Just How Corrupt is European Football?

It's difficult to answer that question with any precision. But seems the answer is "a lot more corrupt than we realized". Because German prosecutors think ...

Learning to Love Football's International Break

It'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 ...

The Offside's Utterly Unofficial Awards for Chicago - RSL. The "Eastern" Conference Finals

Final score Chicago 0-0 RSL aet, RSL takes it on penalties, 5-4. First, just like last year, we have to go with the "AMERICANS SUCK AT ...

LA 2-Houston 0. The Offside's Utterly Unofficial Awards for the MLS Western Conference Championship

It's that time again! The time to give the Utterly Unofficial MLS Playoff awards that the teams, players and owners really deserve. ...

Daily Dose: November 13th, 2009

Something to read while you support your national team hanging out the window of a moving vehicle. On Friday 13th. FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images World Cup playoff preview ...

Rémi Gaillard: Foot 2009

I know this isn't new. I also know that Chris already posted it on Water Cooler Offside. But I don't care. It's Friday, and this ...

Water Cooler Offside: Take a Gulp

Please allow me to bring one of the newer Offside blogs to your attention. It's called Water Cooler Offside, and it's written by Laurie, Chris ...

The German Cure-All To Diving: Just Ask.

We've all done it. Tried to decipher the means, motives and mayhem behind a certain situation all within the whirling storm of our minds, failing ...

Djurgårdens Fans Not Good at Celebrating, or: Why You Should Support Assyriska in 2010

I didn't really have a favourite Swedish Superettan (second tier) team to support until recently. But then Luka emailed The Offside and persuaded us to ...

A Night of Mourning.

German Keeper Robert Enke Passes Away, 32.

Tragic news coming through this evening: German national team and Hannover 96 keeper Robert Enke has died through what most outfits are calling an apparent ...

My 10 Favourite Foreign Language Football Phrases

One of my favourite things about The Offside and WorldCupBlog is that we're a bit international. As a result, I've been exposed to a lot ...

Is There a Name For Zlatan's Trick vs Mallorca?

I hope everyone has seen Zlatan Ibrahimovic's magical assist for Barcelona vs Mallorca this weekend. I saw it live on TV and instinctively applauded. Even ...

Story Of A Diver: David N'Gog Ends His Career Before It's Begun.

[101GG] This is bad. So very, very bad. Liverpool and Birmingham offered us, as Daryl so aptly pointed out, 'what the Premier league is supposed to be ...

Daily Dose: November 9th, 2009.

Cameron Jerome adds his submission for Premiership Goal of the Year. [101GG] Girls' soccer is the new WWE. (Unprofessional Foul) A kind word heals all wounds. (Studs Up) Everybody ...

We Can Be Heroes, Just For One Day

This weekend, is a magical weekend in English Football, it's the first round of the FA Cup. While in other countries knockout cup trophies don't ...

The Appeal of Hating a Great Footballer

Albert Camus, the philosopher, author and football fanatic, was once asked that if he had to choose between football and the theatre, which he would ...

The Offside 100: 2000-09, THE RESULTS!

Last week, I asked you to vote for you favourite 20 players of the decade, here in this very post, are the Top 100 players ...

Soundoff: Nominate Your Favourite Football Films

Movies and soccer. Two things that traditionally don't mix well. In documentary form, maybe. But in scripted Hollywood form? No. For various reasons, it usually ...

Meet Elizabeth Lambert, the Roughest Soccer Player in the World

I've seen the above game described as a "catfight", but that absolutely does not do it justice. Bringham Young University vs New Mexico in the ...

That Was Quick: Spanish Supremacy In Danger.

While all were oohing and aahing over Barcelona's sex on a pitch football and the free-spending ways of Florentino Perez returning to Madrid, the biggest ...

Soundoff: Best Player/Manager In History (Uberman).

Earlier in the week we mentioned Johan Cruijff's return to the sidelines for the Catalonia national team. In the process, a certain sentence spilled across ...

The Offside 100: 2000-09

As I let you know back when I posted up this year's FFT100, I'm a bit of a junkie for lists. They are utterly meaningless, ...

The Headline That Writes Itself.

Ronaldo? Andy Reid? A bloated Ronaldinho after a night on the town? Hardly. Thailand's top footballers will receive free burgers as part of their new three-year, ...

Champions League Matchday 4 Live Chat Chit

Champions League Matchday 5 Day 2 Live Chat Chit

Would You Rather: Win the Ballon d'Or or the FIFA World Player of the Year Award?

Most would agree that the Ballon d'Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year awards are the two biggest individual honours a footballer can ...

Champions League Live Chit Chat With Valeriy Gazzaev's Moustachio.

Champions League Day 4 Liveblog

Nike's Airport - Norwegian Style.

This is slightly late in the game, as it's a preview for the Norwegian 2009 Tippeligaen. The same Tippeligaen season which ended on Sunday. (Rosenborg ...

The Dreaded Wardrobe Malfunction. But French.

[Spotted on l'OM Offside] Fantastique blog fodder from Marseille's favorite bench-riding l'enfant terrible Hatem Ben Arfa, who had a slight wardrobe malfunction this weekend. Summoned to ...

Football Clubs Need to Think About Prenups for Managers

Is it just me, or are football clubs digging deep deep holes for themselves every time they sign a manager to a big money multi-year ...