World Soccer's 50 Greatest Derbies

The July issue of the ever-informative World Soccer magazine has a great front page feature: The 50 Greatest Derbies in World Football. Unfortunately, the full ...

Volkan Demirel?

I'm convinced that if this deal goes down my good friend Musab of the Galatasaray will be very pleased. I'm alluding to the title of ...

Gökhan Inler offer coming?

After much deliberation, it appears Newcastle is about to make an offer for the twenty-four year old Midfielder Gökhan Inler shortly. During the recent Euros, ...

Fenerbahce Acquiring A Spanish Flavor

Turkey's European squad which stole victories from the jaws of defeat as though it were a leisurely Sunday stroll in the park was dominated by ...

oh please tell me he's on the list

If you are finding the news of the transfer window grinding to a day at the beach, summer-slowdown, you are not alone. With Ronaldinho apparently ...

Familiar Faces Find Fate in Qualifying Rounds Draw

Fenerbahce and Rangers, among others found out thier potential hurdles in making it to the Champions League group stage today, as the draw took place ...

Red Alert (or at least yellow-blue alert): Emre has signed with Fenerbahce!!!!!

The Turkish media have declared that Galatasaray legend "Kuchuk" Emre Belezoglu has signed a three year contract with Fenerbahce worth 5 million dollars a year. Please ...

The 35 Moments I'll Remember the 2007/8 Champions League for

This season's Champions League was full of great moments. Below, I list the 35 that made my season. Remind me of the one's I missed ...

2007/8 Champions League Goal of the Season

So, Its the end of another Champions League season, and we've seen some beautiful goals. Below are some Youtube video's of some of the best, ...

The First Annual Readers Champions League XI - REVEALED!

All week, we've literally recieved tens of votes, as we opened up the question to you, who has been this season's best players in the ...

The Final Choice. Who will Manage YOUR CL XI

So all week, you've been voting for the players you want to make up your CL XI. There have been some fun, interesting and insightful ...

Good News/Bad News for Hakan Şükür

Good News: Galatasaray went into the final weekend of the Turkish Super Lig season three points ahead of Fenerbahçe. A point was enough to take ...

The Readers CL XI - Central Midfielders

We're begining to get to the buisness end now. If you haven't been paying attention, at the CL Offside, we've been offering you the chance ...

The 2007/8 Champions League. In Numbers.

This season's Champions League is quickly drawing to a close. Just two teams remain, Chelsea and Manchester United. So while the CL Offisde team prepares ...

Title Watch: Pray for Victory

There are title races all over Europe this weekend. Some will get decided over the next two days, others are going to take a little ...

Daily Dose 4.28.08

Something to read while you take a fastball to the face*... Fenerbahçe fans attack Mateja Kežman (Turkey Football) MLS rookie salaries in 2008 (From College to the ...

Victory!!!!!!!!!!! Galatasaray 1-0 Fenerbahce, the CimBom tears apart the canaries.

It was an amazing match. The house was packed with CimBomlu and Fenerli fans. People had to sit on the floor to get a decent ...

The great Istanbul Derby- Galatasaray hosts eternal enemies Fenerbahce

I'll just say it very bluntly. We have to win tomorrow. It's as simple as that. If we want to be champions, we have to ...

Some old Nostalgia: Galatasaray 5-1 Fenerbahce (including a goal by Ribery!)

Countdown to the Great Derby-Galatasaray v.s Fenerbahce

This Sunday, the whole of Turkey will be fixed on one match. The great Istanbul derby between Galatasaray and Fenerbahce. What makes this seasons derby ...

2 to Tango. 2 more to join in today.

Have you guys seen Marlon Brando's Last Tango in Paris? It was about passionate love story on 2 oddly matched lovers. One was 50 years ...

Chelsea 2, Fenerbahce 0 -- In Pictures

Shocking! It's Liverpool v Chelsea

Noooooooooo.  It can't be. Oh, it is.  It's Scum v Chelski part 3! It had to be didn't it?  Chelsea booked its place in the Champions ...

Episode 18: We're Legal!

That's right. Our little podcast turns 18 today. We can vote, we can go to war, and in several of the more enlightened ...

Chelsea FC - 2, Fenerbahce SK - nil

I was hoping for more from the talented Brazilians -- ehr-ehm, Turks. Uneventful game. See the BBC live text. UPDATE: How wrong I was. ...

Champions League Matchday 10: It all Comes Down to This

Here's what happens after today: Two happy teams go on, and two heartbroken teams go home to pull the covers over their heads and ...

Matchday, 2nd Leg

Tonight we have Chelsea FC v Fenerbahçe SK -- who can tell us what 'SK' stands for? -- at Stamford Bridge in Southwest London and ...

Genclerbirligi 0-1 Galatasaray, Rejoice CimBom, the dragon has been slain!!!!!!!

So there I was hanging out with my friend on a fine New York Saturday morning when I recieved a phone call on my cell ...

Kazim squared backs Chelsea in CL

Fenerbahce striker C. Kazim Kazim lets us know how many goals he thinks Chelsea will score in tomorrow's CL quarterfinal second leg at Stamford Bridge. ...

Predictions: Its all about the numbers

We are on the doorsteps for the semis but we don’t know who all will be knocking the door. So we have cleared the confusions ...