Articles tagged with "fifa"
English FA Show Sepp's Suggestion the Red Card
By Daryl | March 18th, 2008You thought the debate about Martin Taylor's punishment for his tackle on Eduardo was over? Think again. FIFA were recently sniffing around the case, with ...
Forum Poster "Leaks" The Champions League Draw 90 Minutes Before It Happens
By chris | March 14th, 2008This is so ridiculous it's borderline laughable, but the facts are coming through and they're looking quite tempting. An internet poster on the Liverpool Echo ...
FIFA Giving The Old F-U To F-U-N
By chris | March 9th, 2008For the second time in two weeks, a Serie A player scored a decisive goal in a game, took his shirt off to celebrate and ...
The Teams for the Tournament
By Dave Martinez | March 3rd, 2008Ladies and Gentlemen, we have 32 teams! Now comes the hard part. I will be taking the better of 2-3 days (as necessary) to touch ...
Should UEFA have a say on hard tackles?
By Ian Rose | February 28th, 2008The media uproar around Martin Taylor's tackle on Eduardo, and the horrifying break that resulted, has begun to subside, leaving the questions of why this ...
Loyal readers who own 360s
By jon | February 28th, 2008My brother in blog, Dave, is setting up a Fifa08 tourney online, so if you're got a 360, sign up. You can play me, ...
Scudamore Fears the Wrath of Sepp
By Daryl | February 27th, 2008Premier League supersuit Richard Scudamore and his plans to play Premier League matches on the moon (I forget the details) took yet another step backwards ...
Episode 10
By Ian Rose | February 13th, 2008This podcast is brought to you by the Roman numeral X. We venture into the unknown world of double digits with our tenth podcast, expanding our ...
Six Plus Five = One Happy Sepp Blatter
By Daryl | February 6th, 2008We've been hearing about the six plus five rule for a while now. If you're not familiar, the proposed rule would mean every starting eleven ...
The Business of Football Turned On Its Head
By chris | January 31st, 2008On January 31, 2008 - a date which will go down in history for the economics of global football - The Court of Arbitration of ...
FIFA Bans Kenyans for Graft. But Jack Warner's Still Grafting.
By Laurie | January 26th, 2008Do the words "FIFA Corruption Investigation" make anybody else snicker? In a kind of cynical and jaded way? They shouldn't. I know ...
Clubs to Profit From Internationals
By Martha | January 21st, 2008As Chris reported last week, the G14 is being disappeared, along with the lawsuits the members clubs had been bringing against UEFA and FIFA in ...
Blatter Fears "Invaders from Brazil"
By Martha | November 27th, 2007FIFA President Sepp Blatter has found the real problem for international football, and it's nothing to do with bankrupt FAs, England being crap, or the ...
Dutch Cheese Has Fewer Holes Than I Thought
By Gianni | October 10th, 2007Wait, it's the Swiss one that has the holes right? Dammit, I knew something wasn't right. Either way, Fiorentina barely squeezing past our favorite Dutch Dairy ...
Chelsea Reserves and Chelsea Ladies UPDATE
By Andy | August 26th, 2007The Reserves kick off their season on Wednesday night when they take on the Reserves of Portsmouth FC at Havant and Waterlooville FC. As usual ...
Riddle Me this Mr. Cowherd
By Gianfranco | July 24th, 2007If American Football is so big and bad, then why does its glorious Madden video game franchise get consistently outsold by measly Soccer's Fifa Franchise...not ...
FIFA Asked to Uncover Lingering Tevez Transfer Mess
By Nick | July 18th, 2007Goodee. Well not actually, but it's about f*cking time this mess gets sorted out. I hardly reckon I'm the only United fan on planet Earth who's ...
The Law Rules in Lyon's Favor
By Inara | July 12th, 2007The end to the Nilmar saga has arrived. At least until Corinthians find yet another way to delay payment. In a press release, Lyon announced ...
Headgear ban apparently not applied to Copa América
By Ian Rose | June 28th, 2007As reported earlier in this blog, a FIFA regulation on uniforms and headgear has forced Scotland's first female Muslim football team to basically shut down, ...
Scottish women's team shut down by Hijab ban
By Ian Rose | June 25th, 2007Scotland is not a nation known for its diversity, but there are actually a number of pretty sizable Asian communities, several of them Muslim, and ...
Evo Morales is my hero
By Isaiah | June 13th, 2007This has nothing to do with Barcelona, but it warms the cockles of my cold, cold, second-place heart anyway. [From BBC] Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, has ...
UEFA Flaunts FIFA's High Altitude Ban
By Bob | June 8th, 2007It probably seemed like a good idea at the time they thought of it. Organizers of the EURO 2008 competition marked the one-year countdown ...
The Global Game: 270 Million Participate in Football
By Bob | June 1st, 2007According to the latest numbers from FIFA, 4% of the world's population – 270 million people in total – participate in football as players, referees, ...
The World Cup won't be held on Mt. Everest
By Bob | May 29th, 2007FIFA officially opened its new $196 million headquarters in Zurich on Tuesday in a fierce rainstorm, both literally and figuratively. Said Czar-for-Life Sepp Blatter: ...
Out, damned SFA head ... the John McBeth story
By Ian Rose | May 29th, 2007Yeah, when I saw this story, being both the Scotland beat blogger and a Shakespeare nerd, I got a little overwhelmed. I thought about ...
Figo in Contract Dispute with Al Ittihad. Already?
By Martha | May 28th, 2007It's seemed all along that the only way Luis Figo wouldn't join Al Ittihad next season would be if he broke his contract with the ...
FIFA to try out Four Linesmen System
By Bob | May 2nd, 2007With the exception of a certain octogenarian, we all know that is tough out there for referees. The game is played at such a ...
Dr. Sepp Blatter: Football is Ill
By Bob | March 23rd, 2007When you read a headline in which FIFA head honcho Sepp Blatter proclaims that "football is ill" you can interpret it a couple of ways. ...
Scotland 16th, and rising?
By Ian Rose | March 20th, 2007Hello everyone. First off, I'd like to introduce myself. My name's Ian and I'll be your blogger. Specifically, I'll be covering the ...
BREAKING: UEFA Lays Down the Post-Brawl Law
By Martha | March 14th, 2007UEFA's disciplinary committee just finished their meeting on the Inter-Valencia brawl, and the following punishments were handed down: •David Navarro: Seven months •Nicolas Burdisso: Six matches •Maicon: Six ...
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