Benoit Assou Ekotto would have hated Lineker
Gary Lineker in his Guardian interview: “You’ve got no chance of reaching the top if you’re just playing for...
Category: Soccer Players
Richard Swarbrick’s animation of Gareth Bale
Richard Swarbrick’s imaginative animation leaves an indelible Rorschach of Gareth Bale striding like a colossus and tearing apart Inter.
Arsenal’s misery continues: United dump them out of FA Cup
Three down. Only the Premiership is left in Arsenal’s house of cards. And worse we will have to do...
Europa Cup: Liverpool fall to Braga
“To come away just one goal behind after the first-half performance is very fortunate,” said Dalglish. “While they didn’t...
Europa Cup: Sheva sighting in Kyiv’s win over City
Veteran Andriy Shevchenko, the former Milan and Chelsea striker showed quick thinking and quick feet to give Dynamo Kyiv...
Wenger sidetracks personal deficiencies to go after UEFA
In all of the furore surrounding Robin Van Persie’s dismissal by Massimo Busacca a simple truth seems to have...
The 4 second goal..
The game is between Narnese and Casa del Diavolo in the Eccellenza Umbria league last week..Narnese forward Michele Virgilio...
Barcelona’s quality bowls over ten man Arsenal
One can’t but wonder with Arsenal on the ropes, Nicklas Bendtner could have pulled off the most outrageous heist...
Eric Cantona’s ESPN interview
Interview with the football legend, film actor, political activist, and tangential philosopher waxing on his career, international football and...
Chelsea continue comeback against Blackpool
John Terry gets things going. Frank Lampard adds a brace. Jason Puncheon claimed a late consolation goal for Blackpool....
Champions League: Van Persie and Fabregas included for Barca
Barca’s two centre back stalwarts Carles Puyol and Gerard Pique out of the line up is heartening news. More...
Ahsan Ali Syed: Racing Santander’s Nigerian scamster
Ahsan Ali Syed, the man with a Midas touch who rode into Blackburn as their saviour until several financial...
Messi still never dives…
C Ron and Messi were tied on the number of the goals when I last checked.But here’ s some...
Ronaldo hat trick against Malaga
Three out of a total of 7 goals that were scored against Malaga
Issa Hayatou has to act immediately to ensure player safety
“All the protesters are taking Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” James Dorsey at www.mideastsoccer.blogspot.com alerts us to CAF...
Caroline Wozniacki sends Liverpool some love
The Danish tennis player is the world no.1 and she showed she’s also an ardent Reds supporter especially of...
Europa Cup: Liverpool overcome Sparta Prague
Steven Gerrard exults on the sidelines after Dirk Kuyt puts his head on the ball to give Liverpool a...
Europa Cup: Maurice Edu sighting as Rangers advance
Maurice Edu scored the decisive away goal as Rangers battled Sporting Lisbon to a draw. They move on to...
Qatar wants to add Man Utd feather to its World Cup cap?
Andy Green in a Guardian article thinks paying £1.5bn for Man Utd is too much. But it maybe a...
Europa Cup: Dzeko on target as City crush Aris Salonika
Edin Dzeko came up big with a brace against visiting Aris Saloniki. Yaya Toure added to the tally with...
With key injuries Wenger should concentrate on Barca return leg
Arsenal’s captain has a much worse prognosis than anticipated and could be out for three weeks. It is the...
Gerrard’s school bans the football
The management of Huyton’s Malvern Primary School in Merseyside has decided that exposing pupils to footballs during breaktimes is...
Arsenal play defence in Stoke victory
Theo Walcott was stretchered off with an ankle sprain which will keep him out of the Carling Cup final...
Drogba shows off some basketball moves..
Drogba and Cech are waiting to see the NBA match-up between the New Jersey Nets and the Toronto Raptors...
CL 1st leg: Benzema scores against his old club
Karim Benzema’s subdued celebration after scoring his first goal against his former club was at odds with the overwhelming...
Blackpool shake up Spurs, 3-1
Ian Holloway’s boys showed no slowing down in their quest for attractive and attacking football despite their history of...
CL 1st leg: Anelka brace sinks Copenhagen
Nicolas Anelka shows an older more ruthless streak as a finisher. Part of the problem playing in the slot...
Cristiano Ronaldo and Berlusconi: Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby!
Could we add Moroccan temptresses to the list of people bringing down autocrats? This time it is not in...
Rainieri resigns as Roma implode against Genoa
Manic depressive Roma implode again. Phillipe Mexes, Nicolas Burdisso, and Francesco Totti fire Roma into a seemingly unassailable 3-0...
Dani Aranzubia: Creates La Liga history
95th minute Deportivo de la Coruna is awarded a last gasp corner. The ball comes floating down and a...
UEFA: Gattuso faces a 4 match ban
For his exploits against Jim Jordan. Richly deserved.
Messi weaves through the crowd…
This should have ended in a penalty.Messi running zig zag through the Bilbao defence before finally being brought down…
FA Cup: Orient show pluck (and talent) against Arsenal
Full marks to Leyton Orient for pulling of an incredible draw. They reached the semifinals of the FA Cup...
FA Cup:Everton overcome Chelsea 4-3 on PKs
12+ minutes of highlights Cashley Cole skying his PK was extra icing for Gunner fans still recovering from the...
Gattuso’s racist defense is comical
Joe ‘Jaws’ Jordan: His bark worse than his bite? Joe Jordan pulled out the oldest trick in the playbook...
Onside
Video evidence that Messi was onside when he headed the ball into the goal yesterday…
Champions League: 1st leg: Arsenal 2 Barcelona 1
Highlights. Have at it till it lasts.
Arsenal show magnificent character against Barca
Whatever Arsene Wenger said at halftime seemed to work a charm. Arsenal’s bright start vaporized as Barca began painting...
Raheem Sterling makes it to the Liverpool squad
After his, pardon the ghastly pun,sterling performance in Liverpool’s 9 – 0 win over Southend in the FA youth...
Raul sparks Schalke comeback against Valencia
Raul during his Real career was responsible for scoring some big goals against Valencia. Only this time it was...
Nasri available for massive Barca encounter
Some good news for Gooners as in form Samir Nasri has been cleared to face Barca in their Emirates...
Gattuso headbutts Joe Jordan
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war. Rini Gattuso taking it to the fullest extent against Joe...
Which is better: Rooney or Alex Terra’s goal?
Wayne Rooney set the benchmark to beat for the best goal in the Premiership season. It clinched victory over...
What are your favourite Ronaldo moments?
The real Ronaldo, the player called O Fenomeno retired a day ago. In a nutmeg, he was brilliant. You...
Glenn Hoddle goes all Mandarin over Torres
Glenn Hoddle gets into some hot water with a Chinese aphorism. What is with these Sky Sports commentators? Open...
Crouch scores as Spurs shock Milan in late finish
Peter Crouch might have scored the goal but the architect was Aaron Lennon bursting forth leaving Mario Yepes sprawling...
Adebayor drives Mourinho to despair…
If there was a record for missing the maximum number of goal scoring opportunities in a game Adebayor was...
Rooney stars in “Escape to Victory”
Man Utd are the English team.Manchester City are the germans. Wayne Rooney is Pele.Very clever.Video available while it lasts.
The other scissor kick yesterday…
Van Persie’s first goal against Wolverhampton yesterday did not make the news.Nowhere near as spectacular as Rooney’s strike but...
What about Berbatov ?
Alex Ferguson said he’d never seen a goal like Rooney’s scissor kick yesterday. But Berbatov has been scoring off...
Rooney scores the goal of the season
Rooney scores a goal that is going to go down in legend and song.The perfect scissor kick.Goal of a...
Congratulations, Egypt!
There are very few moments so transcendental in a lifetime. Today is one of them as Hosni Mubarak stepped...
France are getting back to the way things used to be..
France won their fifth straight game under Laurent Blanc the latest win being over Brazil. Brazil were down to...