? Both are physically...
Obafemi Martins: The best transfer this season
When we look at players who have exploded on the Premiership in their first season and single handedly changed...
A T-shirt says it all
As floods (NY Times, subscription needed) ravage Mozambique, a poignant reminder, soccer as the global game. Beckham’s role in...
Arsenal a seriously certifiable team: Take your meds
Take a bow Arsenal. You make every other team in the Premiership look pedestrian. Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool may...
Video: Diego primer, Werder Bremen’s kingpin
Diego Ribas has turned around Werder Bremen’s fortunes with his playmaking abilities and his goalscoring. Take a dekko at...
Arsenal vs Bolton: Allardyce plays mindgames
Paul Jewell’s accusations of biased refereeing by Phil Dowd following Wigan’s loss to Arsenal and Henry’s pointed reminder to...
Dunga explains the shirt
Dunga explained recently that his controversial choice of touchline attire was partly an attempt to help his daughter, who...
In today’s India, soccer finds no place
India’s overheating economy along with China’s is the topic du jour nowadays in the global economy. Overnight, the IT...
The Serie defense is tops in goalscoring abilities
We have always known that the Serie has provided the best defenders in the world. But their defense also...
Schalke soccer shocker: Bayern is verklempt
Otto Hitzfeld’s boys are feeling some real pain and there is a sense of doom and gloom choking the...
Vikash Dhorasoo’s film at the Berlinale
Remember the controversial film that French midfielder Vikash Dhorasoo made that landed him in hot water with Raymond Domenech...
Long lines outside the San Siro
Ronaldo is back in business at the San Siro Long lines formed outside the San Siro, as security frisked...
Arsenal and the Colorado Rapids team up
Forbes reports that Arsenal made a bit of a reverse investment across the pond forming a business partnership with...
West Ham’s combined football IQ is 24
West Ham’s problem is not the lack of skill and talent. It has plenty of that, after all who...
With Gael Clichy who misses Cashley Cole?
Another edition of the scrappy vs finesse teams in the Premiership. Paul Jewell’s ploy of holding a high line...
Beckham stars in Total Recall
Move over Arnie. It is David Beckham who has been totally recalled and who will be riding back into...