Olympiacos Pre-season Friendlies

Olympiacos has already commenced their preseason training in Zeefeld, Austria. The club kicked off their pre-season schedule with a 6-0 win over SV Hall. The ...

The Offside EA UEFA 2008 - The Elite Eight

Welcome to the round of eight! I would like to congratulate all of you one your fine play. If someone were to have told you that FRANCE, ...

Old Friends, New Foes

Saturday Afternoon Hangover and and a Little Blue

With the Euro’s getting underway it’s hard to focus on anything but the games at hand. After just watching the Czechs, with Janks on ...

Top 15 Goals from Dutch Eredivisie 2007/8

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkoXehUKcpg[/youtube] There were a lot of goals in the 2007/8 Eredivisie. About ten billion at last count, so well done to Setanta for sorting thruogh the ...

Johan Cruyff finally reveals why he didn't play in 1978

The answer to one of football's great mysteries has been revealed. In 1974, Holland, led by Johan Cruyff waltzed through the World Cup to a ...

Great European Cup Players #1 Johan Cruyff

As a series to keep everyone reading between Champions League games, I'll now and then profile a great player who has played in the Champions ...

Ajax Get the Marco Van Basten-Johan Cruyff Dream Team

Looks like Ajax are getting it together. After bringing in the legend that is Johan Cruyff in a sort of grand overseeer role, the Eredivisie ...

Johan Cruyff Brought in to Turn Ajax Around

It wasn't so long ago that Ajax were one of the powers in European football, with a youth system everyone wanted to copy. But it's ...

"Judas" de Guzmán Chooses Tulips

Bad news for Canadians yesterday as 20 year old attacking midfielder Jonathan de Guzmán turned his back on all things maple leaf and decided to ...

Holland? Scotland? World Cup? ... I can't resist

Now that we know that Scotland will be playing Holland in a World Cup qualifier, I thought it was only right to look back on ...

Wenger Shows Off His Bust, RvP Crocks His Knee

It's been a mostly quiet week or two for Arsenal, unless you count Spanish press accounts of Cesc Fabregas' imminent and inevitable move to Barcelona. ...

International round-up: Bentley snubbed again

Despite getting man of the match in our last game against Birmingham, and scoring a superb goal, Steve McLaren thought better of giving him another ...

You Snooze, You Lose Your Place in the Team

Liverpool's Ryan Babel was dropped from the Dutch first eleven yesterday for oversleeping. Apparently he twice overslept and missed team meetings before the game against ...

Anfield Banter: Luis Garcia = class, LFC = class, Benayoun = er, impatience, Ian Rush bites back at Chelsea, & Kuyt almost does Man U a favor

* Luis Garcia has written a letter to the fans thanking them for their support. * Liverpool may leave 96 empty seats in their new stadium ...

Anfield Banter: The Idiot's Guide to Le Tallec, Dani Alves alert, & Robbie Threlfall

* Well, we found out a couple of things about Anthony Le Tallec today. First, Rafa has set his valuation at £2.7m and second, ...

Pizarro FINALLY Trains And Gets the No.14 Shirt

With the Copa America getting in the way it took until today for Peruvian International Claudio Pizarro to be unveiled as a Chelsea player and ...

Anfield Banter: Godwin watch, More Chiellini talk, Xabi & Stevie-G speak out, & that Man U dude

* Godwin Antwi garnered some praise from Hartlepool boss Danny Wilson after containing Obafemi Martins in the first half of Newcastle's 3-1 victory over the ...

Sunday Summary: Hats off to PSV Eindhoven

It's getting towards that time of year where the European leagues separate the winners and the losers. The winners get a very shiny trophy (or ...

Watford v Chelsea

Chelsea return to Premiership action this afternoon in the tea-time kick-off against relegation threatened Watford at Vicarage Road. Frank Lampard returned from pah!! pah!! pah!! England ...

Hooligans, You Might want to Leave your Fingerprints at Home

Technology is a grand thing. The same tools that are being used to nab those dreaded terrorist at international borders are now being used ...

A Travellers Tale

I am writing this whilst tucking into a hearty pre-match breakfast of Eggs, Bacon, Sausages, Baked Beans, Hash Browns, Fried Bread and Toast and before ...

Fan for a Match: Nac Breda

We once had a coach who told us that you always want to be cocky smart and not cocky stupid. We could never quite ...