Articles tagged with "players"
Matchday 15: PSG vs. Auxerre
By Thomas | November 27th, 2009Thankfully this guy won't be there to bother our struggling defense tomorrow. Tomorrow at 19:00 CET this lower-midtable club from Paris will welcome lofty league leaders ...
Video of the Week: Italian Championship of footballer's driving speeds
By Francesco | November 27th, 2009Towards the end of last season, Italian satirical news program Striscia la Notizia had a segment called "Campionato Italiano Velocità Calciatori" (or the Italian Championship ...
Insight into the Salary Situation
By Thomas | November 25th, 2009A few days ago Lyon blogger Inara sent me a link to an article from January 4th 2009 on Portuguese site Futebol Finance. It contained ...
Cassano is becoming quite the author: he has released a second book
By Francesco | November 25th, 2009As we know by now, last fall Cassano released his autobiography (in collaboration with SKY commentator Pierluigi Pardo) entitled "Dico Tutto", and it immediately became ...
FC Bayern Munich vs Maccabi Haifa: Preview
By Luke | November 25th, 2009Bayern Munich will take on Maccabi Haifa this afternoon at 2:45 p.m. EST to try to keep its Champions League hopes alive. Bayern need ...
Serie A Goals of the Week: Giornata 13
By Francesco | November 24th, 2009Francesco Totti caught up with Antonio Di Natale at the top of the top scorer's chart with 9 goals after his hat-trick vs. Bari at ...
Louis van Gaal's Nursery
By Luke | November 23rd, 2009'A player can't choose which position he wants to play in, This is not a musical request program and it remains a decision exclusively for ...
Preview: Juventus v. Udinese
By roberto | November 21st, 2009Sunday sees Udine's depleted squad come to town for what Juventus fans can only hope will be an epic display of ruthlessness and unreserved determination ...
Costinha plays for Atalanta. Oh you didn't know? Neither did anybody.
By Francesco | November 19th, 2009As the title reads, former Portuguese international and ex-Mourinho pupil Costinha plays for Atalanta and is probably the biggest waste of money in all of ...
Bobo Vieri is going to live in Brazil for a couple of months, and play some football on the side.
By Francesco | November 16th, 2009Recently, it was reported everywhere that Christian Vieri was hanging up his boots. Vieri, at one time one of the most feared strikers in all ...
Pitch Invader wants Cassano
By Francesco | November 15th, 2009I know, the Cassano-National Team debate is getting old and boring. But this was too funny. In the 5th minute of the game yesterday, a ...
Azzurrini lose to Hungary, qualification in doubt, worst Italy U-21 team of all time?
By Francesco | November 13th, 2009The Italy U-21's continued their very disappointing qualifying campaign with another loss, this time away to Hungary. The Azzurrini needed a win to get back ...
Lippi-Cassano: The Real Reason?
By Francesco | November 10th, 2009Since Lippi has taken over the national team for a second time, the big question has always been, "Why aren't you calling up Antonio Cassano?" ...
Hooray for FC Hollywood
By Luke | November 10th, 2009First of all, apologies to all of you for a slow response to this most interesting of weekends. Although I don't blame the match, I've ...
Goals of the Week: Giornata 12
By Francesco | November 10th, 2009Fairly good week for goals, as only one game finished 0-0 (Catania-Napoli, but ask Takayuki Morimoto about that). The top scorer table is still wide ...
Fortress Ewood: 3 More points at home v Pompey + PODCAST?!
By Jimmy | November 8th, 2009Hello and welcome back to, what should be stable service one more, The Blackburn Offside. After my month long hell (aka internship) I am back ...
Atalanta - Juventus: "I'll trade you my Ciro for your Conte, maybe..."
By roberto | November 7th, 2009Antonio Conte was so close to taking the Juventus job over the summer and now he comes face to face with his old teammate Ciro ...
The Re-emergence of Raffaele Palladino
By Francesco | November 6th, 2009One of the players playing extremely well at the moment is Genoa fantasista Raffaele Palladino. Palladino has always been a player that could do things ...
FC Bayern vs Schalke 04: The Search For a Non-Stereotypical Storyline
By Luke | November 5th, 2009This is a terrific match for a lazy writer. So many storylines fall right into your lap. For this occasion, I could: a) ...
Great Serie A Games: Roma-Inter 1998/99
By Francesco | November 4th, 2009Roma-Inter from May of 1999 is another highly entertaining game from one of the most entertaining Serie A seasons of all time. The 1998-99 season ...
Cesc Crowned October's Player of the Month
By Martin | November 3rd, 2009It was just announced that Cesc Fabregas edged out Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba as the PFA Player of the Month for the month of ...
Haifa v. Juventus: Prove This Guy Wrong
By roberto | November 3rd, 2009"If Blanc wanted to show faith in Ferrara, he didn’t use the right words," Moggi writes in the Libero newspaper. "That sentence ‘there are no ...
Goals of the Week: Giornata 11
By Francesco | November 3rd, 2009A few nice goals this week, but nothing extraordinary. Giuseppe Mascara scored one of his trademark wonder-goals, and Marco Borriello got back on the scoresheet ...
Sochaux 1-4 PSG: Top Half of the Table!
By Thomas | November 2nd, 2009(unfortunately the first three goals of the match are unavailable for free on the internet) A few quick thoughts while you enjoy that beautiful Luyindula goal ...
Matchday 12: Sochaux vs. PSG or "Can it possibly get worse?"
By Thomas | November 1st, 2009As I'm sure you all know, last weeks Classico was postponed because Mamadou Sakho, Ludovic Giuly, Jeremy Clement, and Loris Arnaud contracted swine flu. The ...
Status Update: Diaby and Ben Arfa now friends!
By Sarah | October 31st, 2009We've all seen the video...you know the one I'm talking about (and if you don't its below the jump...and it is not a video displaying ...
Is Ben Arfa the new Niang?
By Sarah | October 31st, 2009Apparently he is the only one who thinks so! For those who watched the game this afternoon between OM and Toulouse, you may have noticed ...
Gignac: OM is the Club of my Heart aka the OM-Toulouse Match Preview
By Sarah | October 30th, 2009Match Background Gignac has already admitted the game this weekend against Marseille will be a "special'' moment. For those who don't know anything about Gignac beyond his ...
Sports and Politics..I guess they Mix in France
By Sarah | October 30th, 2009OM-PSG on the Assembly Benches "Yah! Always the same ones who are on the bench!" "On my mother, I am vexed!" Coming from America, I find it surprising ...
Fabrizio Miccoli: Giant Killer
By Francesco | October 30th, 2009Fabrizio Miccoli has really become the undisputed leader of Palermo. The diminutive fantasista, or il Romario del Salento as he is so aptly nicknamed, has ...
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