Huge opportunity wasted or huge waste of time avoided?

Wednesday night saw Aston Villa crash out of the Carling Cup to lower league opposition for the fourth time in five years, losing to QPR ...

Daily Dose 08.29.08

Something to read while you learn how to win free beers with geometry... Prem Preview - Week 3 (Premier League Offside) FA Cup preliminaries underway (EPL Talk) Who ...

Celtic Swipe Defender from Rangers?

Wales Online is reporting that Celtic and Cardiff City have agreed on a £3 million deal for Dutch defender Glenn Loovens. It was thought ...

Bigger assets than Dolly Parton and runs of the FA Cup variety.

Anyhow, back to a more important team and matters. Last season saw the league campaign become the support act to the diva that was the ...

Portsmouth Players' FA Cup Medals Go Missing

Bad news for Portsmouth pair Glen Johnson and Jamie Ashdown. After winning the FA Cup on Saturday, they left London for a victory parade down ...

Kanu seals the FA Cup and Europe for Portsmouth

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-EilmU3WnQ[/youtube] Congratulations to Portsmouth on winning their first FA Cup in 69 years. It came courtesy of this goal by Kanu just before halftime. ...

FA Cup Final 2008 Preview: Defoe Misses Out Again

You've got to feel at least a little sorry for Jermain Defoe. The striker has played for both Spurs and Portsmouth this season, and both ...

That Famous Interview...

Yep you know the one... "No wonder he's in the f***ing reserves!" HAHAHAHA. Don't mess with Mr Redknapp

FA Youth Cup Final: City denies Blues

Manchester City's youth academy continues to buzz. Chelsea's, despite a cash influx the likes of nothing ever seen, has yet to truly flourish. City captured only ...

Prem Preview: Masked Men

So Arsenal did us no favors Sunday, dropping the balls in a loss to United. Not that that should really affect our approach against ...

LFC 3 - 1 Blackburn

I'm not going to be able to comment much on the league games remaining in the season as I ...

Cardiff Might Get UEFA Cup Spot After All

A few weeks back, when Cardiff City was in the middle of its rise to the FA Cup final, Daryl reported that even if they ...

Daily Dose 04.06.08

Something to read while you spend 5,000 hours building a burger machine: Does parity make a league "best"? (Mallorca Offside) A player as metaphor for a season ...

A Salute to the Tykes: Barnsley out of FA Cup

For many of us, the best thing about knockout tournaments is the so-called Cinderella team. Every big tournament has them, the small team, lacking ...

POMPEY BOOK PLACE IN FA CUP FINAL!!! Pompey 1-0 WBA

Yesterday Pompey booked their place in the FA Cup final. I've only just come to terms with that! Every single player in that Portsmouth squad deserves it. ...

Chelsea youngstas have all to play for

Roman noodles love his youngsters. He'll be hoping they can make a little history in two weeks. Chelsea's youth team drew 1-1 with Manchester City ...

YouTube Blast from the Past: Giggs Goes Absolutely Mental at the End

As it's FA Cup semi-final weekend, I figured why not look back at one of the all time classics, featuring Ryan Giggs' hairy chest! ...

FA Cup Semi-Final Countdown

Just Two Days until the big day out! Update------ Last night: Cardiff 0-0 West Brom A match concerning our opponents on Saturday and potential final opponents. I watched the match ...

Grant to Wenger: 'Piss Off'

Super Suuuuuuunday. Anyone else think of those local monster truck/car show radio commercials when they here that? 'Fans, racers, hot rodders' ... 'Sunday, ...

PL Recap: Jog On

...this season.

Good News/Bad News for Cardiff City

First the good news: Though the English FA isn't keen to let Cardiff City represent them in the UEFA Cup, Michel Platini is not so ...

The Offside Podcast, Episode 14

On this week's podcast, Ian, Anne, Christian and Ryan talk Copa Libertadores (which is hotting up, unless you're an Arsenal fan) the brilliant madness that ...

Episode 14: Drunk with Power (Plus Contest!)

Once we got over the Guardian ranking The Offside the 35th most powerful blog in the world, we got back to business, as Anne Ramzy, ...

Sir Alex and Carlos Apparently Have Some Explaining to Do

Surprise, surprise -- the suits at that bastion of English football, the FA, are none too pleased with the inflamatory post-match comments from United's top ...

Congratulations to Portsmouth and the Other Unlikely Semi-Finalists

Now that the annoyance of Saturday's crazy match is over, I feel like it's time to give props to Pompey and the other three clubs ...

Cardiff City Going to Wembley, But Not Europe

In response to a very good question posed by Dave from Dave's Football Blog in a comment under this post, the answer is no. Turns ...

Just a Picture: The Smaller Hands Were Proof That the Gloves Didn't Belong to Him

Carlos Quieroz Proves That Saying Sorry Isn't the Hardest Thing to Do

The man who speaks when Fergie chooses not to, has quickly apologised for the bizarre referencing of Birmingham's Martin Taylor during his slightly ridiculous rant ...

FA Cup Magic is Back, and Here's Why...

We can put the old "Has the FA Cup lost its magic?" question back into storage for another season. Because after a brilliant weekend of ...

FA Cup Semi-Final: Portsmouth vs West Brom

West Brom stand in the way of an FA Cup final for Pompey. This is the hardest draw we could have got. But nevermind... I have ...