What’s in a boot ?
Plenty. It’s all very well for Shakespeare to have said that a shoe by any other name would have...
Category: Soccer Culture
Mumbai Slum Kids win Football Scholarships
Kumar,Sunil Sitaram and Sunil are heading off from the slums of mumbai to a brighter future thanks to scholarships...
Remembering Nagasaki
Japanese J-League side V-Varen Nagasaki designed two special kits to commemorate the 70th anniversary of atomic bombing of the...
Jorge Mendes gets his own island too
Island owners Leonardo DiCaprio,Johnny Depp,Richard Branson etc have an ursurper in their midst. Cristiano Ronaldo gave a wedding present...
Cristiano Ronaldo doesn’t care an eff about FIFA and ends CNN interview
Cristiano Ronaldo was promoting a range of headphones in Las Vegas when he was interviewed by Andres Oppenheimer of...
A brief history of soccer by Case Jernigan
Case Jerningan’s latest creation is called a brief history of soccer. Others here…
Jose Mourinho is giving Donald Trump a run for his money
Jose Mourinho was essentially run out of Real Madrid because in part, in his fevered imagination he was the...
Ebola survivors form soccer club and find respect
A nice, short, feel good documentary about Erison, an Ebola survivor in Sierre Leone and his group finding respect...
Iker Casillas banished from Real Madrid to Porto
When is a transfer not a transfer? When the club’s CEO is Florentino Perez, who runs Real Madrid. The...
WWC 2015: The USA score a pyrrhic victory over short handed Colombia
Jill Ellis may take a two zero victory over 28th ranked Colombia. However for those who actually follow the...
FC United of Manchester: Not for glory, not for money, for the love of the game
FC United of Manchester – Club with a Capital C by Copa90 “Its testament to what people power can...
WWC 2015: The USA past group stage are now final favourites
The USA haven’t exactly inspired with their football. Short of ideas against a bright, attacking Australia in the first...
WWC 2015: Hope Solo will not be suspended because goalies win World Cups
The parade of NFL players exiled from the league grows as officials takes a very dim view of those...
Spotlight: Jerome Valcke, FIFA’s bribery facilitator and Night’s Watch to Sepp Blatter
Jerome Valcke, to use a GOT analogy is Night’s Watch to Sepp Blatter Jerome Valcke, the FIFA secretary general...
David Cameron’s club appoints Slaven Bilic as coach
Will Bilic strike a chord with the Hammers? Take that Nigel Farage. Eastern Europeans are welcome. Yes, West Ham’s...
FIFA hits new low: Jack Warner investigated for appropriating Haiti Earthquake money for personal gain
“About that money, Jack, do you want it to be called legacy or infrastructure?” Sepp Blatter is going to...
FIFA Sexism: Women’s Games Not Worth Grass
We’re all so disgusted with FIFA, but this is ridiculous. The women’s game is not worth grass. Now how...
Jackie Charlton – Peacemaker
It was Jack Charlton who showed up at the England-Ireland match to calm things down and play “peacemaker.” The...
Here’s the $$$!
When you have this kind of money at stake, you’re going to have to be super-transparent. Otherwise it’s an...
Whistleblowers revealing Sepp Blatter’s “show me the money” fuel his resignation
Sepp Blatter’s abrupt departure a day after he was elected was not an altruistic move done for the good...
Blatter Resigns!
Bye, bye Sepp Blatter. In news that came from nowhere, embattled FIFA head Sepp Blatter resigned his post with...
Hamburg win high drama relegation game
Hamburg,by the skin of their teeth,maintained their record of being the only Bundesliga club that has never been relegated...
Sepp Blatter Destroys Football: What We Can Do About it
Sick of FIFA? Sick of Sepp Blatter? I am. And here are two things I’m going to do...
FAIR PLAY!
FIFA – Sepp Blatter’s “fair play” doctrine…
Step Down, Sepp!
Wishful thinking? I think it’s time we decided that we will boycott FIFA and the World Cup – as...
BOOM! The FIFA sting begins. Blatter up next?
It’s not an accident that the second keyword phrase when you look up “FIFA” in Google is “FIFA corruption.”...
Fabregas gets the last red card of the season
Chelsea after winning the title were beaten 3 -0 by West Brom during the course of which Cesc Fabregas...
Boca Juniors v/s River Plate game called off..
Four River Plate players were taken to hospital after being sprayed with what was either pepper spray or something...
ESPN documentary on Blatter
ESPN present this documentary on Blatter as he rides on in triumph towards what will be his fifth term...
Gerard Pique shows off his awesome collection of swapped shirts
Gerard Pique posted this photo on Twitter showing off some of the football shirts he has collected over the...
Platini tells Blatter its time to go…
Michel Platini became president of UEFA for the third time in a row and immediately made his opinion on...
Monaco Fallout: Should Wenger be sacked ?
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Farewell, Steven Gerrard!
The Liverpool and former England Captain has announced he will leave the Reds at the end of the season....
Happy 2015 from Soccerblog
New year resolutions …. ….. and the Old year summed up very neatly…
Boxing day Commemoration
On the night before Christmas things are traditionally supposed to be pretty quiet as far as football games go...
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...
Happy Halloween
Soccerblog wishes everyone a Happy Halloween. Here are some examples of folks getting into the spirit of things ..
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...
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...
Cain Hoy Enterprises withdraw Spurs takeover interest: Links to plantation era, Michael Milken, and BP Amoco
The Gullah lived in Cain Hoy, South Carolina. Cain Hoy Enterprises, LLC ended their Spurs takeover interest. A day...
Solksjaer departs Cardiff: Tony Pulis is seen as favourite to replace him
Tony Pulis looks like a firm favourite to join Cardiff Ole Gunner Solksjaer, the source of so many get...
The Four Towers: A novel set around Real Madrid’s 2011 locker room leaks
Relax. The Four Towers is not Gandalf seeing double. Although from what one gathers there are evil Sauron like...
Fernando Torres finally leaves Chelsea on loan to AC Milan
“I scored a goal? Did I? I’m not sure.” Fernando Torres’s 46 goals for Chelsea cost them £1.1m per...
Bollywood and Indian cricketing legends behind new Indian Super League
In Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, a Bollywood fluff piece made circa 2006, Abhishek Bachchan plays Rikki, a Chelsea fan and...
Sepp Blatter will continue as FIFA emperor as Platini bows out
“Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him.” In Sepp...
Howard Webb says it’s time…
….for him to call it a day.He has put away his collection of red and yellow cards is all...
Eid Mubarak
Soccerblog wishes all our readers Eid Mubarak Peace.
EPL teams heading for the USA
At least Four top teams from the English Premier League are...
The Round of 16: The Illustrations of Alvan Sirlin
Alvar Sirlin is an illustrator based in New York. His illustrations capture the beautiful game in ways photography just...
Soccer Art: “The Day the Samba Died”
“The Day the Samba Died” (acrylic on canvas) 12″ X 24″ – “the painting commemorates the end of jogo...
Revealed at last: How the Germans Prepare for the Big Game
Neuer and Muller get revved up for the Finals. It’s a three step process: Step 1: Don the lederhosen...
Bye Bye Brazil
Without Thiago Silva, this is what Brazil’s defense looked like: Scolari’s team is finished. The question for Brazil is...
The Future of Ball Design
The future of ball design according to Pratt Institute Architecture Professor and designer Haresh Lalvani:
Can Croatia Shock Brazil?
The Croatian team manager Niko Kovac thinks so. With two Brazilians on the Croatian team along with the soccer...