Gianluigi Buffon’s successor: Federico Agliardi
Palermo put it past Lazio, 2-1. Federico Agliardi, their goalkeeper kept out 12 shots at goal. It would be...
Category: Soccer Teams – National
Rafa Benitez: Dazed and Confused, tell me it’s not true
Liverpool is going through a mini crisis. A small one, but with this year’s Premiership, with Portsmouth, Everton, and...
Owen Hargreaves out with a broken leg
Owen Hargreaves broke the fibula (shin bone) of his left leg in the Bayer loss against Armenia Bliefeld, 2-1...
Video: Rodrigo Palacios is the new Mario Kempes
Boca 1 River Plate 0. Will Palacios vindicate Mario Kempes faith in him?
Gareth Barry: The best underrated player in England?
Gareth Barry is Aston Villa and Aston Villa is Gareth Berry. In the midst of all the high powered...
Video: Maradona Madness
Funny, but we still miss this guy and his antics!
Video: Euro 2008, N.Ireland vs Spain, 3-2, David Healy all the way!
8+ minutes but worth every minute. Watch Leeds United striker, David Healy’s hat trick and see Aragones looking like...
Video: David Healy punishes the Three Lions
Sven Goran’s team stumbles against Northern Ireland and David Healy. Check out the goal and the celebrations!
Oligarkh: The movie on Boris Berezovsky or Platon Elenin
A movie loosely based on Boris Berezovsky who changed his name to Platon Elenin based on a character called...
Guus Hiddink: Not an impressive debut against Croatia
The Roman Abramovich bankrolled Guus Hiddink era began in less than spectacular style as Russia was held to a...
Sergio Aragones to be sacked: Spain crashes out against N.Ireland
The rumblings begin. Spain’s woes keep getting worse, a downward spiral that began in the World Cup, after getting...
Video: Scotland 2, Lithuania 1
Scotland has six points. Next stop, France! Read this well-written piece from the Scotsman >>
Football consortiums: Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano, players as bait
In South America, it is quite common for football players to be owned not just by their club but...
Video: England 1, Macedonia 0
The beanpole scores! 🙂
Video: France 3 Italy 1, Les Bleus over the Azzurris
This result should put beyond doubt that France was the better team in the World Cup too. It also...
Germany 13 San Marino 0
Germany bullied its way through against hapless San Marino, scoring at will, in a record setting spree 13-0. This...
France proves they are more than Zidane: France 3 Italy 1
France did not need Zidane with Sidney Govou It was as we suspected. Italy won the World Cup because...
Video: Brazil 2, Wales 0
Brazil still has a long way to go, despite what Dunga may be saying… This ain’t no team yet!...
Video: England 5, Andorra 0
England beats a high-school caliber team – Andorra. Next up Macedonia. Will Crouch pull his usual vanishing act? Or...
Why would anyone want Zidane’s sweaty jersey?
Now the truth is told. Materazzi did not want Zidane’s jersey, the one that he kept tugging, and one...
Giacinto Fachetti passes on: Azzurri and Inter Milan great
Giacinto Facchetti died yesterday. A giant amongst the Azzurris and an Inter Milan stalwart, who played all 634 games...
Video: Where is Zoltan Gera?
The Baggies have been relegated. We will probably get to see Gera brilliance in League 1 highlights. Gera is...
France vs Italy: Who will headbutt Materazzi this time?
The European papers are abuzz with the France – Italy Euro Cup showdown this Wednesday, two months after their...
Ashley Cole vs William Gallas: Who got the better player?
William Gallas: A wall: Physical, versatile, and a great tackler. The attack has to go around him. Can play...
Video: Emirates friendly, Brazil vs Argentina, 3-0
Great win for Dunga, crappy start to Alfio Basile’s career as the coach of the Albiceleste. Check out the...
David Goldblatt: The Ball is Round
For soccer lovers this is the ultimate book. A 992 page book on everything and anything to do with...
Foul: Andrew Jennings book exposes FIFA
Andrew Jennings’s book gives us the scoop on how Sepp Blatter became president and how FIFA awards World Cups.
Peter Velappan: The man behind the Asian resurgence in soccer
In 2007, FIFA has their presidential elections, and Sepp Blatter, the present FIFA president is running again. Sepp Blatter...
Arsenal’s Brazilians: The way to go
Brazil in one way or another has never really seen the English League as a stop for showcasing their...
Mido is baaaaaack! Spurs fans, let the good times roll
Mido is coming back to White Hart Lane. Good times everyone!! Mido commented on the team’s official website, ”I...
To Wayne Rooney: Cock up and play the game
Football players should be seen and not heard. Again it’s not just Ashley Cole calling abuse on Arsene Wenger...
Who is Kia Joorabchian? Is Abramovich behind the West Ham move?
Is Roman Abramovich (L) negotiating West Ham’s takeover? Kia Joorbachian (R) West Ham shocked everybody in the soccer world...
Chelsea, Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal: Be warned, this year’s Premiership is not about you!
Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano come to West Ham, Kanu is on fire at Portsmouth, Aston Villa is being...
Video: Proof that Germany’s Getting Even Better
This video proves that even without Klinsi, the New Deutschland is on the right track: We simply picked up...
Ouch! Ferdinand Breaks Toe
Will England never get lucky? Rio Ferdinand is likely to miss England’s opening two Euro 2008 qualifiers after suffering...
Rooney Fights Back Against the FA
Manchester United’s volatile striker, Wayne Rooney, is allegedly threatening to refuse to co-operate with England sponsors if the Football...
Video: More Robinho
Watch these moves and weep. Reminds me of that summer day in my teens when I realized I was...
Premiership opening weekend: Portsmouth the club, Kanu the player
Kanu scored two goals in Portsmouth’s very impressive win against Balckburn Rovers. The number 16 club beating the number...
Video: Sheffield United vs Liverpool, 1-1
Steven Gerrard learned a lot from the Italians this World Cup and put it to good use against the...
Premiership: Small clubs serve notice, Blues blast Manchester City
Reading, Bolton Wanderers, Portsmouth, all overthrew their more fancied opponents. Reading came from 2 goals behind to go past...
Man U to Bayern: We will get Owen Hargreaves, no matter the cost
Owen Hargreaves’s asking price – £34m. A jawdropping figure for someone that no English club would have paid a...
Video: Norway 1, Brazil 1 – Ding, Dong, Dunga!
Not everyone is impressed by Dunga’s managerial style, or his style when he was a player for that matter....
Football’s World Metrosexual XI: Beckham is out
Goalkeeper: D James (Portsmouth, England) Defenders: S Ramos (Real Madrid, Spain) G Zambrotta (Barcelona, Italy) A Cole (Arsenal, England),...
The Asian Cup qualifiers: The Socceroos roll, India struggle.
Yep! Down Under the Socceroos have maintained their momentum and are turning some great performances in the Asian Cup...
Old Arsenal buddies converge on Pompey: Sol and Kanu
First Sol Campbell and now Nwankwo Kanu have moved to Portsmouth. Both Kanu and Campbell were in the double...
Joachim Löw: Germany hammers the Swedes, 3-0
Joachim Löw, Germany’s new coach, on a winning note Germany left off, with the Swedes in the World Cup,...
Video; England vs Greece
The post Beckham era pays off immediately
Owen Hargreaves: From most reviled to England’s cornerstone
It was not too long ago that The Sun compared Owen Hargreaves to “a mass murderer” and Hargreaves was...
England 4, Greece 0: Owen Hargreaves the Cornerstone?
Richard Williams writes in the Guardian: “Hargreaves inherited the former captain’s No7 shirt and went on to match the...
FIFA elections 2007: Sepp Blatter should be fired this time
No sympathy for the devil this time! Joseph Blatter is standing for re-election to be president of FIFA in...
Video: Nuri Sahin, Turkey’s new generation of football stars
Nuri Sahin is just about 18, and plays for Borussia Dortmund. He has been denied German citizenship like millions...
Michael Essien on his way out from Chelsea?
Michael Essien played in the Ghana-Togo friendly, that the Black Stars won 2-0, largely due to the efforts of...
The Yanks in the Premiership: Who will perform?
My picks for the top 5 performers 1) Bobby Convey: Club: Reading Position: Midfielder Bobby Convey will be the...