Articles tagged with "world-cup"
Breaking: Kalou shows some fight
By Jack | November 18th, 2009Chelsea forward Salomon Kalou and Abdoulaye Meite were both in the Ivory Coast squad to face Germany in Wednesday's international friendly (2-2 draw). Neither was ...
Raise a pint for the Irish, they deserve it.
By Jack | November 18th, 2009"Those that doubted football's cruelty ought to have been on hand here in Paris." -David Hytner of the Guardian, following Ireland's 1-1 draw (2-1 aggregate loss) ...
International Break: Bochum Go to South Africa
By Jan | November 18th, 2009It has been a bleak season for VfL Bochum. The club sits 17th in the table, switched coaches instead of fortunes and only had Hertha ...
Learning to Love Football's International Break
By Daryl | November 16th, 2009It's international break time in world football right now. Dates that FIFA has blocked out on the calendar for international play. Which means no club ...
VOTW: The Shootout That Changed A Nation
By Marcus | November 15th, 2009With all the international matches going on at the moment I thought it would be a good idea to re-live the moment in history that ...
The people have a right to know!
By Stephen | November 4th, 2009The Cassano v Lippi plot, although beginning to bore and stagnate somewhat, has taken yet another mildly interesting turn. Riccardo Garrone's comments about knowing why Cassano ...
The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend
By roberto | October 28th, 2009tic toc tic toc tic toc... KABOOM!!! Tonight won't be the type of showcasing you hoped it would Cassano. If I'm Ferrara I'm betting you have ...
Offside Rewind: There is No Escape
By Daryl | October 23rd, 2009Thanks to Jack for sending the above image to tips[at]theoffside[dot]com Here are seven strories you may have missed on The Offside and WorldCupBlog this week... Do you ...
Would You Rather: Club Win Champions League, or Country Win World Cup?
By Daryl | October 20th, 2009Just over a week ago, I gave everyone two hypothetical options. Option A: Your club wins the league title. Option B: Your country wins the ...
MLS to Break for (some of) World Cup 2010
By Daryl | September 17th, 2009Slowly but surely, Major League Soccer is getting there. What started as a league with a countdown clock (90:00 to 00:00) and wacky dribble-at-the-keeper shootouts ...
Summer Recap
By Kamran | July 11th, 2009Ladies and gentlemen, the definition of epic fail: "From Totti too. That’s my opinion. Shoo! He is ruining you! He is ruining you! Just like Real ...
Stoch is rising
By Jack | June 6th, 2009Here at Chelsea Offside, we'd like to offer our congratulations to Miroslav Stoch for scoring his first-ever international goal in Slovakia's 7-0 demolition of San ...
Offside Rewind: No Peeking
By Daryl | May 15th, 2009Seven stories from the past week on The Offside and World Cup Blog front pages. These World Cup bids need a tagline Definitely not the man for ...
Making the Grade: International week
By Jack | April 1st, 2009This is the first of what hopefully will be many installments of Making the Grade, a schoolboy look at Chelsea players, management, supporters, groundsmen, ticket ...
Photo of the Day: England's Brave John Terry
By Jack | April 1st, 2009Our beloved EBJT struck the winner five minutes from full time to lift England past Ukraine 2-1 in Wednesday's World Cup 2010 qualifier at Wembley. The ...
Weekend Quiz: World Cup Goal Scorers
By Laurie | March 28th, 2009Today's Weekend Quiz was put together in honor of all of the World Cup qualifiers going on 'round the world this week. Each one ...
Daily Dose: March 18th, 2009
By Daryl | March 18th, 2009Something to read while you wonder if Elmo really needs pajamas... Karel Bruckner re-retires (UEFA) Keeping an eye on the Azzurini (Italy WCB) Can celebrities have anonymous ...
Kevin Garnett Explodes the "If Only All American Athletes Played Soccer" Myth
By Daryl | February 26th, 2009Above is a new three stripes commercial, featuring Galaxy/Milan (delete as applicable) midfield man David Beckham and Boston/Celtics (what? oh, that's one team) power forward ...
Watch USA-Mexico With FC Pride Staff
By David | February 9th, 2009No gender discrimination with the FC Gold Pride -- and definitely no voodoo. We're all soccer fans here! ... The FC Gold Pride has invited ...
Daily Dose: December 30th, 2008.
By chris | December 30th, 2008Stuff to read while you enjoy the best of crazy in 2008........ Footballers attack one another over giant breasts at nightclub. Shocker. (101 Great Goals) The biggest ...
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 ...
John Barnes makes harsh comments about Bazza
By Martini Extra Dry | October 9th, 2008Has Gareth Barry got what it takes to be an important player for England? Not according to ex-Liverpool and England winger John Barnes. He has ...
A Heavenly Call Up? Angel On Lara's Radar
By Dave Martinez | September 18th, 2008With the absolutely humiliating display of football Colombia has been exhibiting lately, it was a foregone conclusion that technical director Jose Luis Pinto would have ...
What a Goal!
By Jake | September 12th, 2008Fantastic, fantastic, he IS simply fantastic. De Rossi scored yet another classic goal for Italy against Georgia and it was a double he scored just to ...
Russia - Wales World Cup qualifying match
By blackjack | September 10th, 2008After a very impressive Euro 2008, expectations for Russia's World Cup efforts have increased radically. In the start of their World Cup qualifying campaign Wales ...
England - Croatia World Cup qualifying match
By blackjack | September 9th, 2008After a 2-0 victory over Andorra, England faces Croatia in Zagreb tomorrow in one of the most anticipated matches of the early World Cup qualifying ...
While the country moans and complains, let's try and be positive
By Martini Extra Dry | September 7th, 2008The England game against Andorra was always going to receive negative press unless one of two things happened; 1. England went out there and put ...
Brazil - Chile World Cup qualifiers
By blackjack | September 7th, 2008In one of the most exciting World Cup qualifying matches this weekend, 6th ranked Brazil will face 40th ranked Chile in Santiago. The match is ...
Thursday Table Talk
By Greg | September 4th, 2008We're two matches into the season and the table is starting to take some sort of shape. I used to boycott putting the table ...
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