Good News/Bad News for Hakan Şükür

Good News: Galatasaray went into the final weekend of the Turkish Super Lig season three points ahead of Fenerbahçe. A point was enough to take ...

The Readers CL XI - Central Midfielders

We're begining to get to the buisness end now. If you haven't been paying attention, at the CL Offside, we've been offering you the chance ...

The 2007/8 Champions League. In Numbers.

This season's Champions League is quickly drawing to a close. Just two teams remain, Chelsea and Manchester United. So while the CL Offisde team prepares ...

Title Watch: Pray for Victory

There are title races all over Europe this weekend. Some will get decided over the next two days, others are going to take a little ...

Daily Dose 4.28.08

Something to read while you take a fastball to the face*... Fenerbahçe fans attack Mateja Kežman (Turkey Football) MLS rookie salaries in 2008 (From College to the ...

Victory!!!!!!!!!!! Galatasaray 1-0 Fenerbahce, the CimBom tears apart the canaries.

It was an amazing match. The house was packed with CimBomlu and Fenerli fans. People had to sit on the floor to get a decent ...

The great Istanbul Derby- Galatasaray hosts eternal enemies Fenerbahce

I'll just say it very bluntly. We have to win tomorrow. It's as simple as that. If we want to be champions, we have to ...

Some old Nostalgia: Galatasaray 5-1 Fenerbahce (including a goal by Ribery!)

Countdown to the Great Derby-Galatasaray v.s Fenerbahce

This Sunday, the whole of Turkey will be fixed on one match. The great Istanbul derby between Galatasaray and Fenerbahce. What makes this seasons derby ...

2 to Tango. 2 more to join in today.

Have you guys seen Marlon Brando's Last Tango in Paris? It was about passionate love story on 2 oddly matched lovers. One was 50 years ...

Chelsea 2, Fenerbahce 0 -- In Pictures

Shocking! It's Liverpool v Chelsea

Noooooooooo.  It can't be. Oh, it is.  It's Scum v Chelski part 3! It had to be didn't it?  Chelsea booked its place in the Champions ...

Episode 18: We're Legal!

That's right. Our little podcast turns 18 today. We can vote, we can go to war, and in several of the more enlightened ...

Chelsea FC - 2, Fenerbahce SK - nil

I was hoping for more from the talented Brazilians -- ehr-ehm, Turks. Uneventful game. See the BBC live text. UPDATE: How wrong I was. ...

Champions League Matchday 10: It all Comes Down to This

Here's what happens after today: Two happy teams go on, and two heartbroken teams go home to pull the covers over their heads and ...

Matchday, 2nd Leg

Tonight we have Chelsea FC v Fenerbahçe SK -- who can tell us what 'SK' stands for? -- at Stamford Bridge in Southwest London and ...

Genclerbirligi 0-1 Galatasaray, Rejoice CimBom, the dragon has been slain!!!!!!!

So there I was hanging out with my friend on a fine New York Saturday morning when I recieved a phone call on my cell ...

Kazim squared backs Chelsea in CL

Fenerbahce striker C. Kazim Kazim lets us know how many goals he thinks Chelsea will score in tomorrow's CL quarterfinal second leg at Stamford Bridge. ...

Predictions: Its all about the numbers

We are on the doorsteps for the semis but we don’t know who all will be knocking the door. So we have cleared the confusions ...

The Ultimate QF Second Leg Preview

So its nearly upon us. The excitement as 4 more teams dreams of reaching Moscow are cut short and they go home to ponder Rome ...

Mark Your Calendars

In the Semi-Final slots in the middle, who's badges do you see? It would shock a few if Schalke 04, Fenerbahçe or AS Rome get ...

Kezman: 'Where is Special One?'

Mateja Kezman, Serbian & ex-Chelsea, had some insightful comments about the shape of his old team against Fenerbahçe this week. He put voice to something ...

Kezman releases first of likely many no sh*t? comments

What did young Mateja have to say you ask? Here ya go. "Chelsea without Mourinho is not the same. Under Mourinho they were a machine which ...

Fenerbahçe 2 - Chelsea 1 (tactical assessment)

Game of two halves. Chelsea opened very much themselves, although with a lonely Drogba the sole point and without a whole-hearted commitment forward. The own-goal caroming ...

What He Said - The Quarter-Finals in Quotes

SO as we have reached Half-Time in this years Champions-League Quarter-Finals, it seems appropriate to see what the great and good made of the ...

CL Recap: The gift that keeps on giving

At the start, Fenerbahce were run ragged, as if they were a pub team.  In the end, it was Chelsea who resembled part-timers. Funny little world ...

Deivid Is Clark Kent In Disguise

Deivid has had an absolutely fantastic Champions League campaign, from his monster of a goal against Internazionale to the two late goals against Sevilla to ...

Fenerbahce 2, Chelsea 1 -- In Pictures

Quick before it gets taken away - THAT Deivid strike

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Turkish Turnaround, and Lucky Liverpool - HT in the QF

Its now halftime in the QF of this season's Champions League, with the other two first legs played this evening. Both ties are well and ...