The VAR conundrum
The video assisted referee (VAR) system,introduced into the Confederations Cup,was meant to help refs to make good decisions. Take...
Category: Soccer Teams – National
Germany take the Confederations Cup too
Chile did everything possible to dominate the game except score.The only goal came against the run of play when...
Germany take the U 21 Euro Cup
Germany are on a roll.The senior team are in the Confederations Cup finals and the under 21 team have...
Penalty misery for England again
England lost the Euro Under 21 semi-finals to Germany on penalties.Painful memories of past penalty shootouts have resurfaced.England’s record...
Portugal exit Euro U21
Portugal have sadly crashed out of the U21 Euro competions – losing out by a one goal margin.They beat...
Ronaldo beats Russia in Russia
Portugal beat Russia 1 – 0 when Ronaldo,who’s in the form of his life,headed in about 8 minutes after...
Italy stumble in U21 Euro
Italy,who are in group C have a very bleak chance of reaching the semi-finals after a shock 3-1 defeat...
Germany breeze past Denmark in U21 Euro
Elsewhere Germany had a bit of a walk in the park against Denmark beating them 3-0 in Group C....
Young Three Lions doing well in U21 Euro
England are one win away from a place in the semis.They had a bit of scare when Slovakia took...
Spain continue to dazzle at the U21 Euro Competition
The Spain team of the future is looking as dynamic and unstoppable as their Tiki Taka senior team of...
FIFA introduce video referrals in the Confederations Cup
To avoid ghastly wrong decisions like England’s disallowed goal in World Cup 2010 FIFA are trying out the VAR...
Spain dazzles in the Under 21 Euro Championships
Marco Asensio scored a super hat-trick in Spain’s opening fixture against Macedonia who went down 5- 0 in the...
The Confederations Cup gets underway in Russia
The Confederations Cup started out life in 1992 as the King Fahd Cup.It was adopted by the FIFA in...
Messi – less Argentina drop to fifth place
Argentina lost 2 – 0 to Bolivia and are now fifth in the race to qualify for Russia 2018....
Southgate takes England one step closer
Jermain Defoe and Jamie Vardy scored a goal each against Lithuania and Gareth Southgate’s three lions are one step...
Ronaldo scores his 70th goal for Portugal
Ronaldo,who had been giving the impression while playing for Real Madrid of late,that he was declining in his goal...
USA’s World Cup hopes reignited
Bruce Arena has taken USA from their last game – which was a 4 – 0 loss to Costa...
Messi gives Argentina a much needed win
Argentina were facing the possibility of failing to qualify for a World Cup for the first time since 1970.However...
Paulinho scores hat trick against Uruguay
Brazil’s success story after the sacking of Dunga continues. Tite has coached Brazil to 6 wins in a row...
Podolski marks his farewell with a brilliant goal
Lukas Podolski scored a spectacular goal in his farewell game for Germany – a friendly against old rivals England....
Ronaldinho looks back
Ronaldinho,in the twilight of his greatness,has looked back and has written a letter to himself – addressing it to...
Klinsmann gets the boot
After 98 matches in charge of the US team – with a 56.12% win ratio Klinsmann has been told...
Samba days are back again for Brazil
Tite’s triumphant reign continues.Brazil beat Peru 2 – 0 and not since qualifying for the 1970 World Cup have...
England concede two late goals against Spain
After taking an early 2 – 0 lead and Jamie Vardy doing an awesome mannequin goal celebration England then...
Goalie gets one year ban for throwing match
North Korean goalie Jang Paek Ho gives a not quite Oscar winning performance of a goalkeeper trying his best...
Fifa and England in ugly unnecessary row over poppies
Fifa and the football associations of England and Scotland have gotten into a scrap about whether it is legal...
Miroslav Klose says goodbye
Germany’s all-time leading goalscorer Miroslav Klose -whose goalscoring celebration was that distinctive somersault – has joined the ranks of...
Argentina miss Messi
Paraguay shocked Argentina 1 – 0 and the absence of Lionel Messi was keenly felt.Which begs the question -what...
Dull as ditchwater
The highlights of England’s ponderous 0- 0 draw against Slovenia are about as interesting as yonder picture of ditchwater...
Germany brush Northern Ireland aside
Germany are looking more formidable than ever as they notched up their third successive win.The northern end of Ireland...
Norwegian Commentators plunge into despair
Norway beat San Marino 4 -1 in their World Cup qualifier.However when the score was 1 – 0,San Marino,by...
Pogba scores winner against Holland
Paul Pogba took France past Holland with a goal struck from way out in the middle distance.The shot was...
Andre Silva scores first hat trick for Portugal
For a change Cristiano Ronaldo got left in the shade.Andre Silva bagged the limelight by scoring his first hat...
Christian Benteke scores fastest World Cup Qualifier goal
Benteke scored a goal in 8.1 seconds. Uefa said the goal was all of 0.2 seconds faster than the...
Omer Toprak scores unfortunate own goal for Turkey
Iceland continue their remarkable run that began in Euro 2016.They have never qualified for the World Cup before but...
Macedonia give Italy a good fright
Minnows Macedonia almost pulled off the World Cup qualifying shock of the century- but then managed to lose to...
Wes Hoolahan demonstrates the defence splitting pass
Since the last post was about Mesut Ozil and his skill in providing assists here’s an example of a...
Ozil finally gets an assist this season
Mesut Ozil had notched up 19 assists last season.He was just one short of Thierry Henry’s record of 20...
The writing on the wall
Rooney needs to get a new set of glasses – because he can’t read the writing on the wall....
Brazil back to their brilliant best.
Neymar ponders the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune after getting an elbow in the face in Brazil’s 5...
France hammer Bulgaria 4 – 1
Mihail Alexandrov scored an early penalty and Bulgaria were in the lead. It was to prove to be a...
Wales hold Austria to a 2 -2 draw
Joe Allen’s third goal in as many games was a stunner of a volley. However after that Marko Arnautovic...
Iceland beat Finland with controversial last second goal
Iceland’s Ragnar Sigurdsson scored a controversial dying seconds goal to beat Finland 2 -2. Suspicion that he may have...
Italy ride their luck to hold Spain
Spain dominated the first half and Italy were pretty much outplayed.They were just lucky that Spain could not score...
USA to play Cuba again after 69 years
This friday is a bit more special than many other recent fridays. On Friday the 7th of October USA...
Gianni Infantino wants a 48 nation World Cup
Fifa president Gianni Infantino wants to take the number of teams taking part in the World Cup from the...
Uruguay top group with 4 – 0 win over Paraguay
Luis Suarez was the main architect as his team emerged decisive winners in the battle of the “guays” when...
Argentina snatch a draw from the jaws of defeat
In other world cup 2018 action from the South American end of the planet Argentina came back from being...
Brazil continue winning spree
Calling two wins in two games a winning spree might be a bit of hyperbole by Brazil are definitely...
Portugal lose against Switzerland
Portugal entered the fray without Cristiano Ronaldo again and this time they lost. Perhaps its because he was not...
Buffon gets chipped
Buffon lies on the ground where he has fallen and thinks grim thoughts. In Italy’s world cup qualifier against...
Road to Russia – World Cup Qualifiers continued
Spain opened World Cup qualification for Russia 2018 with a bang by romping to a 8-0 victory over Liechtenstein....
Adam Lallana, last minute hero connects to sink 10 man Slovakia
Sam Allardyce’s first meaningful match in charge and he barely escaped the blushes. Martin Skrtel last seen in Liverpool...
Weekend World Cup qualifying games
Adam Lallana scored in the 95th minute of the game to give England a 1- 0 win over 10-man...