Articles tagged with "world-cup-2010"
Video of the Week: L'Italia siamo noi
By Francesco | March 27th, 2009In honor of the national team break, I thought the video of the week should be national team-themed. Here's a great little video I found ...
Offshore Oscar's picks Mar-28, 29 - Uruguay or the highway
By Offshore Oscar | March 26th, 2009Last week was a nightmare from a betting standpoint, as we lost all three positions without even getting much of a thrill. But I prefer ...
Where's Cassano? Lippi still won't answer...
By Francesco | March 24th, 2009After seeing Marcello Lippi's latest national team call-ups this Sunday, the big question all over Italy has been "Where's Cassano?". The media has written articles ...
Offside Rewind: Get Your Own Shorts
By Daryl | February 20th, 2009Seven things you might have missed on The Offside and World Cup Blog this week: World Cup 2010 tickets finally on sale All hail Maraguero Michel Platini plans ...
Azzurri disappoint vs. Brazil, media still afraid of Lippi
By Francesco | February 10th, 2009So the big friendly everybody waited for lived up to it's billing as an entertaining encounter, but it was entertaining for Brazil fans. Carlos Dunga's ...
Offshore Oscar's picks Feb-11 – CONCACAF time
By Offshore Oscar | February 10th, 2009Arsenal and Hamburg each managed to disappoint in their own special way over the weekend, but my Serie A parlay came in to prevent a ...
Lippi makes call-ups and he's still perplexing Italians everywhere.
By Francesco | February 7th, 2009Usually we get the call-ups on Sunday afternoons, but with the Italy game being Tuesday we get Marcello Lippi's call-ups a day early. Lippi has ...
Video of the Week: Italy-Brazil
By Francesco | February 5th, 2009With 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 ...
Guilherme, Rincon Join Their Teammates In Spain
By Yevy | February 5th, 2009After a short break the second training camp in Marbella is under way for Dynamo. Yuri Semin continues to put his team through their ...
New Italy Kit Unveiled
By Francesco | February 4th, 2009Some of you remember a couple of months ago when I posted that Puma was planning to kit Italy with a light blue/brown shorts combo ...
Daily Dose: Jan 26th, 2009
By Daryl | January 26th, 2009Something 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 ...
Offside Rewind: What's That Smell?
By Daryl | January 16th, 2009It's seven stories you might have missed this week... Possibly the biggest transfer story, ever You've won WC2010 tickets, we just need your credit card details Times are ...
Diego Maradona Not Helping Argentina's World Cup odds
By Daryl | October 29th, 2008You won't be massively surprised to hear that Diego Maradona's imminent appointment as Argentina coach has had a negative impact on the albiceleste's World Cup ...
Brazil Favourites to Win World Cup 2010
By Daryl | October 14th, 2008Here are the latest odds from Paddy Power for World Cup 2010 winners: Brazil are favourites at 9-2 with Argentina second favourites at 5-1. Euro 2008 champs ...
Offshore Oscar's results for October 11, 2008
By Offshore Oscar | October 12th, 2008Another small win for the weekend was mixed with disappointment, as I was so confident in a Scottish victory that I decided to come to ...
Other Villans on duty
By Martini Extra Dry | October 12th, 2008Yesterday's international action saw no less than 6 Villa players selected for their nation's sides, 5 starting and one on the bench. None of our ...
Villan Barry plays the suck-ass half
By Martini Extra Dry | October 11th, 2008England have tonight gained a very convincing scoreline at Wembley against Borat's home nation. The first half featured three central midfielders; Barry, Lampard and Gerrard, ...
Video of the Week: Italy vs. Bulgaria
By Francesco | October 9th, 2008This Saturday our beloved Nazionale takes on Bulgaria in World Cup 2010 qualifying. Italy has a positive record vs. Bulgaria, playing 14 matches in total, ...
Offshore Oscar's picks for October 11, 2008
By Offshore Oscar | October 9th, 2008Another big weekend of World Cup 2010 qualifiers is upon us, and I’m hanging out in London now testing the lager taps and scanning for ...
Serie A Weekend Round-up: Giornata 6 (Plus Serie B + National Team Call-ups!)
By Francesco | October 6th, 2008At the end of the 6th Giornata we still saw surprises. Inter is top of the table, but they share a place with Lazio and ...
Offshore Oscar's results for September 10, 2008
By Offshore Oscar | September 10th, 2008We killed ‘em again, thanks to both the favorites we chose coming through exactly as planned and hoped. The Denmark side we loved so much ...
De Rossi leads Italy past Georgia
By Francesco | September 10th, 2008(first, sorry for the lack of posts the last two days, we'll be back on scheduled programming starting now) Daniele De Rossi scored his first ever ...
Croatia 1-4 England - At last England impress
By Martini Extra Dry | September 10th, 2008A Theo Walcott hat-trick and Wayne Rooney's first England goal in almost a year were enough to give England the victory in what was Croatia's ...
England vs Croatia preview
By Martini Extra Dry | September 9th, 2008The England national side tonight face the toughest game in their qualifying group; away to Croatia. No-one in England will have forgot the misery of ...
Offshore Oscar's picks for September 10, 2008
By Offshore Oscar | September 9th, 2008Flush with confidence from going 2 for 3 on the World Cup 2010 qualifiers on Saturday, we are coming back with a couple Wednesday plays ...
Inverness gives Ugandan a Chance
By Ian Rose | August 21st, 2008Dan Wagaluka has come over 7000 km to play for Caley Thistle, and Craig Brewster thinks that merits giving him a shot. The Ugandan ...
Blatter Putting Calls In For Plan B
By chris | July 10th, 2008While most people will gawk at Sepp Blatter putting his foot in his mouth yet again, the head cheese at FIFA actually said something yesterday ...
Olympiacos in Crespo chase
By Takis | July 8th, 2008It is reported that the Greek Champions are in a chase for the Argentinian striker. Recently released by Chelsea, Hernan Crespo is currently a free ...
Capello is Told that England WILL Make WC 2010 Semis. Or Else.
By Laurie | May 6th, 2008A quick check of my favorite fact source Wikipedia confirms the awful truth: When it comes to the World Cup, England is a quarterfinal team. ...
Javier Clemente Doesn't Know if He's Coming or Going
By Daryl | February 28th, 2008We waved goodbye to the world's oldest transfer rumour recently, and I think we're all better off for it. But now we have another saga ...
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