Articles tagged with "asia"
Flip off the fans and you might get sued or beaten up
By Bob | April 9th, 2007In this crazy media world of ours if something happens in more than one place it is likely to be labeled an epidemic. That ...
The Key to Chinese Football: More Beef, More Milk and Better Right Hooks
By Bob | March 6th, 2007There were a couple of lessons that one can take away from last month's brawl between China's under-21 team and Queens Park Rangers. The ...
Jeon Kyeong-joon Might Want to Hire a New Interpreter
By Bob | February 26th, 2007The football world is full of stories about clubs and agents trying to take advantage of players. Things are apparently no different in Singapore ...
Spanning the Globe: Weekend Wrap-Up
By Bob | February 26th, 2007We're moving into the fun part of the year with the races in leagues around the world heating up and tightening up. There was ...
China to Repay Chelsea for their Hospitality
By Bob | February 13th, 2007Now that their Olympic football team has returned home from their England tour, it is China's turn to play host. Chelsea have announced that ...
QPR Battle Aftermath
By Nick | February 9th, 2007As you can see from the picture - fireball punches were flowing during the battle at QPR's training complex. The British players should count ...
China Olympic Soccer Team Brawls with QPR
By Bob | February 8th, 2007Pity the poor China Olympic soccer team. They thought that their trip London would be full of pleasant memories. They would take in ...
Cambodia Bans Foreign Players from Cup Competition for being "Too Good"
By Bob | February 2nd, 2007While some in Europe think the best solution for the influx of foreign football players is to go with a 6+5 rule, Cambodian football officials ...
Thailand Stage 15-Minute Protest during ASEAN Football Championship
By Bob | January 31st, 2007Just when you thought that the ASEAN football championship couldn't get any more exciting, it has. After a controversial penalty award for Singapore in ...
Ismael Matar helps UAE get over the Hump
By Bob | January 30th, 2007The man on the right in the picture to the left is United Arab Emirates striker Ismael Matar who is both celebrating his goal against ...
A Name to Remember: Takayuki Morimoto
By Bob | January 29th, 2007The upside of being called the "Japanese Ronaldo" is that you can stuff yourself silly at the all-u-can-eat sushi buffet without having to worry about ...
Bend it Like Muhammad Hardi Jaafar
By Bob | January 25th, 2007I'll admit that after Laos were eliminated I stopped paying very close attention to the ASEAN football championship. The competition isn't that brilliant without ...
Transfer Talk: Ronaldinho to MLS, Gerrard to Juve, Lampard to Barca
By Bob | January 22nd, 2007It hasn't been the most earth shattering of transfer seasons thus far and for the most part the usually silly talk that makes things so ...
Long Live the Shah
By Bob | January 15th, 2007Laos football manager Saythong (ok, I'll say it, "thong") Syphasay was not too upbeat coming into Monday's clash with Singapore in the ASEAN football championships. ...
Spanning the Globe: A One-Finger Salute, Peace in Rome, an Angry Lyon
By Bob | January 15th, 2007Chances are you probably don’t have the time to follow every football league in the world closely. Never fear. We are here to help. Here’s ...
Kashiwa Reysol Goalkeeper Yuta Minami's Own Goal Blunder
By Bob | January 10th, 2007There is probably an excuse for what happened to Kashiwa Reysol keeper Yuta Minami in the video below. Perhaps the ball was slick or ...
When Times are Tough, Pull out that Winning Communist Playbook
By Bob | January 4th, 2007Look out countries competing in this year’s Asian Cup. China has God money talent Communism on its side. The world’s 84th ranked team ...
The Most Lopsided Game in History
By Bob | January 3rd, 2007We’re big fans of underdogs in these parts and in the world of international football there is no bigger underdog than American Samoa. The ...
Perth Glory Teammates Fight after Match
By Bob | December 29th, 2006Perth Glory midfielder Adrian Webster and captain Jamie Harnwell took out their handbags and slugged one another following their team's 0-0 draw against Adelaide United ...
David Beckham takes part in Japanese Game Show
By Bob | December 26th, 2006Those holiday meals sure can be fun. You stuff your face with food while you listen to your senile Aunt Sally babble on about ...
The Sport of Sepak Takraw
By Bob | December 14th, 2006Lost in the shuffle of all the crazy plays that took place in the semifinals of the Asian Cup football competition this week was the ...
Is there a Pill that Prevents Premature Celebration?
By Bob | December 12th, 2006That Iran-China Asian Games tilt this past weekend might just go down as the match of the year. No, the play wasn't as scintillating ...
Arash Borhani is now a Villain to One Billion People
By Bob | December 11th, 2006If you are looking for an example of a football player displaying an utter lack of class, than look no further than the video below. ...
A Name to Remember: Khalfan Ibrahim
By Bob | December 5th, 2006You would think that a player that was named the Asian Footballer of the Year would have quite a presence on the Internet. We're ...
Scarves on, Goals in
By Bob | November 30th, 2006Everybody, please welcome Jordan to the fast paced, mismatches galore world of international women's football. The Jordanians made their international football debut today and ...
Shunsuke Nakamura: Free Kick Genius
By Bob | November 22nd, 2006Following his outstanding goal yesterday in the Champions League against Manchester United, my eyes have come across more than one reference to Celtic midfielder Shunsuke ...
The Biggest Wall in Goal you'll Ever See
By Bob | November 13th, 2006Taking a cue from the Great Wall of China, the team in the video below lines 11 across the goal during what has to be ...
A Name to Remember: Wang Dalei
By Bob | November 7th, 2006For a number of years now, commentators have been predicting that the next wave of foreign players to reach the European leagues will come from ...
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