Articles tagged with "world soccer"
Is UEFA Ignoring Fan Violence?
By Daryl | May 14th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wp2GBsj-LQ[/youtube] The good people at 101 Great Goals are branching out into investigative journalism this week, and may have uncovered something. Seems there was more to the Polish Cup final than UEFA ar ...
The Most Generous Player in the Premier League
By Daryl | May 14th, 2008OK, so he's not technically in the Premier League anymore as Birmingham City were relegated last weekend. But Olivier Kapo is still pretty generous. Some clubs still use the boot-boy system, where an apprentive player is responsible for cleaning and ...
Good News/Bad News for Hakan Şükür
By Daryl | May 13th, 2008Good News: Galatasaray went into the final weekend of the Turkish Super Lig season three points ahead of Fenerbahçe. A point was enough to take the title. But Hakan Şükür scored the first gola in a 2-0 win that gave Galatasaray all three points ...
Portuguesa and Figueirense Split 10 Goals Down the Middle
By Daryl | May 13th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwvVRX93UjM[/youtube] With the State Championships done and dusted, the Campeonato Brasileiro got underway this past weekend. Conspicuous by their absence from Série A were Corinthians, victims of what happ ...
Croatia's Euro 2008 Anthem, by Slaven Bilić's Band Rawbau
By Daryl | May 12th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Vd8ubEmfA[/youtube] Croatia's coach Slaven Bilić quite literally rocks. This is the video for "Vatreno ludilo", the fan anthem Bilić and his band Rawbau have written and recorded for Croatia's Euro 2008 ...
Photo of the Day: Smokin'
By Daryl | May 12th, 2008There's plenty of scientific proof that smoking is harmful to your body. But there's no proof that it's harmful to your chances of Champions League football. Quite the opposite in fact. This is Vitória Guimarães coach Manuel Cajuda taking a ...
The 25 Most Valuable Soccer Teams in the World
By Daryl | May 12th, 2008The money obsessed people at Forbes recently revealed the world's top earning players and what they spend all that lovely money on. And very jealous we were too. So if Goldenball's salary was big enough to make your brain hurt, then stop reading n ...
10 Things We Learned in the Premier League
By Daryl | May 12th, 20081. Ryan Giggs has more Premier League medals than Andriy Shevchenko has goals Giggs scored the decisive second for Man Utd against Wigan to earn himself a tenth Premier League winners medal yesterday. That's a lot. Meanwhile Andriy Shevchenko was sc ...
The Offside Rewind: Bright Lights
By Daryl | May 10th, 2008Stories you may have missed on The Offside this week... Bribery in Romania. Or candies. We're not sure. 6+5=good or 6+5=bad? Youngsters staying put Name that goal (voting is tight) English FA make some demands The Premiership an ...
The Big Downside of 6+5
By Daryl | May 9th, 2008Yesterday, I posted about Sepp Blatter's determination for 6+5 (no more than five foreigners on any team, but you know that by now, right?) and how that was going to make greedy Premier League chief exec Richard Scudamore cry. I was sort of in favour ...
The Offside Podcast, Episdode 22
By Daryl | May 9th, 2008They say it's all donwnhill once you hit 22. And that proved right as technical glitches mean The Offside Podcast is a little late this week. Or, if you're a glass is half full type, then it's just in time for a weekend preview. Joining Ian this w ...
Tim Wiese Kicks Ivica Olic in the Head. And Gets Away With It
By Daryl | May 8th, 2008Oh yes he did. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGplCUlBCtw[/youtube] As spotted on the ever-excellent Bundesliga Offside, this is Werder Bremen keeper Tim Wiese's challenge on Hamburg striker Ivica Olic during the Bundesliga's northern ...
End of an Era at Barcelona
By Daryl | May 8th, 2008Wednesday was an unhappy night for Barcelona. In a semi-low key El Clásico at the Bernabéu, Barcelona's players had to give newly crowned champions Real Madrid a guard of honour. And then they lost 4-1. Samuel Eto'o missed the game through ...
That 1.7 million's Not a Bribe! It's for Chocolate and Candies!
By Daryl | May 8th, 2008Hats off (if you're wearing one) to Romanian champions CFR Cluj. The team won Romania's Liga 1 yesterday, beating Universitatea Cluj 1-0 to claim the first championship in the club's history and the first team from outside Bucharest to take the title ...
Scudamore Running Scared of Blatter's 6+5
By Daryl | May 8th, 2008Seems unfair to blame one man for everything that's wrong with an entire league. But I'm going to do it anyway, because chief exec Richard Scudamore seems to have made it his mission to personify the arrogance of the English Premier League. I'm still ...
Vote: What Should This Type of Goal Be Called?
By Daryl | May 7th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO8wYUiOrWs[/youtube] A few days ago, we attempted to name this move that Stefan Gislason pulled off to score for Brondby. We got a decent response with quite a few suggestions. So they're collected below in ...
Man Utd vs Chelsea, and Barack Obama vs Hillary Clinton
By Daryl | May 7th, 2008We don't do politics on The Offside, but we love a good analogy. And it was recently suggested to me that the Premier League title race between Man Utd and Chelsea is a mirror image of the US Democratic Primary between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinto ...
"2 Good 2 Bad" 2007/8 Premier League Highlights
By Daryl | May 7th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghiyzrG9UTI[/youtube] For those unfamiliar, Match of the Day is a BBC institution. A Saturday night highlight show that's been around for as long as most people can remember, currently hosted by Gary Lineker ...
Ronaldinho Has Left the Building
By Daryl | May 7th, 2008I've got some news for you. The Ronaldinho we knew and loved in 2006 is gone, and he's not coming back. That Ronaldinho was young, happy and healthy. And the football he played was brilliant. For a while there it was as if YouTube existed purely to s ...
When Goalkeepers Score...
By Daryl | May 7th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF_3W53ALyw[/youtube] This magnificent strike is from Montgomeryshire Division Two in England, on April 26th. Montgomery Town goalkeeper Steve Goodwin was taking a free kick 78 yards away from the opposition ...
Football is the New Diplomacy as Ticket = Visa in Moscow
By Daryl | May 6th, 2008Remember how the Champions League Final was going to be a nightmare because it takes so long to get a Russian visa? There was pessimistic talk of Manchester United and Chelsea fans being unable to get their paperwork done in time and European club fo ...
Is the Premier League Top Four Unbreakable?
By Daryl | May 6th, 2008As Newcastle's unbeaten run came to an end against Chelsea yesterday, Kevin Keegan looked at Avram Grant's bench and saw Frank Lampard, Joe Cole and Andri Shevchenko lounging around. Then he looked at his bench and saw Cacapa. Then he decided the Pre ...
Arsenal Ladies Putting Arsenal Men to Shame
By Daryl | May 6th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0dgSlDGN_Q[/youtube] Another trophy-less season for Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal men. But another trophy-filled season for the Arsenal Ladies, who beat Leeds Utd Ladies 4-1 at the City Ground last night to ...
We Need a Name For This Type of Goal
By Daryl | May 5th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO8wYUiOrWs[/youtube] Stefan Gislason scored this magnificent opening goal in Brondby's 3-0 win over Nordsjaelland yesterday, but I can't properly enjoy it until I know what it's called. Is it a karate kick? ...
The Boca vs River Superclasico Dance Off
By Daryl | May 5th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlMSrw5Dq3U[/youtube] Above is Sebastián Battaglia's `14th minute header from a Juan Roman Riquelme corner, which gave Boca Juniors their first win over River Plate in three years. You might want to turn yo ...
10 Things We Learned in the Premier League
By Daryl | May 5th, 20081. Nani isn't much of an actor No doubt that Lucas Neill provoked him. But the poor man's Cristiano Ronaldo was stupid to headbutt the Aussie, and optimistic to think his belated dive to the floor clutching his face was convincing enough to save him ...
Wanted: Austria and Czech Republic Team Bloggers for Euro 2008
By Daryl | May 4th, 2008As part of our Euro 2008 coverage we've got blogs set up for all 16 teams. And 14 of those team blogs are in very good hands right now (seriously.) But two of them still need bloggers. So we're putting the call out for Austria and Czech Republic ...
Nani's Headbutt: the Video
By Laurie | May 4th, 2008Best quote from this video? "I think Lucas mighta provoked him a bit, and Lucas has gone down a bit easy." No kidding. But in the end, it's Nani with the red. It didn't affect this game, which ended with a 4-1 ManU thumping of West Ham. ...
Soccer Streaker Strips for Playboy
By Daryl | May 4th, 2008Remember Tiffany May? She was the red, white and blue "streaker" at the USA vs Honduras U-23 match not so long ago. I say "streaker" because Tiffany was actually still wearing underwear as she ran across the pitch (which is actually an impressive fe ...
Daily Dose 5.3.08
By Daryl | May 3rd, 2008Something to read while You Suck at Photoshop... Sponsors not on board with Ronaldo's latest venture (Huffington Post) Not everyone agrees with Kaka's inclusion on the Time 100 (SoccerLens) FIFA wants your thoughts on MLS (MLS Rumours) Lower le ...
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