UEFA Cup begins to thaw as Olympiacos aims to heat up Piraeus

The wait is finally over. The UEFA Cup finally returns to action on Wednesday, and Olympiacos fans are anticipating another climactic encounter as Saint-Etienne pays ...

Saturday Junk Pile: And then Totti Said to Mexès...

A few of the things that made me smile this week, but which weren't big enough for an entire post: That was when Francesco realized, ...

Video of the Week: Italy-Brazil

With the big hype surrounding the Italy-Brazil friendly this coming Tuesday, I thought it would be a good idea to show all the big games ...

Gourcuff Keeps His Pants (But Nothing Else) On

Yoann Gourcuff must have heard that a punk kid with his name (mostly) was trying steal his Best Hairless French Torso title, because he was ...

Another Stripping Yoann (More Or Less)

This one's actually a "Yohan," but when they're nearly naked, who's worrying about spelling? Everyone, meet Yohan Mollo. He plays for AS Monaco (and is ...

Daily Dose: Jan 26th, 2009

Something to read while you watch London's most expensive pest controller in action.... Dani Alves: second best player in the world (Guardian) Robbie Keane to cross Merseyside ...

AEK caught up in Cufré chase

While AEK's presidential search has overshadowed much of the transfer gossip surrounding the OAKA Spyro Louis Stadium, AEK's pursuit of troubled Argentine Leandro Cufré has ...

Fan Voted UEFA Team of the Year Announced

Surely millions of fanboys and fangirls couldn't have shown half a noggin? Surely not. Surely there was lots of bickering between who has the better ...

My Favorite Things of 2008, Part III

Chris and Daryl started this one out (although Daryl's was technically his "favourite" things, which I believe is entirely different.) Now it's my turn, ...

Poll: Should Football Punish Footballers for Off-Field Crimes?

The big naughty footballer news from France yesterday was Lyon's French international Sidney Govou being caught by the gendarmes while driving with five times too ...

Who will be next for Panathinaikos?

About twenty-four hours after Panathinaikos sealed its spot in the first knockout round of the UEFA Champions League, the ‘Trifylli' are now awaiting their next ...

Marseille Fans Want Us Dead, How Lovely!

The club received over 200 threats from Marseille fans, all threats against the supporters that want to travel to the Vélodrome. The e-mails, written in ...

good news on Louis Saha

Stretchered off in the weekend match against Harry Redknapp's Tottenham the first reports of Louis Saha's injury were far from optimistic. With talk of either ...

A Day of Thanks

Today is Thanksgiving in the US, and we've decided, like most Americans will do, to go around our Offside round table and list some things ...

Of course Raymond choose him, he's a Pisces!

The mad-cap manager of Les Bleus, Raymond Domenech, in releasing his club list for upcoming friendly against Uruguay decided against calling up PSG's brilliant striker ...

Daily Dose: November 11th, 2008.

Stuff to read while you listen to Emmanuel Adebayor mimic a wounded cow in labor..... The regression of the Roman derby. (Football Italiano) You're a lot more ...

Name To Remember: Marc Janko.

There was a link to the story on Marc Janko with FIFA in the Daily Dose yesterday, so I decided to check out the Red ...

PSV visits Olympique Marseille

As PSV visits Olympique de Marseille in their fourth match of the Champions League, their slim chances of advancing to the knockout "round" are contingent ...

The French Act Like Grownups, Avoid Footy Strike

French footy fans, rejoice. There will be games this weekend. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about the probability that a strike ...

Midweek, Pre-Derby News

[Quansah jubilating, as Getty would say.] •Ben Saada played 10 minutes of Tunisia's 1-3 friendly loss to France yesterday. Friendly or not, it was a big ...

The Loveliness of Philippe Mexes

Philippe Mexes. He is French by nationality, but he's played for AS Roma for so long that the Italians consider him one of their own. Unfortunately he ...

Its Italy & De Rossi talks Roma

I have to say I never watched the recent Italy game vs. Bulgaria. My internet hasn’t been working so I didn’t get to see it, ...

Better Flying Kick: Cruijff or Cantona?

We thank The Guardian, who thank Zlatan Ibrahimovic for reminding them, for reminding us of this goal, scored by one Hendrik Johannes Cruijff. A guy ...

Weekend Quiz Answers: Who Were Those Legends?

First, if you haven't yet done our Weekend Quiz, stop by this post to see if you can identify our players. So who were ...

10 Things We Learned From Champions League Matchday 2

4 seeds are the new 3 seeds; or, Transylvanians, Cypriots & Belarusians are legit. BATE were very fortunate to be eying a blonde Austrian rather than ...

Don't @#$% With Franck Ribery's Money

Agents are, shall we say, less than favorable people. To be an agent one doesn't have to be exceedingly brilliant, but being a charlatan, swindler ...

Gallery: Chelsea 4, Bordeaux 0

Gourcuff & Diarra Against Serbia

I couldn't watch the game as I was in school, but reports (and friends) say that Gourcuff had a fantastic 90 minute showing against Serbia ...

Il Grifone in international duty

With the international break nearly over, the Rossoblu attention will be turning to the weekend task against A.C. Milan. The Rossoneri will certainly be dealing ...

New Team mate, look alike?

Just to make a little post, since we haven’t seen much De Rossi news as of late, although later a post (By Michele or myself) ...