Articles tagged with "chelsea"
10 Things We Learned in the Premier League
By Daryl | May 12th, 20081. Ryan Giggs has more Premier League medals than Andriy Shevchenko has goals Giggs scored the decisive second for Man Utd against Wigan to earn himself a tenth Premier League winners medal yesterday. That's a lot. Meanwhile Andriy Shevchenko was sc ...
Manchester United are Premier League Champions
By Ian Rose | May 11th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tai620mnilo[/youtube] This is the penalty that technically won the Premier League title this year. With Chelsea only managing a draw with Bolton, the title could only be lost by United with a defeat to Wiga ...
Photo of the Day: Sheva
By Jack | May 11th, 2008Sure, we didn't win the Premiership. But Sheva gave us a little something to cheer. Thanks for the professionalism & commitment Andriy. Good luck in whatever awaits you next. (Hopefully that's a brace in the CL Final) ...
Speak On It: The Prem's final day
By Jack | May 11th, 2008Come in, have a laugh (at United's expense). Got something to say, say it here as Chelsea attempts to pull off a miracle. Is Chelsea about to lift some more plastic? ...
D-Day Preview
By Ian Rose | May 11th, 2008They look so happy, don't they, laughing and smiling at each other? In a few hours, one will still be happy. For the other, well, there's still the Champions League. This is it. The last day of the Premier League season is upon us, with two ...
Day 3 of Voting for your Champions League XI - Today, Wingbacks.
By Rob | May 10th, 2008All week here on the Champions League Offside, we've been giving you the chance to vote in the players you want to appear in the first ever Offical Offside Champions League Readers Team Of The Season (snappier name needed.) Two days ago it was keeper ...
Avram of the Month
By Jack | May 9th, 2008Our man Avram scooped the Barclays Manager of the Month award for April yesterday. Grant's the first-ever Israeli bestowed the honor. Hopefully, this is the first of what is many pieces of hardware Grant's raising before the end of the season. ...
Vote: Should there be a playoff for the Prem title?
By Jack | May 9th, 2008Avram the Great thinks the Premiership title should be decided by a playoff. "You play a playoff if you're level (on points) and it is decided on that," he said. "If you have the same points, you are at the same level. Sometimes, you score more go ...
Title Watch: Champions Will Be Crowned...
By Daryl | May 9th, 2008...and others will be abdicating from top flight football. Read on to see who needs to do what in England, Italy and France this weekend: England: Man Utd and Chelsea are level on points, but Utd have a big advantage with goal diffe ...
Pick the Centre-Halves for the first Offside Readers CL XI
By Rob | May 9th, 2008Yesterday, we gave you the chance to vote for who you think has been the best Goalkeeper in this season's Champions League. That poll is still open HERE. Now you have to chance to pick the best Centre-Halves of the tounament so far, by clicking HERE. ...
Cech enhances Chelsea rep, publicly reveals hate for Arsenal
By Jack | May 8th, 2008Pete Cech is already a Chelsea legend. Today, he's added to the lore with a veritable buffet of hatred for Wenger & Co. Cech told The Sun: "You need to get the trophies because in the end if you take the last three years of Arsenal, I don't ...
The Papers: Roundup
By Jack | May 8th, 2008The best of what the papers have had to say this week regarding our Blues... The Guardian Ghost of Mourinho is happy haunting for spirited Chelsea The Telegraph Will Avram Grant keep his job at Chelsea? The Times Avram Grant reveals his i ...
"Quarantine" for British fans Heading to Moscow?
By Laurie | May 8th, 2008Last month before the France-England friendly in Paris, I had the thrill of being sardined into a Metro train heading out to the stadium as several drunken English fans launched into off-key renditions of, among other things, "God Save the Queen." ...
We want YOU to help pick the first annual Readers CL XI
By Rob | May 8th, 2008So yet another Champions League season is coming to a close. Soon we'll know if Chelsea or Manchester United are champions of europe. There's been some fantastic moments, and its been a pleasure to be here. So rather than us picking a team and tellin ...
Step away from the Bridge
By Matt | May 8th, 2008As the summer quickly approaches, the EPL tends to become a bit like a middle school cafeteria in it's propagation of nasty rumors. "omg, did you see who Drogba is flirting with?" "Jose just passed a note to Adriano Galliani, teheheh ...
Photos of the Day: Or In Soviet Russia Photoshop Edits YOU!
By Rob | May 8th, 2008Over on the Guardian they've got you the people, to photoshop lots of amusing images to celebrate the upcoming Chelsea/Man United Champions League final. Most follow a Communist artwork route as the final is in Moscow, so if you want to see Drogba as ...
Episode 22: Superclásico, Ligue 1 and Premiership Roundup
By Ian Rose | May 8th, 2008It's that time of the week again, and after a week of technical glitches that made me very nearly give up on the computer altogether, we are back with Pod episode 22. Joining me for this one are Christian Reyes, who is still licking his wounds a bit ...
Man Utd vs Chelsea, and Barack Obama vs Hillary Clinton
By Daryl | May 7th, 2008We don't do politics on The Offside, but we love a good analogy. And it was recently suggested to me that the Premier League title race between Man Utd and Chelsea is a mirror image of the US Democratic Primary between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinto ...
The First Coming of the Messi-ah
By Matt | May 7th, 2008Why hello TheOffside - nice to finally be on you. Welcome to the brand-new, fresh-out-the-box, player blog for everyone's favorite Argentine playmaker, Lionel Messi! Unfortunately, the birth of this blog comes at a terribly time ( ...
Roman ready to make it rain
By Jack | May 7th, 2008We've all read the rumors regarding Leo Messi's proposed move to Chelsea. Now comes word that Roman noodles is dropping more wads. This time, it's in front of Real Madrid defender, and part time homoerotic soothsayer, Sergio Ramos. El Mundo, among ...
Football is the New Diplomacy as Ticket = Visa in Moscow
By Daryl | May 6th, 2008Remember how the Champions League Final was going to be a nightmare because it takes so long to get a Russian visa? There was pessimistic talk of Manchester United and Chelsea fans being unable to get their paperwork done in time and European club fo ...
Is the Premier League Top Four Unbreakable?
By Daryl | May 6th, 2008As Newcastle's unbeaten run came to an end against Chelsea yesterday, Kevin Keegan looked at Avram Grant's bench and saw Frank Lampard, Joe Cole and Andri Shevchenko lounging around. Then he looked at his bench and saw Cacapa. Then he decided the Pre ...
The 2007/8 Champions League. In Numbers.
By Rob | May 6th, 2008This 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 its teams of the tournament, and before we hand over to you to pick your team of the tournament ...
The 2007/8 Champions League. In Numbers.
By Rob | May 6th, 2008This 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 its teams of the tournament, and before we hand over to you to pick your team of the tournament ...
Video: Billy's Got Jokes
By Jack | May 5th, 2008Chelsea masseur Billy McCulloch is known for jokes, particularly horrible ones. Here he drops a pair of brand new funnies while lathering up some young lad. Tasty. ...
Photo of the Day: Maloudacriss
By Jack | May 5th, 2008Florent finishes off Newcastle, and keeps the Premier League race alive. ... LOUDA! ...
Is an Abramovich-type buy out the only way to cope?
By Rob | May 3rd, 2008As the Roma buyout saga continues with lots of 'I'd like to' 'you've done nothing' 'what's going on?' type newstories, Born-in-England-Italian-Roma Midfielder Simeone Perrotta has hinted that he would quite like his club to get bought out by someone ...
Photo of the Day: Remembrance
By Jack | May 2nd, 2008A day after he guided Chelsea to its first Champions League final ever, Avram Grant traveled to Poland for the March of the Living -- an educational tour for Jewish teens which focuses on the Holocaust. Grant visited Nazi death camp Auschwitz wit ...
Title Watch: Pray for Victory
By Daryl | May 2nd, 2008There are title races all over Europe this weekend. Some will get decided over the next two days, others are going to take a little longer. So, as a sort of Weekend Watch special, here's The Offside's guide to who's trying to get their hands on s ...
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