Switzerland: Football immigration good, minarets bad
Earlier, I had written about how immigration is changing the face of Swiss football for the better. The country...
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Spain installed as bookies favourite to win World Cup
Group H with Honduras, Chile, and Switzerland should be a cakewalk for Spain. As a result bookies have pushed...
Saturday evening goal videos
Arsenal – Stoke city.The final scoreline of 2 – 0 does not reveal how much Arsenal dominated the game.Stoke...
Video: Arsenal smoke Stoke, 2-0
Watch More Football Highlights at MySoccerPlace.net Arsene Wenger made sure Tony Pulis was the recipient of a lingering handshake....
Video:Manchester United hammer West Ham
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The non handshake that was heard around the world
Amy Lawrence weighs in on the hypocrisy of English mores and Wenger decries the mentality of awarding the ceremonial...
El Tri have never lost a match on June 11th
Mexico face hosts South Africa in the opening match on June 11. They have never lost on that day...
Ronald Koeman is out of a job
Dutch champions AZ Alkmaar sack Ronald Koeman. The club lies in 6th place far behind league leaders FC Twente...
Video: More Than Just A Game
I sometimes wonder whether SA’s contribution (with due apologies to all the Bafana Bafana) is not so much there...
The Slovenians target Rooney
Tapes featuring Wayne Rooney are being played ad nauseum for the Slovenian national team to motivate them. Their dislike...
Why the USA is already going about it the wrong way?
Robert Koren will be a player to watch The focus has already shifted to England. Bob Bradley on how...
World Cup draw: The USA should be ecstatic
Group C: England, USA, Algeria, and Slovenia If the USA does not get out of this group, we can...
Adidas JABULANI: The ultimate football
“JABULANI,” the Official Match Ball for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. “JABULANI,” means “to celebrate” in isiZulu.Technical...
World Cup draw disturbed by bomb threats
Signs of our times.Preparations for today’s World Cup finals draw in Cape Town were disturbed by two separate bomb...
Arshavin joins the doubters
This is not a good sign. First, Tomas Rosicky practically wrote of our chances. Now it is Arshavin who...
Video: The incomparable Miriam Makeba
Sadly, Miriam Makeba passed away a year ago. Having her on stage would have been a treat. However, she...
And for the yearning masses, here is Charlize
The delectable Charlize Theron will be co-hosting the World Cup draw. She is part of a star studded group...
Maurice Edu is back in training
Edu will be targeting January 3rd as a return date. That is when Rangers meet Celtics in the Old...
World Cup 2010: SA expects a quid pro quo
SAFA officials are expecting a lot of hand holding when it comes to the draw to ensure that Bafana...
Walcott is a doubt for the Stoke game
Theo Walcott’s infernal hamstring injury has resurfaced again. He is likely to miss the Stoke City match. Wenger was...
Pim Verbeek’s thoughts on the World Cup
Socceroos coach Pim Verbeek is widely known as a pragmatist. It extends even to whether the Socceroos will be...
Carlos Bilardo to attend the World Cup draw
Diego Maradona has been suspended by FIFA for two months so he won’t be able to attend the World...
World Cup 2010 draw: What do past trends hold for the USA?
1990 World Cup- USA faced three European teams- Italy, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. The USA lost all three matches, failed...
Video: Angelique Kidjo sings Adouma
Angelique Kidjo gets the party started in South Africa for the World Cup. She will be performing at the...
SA 2010 and Clint Eastwood’s Invictus
I’d love to see the Bafana Bafana win the World Cup, but in the meantime this movie will have...
CONMEBOL coaches pick Marcelo Bielsa
The coaches of the CONMEBOL zone weighed in on each countries performance. Marcelo Bielsa aka El Loco was chosen...
And the goalie makes a quick clearance.
..oops,no he hasn’t.He’s just thrown the ball into his own goal.Incredible but true.This is Piotr Skiba (Farsley Celtic) in...
Chamakh, Dzeko and even Ruud- its all happening
If he comes on board, will Vieira go to Man Utd? The January transfer will be a busy one...
World Cup 2010: USA vs Italy redux?
Who should the US face in their group? Purely on a motivational level, the best seeded team that the...
Arseversy
Two different gestures, two similar outcomes. Last week, it was Thierry Henry showing his hand to send Ireland plunging...
FIFA’s extra-ordinary executive meeting achieved nothing
Sepp Blatter convened an extra-ordinary meeting in Cape Town as if the future of the game was on the...
Thierry Henry faces a possible first match ban
Sepp Blatter disclosed that FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee has opened an investigation into the ‘behaviour’ of Thierry Henry and they...
Video: City clobber young Guns, 3-0
An unhappy end to Arsenal’s Carling Cup run. Their defense was shambolic.Tomas Rosicky lost two balls that led to...
Drogba stars in AIDS campaign..
Didier Drogba teamed up with Bono yesterday to raise funds for HIV-positive children in Africa. It’s part of a...
World Cup draw: England avoid Spain and Brazil
The Final Draw will be held Friday, Dec. 4, in Cape Town, South Africa, and will air live at...
The young Guns (and a few old) take on City
Craig Eastmond strains every sinew Manchester City – Arsenal Carling Cup Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:45 PM (ET) The...
Fergie’s faith in the youth justified..
Sir Alex Ferguson ignored the famous Alan Hansen “you will never win anything with kids” line and gave his...
We know what the Russian Linesman would have said
The incident in question took place in a recent game between Sochaux and Nice in France’s Ligue 1.The Russian...
Bill Shankly: Liverpool pays tribute to its colossus
Bill Shankly week could not have come sooner for thousands of Liverpool fans unsure of where their club is...
Wenger being small minded about Drogba?
Catch me a clue. Where was Wenger being small minded about Didier Drogba as claimed by The Guardian’s Kevin...
It’s good to be a football agent
Clubs splashing the cash on the middlemen. Not a story that gets enough attention: 1 Man City £12,874,283 2...
The FAI appeal to FIFA borders on the ridiculous
What is the FAI chief, John Delaney smoking? Thirty three teams for the World Cup? The Republic of Ireland...
Messi wins the Ballon D’Or
Well deserved win for the man who occupied centerstage in Barca’s glorious treble – The Champions League, the Liga...
The Chelsea squad outcoach Wenger
Watching Chelsea play Arsenal, one got the impression that they bode their time soaking up the pressure and then...
Drogba’s golden touch
Two goals from the dreaded Drogba left Arsenal with no comebacks.
Video:Ibrahimovic wins El Classico for Barca…
As Neil Diamond said sometime somewhere “Money talks,but it can’t sing and dance,and it can’t walk.” Real Madrid found...
El Clasico: Messi meets Ronaldo
Here we are. This is the true test – will Real’s money win over Barcelona? Who is the best...
Why Zidane actually headbutted Materazzi ?
Three years have gone by and it’s still not really clear what provoked Zidane to end his international career...
Burnley score 3 goals in a late comeback
West Ham took a 5-0 lead and then gave away 3 goals in the last 23 minutes to give...
Rooney shines in a game that rained penalties
Rooney was the hat trick hero of a game that had more than it’s fair share of penalties..
Van Persie out for 4-5 months
Even worse news. From the Arsenal website. “Advice was sought from the leading ankle specialist Mr Niek van Dijk,...
Video: Maradona using his hand on 3 other occasions
N. Waleed sends us this clip with Maradona using his hand on three other occasions apart from the infamous...
Dani Alves: Madrid clings to one player
Dani Alves on the showdown between Real and Barca at Camp Nou and the fact that Cristiano Ronaldo will...
Winner of the best own goal of the season
Some days it just isn’t worth getting out of bed.Like the day Jurgen Sierens,of the Belgian side Roeselare scored...