Premiership rosters: The top four from 2005-2006
Arsenal Ins Tomas Rosicky B Dortmund, £6.8m; Alexandre Song Billong Bastia, undisclosed Outs Robert Pires Villarreal, free; Sol Campbell...
Category: Soccer Culture
Craig Bellamy and a healthy Robbie Fowler: The Liverpool firepower that they need
Top goal scorers: 2005- 2006 season Scorer Goals Team Thierry Henry 27 Arsenal F.C. Ruud van Nistelrooy 21 Manchester...
Premiership predictions: Liverpool tops, Aston Villa improves dramatically
Today’s FA Community Shield Championship should have gone someways in answering who will contend for the top title. Liverpool...
How Chelsea is ruining the game?
The number of players that Chelsea has given away at a loss to the club is obscene. It is...
Stock markets crash on the uncertain future of metrosexuality
Stock markets crashed on the announcement that Steve McLaren had dropped David Beckham from the English squad and his...
Video: MLS All Stars vs Chelsea, 1-0
Chelsea’s Mikel John Obi in action. The Blues were not very impressive and the MLS showed nice bits of...
Video: Nigerian superstars: Aiyegbeni Yakubu
Middlesborough striker Yakubu scores and the Blues suffer again. Just get all these Nigerian strikers together and Chelsea will...
Video: Nigerian superstars: Nwankwo Kanu
Arsenal’s Kanu scoring his hat trick over Chelsea and much much more!
Video: Nigerian superstars: Sunday Oliseh
Piledriver!
Is Bayern missing Michael Ballack?
Roy Makaay, Bayern Munich striker Not really. The Bundesliga season began with Bayern shutting out Dortmund 2-0, with Roy...
Video: Ali G gets it on with Posh and Becks
Funny, funny, funny! Becks was a good sport but you could see Posh was struggling a bit. She looked...
David Beckham: The decline and fall of metrosexuality
I hope it is over. Can I go and wallow in my body odour without feeling like I have...
Hollywood calling the Beckhams: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
David Beckham and Tom Cruise are good buddies “Having my baby.” Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have unveiled their...
Its curtains for David Beckham
There was no way a sane manager was going to take David Beckham back into the team to play...
The rise of Maggie Thatcher: The decline in England’s football fortunes
The only good thing that came out of the Margaret Thatcher and Ronnie Raygun lovefest in the 1970’s across...
Guus Hiddink’s biggest challenge: Russian indifference
Melancholy is a big part of the Russian nature. It is a theme that runs deep in Russian literature,...
Video: Goodbye, David Beckham! Time to bring Aaron Lennon
Steve McLaren and Terry Venables should be unsentimental: Bring Aaron Lennon in. He deserves a full 90 minutes. Lets...
Arsenal bludgeons Dinamo Zagreb, 3-0
Arsenal stayed on course for the European Championship beating Dinamo Zagreb through Van Persie’s goal, and a pair by...
Franck Ribery’s song: Tombes des Nues by Zebda
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Video: Ri- be- ry, Ri- be- ry, Ri- be- ry!!
Check this piece of fancy footwork by Ribery. This is the year Arsenal gets it all back from the...
Franck Ribery to Arsenal; Gallas too?
This is a great bit of news for the Gunners. Ribery has been snapped up by Wenger for £13.5m...
Video: Pele’s nightmare before there were cards
These were the ’70s before there were cards for the sort of stuff you’ll see on this video. The...
Video: The legend that was Garrincha
Jaw dropping stuff! As Eduardo Galeano writes, “There never was a right winger like him. In the ’58 World...
Video: In which Spurs legend Jimmy Greaves becomes a hero
Spurs legend Greavesie gets dribbled on by a dog, an incident that so amuses Garrincha, that he takes it...
Frank Lampard misses with this one too
What is with these football players? All of them seem to be in self confessional mode. A book by...
Thaksin Shinawatra: Remember me, Liverpool FC!
Writing the article about Liverpool’s finances reminded me of those days when everyone was going nuts about the reported...
Womens World Cup 2007: Testesterone involved
It’s all that testesterone, Brandi! Scientific studies have shown that competitive sports increase testesterone levels in men. This is...
Liverpool FC: In performance far more than its monies worth
Liverpool is the most storied English football club there is with 18 League titles and 5 European Championships. Of...
Does country size have anything to do with soccer prowess?
Perusing the list of largest countries in the world, one is struck by the fact that very few of...
ANC faultlines: Jacob Zuma, the GINI coefficient, and South Africa 2010
Jacob Zuma, ANC deputy president (L); Thabo Mbeki, SA’s president (R) The ongoing trial of Jacob Zuma, former deputy...
Why this might be Tottenham’s year with Robbie Keane and Edgar Davids?
Keano played his best football the second part of the season for the Spurs. He is one of the...
FIFA’s 17 Commandments for South Africa 2010
SOUTH AFRICA has given world soccer body Fifa 17 guarantees as part of the contract to host the 2010...
Is Alex Ferguson throwing it all away?
Arsenal, Tottenham, and Liverpool have consolidated their clubs and there does not seem to be much interest in getting...
Reggie Rockstone celebrates the Black Stars
Reggie Rockstone, the singer who originated Ghanian hip hop also called hiplife was so moved by the performance of...
Kwame Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and the Black Stars
Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president and Rev. Martin Luther King No story on football in Africa can be...
Soccer, we turn our lonely eyes at you!
Barry Bonds, Floyd Landis, and now Justin Gatlin. When does fact end and when does fiction begin? I am...
Video: Ashley Cole: Tackles and goals.
Great tackles, great goals. All round the best left back. But lets not forget he is not Arsenal and...
Another offer: Jurgen Klinsmann to coach Aston Villa?
Randy Lerner’s bid to buy Aston Villa seemed to be slim to none a few days ago. Apparently, Douglas...
Why are Chelsea players running away from the club?
An observation: The record money that Chelsea offers a club can buy its players but it does not buy...
The Middle East morass: Soccer could play a way out
I don’t think the Middle East has any organized tournament on any sport that I know of. A tournament...
Martin O’Neill: The plaintalking coach with the Midas touch
“Nobody Knows Anything” His most recent work as a pundit on BBC has been met with praise from supporters...
Sol Campbell to Marseille? Man U in for a Ruud shock
Marseille have shown a great deal of interest in Sol Campbell. Amongst French clubs, Marseille ranks below Lyons, FC...
Aston Villa: Arab sheikhs, NFL barons, and Sven-ile dementia
Roman Abramovich flew over the London skies three years ago, looking down at the empty playing fields of Chelsea,...
Belgium’s long shadow in international soccer: Bosman and Charleroi
Belgium is hardly considered a powerhouse in world soccer, let alone European soccer. Their cupboard is quite bare of...
South Africa insists it is on track with the 2010 World Cup
As Germany claims its due pride in hosting a successful World Cup 2006, our memories will fade as our...
Round up from Germany: Ruud to join Bayern?
It has been a bit quiet after the excitement of the World Cup. Sometimes its hard to say that...
Video: Thierry Henry on his mates, Dennis, Sol, and Freddie
Henry on Sol. “Just natural strength.”
Thanks for all those great years, Sol-man!
I am really disappointed with Chiza’s cheap dismissal of Sol Campbell. The man was Mr Defender for Arsenal and...
Kenny Sansom: Arsenal left back and England’s most capped defender
Some of this Curtis Davies transfer talk reminds me of the Kenny Sansom transfer from Crystal Palace to Arsenal...
Video: Players with a conscience: Part 2, Pavel Nedved
Pavel Nedved showed that he can still play the game this World Cup. He has decided to stay on...
Video: Players with a conscience: Part 1 Alessandro Del Piero
Del Piero stays with Juventus in good times and bad times. A compilation of his great moments.
Sol Campbell leaves Arsenal: Good bye and good riddance!
Ashley Cole has no conscience, he just wants more money but now Sol is leaving Arsenal’s new home too....
Juve is really hurting
With all the top flight players leaving Juve for La Liga or other clubs in Serie, it will get...
Alessandro Del Piero: A player of the old school
We saw Dennis Bergkamp retire after 11 years with Arsenal. As remarked before, this is increasingly becoming a rarity...