Articles tagged with "english-premiership"
Manchester City Powered by the Wind
By Bob | September 28th, 2006We're big proponents of wind energy here at The Offside. The hot air that is spouted in our office alone is enough to power ...
Ten Years of Arsene Wegner
By Bob | September 28th, 2006Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is getting his moment in the sun as this week marks the tenth anniversary at the London club. We've always ...
Freddy Adu to Reading. Well, maybe….
By Bob | September 27th, 2006The much hyped and largely underwhelming American media-created soccer sensation Freddy Adu could be making a move from Major League Soccer's DC United to the ...
A Name to Remember: Tcham N'Toya
By Bob | September 21st, 2006Sure his name might look intimidating and impossible to pronounce, but in due time the words Tcham N'Toya might be rolling off your tongue like ...
Xabi Alonso is Getting Pretty Good at Long-Range Goals
By Bob | September 21st, 2006By now, you've hopefully had a chance to see Liverpool's Xabi Alonso score what some are calling a wonder goal in his team's 2-0 defeat ...
Potential Liverpool Owner Might be a Bit Distracted by his Country's Coup
By Bob | September 20th, 2006While the talk of bungs continues to reverberate throughout England (and make us laugh in a schoolyard way), there is also some big news coming ...
Morten Gamst Pedersen's Boy Band Keeps it Real
By Bob | September 20th, 2006Bill Clinton hooking up with an intern in the oval office, genocide in Rwanda, the advent of the expression "24/7"…the 90s will be remembered for ...
It Looks Like 'Bungs' will be part of our Working Vocabulary for a while
By Bob | September 20th, 2006In somewhat predictable fashion, the fallout has begun after a BBC program last revealed that 18 past or present Premier League managers received bungs – ...
Evidently Steve Irwin wasn't Available
By Bob | September 19th, 2006We had to chuckle a bit when we read that Australia Prime Minister John Howard has appointed Liverpool's Harry Kewell as "ambassador to promote healthy ...
Probing the Bungs in England
By Bob | September 19th, 2006We've been reading a lot of headlines the past week about a BBC program that will expose the "bung" problem in English football. Because ...
Some Goals are worth seeing for a Fourth Time
By Bob | September 18th, 2006If you went down to your local park right now and tried to do this move with no one defending you and without thousands of ...
Sex, Drugs and Manchester City
By Bob | September 15th, 2006Rock stars are kind of like football managers. No matter how hard you try to erase them from your memories they always seem to ...
What's Bugging Jose Mourinho Now?
By Bob | September 14th, 2006If there is one person on the planet who probably does not need to be spied upon it is Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho. The ...
Pepe Reina has a Future as a Juggler
By Bob | September 11th, 2006It was a tough weekend for Liverpool fans as they watched their side get demolished 3-0 by next door neighbor Everton. We can't fault ...
No Place like Home: Loud Announcers, Concrete Tossing Fans, Kill the Ref
By Bob | September 11th, 2006It was an action packed weekend on and off the pitch as coaches complained, players got smacked and referees were threatened. We begin in ...
Wayne Rooney can Beat you Up, while Sitting Down
By Bob | September 8th, 2006Add another glorious chapter to Wayne Rooney's five-volume autobiography. The Manchester United forward got into a scrap with Blackburn defender Michael Gray while enjoying ...
No Wonder Aston Villa aren't Popular
By Bob | September 6th, 2006You know it is a slow news day when we offer you another story about that oh-so-unpopular Aston Villa. Hey, it beats us blathering ...
Smile, you're on the Internet
By Bob | September 6th, 2006What did we used to do before the age of digital cameras and the Internet? How else could you get back at a jilted ...
Oh Nuts, Aston Villa Least Popular English Premier League Team
By Bob | September 6th, 2006We're always skeptical of polls. Ask a question the right way and you'll come up with numbers that show that 23% of the public ...
Gallas doesn't own up to own-goal threat
By Bob | September 5th, 2006December 10th can't come soon enough. That is the date when Arsenal and Chelsea will meet for the first time this season and the ...
Ben Thatcher's Elbow has Never Met a Face it didn't Like
By Bob | September 5th, 2006After watching the video of Manchester City's Ben Thatcher introducing himself to Pedro Mendes for the 7,000th time, we decided that Mr. Thatcher might not ...
Wayne Rooney's Writing hasn't Pleased Everyone
By Bob | September 1st, 2006We'll admit that we haven't sat down to read the first volume of Wayne Rooney's autobiography yet. We have it on our list of ...
The West Ham Mystery Gets Murkier
By Bob | September 1st, 2006Fresh on the heels of their conspiracy-laden end of the transfer window signings, there are now reports that West Ham United are having exploratory discussions ...
Is Chelsea behind the Tevez and Mascherano West Ham Deal?
By Bob | August 31st, 2006Things were kind of quiet and dull this transfer window until the bombshell announcement that Argentine stars Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano had been signed ...
The World Awaits Cristiano Ronaldo's Newest Trick
By Bob | August 31st, 2006For a second there we were actually starting to appreciate the way Cristiano Ronaldo has been handling himself. He's accepted the abuse he is ...
The Tevez Dance Ends at West Ham
By Bob | August 31st, 2006Just like you, the first thing we normally do in the morning is wake up and check out Carlos Tevez's personal website. We like ...
Michael Ballack's $89,000 Handbag
By Bob | August 30th, 2006It is a good thing that Michael Ballack signed a huge contract with Chelsea this past summer. The price of handbags is going through ...
English Premier League Mascots
By Bob | August 30th, 2006Some fine work done by our friends at the Red Cauldron who have unearthed pictures of the cute and sometimes frightening mascots on display at ...
Maybe Drogba just likes Italian Food
By Bob | August 29th, 2006The rumor mills are swirling with speculation involving some of the biggest names in football. At the center of today's storm is AC Milan ...
Stem Cells are becoming the New Magic Spray for Soccer Players
By Bob | August 28th, 2006The weird worlds of science and football collided today with reports that some football players in England's Premier League are storing their newborn children's stem ...
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