Maradona: The telenovela: Hoopla
Diego Maradona landed in Scotland just before Wednesday’s game and with a curt “I don’t speak English” blew by...
Category: Soccer History
Sinisa Ubiparipovic: Ubiquitous now, you be the judge
Sinisa Ubiparipovic should now be worth more than his $33,000 annual salary. One of the standouts in NY’s historic...
Dema Kovalenko is not a happy camper
The man best known for ending Brandon Pollard’s career shows no love for his former coach, Juan Carlos Osorio....
What’s Eleanor Rigby got to do with this ?
Running this past everyone again.It seems that Eleanor Rigby may have been found at long last.She may have been...
Man City: Mark Hughes wants cojones
Jones puts a crimp on Gazza Man City is in the midst of collective player angst and Elano adds...
Maradona: The telenovela begins: Resignation
Now it is Oscar Ruggeri. Maradona wants the former Boca defender and 1986 team mate as his assistant. Ruggeri,...
Steve Bruce: “We’ve had our backsides kicked.”
These statements should be treated as a conspiracy against Arsenal to lull them to sleep. How many opposing managers...
Audacity of hope: The US will win the World Cup
Today, in the longest time, the US will get to that mountain top.
Arsenal: The recurring morning afters
I suspect we are in for many morning afters. It was Stoke this time. We are getting to the...
Can Kansas City pull it off?
The hottest team in the MLS is without Josh Wolff but Claudio Lopez is peaking at the right time....
Soccer’s upper echelons: Despots and dementia
Marca’s cover morphs Sir Alex into the Franco of Manchester Man Utd boss Sir Alex Ferguson came off the...
2010 World Cup: Afro-pessimism rears its head?
An old and deep rooted fear was stoked by a SA minister promoting the World Cup at the Beijing...
Arsenal continue to leak open field goals
Arsenal: 22 goals for, 10 against This draw was not caused by a lack of height, Arsenal has been...
Spurs vs Arsenal: What just happened?
88 minutes: Arsenal leading Spurs 4-2 seemingly coasting along and then the whole world falls apart as Arsenal implode...
Maradona the manager is not a good choice
If Maradona can take Boca out of their current neurosis and put them on top of the table, I...
FC Barcelona targets Miami expansion
FC Barcelona signed CAA Sports, the agency that represents David Beckham and Fredrik Ljungberg to represent the club in...
Charlton Athletic: Dubai faces financial woes of its own
The reasons Zabeel Investments gave for not pursuing the Addicks were concerns regarding foreign ownership and the economic downturn...
Eduardo to be back for Arsenal duty
I have to hand it to Eduardo and his rehab team that have made this early return possible. In...
Spurs: There is no shame losing to Udinese
The bottom ranked team in the EPL loses to the second ranked Serie team. Udinese reminds one of what...
Sepp Blatter’s presidency is literally a wreck
Last Saturday afternoon FIFA president Sepp Blatter, 72, roared out of an Alpine mountain tunnel in his £100,000 luxurious...
Video: CL: Arsenal 5 Fenerbahce 2
Fenerhaçe – Arsenal (Şampiyonlar Ligi) 2-5Uploaded by TuRkMaTriX It was a goal fest as Adebayor, Walcott, Diaby, Song, and...
Shinawatra’s conviction shows the EPL in a poor light
Some decisions for the EPL following the Shinawatra sentence. Since the proper and fit test applies only to convicted...
Wenger meets Aragones amidst a past controversy
An Aragones statement caught on camera calling Thierry Henry a “black s**t” to Jose Antonio Reyes four years ago...
A team in turmoil: Canada dumped out of the World Cup
Not a very good Thanksgiving for Canadian soccer fans. Canada lost to Honduras, 1-3 and their World Camp campaign...
The financial crisis and the FA: An interesting convergence
Hank Paulson announced yesterday that distressed banks would undergo partial nationalization by the US government taking equity ownership. A...
Video: The US crush Cuba, 6-1
The US cruise into the final round of World Cup qualifying as Beasley (2), Donovan, Ching, Altidore, and Onyewu...
The credit crisis hits West Ham
Iceland moved closer to national bankruptcy as its highly leveraged banks reel from defaulting loans and failed investments. For...
The credit crisis spreads to the EPL: Hull City an exception
The most overt sign is the vanishing shirt sponsorship. However the more troubling effect of the credit crisis is...
Rod Liddle’s take on Sol Campbell slagging
The Yids have been on Sol Campbell’s case with an added edge. Their club’s terrible start compounded by their...
Another Man Utd alumnus fails against the real guv’nor
Add Paul Ince to the roster of Man U alumni who have failed in their bid to put one...
The class of 1976
Some of the best known names in soccer were born that year in September. Simon Kuper has more on...
The world has gone mad: Styles to continue officiating
Remember this from last season: Chelsea vs Liverpool Not good news for Spurs who are scraping the bottom of...
Possebon’s injury shows not much has changed
How quickly Sir Alex forgets. On Possebon’s injury. ‘You don’t want to see things like that and I hope...
Ethiopia kicked out of WC qualifiers
FIFA again punishes a national team by intruding into a local federation affair. The general assembly of the Ethiopian...
Newcastle to be Bill Gates latest philanthropic endeavour
If he buys it will be under the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to improve the fans health in...
Gillett and Hicks should go
With Thaksin Shinawatra having acceded Man City for a minority stake, Mike Ashley keen to sell Newcastle of to...
Hleb’s Barca career grinds to a halt
It has been a frustrating Barca season so far. They ground out another draw against Racing Santander in a...
Round one to Chelsea
Man City’s new paymasters live here In the match that shall be known as the filthy rich clubs with...
Walcott helps Arsenal blank Blackburn
Arsenal made the return up north to face a team that has posed so many problems in the past....
The US club vs country debate is a false equivalence
I read Shaka Hislop’s article on the emerging club vs country debate that the US faces. At this point...
Jack Warner and Dwight Yorke get some Roy Keane love
Oy. Roy Keane gets tetchy, very tetchy. A lot of this has to do with Jack Warner’s unsavoury reputation.
Big Phil is a hypocrite
Ah! Big Phil is not above playing mind games. And he does come off as a hypocrite. Just before...
In which Russell Brand tries the unified field theory
Football (the real deal) aka soccer is what the US does not get. And US politics is what the...
Gianfranco Zola installed as Hammers coach
Zola’s face is a cartoonist’s dream Chelsea’s greatest player is now West Ham’s manager. What does he bring to...
Something smells rotten in Newcastle
Does this scenario even look remotely plausible? Kevin Keegan agreeing to becoming a club’s manager on the condition that...
Mark Hughes is incongruous in the new Man City
Less than two months ago, Mark Hughes was the manager of Blackburn, a team with players more at ease...
Flamini’s replacement: Gokhan Inler?
Wenger has made signing a central midfielder to complement Cesc Fabregas a priority. With Flamini’s departure, the team has...
Brandi Chastain: Geographer
Brandi Chastain: “We have to remember. New Zealand is a small island in the middle of the ocean, so...
Beijing Olympics: An old nemesis rears its head
I just saw Hope Solo and Lisa Chalupny, in a tentative moment, make the first big mistake as both...
Lakshmi Mittal in a bid for Everton
Everton opened itself up further to sale speculation contingent on government approval of its new 50,000 seat stadium. There...
Beijing Olympics: Suck up that smog
It appears that the sky over Beijing has cleared up to some extent and there is some optimism that...
David Bentley wants to stick it to Arsenal
Bentley, an Arsenal product did not leave on the happiest of terms as he could not break into Arsenal’s...
Deep thought: FIFA’s presidency should be term limited
In its 104 year existence, FIFA has had 8 presidents. The last two, Joao Havelange and Sepp Blatter have...
Deep thought: Robbie Keane is the answer to Liverpool’s title hopes
Hmmmm. Eighteen years since they won their last title. Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler, Emile Heskey, Milan Baros, Luis Garcia,...