VIDEO: Recap of Landon Donovan's Press Conference

Beckham's Achilles Rupture

It was one of those freak injuries. No contact, no speedy sprint down the flank, no hard plant for one of his trademark crosses. ...

Daily Dose: March 15th, 2010.

A little bit of midweek handbags at ten paces in the Asian Champions League. ManU takes part in the Crossbar Challenge. (Man Utd Offside) Newcastle thought Zizou ...

Beckham Sends an Anti-Glazer Message, and Manchester United Are NOT Happy

In case you missed it earlier this week, David Beckham sent quite the message in his return to Old Trafford. And he didn't even ...

United 4 - Meelan 0 - Highlights and A Plea For A New iPhone App

Before I get into today's match and the glory that was our four-nil triumph over AC Milan, I must first ask Apple to do me ...

Fox Soccer Gives Us the Champions League O-Face Special

When one stops by the Fox Soccer site today looking for Champions League news, what does one see? This photo collection. Tell me this ...

Does David Beckham Feel Rejected by Zhemchuzhina Sochi?

Thursday afternoon in Moscow. Minus 15 degrees Celsius. A billboard with David Beckham on it suddenly appears on the wall. ‘We have rejected him’, it ...

February 1st is Here

The Mercato window officially closes tonight and Serie A teams are ready for some (minor) action. It's the exact opposite of Buy Nothing Day basically. ...

The Questions That Football Fans Are Asking Google

Have you noticed how Google offers suggestions to complete your searches? This is Google Suggest, and it makes the suggestions based on what other people ...

Beckham As Forward?

Well, yeah. It works. As I commented on Nick Green's post, what a luxury for AC Milan to have such a talented team ...

Landycakes Has Arrived: Will He Cut It?

[Video found on - if you want a translation click their blog here] I must admit, that I don't really follow the MLS. Not being ...

10 Footballers Who Will Define The Next Decade.

Last week Daryl offered up his 10 Footballers Who Defined The Decade - you may remember it as the post featuring that stunningly cinematic photo ...

Frank Lampard Is Huge In Asia - Or Just Chubby.

[101greatgoals] Music has officially died. Unless it hasn't. KARA, a South Korean pop group, entertained a football stadium with a song recently, and the video-cum-translated lyrics ...

The Simpsons and Mark Wahlberg Gang Up on David Beckham

Poor David Beckham. The second he temporarily relocates to Milan for the winter, the United States of America turns on him. First there's actor Mark ...

10 Footballers Who Defined the Decade: 2000-2009

End of decade lists are a tricky business. I mostly enjoy them, but am somewhat skeptical of anything that tries to boil a decade down ...

2009-in-Review Quiz, the Answers

If you haven't yet done our year-end quiz, stop by this post and make your guesses. (And you now have my permission to use ...

I've got one word: 2009 Season in Retrospect

And that word is: unexpected. I moved to Los Angeles in 2006 and prior to making my home with The Angels I was an MLS fan ...

Expansion Draft Protected Galaxy Players

This post at Soccer By Ives has the rundown of protected players in the upcoming expansion draft. Some of the names are surprising. ...

Real Salt Lake Beats Beckham's Galaxy on Penalties to Take the MLS Cup

-- David vs. Goliath. -- Highest-salaried team in MLS vs. lowest. -- Most-written-about team vs one of the least. -- Western Conference ...

MLS Cup Preview

The thought of writing this post after the opening day game against DC United never entered my head. That was a slightly improved version of ...

10 Reasons Why Everyone - Even Euro-Snobs - Should Watch MLS Cup 2009

I asked for a Beckham vs Blanco, LA Galaxy vs Chicago Fire MLS Cup 2009. But my request was denied when Real Salt Lake beat ...

I've got three words: Galaxy vs. Dynamo post-game analysis

And those words are: Western Conference Champions! In another step in the worst-to-first journey that MLS Coach of the Year Bruce Arena has taken the ...

Photos from Friday's Marathon

Wow, wow, wow. What a game! Like commenter Diane, I LOVE me some AJ Delagarza! Magee was fairly worthless with a horrible ...

LA 2-Houston 0. The Offside's Utterly Unofficial Awards for the MLS Western Conference Championship

It's that time again! The time to give the Utterly Unofficial MLS Playoff awards that the teams, players and owners really deserve. ...

20 Best Players of the Decade

One of the other Offside authors is preparing a best players of the decade list and asked the rest of us who we thought were ...

Why I'm Supporting LA Galaxy and Chicago Fire in the MLS Conference Finals

I don't think I've ever revealed my Major League Soccer preferences here on The Offside. Truth is, I don't have any allegiance to any particular ...

Galaxy vs. Houston Dynamo Conference Final Preview

This match promises to be a dogfight. The season series between the Los Angeles Galaxy and the Houston Dynamo featured exactly one goal and a ...

Arena Named Coach of the Year

And boy does he deserve it! The man is a miracle worker. Good on ya, Bruce. Keep Klein in the line up for Friday ...

I've got three words: Galaxy vs. Chivas USA post-game analysis

And those words are: Meeting the challenge. Right. So before the first playoff leg I predicted a series score of 2-1. Then before the second playoff ...

That Was Quick: Spanish Supremacy In Danger.

While all were oohing and aahing over Barcelona's sex on a pitch football and the free-spending ways of Florentino Perez returning to Madrid, the biggest ...