Articles tagged with "epl"
English Premier League Manager Rankings for 2007/8
By Daryl | May 15th, 2008A total of 27 managers (excluding caretakers) were in charge of English Premier League clubs during the 2007/8 season. Some were better at their jobs than others. Some were worse at their jobs than others and are now unemployed. Using a combinatio ...
The Most Generous Player in the Premier League
By Daryl | May 14th, 2008OK, so he's not technically in the Premier League anymore as Birmingham City were relegated last weekend. But Olivier Kapo is still pretty generous. Some clubs still use the boot-boy system, where an apprentive player is responsible for cleaning and ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Offside Fantasy League: Value for Money
By Daryl | May 9th, 2008It's the final day of Premiership action on Sunday. And so it's the final day of The Offside Fantasy League too. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like there'll be a down to the wire title race in our little league (I say little, but there are 287 teams ...
The Offside Podcast, Episdode 22
By Daryl | May 9th, 2008They say it's all donwnhill once you hit 22. And that proved right as technical glitches mean The Offside Podcast is a little late this week. Or, if you're a glass is half full type, then it's just in time for a weekend preview. Joining Ian this w ...
Scudamore Running Scared of Blatter's 6+5
By Daryl | May 8th, 2008Seems unfair to blame one man for everything that's wrong with an entire league. But I'm going to do it anyway, because chief exec Richard Scudamore seems to have made it his mission to personify the arrogance of the English Premier League. I'm still ...
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 ...
"2 Good 2 Bad" 2007/8 Premier League Highlights
By Daryl | May 7th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghiyzrG9UTI[/youtube] For those unfamiliar, Match of the Day is a BBC institution. A Saturday night highlight show that's been around for as long as most people can remember, currently hosted by Gary Lineker ...
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 ...
Zamalek 5 - Aluminium 1: nice and easy
By Tamim | May 6th, 20085-1...i have to admit i haven't seen zamalek achieve such a score line since very very long time and what makes it feel good is that it was achieved was one of the best performances during this season, and what even make it more astonishing is that i ...
Video: Promotion Ecstasy for Stoke City
By Laurie | May 5th, 2008[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=t7b-1ojmoaI[/youtube] There are pitch invasions, and then there are Pitch Invasions. This one qualifies for the capitals. Stoke City last played in the Premier League English top flight in the 1984-85 seas ...
10 Things We Learned in the Premier League
By Daryl | May 5th, 20081. Nani isn't much of an actor No doubt that Lucas Neill provoked him. But the poor man's Cristiano Ronaldo was stupid to headbutt the Aussie, and optimistic to think his belated dive to the floor clutching his face was convincing enough to save him ...
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 ...
Hunter Freeman Q&A - Exclusive
By Dave Martinez | April 30th, 2008Hey guys and gals, I had a chance to grab some Starbucks coffee with Red Bulls right back Hunter Freeman. We spoke, drank coffee, had a caffeine stroke (well, at least I did) and overall, had a good time. We pretty much covered everything there ...
Chelsea v Liverpool Champions League Preview: It's Almost Over
By chris | April 30th, 2008Chelsea 1 - Liverpool 1 If you don't know how the score got that way you must've been in a coma for the last ten days. Either that or you're a part of the Riise family and still in denial. The first leg wasn't historically terrible, but it cer ...
10 Things We Learned in the Premier League
By Daryl | April 28th, 20081. Premiership goalkeepers hate Radhi Jaïdi Birmingham's Tunisian defender has been up to no good lately. For Birmingham free kicks he stands in front of the opposition keeper and stares at him. He's in an offside position, but because he makes no ...
Video of the Stamford Bridge Scuffle
By Daryl | April 28th, 2008We're still not sure of the exact details of the Man Utd players vs Chelsea groundstaff showdown at Stamford Bridge on Saturday. I don't know who started it or why, and in many many ways I don't care. It was an entertaining little sideshow where ...
Even Chelsea's Groundstaff Were in a Fighting Mood Yesterday
By Daryl | April 27th, 2008No doubt that Chelsea's players showed a lot of fight yesterday. Just ask Nemanja Vidic, who got a knee to the chin after eight minutes, courtesy of Didier Drogba. And even after Riacrdo Carvalho's absolute gift of a backpass/throughball for Wayn ...
Photo of the Day: Now We Have a Title Race
By Daryl | April 26th, 2008Avram Grant celebrates Michael Ballack's 86th minute penalty, which gave Chelsea a crucial 2-1 win over Man Utd at Stamford Bridge today. The two teams are now level on 81 points at the top of the Premier League with two games to go, though Utd s ...
Gallery: Winning mends everything
By Jack | April 26th, 2008With about a quarter of the match to be played, Chelsea won a free kick near the edge of Manchester United penalty area. Sparks proceeded to fly between egomaniacs Didier Drogba and Michael Ballack. Both wanted the free kick, neither wanted to buckl ...
And Lo, Avram Grant came good on his promise.
By Rob | April 26th, 2008Over here at the Champions League offside, we've been as bemused and frustrated with Avram Grant as everybody else. Adam (a Chelsea fan) especially. The trouble was Jose Mourinho, who was in the job before him, was so damn popular. Mainly because Jos ...
Poll: Will Chelsea's home run continue?
By Jack | April 25th, 2008Manchester United. Chelsea. The match to end all matches (not so much) takes place this morning at Stamford Bridge. Can the Blues run their league unbeaten streak at the Bridge to 81 matches? That's the question. Or maybe it should be...will ...
Bring on the Mancs!
By Jack | April 25th, 2008Here's to hoping we see more of this tomorrow morn. ...
The Offside Fantasy League: Squeaky Bum Time?
By Daryl | April 25th, 2008It's the big Premiership game tomorrow: Chelsea vs Manchester United. Chelsea are just three points behind the leaders and welcome Man Utd to Stamford Bridge knowing that a win would put the two teams level on points. Goal difference is another matte ...
DCFC: Loan Watch
By Martin | April 23rd, 2008For any other football club, this would contain about 3 players but since well, yknow... we've had a fair few on loan; this turned into war and peace. Here's the week that was, just about in time for the weekend: Stephen Pearson (Stoke City Loan) ...
10 Things We Learned in the Premier League
By Daryl | April 21st, 20081. David James thinks he's a right back Doesn't matter what type of magnificent form David James is in, he's still magnetically attracted to no-mans-land. In the early stages of Man City's 3-1 loss to Portsmouth, James came running out of his box to ...
West Ham 2-1 Derby
By Martin | April 20th, 2008Although you'd be forgiven for thinking 'same old story', the performance (particularly in the 2nd half) was quite impressive and we looked competative and even the famously un-forgiving national press said so, so it must be true! At times there ...
The Offside Fantasy League: Fight for Survival
By Daryl | April 18th, 2008For most of the season, you're best off avoiding relegation fodder in your Offside Fantasy League team. Players on teams towards the bottom obviously tend to pick up less points, so why waste perfectly good pretend money on them? But as we enter t ...
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