Drogba arrives in Canada
Canadian fans turned up in large numbers to welcome an Ivorian legend to their country. Didier Drogba’s move to...
Category: Soccer Hall of Fame
Iker Casillas’ unheralded exit
He has been one of Real Madrid’s greatest goalkeepers ever – part of the teams that won the league...
Goalkeeper blooper of the year.
There comes a time in every goalkeeper’s life when he wants to bury his head in the ground. For...
Ronaldo and Nike on the will to succeed.
Ronaldo on what it takes to get where he’s got.
New York City – Club for Legends
With Lampard,Pirlo and David Villa in the team -NYC FC is the club where footballing legends are gathering in...
Drogba Remembers
Drogba has a chat with Rio Ferdinand on BT Sports about Champion’s Leagues gone by and the good old...
CR7 has a galaxy named after him..
Astronomers using the European Space Organisation’s Very Large Telescope have discovered by far the brightest galaxy yet found in...
Marta makes new World Cup record
Marta scored her 15th Women’s World Cup goal to become the top scorer in tournament’s history. Brazil beat S...
Barca’s 5th Symphony – treble clef
Goals from Ivan Rakitić,Suarez and Neymar for Barcelona got them their 5th Champion’s League title. Buffon was magnificient in...
The science behind Messi’s goal…
ESPN does a scientific analysis of Messi’s first goal against Athletic Bilbao the other day. Take a look.. The...
The journey of Luis Suarez..
Luis Suarez has played for teams that have won the Uruguayan league, the Dutch Cup, the English League Cup...
Barcelona Xavi Tribute
Barcelona released this tribute to their departing legend Xavi …
Blatter Resigns!
Bye, bye Sepp Blatter. In news that came from nowhere, embattled FIFA head Sepp Blatter resigned his post with...
Messi’s greatest goal ?
Messi scored another impossibly super goal to add to the list of his greatest goals. Barcelona beat Athletic Bilbao...
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.”...
Oscar wins Chelsea goal of the season
Diego Costa has one more reason to prowl around with a look of baffled fury. Oscar won the Chelsea...
Lampard scores one final goal
Lampard scored the second goal in City’s 2- 0 win over Sunderland in their final game of the season...
Aguero gets the boot
Sergio Aguero won the Barclay Premier League’s Golden Boot award after finishing the season with 26 goals for Manchester...
Liverpool lose 6 -1 in Steven Gerrard’s farewell game
Among all the farewells to various legends that have piled up this weekend Steven Gerrard’s will be the most...
Drogba says farewell to Chelsea
Another Club another legend another goodbye. Didier Drogba played his last game for Chelsea today against Sunderland. Drogba was...
Farewell Xavi
The farewell we had been dreading came upon us at last.Xavi Hernandez bade farewell to the fans at Camp...
Sadio Mane scores fastest EPL hat trick ever
Southampton forward Sadio Mane made Premier League history by scoring the fastest-ever hat trick in just 2 minutes and...
Adidas: Goodbye to a legend
” You always remember your first, but no one ever talks about their last.The last time you lace up...
Time to say goodbye….
Steven Gerrard says goodbye to Liverpool at last.His last game as a Liverpool player will be against Crystal Palace...
Fan footage of Messi’s Superb second goal..
Messi bamboozles Boateng. One of his greatest goals ever.. Best goal ever ?? Then what about these…. Manuel Almunia...
The Messi show…
Messi scored the fastest brace in Champion’s League history overtaking Ronaldo for highest number of Champion’s League goals in...
Adidas invent the future of football – the smart ball
Adidas present a football that sends information in real time regarding its speed,spin,strike point and flight path after it...
Steven Gerrard gets a bit of luck
Between slipping at the worst possible time and getting red carded within 45 seconds Steven Gerrard hasn’t been having...
Beckham turns 40
Beckham has long been the torchbearer for English football,style icon,one sometimes much admired and sometimes much pilloried depending on...
Another Ronaldo Record
Ronaldo became the first player ever to score 50 goals in a season in 5 consecutive seasons. The next...
The Incredible Sulk
Alvaro Arbeloa scored his first La Liga goal in over five...
The end is nigh.
‘Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann” is a quotation in Gaelic which I believe translates to “The likes of...
Zlatan scores 100 goals for PSG
Zlatan Ibrahimovic became a centurion for PSG when he scored a penalty against St Etienne in the French Cup....
Zlatan gets his own search engine..
Zlatan, believe it or not, has got his very own search engine which you can use to search for...
Daniel Nadales – The human Koala
CD Cuarte is a team in the Spanish fourth tier based in Cuarte de Huerva, in the autonomous community...
Fastest Dribbler in the World
The fastest dribbler in the world is Gareth Bale according to a study carried out by Mexican club Pachuca....
Gibraltar Policeman makes history
Meet Lee Casciaro – the first football player from Gibraltar to score a goal in a Euro qualifier.Casciaro is...
Guess who’s overtaken Ronaldo?
Not just Messi. Olivier Giroud’s two goals against Newcastle United took him past Cristiano Ronaldo in the scoring charts...
Hat Trick Harry
Harry Kane scored his first Premier League hat-trick and Tottenham Hotspur beat Leicester City 4 -3 in a chaotic...
Zlatan gets spoonerised
Zlatan will not be in the best of moods these days. His red card against Chelsea means that he...
Vitolo scores fastest Europa goal ever..
Ismael Blanco 2009 Europa record of 15.19 seconds was eclipsed by Sevilla winger Vitolo. The new Europa record for...
Pep talk from Adidas
One making football a career. “Do it because you love it.” Can’t argue with that.
Messi does it again
Barcelona are back on top of the La Liga and Messi has scored another hat trick. Luis Suarez and...
Bayern Munich celebrate their 115th anniversary
And they crowned their anniversary celebrations with a 4 -1 win over Cologne
BBC reporter interviews Tommy Lawrence by mistake.
Tommy Lawrence is a former professional footballer who was goalkeeper for Liverpool and Tranmere Rovers in the 1950’s through...
Happy Birthday Ronaldo
C Ron turns a venerable 30 years old today. Here’s a video on FATV of a goal he scored...
Ochoa’s at it again…
Guillermo Ochoa pulled off a quality reflex save against Atletic Bilboa in the second leg of...
Drogba nets FWA award.
Drogba hails Thierry Henry and Mourniho hails Drogba. Plenty of hailing going round here.
Eric Cantona and Sgt Peppers lonely hearts club band.
It was twenty years ago today that Sgt Peppers taught his band to play. And it’s also twenty years...
Messi 340 out of 340
Lionel Messi scored his 30th hat trick at Deportivo La Coruna. It’s also 340 goals in 340 games for...
Ronaldo makes it a hat trick of Ballon d’Ors
The Ballon d’Or went to the player who wanted,needed,deserved it the most.Ronaldo polled 37.6% of the votes.Messi was pretty...
And the Fallon d’Floor Award goes to…
While we wait with bated breath for the Ballon d’Or winner to be declared,the Fallon d’Floor winner has already...