Articles tagged with "video"
Frank Lampard Gears up for International Thumb Wrestling Duties
By Bob | March 27th, 2007A lot of people are apt to point out Frank Lampard's shortcomings in international football. I am not one of them. I am ...
Dutch Referee Eric Braamhaar Celebrates a Goal
By Bob | March 23rd, 2007The goal in the video above seems simple enough. There is nothing spectacular about it. It was Ajax's fifth goal in a 5-1 ...
Shaun Wright-Phillips is a Diver
By Bob | March 22nd, 2007What did we used to do during international football weeks before the creation of Internet video? Probably talked about the virtues of the 4-4-2 ...
Wayne Rooney's Brother didn't get the Acting Genes
By Bob | March 21st, 2007You have to feel sorry for siblings of celebrity athletes. No matter how many bar fights they get into or how granny prostitutes they ...
Ronaldinho: The Early Years
By Bob | March 21st, 2007If you were born on March 21 you have the honor of sharing a birthday with Kevin Federline, Rosie O'Donnell, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Ronaldinho. ...
Edgar Davids Said Knock You Out
By Bob | March 19th, 2007It was that type of day for PSV Eindhoven in their 5-1 loss against Ajax. A 40-yard cannon of a shot from Edgar Davids ...
Tottenham Keeper Paul Robinson Scores Against Watford
By Bob | March 19th, 2007It has been quite the week for keeper goals. The video above shows Tottenham keeper Paul Robinson making a fool out of Watford and ...
Eintracht Frankfurt Fans Rock the Stadium, Literally
By Bob | March 16th, 2007The video of the Eintracht Frankfurt fans in Germany above is not new but I saw it for the first time today and it fired ...
Sevilla Keeper Andres Palop Scores 4 Minutes into Injury Time
By Bob | March 15th, 2007It was a bizarre one in Ukraine Thursday with the UEFA Cup holders Sevilla barely escaping elimination against Shakhtar Donetsk. The first goal in ...
Darts Fans Savage Robbie Savage
By Bob | March 15th, 2007Who knew that fans of the civilized sport of darts could be so unruly? The above video shows how very popular Blackburn Rovers midfielder ...
Football Bloopers, there have been a few
By Bob | March 12th, 2007Today is one of those sad news days when football players are on their best behavior. There is nary a sex scandal, barroom brawl ...
Great Goal Celebrations
By Bob | March 9th, 2007[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=fc1JcYQvrZo[/youtube] I always love it when a player scores a very routine goal and then proceeds to celebrate like he has won the World Cup. ...
Coventry's Scoop Free-Kick
By Bob | March 8th, 2007If you ever need a way to avoid doing work on Thursdays -- I'm venturing a guess that you do since you are reading this ...
Great Moments in Football Commentary
By Bob | March 7th, 2007Who needs Esperanto when there is the universal language of goal scoring celebrations? The video above doesn't feature any commentator singing, but it does ...
Keeper Scores from 30 Yards out to Tie the Game
By Bob | March 5th, 2007Sure the quality of play looks less than brutal and watching a match played on a pitch with pointyball lines can be nauseating and the ...
David Beckham could have a couple months to work on his painting skills
By Bob | March 5th, 2007Maybe it is all just part of a new advertising campaign. The ad will feature soft music in the background and David Beckham's voice ...
The Top 5 Free Kick Goals
By Bob | March 1st, 2007Since it isn't a democracy around here and since I didn't actually put this video together you have no reason to bitch and complain if ...
Araujo Ilan Scores a Super Bicycle Kick Goal for St Etienne
By Bob | February 27th, 2007If we all relied purely on match reports to learn what happened around the world of football we might think the sport is kind of ...
Carling Cup Craziness
By Bob | February 26th, 2007Even without a brawl, a frightening injury and 11 minutes of stoppage time, the Carling Cup final between Chelsea and Arsenal was outstanding. Arsenal's ...
The Genius of Gordon Strachan
By Bob | February 23rd, 2007Who says that football managers have to be boring? I could listen to Gordon Strachan talk about paint drying and the weather and he ...
The Problem with Goalkeeping
By Ivan | February 19th, 2007Times of Lev Yashin passed away. Now in Russia nobody wants to be goalkeeper. Almost every club in Premier League has a vacant first number ...
YouTube Friday, Or: Singing, Dancing Footballers!
By Martha | February 16th, 2007It's a little known fact that, in addition to scoring (nudge nudge) and winning, Italian footballers (as well as foreign players who play their trade ...
Spartak vs CSKA: hotter than Old Firm derby
By Ivan | February 16th, 2007Russian Premier League isn’t one of the greatest in Europe but we have something special down here. Nine hours flights for away games, three home ...
Chile vs. Italy – Battle of Santiago
By Bob | February 15th, 2007Don't you always love it when commentators wax poetically about how beautiful the game of football used to be while they deride the modern game? ...
The Best Goals of January 2007
By Bob | February 14th, 2007Now that we are halfway through February it is probably a decent enough time to take a deep breath and to analyze some of the ...
If only you got Credit for Hitting the Crossbar
By Bob | February 13th, 2007We have a new entry in our Hall of Fame of blown goals. At this rate we'll have to build a new building in ...
Streakers Unite at Soccer Match
By Bob | February 13th, 2007Wednesday is Valentine's Day and while you do you last minute shopping (nothing says love more than a cheap fantastic soccer ball necklace) the video ...
Worst Penalty Miss Ever?
By Bob | February 8th, 2007Just about anything can happen when a game is on the line and there is the pressure of a penalty spot kick. You could ...
China Olympic Soccer Team Brawls with QPR
By Bob | February 8th, 2007Pity the poor China Olympic soccer team. They thought that their trip London would be full of pleasant memories. They would take in ...
Sebastien Sansoni Takes a Bite at his Opponent
By Bob | February 7th, 2007If The Offside had a budget to hand out awards we'd offer up the Dumb Player of the Week trophy to French defender Sebastien Sansoni, ...
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