Netherlands beat Japan with 90th minute penalty
Holland made it to the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time thanks to a pretty harsh VAR assisted...
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USA get past Spain and into the quarter finals
USA beat Spain 2 – 1 , both goals coming off penalties and are through to the quarter finals....
France on course for another World Cup title
France are on the way. They eliminated Brazil in the quarter finals of the Women’s World Cup to move...
Little Onion comes good for Brazil
Everton is not just the name of a club in the EPL. Everton is also the name of a...
Argentina avoid the ignominy of elimination
A 2- 0 win over Qatar,in which Messi did not score,was enough to ensure that Argentina avoided the ignominy...
Egypt kick off AFCON 2019 with win
Salah and Co started their AFCON 2019 campaign with a 1-0 win over Zimbabwe.There was plenty of controversy leading...
USA sweep Sweden aside to top group
USA chalked up its third win on the trot by beating Sweden 2-0.They are into the knock outs where...
VAR comes to Uruguay’s rescue
Vistors Japan gave ” Tournament favourites” Uruguay a bit of a fright.They took the lead twice in the game...
Argentina Women’s team come back from being three goals down
While Messi and Co are huffing and puffing and putting up a pretty hopeless perfomance at the Copa America...
Argentina are hanging in there
Things are not going according to plan for Messi and Co in the Copa America.They clawed their way back...
USA beat Chile 3- 0
USA chalked up their second victory of the tournament beating Chile 3 – 0, Their goal tally currently stands...
Qatar fight back to draw with Paraguay
What is Qatar doing in the Copa America ? It’s because the South American football federation (Conmebol) only has...
Uruguay breeze past Ecuador
Ecuador is one of only two South American sides never to win the tournament.The other one is Venezuela. And...
Colombia beat Argentina in opening game
Messi’s national team jinx made its presence felt again.Colombia,who had not beaten Argentina in the last 12 years,did so...
Brazil get off to bright start in the Copa America
The Copa America is usually played the year after the World Cup and this time its being hosted by...
Australia pull off brilliant comeback win over Brazil
Australia surprised everyone and themselves by coming back from being two goals down to beat Brazil 3-2. This remarkeable...
Women’s World Cup update – kind of
The 8th FIFA Women’s World Cup kicked off in Paris about 7 days ago. Defending champs USA will be...
Ronaldo adds another feather to his cap
Ronaldo added another feather to his already many feathered cap when Portugal claimed the UEFA Nation’s League Cup. He...
England crash out of Nations League
The roar of the three lions won’t be heard in the finals of the Nations League against Portugal.England brexited...
Ronaldo scores hat trick for Portugal
One area where Ronaldo has been consistently better than Messi is in when it comes to playing for his...
Ronaldo beats Messi to best Champion’s League goal of the season
UEFA released their selection of top ten CL goals of the season.Messi’s free kick against Liverpool got second place....
Champion’s League video highlights
Klopp took Liverpool back to where they hadn’t been since 2005. Words of appreciation from Alex Ferguson and Pep...
Soccer ads we missed
While we wait for the Champion’s League finals to get underway,here,to while away the time,are some old Soccer Ads...
Zlatan is back
The mighty Z returned to action after a two game suspension and immediately made his presence felt – scoring...
Chelsea thrash Arsenal in Europa Cup final
The Europa Cup final was played in front of many empty seats in the stadium in Azerbaijan due to...
Beckham rolls back the years
It’s been a while since Beckham featured on Soccerblog.Manchester United Legends played Bayern Munich Legends at Old Trafford last...
Messi leaves Ronaldo behind in the golden boot race
Messi picked up his 6th “Pichichi” Award for ending the season as the top scoring player in the La...
Messi gets the boot – for the 6th time
Messi picked up Golden Shoe Number #6 for 36 goals for Barcelona this season. That makes it two more...
The effect of Trump’s trade war on the humble football boot
The humble football boot,despite its servile status,can cost a pretty packet when it happens to be made by Nike,Adidas...
Messi in the EPL
Messi is top of the charts in 15 categories in the La Liga this season However when that stat...
Bale benched in final fiasco
Real Madrid’s last game of the season came to a fittingly miserable end on Sunday. They chalked up their...
Dortmund – so near and yet so far
Nobody would have thought at the start of the season that just ended that Borussia Dortmund would give Bayern...
Rooney’s solution to Manchester United’s problems
Alistair Maclean wrote a book about it – which incidentally was made into a movie in 1973. Kipling wrote...
The future of Manchester United
The good times,it seems,went away with Sir Alex. United,in the five years since he’s gone,have been slowly disintegrating. First...
Mo Salah’s daughter is a chip off the old block
Mo Salah’s young daughter, Makka, toddled across the field with the ball and scored the finally final goal of...
Klopp
“I don’t think I would have believed it but I am not a very negative person.I would not have...
Pep did not get pipped at the post
The fat lady has sung.The curtain fell on a most dramatic EPL season with Manchester City retaining their title....
Neymar skill
Neymar picked up a 3 match ban for losing his cool in PSG’s penalty-shootout loss to Rennes in the...
The reign of Spain is over
The finalists of both Champion’s League and Europa League feature no Spanish team this time.This strange concatenation of events...
Spurs pull off an incredible comeback win
This seems to be the season of the impossible comeback. First the Avengers,against all odds,defeated Thanos. Then Liverpool came...
Liverpool pull off another “Istanbul”
Liverpool pulled off another comeback for the ages by scoring four goals against Barcelona yesterday. Facing a three goal...
Kompany stunner takes City back to the top
Klopp said that destiny would decide the title winner this season. Well destiny decreed that it should be Vincent...
Manchester United blow their last chance to get to the top four
Tottenham Spurs had done United a huge favour by losing 1- 0 to Bournemouth last wednesday.That game was a...
Liverpool go back into the lead
The good news is that they are two points ahead of City again.The bad news is that Salah got...
Zidane’s shopping list
Real Madrid have been reduced a mere shadow of their former selves and so Zidane has to go on...
Messi destroys Liverpool with an incredible free kick
Liverpool crumbled against Barcelona. They were already 2 – 0 down when Messi stepped up to take a free...
Ajax keep the dream alive
When the Champions League season 2018-19 kicked off, Ajax were already written off. They were not expected to emerge...
Real Madrid plumb the depths
Zidane’s head is bowed in defeat. Barcelona celebrated winning the title with three games to spare and Real Madrid,in...
De Gea completes a hat trick of howlers
David de Gea,winner of four Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year awards in the past five years and...
Barcelona take 26th La Liga Title
Barcelona beat Levante 1- 0 to claim their 26th La Liga title.Messi came in as a second half sub...
Liverpool take the lead again
Huddersfield were obliterated 5 -0 and Liverpool are back in pole position. For now they remain in contention for...
City continue their inexorable march towards the title
Manchester United, in their illustrious history,have won the title 20 times,and Liverpool have not done too badly either,winning it...
Ronaldo wins a historic treble
Ronaldo became the first person in all of footballing history to be part of the title winning team in...
Manchester United flop on easter sunday
Everton inflicted a 4 – 0 humiliation on United on Easter Sunday. At the end of tha game Manchester...