AZ Alkmaar: A bit of history with the Gunners
Interesting factoid. AZ Alkmaar inaugurated their new DSB stadium on August 4, 2006 with a 0-3 loss to the...
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Walcott out with ligament damage
AZ Alkmaar v Arsenal UEFA Champions League Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:45 PM (ET) Walcott’s injury woes continue. His...
Graham Poll points out the errors
Mike Jones wasn’t the only ref to have a bad week.Graham Poll (gleefully?) points out that a collection of...
World Cup 2010: Joel Santana steps down as SA coach
It had to happen sooner than later. Joel Santana stepped down as SA coach. After the invigorating display by...
Gooch to undergo surgery this Wednesday
Oguchi Onyewu will have surgery Wednesday to repair a ruptured patellar (patella- knee cap) tendon in his left knee,...
Sir Alex gets charged with improper conduct
The Alan Wiley drama finally came to a head with the FA charging Sir Alex with improper conduct for...
FSC’s Super Sunday business section needs a revamp
Just happened to catch Keith Costigan, Warren Burton, and Chris Miles this Sunday talk about the economic import of...
Charlie Davies to undergo additional surgeries
From the US Soccer website: This week Davies who is out of the ICU will undergo surgery to repair...
Another Raul Real Record
711 games for Real Madrid.That’s Raul’s latest Real record.He also scored two goals in the game.Real Madrid moved to...
Is Rafa preparing for an exit?
You can clearly see Glen Johnson did not get his foot on the ball. Bent’s shot skips just over...
Beach balls and Balloons in the news
While most of the US was transfixed by the Balloon Boy saga, Liverpool fans were encountering their own problems...
Theo Walcott to miss AZ Alkmaar fixture
Wenger on Walcott following the Ridgewell tackle. “He has a bruised knee, it is swollen and difficult to assess...
Video:Lionel Messi’s incredible football skills even as a baby…
Yup – that’s Messi all right.No doubt about it…..!
Video: Arsenal 3 Birmingham 1
Lovely bit of footwork by Van Persie in the box and a snappy finish after Song feeds him of...
Dejan Stankovic scores from the halfline
Dejan Stankovic scores this one from the halfline in Inter Milan’s 5 – 0 win over Genoa.
Contenders for the Balloon d’Or prize
It will be awarded to the player who scores the best goal off a balloon lying on the pitch.A...
The ball balloons into the goal.
Literally. Darren Bent scored this winning goal for Sunderland off a balloon lying near the Liverpool goal.That sound you...
Want to be part of “The Shirt 2010 ” ?
Bjorn Heidelstrom is cycling from Oslo to Cape Town and collecting signed football jerseys from all teams of all...
Africa’s first world cup winners
Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu of Ghana will get his name written into the history books.He scored the winning penalty that gave...
Adidas get Kaka on their dream team
Kaka is “The Maestro” and he’s the latest addition to Zidane’s squad.
Long arm of the law catches up with the hand of god
Which is merely a creative way of saying that the awful justice of FIFA may catch up with Maradona...
The Maradona soap opera takes an ugly turn..
Shortly after Argentina had scraped together another extremely modest victory Maradona,carried away by relief or the emotion of the...
Papa Berbatov scores hat trick
Dimitar Berbatov scored a hat-trick in Bulgaria’s 6-2 win over Georgia in a World Cup qualifier and also became...
Italy’s hat trick hero
Alberto Gilardino scored a late hat-trick to bring Italy back from the brink- back from being 2-0 down to...
World Cup 2010: Argentina breathes a sigh of relief
Jonas Gutierrez is brought down by Martin Caceres in a momentary lapse of reason. Leo Messi feeds the ball...
Davies update: Out for 6 months to a year
From the US Soccer website: Davies suffered a lacerated bladder and fractures to the tibia and femur bones in...
Charlie Davies in serious but stable condition
Charlie Davies was in serious but stable condition after several hours of surgery following a deadly car accident that...
Sir Alex Ferguson has to say sorry again
Fergie will be making a second apology over his comments about referee Alan Wiley to try and stop the...
If only soccer matches had a unicycle …..
This article should read ” why US sports is synonymous with event management” or “the MLS without toppings is...
Mexican bees try to distract El Salvador goalie…
The World Cup qualifier between Mexico and El Salvador saw some un -bee – coming tactics by a swarm...
Two overhead kick goals in the same game.
An unusual occurrence.Of the 7 goals scored in the world cup qualifier between Greece and Latvia – two were...
Germany beat Russia in Russia
Miroslav Klose’s 35th-minute goal helped them to beat Russia in Russia which is no mean feat in itself.It also...
The Maradona Dive
And after he had picked himself up here are some of the things he said to the press On...
Team USA: The 2010 World Cup might herald a new era
Haminu Dramani catches Reyna napping on the ball (2006 World Cup) Buried deep in the mountain of sports news...
A Casey in point!
The US goes through to the World Cup! I gave the Hondurans the benefit of their stranglehold at San...
Maradona’s Belly Flop
Looks like someone did capture Maradona’s belly flop after all… Wonder what he’ll do if they beat Uruguay on...
Mexico, US advance to South Africa
Mexico clobbers El Salvador 4-1, in front of a sellout crowd at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. Our friend...
Video:Argentina scrape past Peru
Diego’s tattered dream lives on.Still alive,barely so, but alive still.Martin Palermo did a Paulo Rossi – he was in...
Portugal beat Hungary 3 – 0
Simao Sabrosa scored twice and the third goal came from Liedson . Rooney will be disappointed… Ronaldo is laughing.
Maradona’s Argentina SQUEAK past Peru in 93rd minute (2-1)
What a tragicomedy. Higuain puts Argentina up 1-0 at the beginning of the second half. Then it starts pouring....
Does Bob Bradley play not to lose?
Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano has been a bastion for the Catrachos If representation in the world leagues were a criterion...
Team USA vs Honduras: The revolution will not be televised
Not a literal reference to the Honduran coup which ousted Manuel Zelaya but the decision not to broadcast the...
The musical side of Cristiano Ronaldo
Yesterday we had Ronaldinho on the bongos.Today’s musical entertainment comes from the golden voice of ..wait for it .....
Fergie backtracks…
In a statement to his club’s website, Alex Ferguson said the following with regard to the Alan Wiley issue...
Ronaldinho keeps the beat
At the L’Ermitage club in Paris celebrating the goal he scored the other day.The powers that be at AC...
Pasquale Schiattarella’s half line goal
Torino and Ancona from Italy’s Serie B was where this bit of long range marksmanship took place.Torino keeper Matteo...
Rooney remembers the red..
…remembers stamping on Portugal’s Ricardo Carvalho in the World Cup quarter-final in Germany and the subsequent theatrics from Ronaldo...
The other side of Mourinho….
Mourinho takes questions from a bunch of really small italian reporters …and looks really happy for a change. One...
What’s the similarity between soccer players and a bunch of meerkats?
Plenty if this picture is anything to go by.That’s definitely a wall they are forming.Judging by the number of...
The Statistical Game
When the analytical nerds get going, it’s best to smile and step out of the way. According to them,...
Who will tell Maradona the Truth?
The sad part of it is that it has actually gotten to this point and he’s still the coach. ...
Jack Warner proposes the sin bin
Divers at the World Cup in SA may find themselves in Warner’s sin bin.
Alan Wiley ran further than most Man U players
Alan Wiley, the official accused by Sir Alex Ferguson of not being fit enough to referee, ran farther than...