It's a Shame we're not in the Champions League

Says Luca Toni and says Uli Hoeneß. And it's probably old habits that make Bayern Munich speak more about the Champions League than the competition ...

Champions League: Previews

The new Champions League season (if you exclude all the qualifying matches) is less than an hour away and the Bundesliga clubs will start their ...

Weekly Dose 16.09.07

I had no time to do any blogging the past couple of days, so I decided to cover some of the football that I missed ...

Snapshot: Lukas Podolski's New Bicycle

adidas sponsored Chelsea denied adidas sponsored Michael Ballack to take part in a film shoot for a commercial with the adidas sponsored German national team, ...

Women's Football: Glass Half Empty / Half Full Attitudes

When it comes to women's football, I'm on the level of an eight year old child. To be more precise, like when I was eight ...

A Tale of Two Broadcasts: Wales 0-2 Germany

Germany beat Wales quite easily and effortlessly in Saturday's Euro 2008 qualifier and moved 8 points clear of third placed Ireland. Mathematically there is still ...

Weekly Dose 08.09.07

Some pieces for the puzzle that is Michael Ballack's non-nomination for the Champions League group stage. (Guardian sportblog) Michael Ballack speaks English and gets dubbed over ...

Hair: Bastian Schweinsteiger

Just because it didn't work for Beckham doesn't mean that Schweinsteiger should be denied his own bleach blonde experiment. He will captain the German national ...

Franz Beckenbauer's NASL Farewell Match

Some users on YouTube have remarkable collections of vintage football videos, and I hope that their accounts aren't as much in danger of being shut ...

UEFA Cup Draw: Relive the Excitement

Champions League: Bundesliga Clubs Favourites to advance

According to The Offside's godfather Bob that is. The draw for the Champions League group stage took place today, before I could even get the ...

Work out with Jens Lehmann

How Jens prepared himself for the match against England last Wednesday.And on a sad note: an achilles injury rules Jens out of Arsenal action for ...

Weekly Dose: Old Foes

Lots of England - Germany related things to read this time. They don't make Germany teams like they used to (The Independent) 11 Germans the English invited ...

Fan Made: Thank You for 2006

Danke für 2006 - Thank you for 2006. England fans pay tribute to last years World Cup hosts prior to the friendly between England and ...

Snapshot: Matryoshka Doll

Michael Owen - Arne Friedrich - Per Mertesacker. England 1 - Germany 2.

Snapshot: This is England

Chancellorette Angela Merkel and ex-Monty Python Terry Jones. England 1 - Germany 2.

Fun with Names (Post Match Update)

Pre-Match Loew blow as Germany's Frings suffers serious injury Frings get better for injured German star Löw finds high point in Germany injury woes Low in high spirits despite ...

Snapshot: Invisible Horse

(ex) England goalkeeper Paul Robinson. England 1 - Germany 2.

Definition: Meaningful Friendly (England 1 - Germany 2)

mean·ing·ful (mē´nĭng-fðl) friend·ly (frĕnd´lē) Germany First team to beat England at the new Wembley stadium Despite fielding a B-squad England Losing for the first time at the new Wembley stadium Against ...

Definition: Meaningless Friendly

mean·ing·less (mē´nĭng-lĭs) friend·ly (frĕnd´lē) Germany Defence: Marcell Jansen (injured), Clemens Fritz (injured) Midfield: Michael Ballack (injured), Torsten Frings (injured), Tim Borowski (injured), Bastian Schweinsteiger (injured

Mark von Bommel

You may or may not know that Bayern Munich's Mark van Bommel isn't on friendly terms with Dutch national team coach Marco van Basten - ...

Vagner Love scored for Brazil against Ghana in Sweden. And showed Moscow colors

Stockholm was the venue for international friendly between Brazil and Ghana. That wasn't an exciting remake of World Cup playoff match (remakes suck, actually) but ...

Russia vs. Estonia: Playing for Sevilla Makes Sense

Now it's clear that playing for European clubs improves Russian footballer's skill. Year ago Russian national team was like Italy or Saudi Arabia (closer to ...