Articles tagged with "cristiano-ronaldo"
Would You Rather: Win the Ballon d'Or or the FIFA World Player of the Year Award?
By Daryl | November 4th, 2009Most would agree that the Ballon d'Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year awards are the two biggest individual honours a footballer can ...
Castrol Unleash Rankings Which Provide Ammo Against Rankings.
By chris | October 29th, 2009Nothing wrong with this picture whatsoever. It's a novel idea - compile a ranking which will help determine the world's best player. Castrol did it for ...
Adidas XI vs Nike XI: Which Brand Has the Best Football Team?
By Daryl | October 26th, 2009Battle of the Brands In the world of soccer sponsorhip, there are two big boys: Adidas and Nike. Adidas sponsors footballers like Leo Messi and Ricky ...
I'm Suddenly Feeling Much Better About My Superstitions
By Laurie | October 8th, 2009This has absolutely nothing at all to do with Seattle. To be honest, I can't even figure out a tangential way to make it ...
A Question Posed After An Appropriate Sample Period: Is Real Madrid Too Reliant Upon Cristiano Ronaldo?
By chris | October 5th, 2009The Real Madrid express train steamed into Andalusia last night with nary a blemish on their glittering, gold dripping record. Five games, five wins, two ...
If Cristiano Ronaldo Doesn't Play Against Sevilla This Weekend, Then That Proves That Wizards Are Real
By Daryl | October 1st, 2009You may have read about the wizard who put a curse on Cristiano Ronaldo this week. You may also have laughed. I mostly laughed because ...
Under Siege
By Richard | September 30th, 2009No not the shity Steven Seagal movie but what happened to us in the Bernabeu. After watching the game a second time I believe the ...
Story of the Day Being Overshadowed by the Story of the Day
By chris | September 30th, 2009The story of today is Milan. Milan and their complete faceplant to start the season. And while the criticisms are deserved, and Leonardo fully on ...
Soundoff: Which Current (or Recently Retired) Footballers are Future Legends?
By Daryl | September 30th, 2009This is a tough question, and it requires a few generalizations. But here we go: There is a top tier of soccer players. No one's 100% ...
So Far, So Good for Zlatan and C-Ron
By Daryl | September 25th, 2009You know how sometimes big money transfers don't work out? I'm thinking Andriy Shevchenko at Chelsea, Juan Sebastian Veron at Man Utd, Denilson at Real ...
Daily Dose: September 23rd, 2009.
By chris | September 23rd, 2009Stuff to read while you watch Samuel Eto'o get his revenge on Pep...... Diego Maradona is writing the new Boca Juniors Offside, apparently. (Boca Juniors Offside) Another ...
Daily Dose: September 17th, 2009
By Daryl | September 17th, 2009Something to read after you enjoy C-Ron's appearance on Crackòvia... No idea what they're saying, but for some reason I still chuckled. There's a Barcelona ...
How To Tell A Dive(r)
By chris | September 16th, 2009Ronaldo's head is proportionate but why the hell the big mitts? At least one good thing to come out of the Eduardo fiasco is diving remains ...
The Three Amigos: Money Well Spent.
By chris | September 14th, 2009Normally, a massive transfer fee is a good omen for future. Big money means big abilities and this usually translates well. However, this is not ...
Offside Rewind: So Good You Want To Cry
By chris | September 11th, 2009Seven stories from the last seven days on The Offside and WorldCupBlog... The World Cup might be missing Cristiano Ronaldo... ...but not according to our predictions. We want ...
Florentino's Eight Commandments.
By chris | September 8th, 2009Real Madrid fanzine Marca has done it once again, trumpeting the next brilliant move by the most bestest football club in the history of ever ...
The Premiership: Now Frugal.
By chris | September 1st, 2009The window closed today, officially, so it's time to look back. A naked glance could tell you that spending in the Prem has been curbed, ...
Pace Is King & Arjen Robben Is Most Regal.
By chris | August 31st, 2009It's so easy to cherry pick the day after such a barnstorming debut (two goals), but we might be able to make a case as ...
Football's Diving Hall of Fame (With New Inductee).
By chris | August 27th, 2009How can one undo all the good will and sympathies from a near career ending injury within seconds? Do what Eduardo did against Celtic ...
Daily Dose: August 18th, 2009.
By chris | August 18th, 2009Stuff to read while you watch Robbie Fowler run out the ol' handstand-to-kick-in-the-face move..... Sad news: this is Mad Jens' retirement tour. (Deutsche Welle) The quotes of ...
UEFA Unveils Club Football Award Nominees
By chris | August 17th, 2009After spending three months laboring over the evidence, UEFA has finally reached a point where it could release the nominees for their yearly positional awards. ...
The 2009-2010 United Campaign: Preview and Prognostications
By Taylor Rockwell | August 14th, 2009May 27th was a day of mixed emotions for me. On the one hand my club suffered a devastating loss that led many to question ...
Learning to Dive Like Cristiano Ronaldo
By Daryl | August 13th, 2009The coach of this young girls team either has an excellent sense of humour, or he's indoctrinating a generation of future players with some very ...
Daily Dose: August 10th, 2009.
By chris | August 10th, 2009Stuff to read while you head to 101 Great Goals for the goals of the week, along with a freebie... Dick Advocaat proves that rubbish results ...
Poll: La Liga or Prem - Which Title Race Looks More Interesting?
By Daryl | August 10th, 2009The obvious answer would seem to be La Liga. You've got the best team in Europe (and that's official, by the way) Barcelona, who've added ...
Real Madrid 3, DC United 0
By jon | August 9th, 2009Well, you kind of knew it was going to happen. For 45 minutes, United was able to frustrate Madrid, keeping compact and with great ...
Daily Dose: August 4th, 2009.
By chris | August 4th, 2009Stuff to read while you casually chip one in with :03 left on regulation against the big, bad Bundesclub..... ...only to lose on penalties. Can a football ...
Ronaldo Livid Over FIFA 10 Valuations
By Sneakers O'Toole | July 31st, 2009Ronaldo, as one of the top players in the world, has connections that ordinary people don't have. One of those connections is a man on ...
Why the Stutter Step Penalty Kick Is a Bad Idea
By Daryl | July 28th, 2009Seems that every once in a while, some footballer or other overthinks things from 12 yards out. The result is usually a stutter step penalty ...
Who Will Have The Biggest Impact: Cristiano, Ricky or Zlatan?
By chris | July 28th, 2009It's been a big, big summer for transfers headed to Espana, in case you hadn't noticed. Whilst many in Spanish football checking the couch cushions ...
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