City travels to Middlesbrough

After this weekends tremendous victory Mark Hughes Man City makes the short-trip to Middlesbrough. The only omission from City's squad is Jô with Wales international Ched ...

Yasser Al-Qahtani - the New Amr Zaki?

Not that they're the same player. They're not even from the same confederation. But here's what Yasser Al-Qahtani has in common with Amr Zaki: both ...

Al-Ahly Dominating the Cairo Derby

If you're wondering why Zamalek keeper Mohamed Abdel Monsef looks so distraught in the above video, it's because he knows Zamalek have just lost to ...

Ahmed Hassan Makes Dream Al-Ahly Debut

This is the goal that won the massive Cairo derby yesterday. Al-Ahly vs Zamalek is always always massive in Egypt, but yesterday the old foes ...

Daily Dose 07.12.08

Something to read while you hope no one responds to this ad... MLS originals, there from the start (Booked for Dissent) Refs "evening out" number of fouls? ...

Another ronaldinho in zamalek!!

this player below is a 16 years old egyptian who played in saopaolo in brazil and then came to zamalek. his name is islam ahmed ...

CHAMPIONS!!

Zamalek - ENPPI: Dream final or final dream!!!

it is as simple as that for the players : either you win or leave, we had had enough. tomorrow's evening match will not be ...

Cup final build up: Match's promo

Cup final build up: Go for glory...

Picture of the day: The 4th pyramid

and we deserve it!!

Zamalek 5 - Aluminium 1: nice and easy

5-1...i have to admit i haven't seen zamalek achieve such a score line since very very long time and what makes it feel good is ...

Zamalek 1 - Arab contractors 1: why??

a draw in the wrong time wasn't the result we desired but we didn't deserve more than that. the only good thing in the ...

Zamalek 3 - "faked" Inter 0 : A leg and a half in the quaterfinals

3-0, very good result, we couldn't have wished for more since we knew nothing about this club coming from Angola thinking they are the real ...

(Zamalek-Inter club) preview: restoring old pride

Tomorrow zamalek will be playing the first leg of the caf champions league in Cairo against inter club from Angola. the match is important for ...

Zamalek 1 - Haras el hdoud 0: Too late!!

yesterday, zamalek beat haras el hdoud 1-0 to raise its points to the number 46 and confirm its second place. gamal hamza scored the ...

White but not nerdy!!

hey there people, my name is tamim and i will be blogging for zamalek, the first African club on the offside. let's get straight ...

Essam El-Hadary Leaves Al Ahly...Again

Al Ahly goalkeeper Essam El-Hadary has been in the news quite frequently in recent weeks. We at the Offside and World Cup Blog seem to ...

Daily Dose 3.25.08

Something to read while you buy fake boobies for your doll... Does anyone care about England vs France? (Soccer Weblog) The 10 most unpopular people in the ...

Looking for Egyptian Football Bloggers

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnhqvEOXGag[/youtube] Plenty of Egyptian football news lately. There was the Africa Cup of Nations triumph, the El-Hadary to Sion saga and most recently Al-Ahly's 2-0 win ...

Al-Ahly Win Cairo Derby, Continue to Dominate Egyptian League

It was the Cairo derby last night, easily the biggest and best game in Egyptian football. Africa Cup of Nations heroes Mohamamed Aboutreika and Essam ...

Is Essam El-Hadary Testing Webster Ruling? Maybe, maybe not

Is Essam El-Hadary going to be our test case for the Webster ruling, or isn't he? The battle is on. Just last week Daryl was ...

Essam El-Hadary Tests Out the Webster Ruling

Remember how Chris told us that the Andy Webster ruling was going to turn world football upside down? Well, he might have been right. The ...

Episode 10

This podcast is brought to you by the Roman numeral X. We venture into the unknown world of double digits with our tenth podcast, expanding our ...

Africa Cup of Nations Final at World Cup Blog

After three weeks of brilliant attacking football, long range goals, Samuel Eto'o breaking records and Nigeria not being very good, it's the Africa Cup of ...

Africa Cup of Nations Quarterfinals at World Cup Blog

The Africa Cup of Nations quarterfinals got off to a cracking start yesterday, when the Ghana vs Nigeria showdown actually lived up to the hype. ...

The Africa Cup of Nations Situation - Group C

Africa Cup of Nations Groups A and B are now in the books, and so the alphabet dictates that today is Group C. All four ...

No, The Other Zidan

The big story at the Africa Cup of Nations yesterday was a man of North African descent named Zidan. Not the one you might be ...

Africa Cup of Nations at World Cup Blog

After Cote d'Ivoire downed Nigeria in Group B yesterday, the Africa Cup of Nations enters its third day with two more big boys going at ...

Egyptian Ultras, From the Inside

Pitch Invasion, a football blog with a focus on international "supporter culture," is running an occasional series examining the lives of ultras in unusual places. ...