Articles tagged with "english-premier-league"
Hide the Women and Children, Abel Xavier is Back
By Bob | November 8th, 2006You might be wondering what Abel Xavier has been up to for the past 12 months. I cannot confirm this, but just last week ...
Newcastle's Newest Striker is a Prince
By Bob | November 8th, 2006Times sure are tough in northeast England. Newcastle United is sitting at the bottom of the Premiership table and apparently are so desperate to ...
Shrimps no More
By Bob | November 7th, 2006You can bet that the loyal fans of Southend are celebrating tonight. Not only do they get to support a team nicknamed the Shrimpers, ...
Manchester United Pip Robbie Williams for Top Fan Base in Britain
By Bob | November 6th, 2006Sometimes you have to wonder about surveys and who is asked to participate in them. The latest one comes from Britain where respondents named ...
Wenger and Pardew do the Two-Step
By Bob | November 6th, 2006Normally the fourth official has a pretty cushy job. He stands on the sidelines with a great view of the action, practices his counting ...
Rio Ferdinand, Unplugged
By Bob | November 1st, 2006You've seen him play defense, know all about the missed drug test and spotty driving record, but you probably have never seen Manchester United's Rio ...
Is £5 enough to buy another world class player?
By Bob | October 31st, 2006They are off to a fine start in the English Premier League and they could very well advance to the knockout phase of the Champions ...
Expert: Your Favorite Premiership Player Might be distracted by Internet Porn
By Bob | October 30th, 2006The next time your favorite football player has a poor match you can chalk it up to one thing: his addiction to Internet porn. ...
Some Smart People have confirmed what you already knew about Premiership Referees
By Bob | October 30th, 2006I have to give those in academia a lot of credit. They are always finding ways to watch football in the "name of science." The ...
Stuart Pearce Comes up with a Creative Way to Save his Job
By Bob | October 27th, 2006When your team has won only three of its past twenty games and the seat you sit on is hotter than a Paris Hilton video, ...
Cristiano Ronaldo Fights for Fair Play in Underworld Football Game
By Bob | October 27th, 2006Just when you thought nothing could be better than having pictures of Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo on your cell phone or your Myspace page, ...
When Minnows rise to the Surface
By Bob | October 26th, 2006Perhaps one of the problems with football attendance is that there are simply too many games. Between league matches, domestic competitions and European competitions ...
Jay DeMerit may want to get a Rabies Shot
By Bob | October 25th, 2006Now that the English FA has decided that it is kosher for a player to take a little nibble out of another player's arm, ...
Mortiz Volz Channels the Powers of the Hoff
By Bob | October 25th, 2006Actor and singer David Hasselhoff has been an inspiration to many of us. After watching his music video last week, for example, I was ...
Everton will be in luck if they ever play a team of Nazi Prison Guards
By Bob | October 23rd, 2006New Everton shareholder Robert Earl, who made his fortune founding Planet Hollywood and Hard Rock Café, is promising to liven things up at Goodison Park ...
Jens Lehmann Minds his Manners
By Bob | October 23rd, 2006In between the lines when he is smacking around opposing players, Arsenal keeper Jens Lehmann doesn't always come of as the most polite of fellows. ...
Bite Hart Lane
By Bob | October 23rd, 2006We all have learned a couple of things from Sunday's match between Tottenham and West Ham at White Hart Lane. The first is that ...
Serie B's Top Keeper Courted by Chelsea
By Bob | October 20th, 2006Transfer rumors can be fun to talk about, but how many of them actually ever come true? Time will tell if today's hot rumor ...
Introducing the Newest Blogs in The Offside Family
By Bob | October 19th, 2006I pleased, delighted and tickled pink to announce the five newest members of The Offside blogging family. Nothing is more fun for me than ...
When you're 6'9" you can use the crossbar to floss
By Bob | October 17th, 2006Last week I told you about Yang Changpeng, the 6'9" striker from China who is on trial now with Bolton in the English Premiership. ...
Jay DeMerit Sings Soccer Rocks
By Bob | October 16th, 2006The newest flavor of the month in the American soccer scene is Watford defender Jay DeMerit who has inexplicably risen from the obscurity of Sunday ...
Say Hello to Henrique Hilario
By Bob | October 16th, 2006The scene of John Terry somewhat reluctantly standing in goal donning a keeper's jersey and gloves was a bizarre ending to Saturday's Premiership match between ...
Peter Crouch can ask this Chinese Player about the Weather up there
By Bob | October 13th, 2006Even with a billion people, the odds of finding a 6'9" person in China are pretty slim. Now try to locate a 6'9" person ...
Footballers are Keeping the Lawyers Busy Today
By Bob | October 13th, 2006The legal affairs interns at The Offside have had a tough time keeping up with things the last 24 hours as footballers both past and ...
Lehmann's Secret Files
By Trent | October 10th, 2006Jens Lehmann, Arsenal's no. 1 and Germany's goalkeeping hero from its dramatic shootout win over Argentina at the World Cup, is set to auction off ...
Henry Heads to Scotland, Hansen Says Take 'im Down
By Trent | October 6th, 2006No Prem match for the Gunners this wekkend, of course, as international duty beckons for many of the Arsenal side. For one, Thierry Henry and ...
Argentina Boss Hammers Tevez and Mascherano Club Choice
By Bob | October 6th, 2006The honeymoon is over before it even began. Argentina's national coach Alfio Basile believes that Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano should get the hell ...
Henry the Greatest Ever?
By Trent | October 5th, 2006Greatest foreign player ever in the English Premiership, that is? That's the result of a recent poll conducted by Sky Sports. Not too ...
Redefining Irony, Real Madrid Objects to Chelsea's Spending
By Bob | October 5th, 2006Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon is showing deep concern for Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich's bank account. In a radio interview today, Calderon questioned Chelsea's ...
Welcome to the Arsenal Blog at The Offside
By Trent | October 4th, 2006My name is Trent, and due to a grievous scheduling error and a case of mistaken identity, I have been asked to blog about Arsenal ...
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