Video: Wolfsburg gets back on track beating Borussia
Link: Wolfsburg bounced back from the Stuttgart drubbing last weekend. It was the Dzeko- Grafite combine yet again which...
Category: Soccer History
Adriano and Ronaldo missing on opening day
Tim Vickery, passionate follower of Brazil’s hallowed sport, observes that some big time players were MIA on opening day...
Berlusconi shuts the door on Ancelotti
Carlo Ancelotti is probably going to come to Chelsea after all. He can play coy. The fact is that...
Will Juergen Klopp finally win one over Felix Magath?
The most fascinating league this season has huge matches today and tomorrow with huge implications. Three top clubs meet...
Barca maybe without Iniesta for the CL final
Looks like a steady procession of injured and suspended players is complicating Pep Guardiola’s preparation for the Cl final....
Ivan Campo is looking for a club
The long time Bolton midfielder who joined Ipswich Town in 2008 was released by Roy Keane. Ipswich ended its...
Video: Joseba Llorente sends Barca into despair
Link: Barca was comfortably on its way to a win and the title but Villareal fought back to draw...
Qwest and BMO attendances are propping up the MLS
The Sounders and Toronto FC are filling their stadiums to capacity. Their combined attendances contribute to little more than...
Goal Anxiety Syndrome: Walcott has it
Against Chelsea, Walcott had about 6 shots on goal. 3 clear chances, only one which was saved by Cech,...
Arsenal: A familiar scene plays out
Arsene Wenger and Pat Rice have that familiar pinched look on their faces. All that beautiful possession from Fabregas...
Hiddink has words of advice for Wenger
Chelsea meet Arsenal at the Emirates. Two clubs licking their wounds. Nothing materially changes with a result but there...
Video: Rangers win Old Firm rivalry
Link: Maurice Edu’s team wins the most celebrated derby in the world and goes two up on their rivals....
The 5 most infuriating players in the Premiership
These players are central to their clubs fortunes but they always manage to live in the twilight zone with...
Iniesta deja vu
It turns out that this wasn’t the first time that Andres Iniesta scored a last-gasp winning goal against Chelsea.In...
SPL’s hand forced by Setanta’s crucial exposure
Setanta is now negotiating a lower contract for the TV rights to the SPL matches as a way of...
Politics poison Asian football on election day
An Arabic metaphor is misunderstood by South Korean football officials and sets the tone for the poisonous state of...
Video: Hamburg’s comedy of errors guides Werder to UEFA final
Link: The Frank Baumann winner was a comedy of errors as Michael Gravgaard’s clearance hits a piece of debris...
Drogba apologizes: Norway calls him a sissy
The Norwegians are not taking this too kindly. Today, Drogba’s apology was posted on the Chelsea website. “I was...
Memories of Andres Frisk
In the first leg of a 2005 second round match against Barca, the referee Andres Frisk sent off Drogba,...
Video: Drogba might face a ban till Christmas
If Hiddink was looking for a graceful exit back to Russian national team duties, he is not going to...
Burnham’s most controversial proposal is not new
The NFL has been revenue sharing for decades and because of it American football has become the most highly...
Rudo y Cursi: Two brothers, destiny, and a soccer match
The hit of the Tribeca Film Festival opens May 8th and follows Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal as...
Adebayor in damage control mode
Adebayor was virtually non-existent in the CL semi-finals. His lackadaisical performance was roundly panned (its not just Arsenal fans...
Chelsea were a bunch of petulant spoilsports
Drogba’s eyes zone on the ground, his best friend all night Drogba spent a lot of times flopping and...
Video: Barca vs Chelsea: The sublime and the ridiculous
Link: Link: Chelsea lost a heartbreaker in the 93rd minute due to a fabulous Iniesta strike. The aggregate was...
The morning after: The view from the bottom up
The reaction is varied: Arseblog: “My solution is simple and it’s something I’ve said all season long: Arsene needs...
Video: The whole horror show: Man Utd v Arsenal: 3- 1
Link: I feel very badly for Gibbs. He looked so gutted. Almunia was a trifle too late in reacting...
Arsenal: The longest 80 minutes
It was all over in 11 minutes. It must have been bewildering and frightening to find the team down...
Emirates: Turn up the volume!
Arsenal v Manchester United UEFA Champions League Tuesday, May 05, 2009, 19:45 Go Gunners! An appeal to all the...
Didier Deschamps installed at Marseille
A familiar face returns to Marseille. Deschamps was part of the Bernard Tapie revolution of the late 80s and...
Finally! Arsenal wins silverware!
The ladies. So don’t get your knickers in a twist. They are the best in the land and have...
Maurice Edu gains Walter Smith’s confidence
Edu played all 90 minutes in Rangers win against Hearts this weekend. The former Toronto FC man is relishing...
Villa close out Hull: Relegation looms large
The weekend misery for all the drop zone clubs continued with Hull losing to Villa after John Carew scored...
Franck Ribery: Man with long scar much wanted
What is Man U using? AIG bailout money? Ribery is definitely not worth £63m. Great on and off the...
Arsenal: Its time to play, not for board room politics
Arseblog has more on the war brewing between Usmanov’s Red and White Holdings (the dark forces) and the Stan...
Alan Shearer is no Gary Megson
Good read. I have always wondered why Newcastle resorts to inspirational figures in its past to pull its way...
Add Sunderland to those unable to create daylight
The upper echelon had its way with the lower echelon. There were no spoilers this weekend. It got bleaker...
False equivalence
After the Chelsea’s win over Fulham, the English media indulges in some false equivalence to try and take the...
Video: Arsenal gets it done against Pompey
Link: 9+ minutes video. Good stuff from mostly the youth squad. Carlos Vela getting his first goal in the...
Freddie Ljungberg sighting
Tyrone Marshall half volley jab of a Ljungberg corner scored a late equalizer for Seattle against the Fire. The...
Its Bruce Arena over Robert Warzycha
With the Barca vs Real El Clasico, the world comes to an end. But the real news is that...
Video: The most painful defeat in Real’s history
Link: Anish’s video of Barca vs Real has been posted below. But we can’t get enough of how Barca...
Asian Football Confederation: Mutiny in the air
Mohammed Bin Hammam, AFC president is thumbing his nose at FIFA directives that reinstate the voting rights of five...
Video: Arsenal: Where was the defense?
Link: Timid. The first 25 minutes were a self appeasing display of tackles being missed, players left unmarked, passing...
Bundesliga: Non-stop action!
Its all happening in the Bundesliga. Minnows are mowing down mammoths. Wolfsburg falls. As does Hamburg. Bayern’s loss to...
Klinsi out, Jupp Heynckes in
Der Kaiser, Hoeness, Rummenigge, Breitner, Breitnigge Its all over for Klinsmann. “After the results of recent weeks the management...
Howard Webb and Gomes sink Spurs
An atrocious piece of refereeing by Webb and atrocious goalkeeping from Gomes keep Spurs from scoring their first win...
Klinsi is a victim of Bayern’s dissociated personalities
Klinsi is in deep, deep trouble. With the loss to Schalke, Bayern slips to third and is now in...
Outcasts United: A Refugee team, An American Town
Remember Warren St John’s article in the NYT about soccer being played by immigrant children of families resettled from...
Spurs could do Liverpool a world of good
Spurs travel to Old Trafford to take on Man U. They have been in good form against the top...
Adriano will join Flamengo
Lest we believe Ellen Cardoso will pay for Adriano’s caipirinhas. He does want to get back to playing soccer...
Scholes ready to make his 600th appearance
Paul Scholes plays for a personal milestone as Man U takes on Portsmouth. Scholes ranks fourth in all time...
Ljungberg’s growing pains in Seattle
Freddie Ljungberg’s rocking first start resulted in a goal that continued the Seattle Sounders red hot streak. They have...
Everything you ever wanted to know about a football..
The history of soccer balls starting from 1963 when Adidas first thought it would be a good idea to...