Beachballgate revisited
Way back in 2009 Sunderland scored one of the most unusual EPL goals ever when a shot taken by...
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Ronaldo makes it a hat trick of Ballon d’Ors
The Ballon d’Or went to the player who wanted,needed,deserved it the most.Ronaldo polled 37.6% of the votes.Messi was pretty...
Messi shines in Barcelona win over Atletico
Lionel Messi’s energetic and convincing peformance in Barca’s 3 -1 win over Atletico has put the speculation and controversy...
And the Fallon d’Floor Award goes to…
While we wait with bated breath for the Ballon d’Or winner to be declared,the Fallon d’Floor winner has already...
The race for the Ballon d’Or
…or will we have a new winner Follow
Sanchez stands tall…
Sanchez quicksilver and energy packed game lifted Arsenal to yet another notable triumph. Stoke went down 3 – 0...
Southampton beat Man Utd at home.
Southampton have not won a game at Old Trafford since 1988. Dusan Tadic ‘s goal ensured that Southampton joined...
Mourinho miffed
Jose Mourinho pulled out of his pre-match press conference ahead of Saturday’s game against Newcastle United. The Special One...
Everton hold Manchester City….
Steven Naismith put another dent in an increasing series of dents in Manchester City’s title hopes. He headed in...
Bale the unstoppable..
Bale scored the unstoppable free kick. James Rodriguez and Nacho Fernandez scored the other 2 goals in Real’s 3...
Barcelona make short work of Elche
Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez scored in Barcelona’s 5-0 rout of Elche in the first-leg of their last-16...
Arsenal 2014
Arsenal summed up 2014 with new video on their YouTube channel called “Arsenal: Highs of 2014″.
Torres makes a winning comeback to Atletico
Kind of… Fernando Torres’ first game back at Atletico Madrid ended with them beating Real Madrid 2 – 0....
Bale Fail
If Bale had passed the ball to Benzema here Real Madrid might have extended their winning record to 23...
Maradona votes for neither…
As the Ballon d’Or ceremony comes closer the air is thick with odious comparisons between Messi and Ronaldo. Maradona...
Valencia end Real Madrid’s 22 match winning run..
Real Madrid finally lost a game. They had been unbeaten since the 13th of September last year and were...
Moyes the giant killer
David Moyes is the toast of twitter after Real Sociedad beat Barcelona 1 – 0. Barcelona lost a golden...
Benzema is a diver
Karim Benzema skydiving during his holidays in Dubai. It’s a penalty as far as Real Madrid are concerned. He...
Fernando Torres comes full circle
T S Eliot must have been thinking of Torres when he wrote that the end of all our exploring...
On the leaving of Liverpool…
A newspaper clipping from way back when Steven Gerrard at 19 years of age dreamed big dreams .. Fast...
Farewell, Steven Gerrard!
The Liverpool and former England Captain has announced he will leave the Reds at the end of the season....
Lampard saves the day again
MLS fans who bought tickets for New York City FC’s first Major League Soccer game at Yankee Stadium in...
Spurs beat Chelsea 5 – 3 in New Year’s Day Thriller
Chelsea started 2015 by conceding four or more goals in a single league game for the first time under...
Happy 2015 from Soccerblog
New year resolutions …. ….. and the Old year summed up very neatly…
Who will win the Fallon d’Floor award ?
The Ballon D’Or ceremony will be staged in January and Cristiano Ronaldo is the most likely winner. Lionel Messi,Manuel...
And the Globe Soccer Award 2014 goes to….
Cue Roll of Drums….
Rodgers halts the slide
Liverpool registered their biggest win since beating Tottenham 4 -0 in march – putting 4 past Swansea and conceding...
Manchester City fall short of Club record…
Manuel Pellegrini ponders the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Manchester City were chasing a club record of 10...
Mourinho claims conspiracy
Southampton held Chelsea to a 1 -1 draw during the course of which Fabregas was given a yellow card...
West Ham can’t stop Arsenal
Arsenal’s injury depleted team are getting there. Only goal difference is keeping them out of the Champions League places....
Boxing day Commemoration
On the night before Christmas things are traditionally supposed to be pretty quiet as far as football games go...
Sterling matchwinner again
Raheem Sterling grabbed a goal out of nowhere in a game that until then had seemed to be going...
Wenger joins Fergie in the 400 club
Arsenal’s win over QPR made Wenger the second manager in EPL history to win 400 games. Ferguson who totalled...
Olivier Giroud does a Zidane
Olivier Giroud suffered an unusual rush of blood and got a red card for doing a Zidane on QPR...
West Ham fall to Chelsea
West Ham were full of joy to the world when they started the game against Chelsea. Fourth place in...
City and United post identical wins on Boxing Day
Van Gaal’s United chalked up their 8th consecutive win. Newcastle were at the...
West Ham Christmas Poem
Sam Allardyce has taken West Ham from the relegation end of the table into the top four .A Christmas...
Soccerblog wishes everyone a Merry Christmas
And here are a few bloopers created by Arsenal to watch while you wait for Santa Claus to arrive...
Not the season to be jolly for Zlatan
Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter has found itself at the receiving end of the not inconsiderable ire of a deeply...
Wenger on why Arsenal let in that injury time goal…
His defenders don’t talk.
Fabulous Fabregas
Fabregas and John Terry gave Mourinho the perfect Christmas present.A goal each against a belligerent Stoke City side ensured...
Martin Skrtel scores injury time equaliser for Liverpool
What will add insult to the injury that Wenger will feel at the injury time equaliser is the fact...
Suarez breaks La Liga duck
Image of Suarez apparently biting his hand with glee at finally scoring a La Liga goal.Pedro,Pique and Messi were...
Falcao returns
Christian Benteke put Aston Villa ahead but the returning Falcao scored the all important equaliser off a pass from...
Bayern Munich break their own record.
What I thought was the final game of the year was apparently only the semi final game of the...
Cricketing legends battle it out in the inaugural finals
What are two cricketing legends – Saurav ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar – doing on a blog dedicated to soccer...
Sterling sets up clash with Chelsea
Two goals from Rahim Sterling and another from Markovic gave Liverpool victory and Bournemouth their first loss in 13...
Bayern Munich say a Psychedelic goodbye for the winter
Bayern Munich predictably won their final game of 2014 – which turned out to be a 2-0 win over...
Chelsea enter semi – finals..
Chelsea defeated Derby County 3-1 at Pride Park to secure a place in the Capital One Cup semi-finals.
Barcelona 8 Huesca 1
Barcelona thumped Huesca 8-1 on Tuesday to cakewalk into the next stage of the Copa del Rey. The aggregate...
Brendan Rodgers – the end in sight ?
Liverpool has plummeted spectacularly from the loftiest heights to the lowliest low.The team that came tantalisingly close to winning...