Articles tagged with "world-football"
Weekend Quiz, MLS Version: the Answers
By Laurie | November 23rd, 2008If you haven't taken this weekend's quiz, stop by this post and make your guesses, then come back here for the answers. Congrats to ...
IOSS: Wayne Calls In Sick
By chris | November 22nd, 2008Up this week: Sven hauls ass to the jungle voluntarily in search of reality fame; Jose stumbles onto old friends, taps them up; The Boy ...
Weekend Quiz: MLS Version
By Laurie | November 22nd, 2008Today we're doing an MLS Quiz in honor of the MLS Cup tomorrow. (Be sure to come back tomorrow, when I think Travis is ...
Offside Rewind: Shut Yer Mouth
By chris | November 21st, 2008William Gallas: One man's ode to Dumb & Dumber. Football's sugar daddies. Real men wear pink boots. Marc Janko's assault on history. Not everything is butterflies & cupcakes for ...
Betting Co. Offering £10,000 To First Player Who Does Ridiculous Goal Celebration
By chris | November 21st, 2008There are all kinds of legal hangups here, so that £10,000 may in fact end up costing the player, but it's a clever attempt from ...
Gallas' Rant Proves Costly; Autobiography Lessens The Blow.
By chris | November 21st, 2008Coming as a surprise to absolutely no one, William Gallas has been stripped of the Arsenal captaincy for his very uncaptain-like rant yesterday aimed at ...
What Motivates Footballers More: Pornography or Violence?
By Daryl | November 21st, 2008We found out about two unique methods of motivating footballers today. The first involves watching pornography as a reward for winning matches, the second involves ...
Will the Last DP to Leave MLS Please Turn Out the Lights?
By Laurie | November 21st, 2008Looks like we've got a veritable MLS Designated Player exodus on our hands this off-season. All "loans," of course. First we learned ...
When Flip Throw-Ins Go Wrong
By chris | November 19th, 2008What's the last thing you want on a cold, rainy day? How about an front flip followed by a ball fired off your face? This ...
Jogi Won't Give Jens His Tribute, So Rene Adler Does.
By chris | November 19th, 2008What a teammate. Or former teammate. Since Jogi Low wouldn't give Jens Lehmann his international swan song - deeming the fixture too important for team ...
UEFA Want Your Skill Submissions; Hideous Prize Awaits.
By chris | November 19th, 2008If you haven't checked out UEFA's Training Ground in the past, it's well worth a look now. They take the biggest stars and ask them ...
The 10 Richest Men in Soccer (According to Forbes)
By Daryl | November 19th, 2008Last week, Forbes announced it's list of the 10 Richest Men in Football. None of them are footballers. Though playing the game is spectacularly well ...
Lucas Viatri: Goalscoring Phenom/Accused Salon Burglar
By chris | November 18th, 2008Hard to imagine there are greater things as a 21 year old lad in Buenos Aires than being the next goalscoring superstar and scoring the ...
Robben's Agent Has A Cure For Real's Amateur Doctors: Fatty Food.
By chris | November 18th, 2008One doesn't have to be exceedingly brilliant to be an agent. Can be just the opposite, in fact. Pretty sure Arjen Robben's agent, Tscheu La ...
IOSS: Who Wants Chips?
By chris | November 18th, 2008Up this week: Wayne does Ruud Gullit, dreads and all, and gets a diet change; secret footage of Jose's secret non-meeting with the sheiks is ...
Ronaldo Plays Twenty Minutes for Charity; Zidane Goes an Hour
By Laurie | November 18th, 2008Watching charity matches is always a little surreal. Part footy match, part spectacle, part day trip away from the retirement home. I don't ...
Football Gets Even More Metro With The First Pink Boots
By Daryl | November 18th, 2008Football boots used to be one colour: black. Everyone was happy and no one wore a sarong. But football today is a very different sport. ...
Daily Dose: Nov 17th, 2008
By Daryl | November 17th, 2008Something to read while you wonder what the age difference is in this tackle... Spotted on the appropriately named (and excellently written) Dirty Tackle Wii + lego ...
Marc Janko's Attempt To Turn In Modern Europe's Greatest Season
By chris | November 17th, 2008Less than 10 days ago Marc Janko was a Name To Remember. Since then, he's gone from "hey, remember my name" to "hey, I think ...
Catania Players Drop Shorts, Score Goal Through Indecent Exposure.
By chris | November 17th, 2008I'll let Yahoo explain this one: Catania's forward Gianvito Plasmati, right, is seen with his shorts down as his teammate Giuseppe Mascara, left, scores on a ...
Pitch Invader Floored by Flying Knee to the Face
By Daryl | November 17th, 2008This video isn't new, but it is funny. I think it's from Israel's Tel Aviv derby between Maccabi (yellow) and Hapoel (red). One foolish pitch ...
The Offside's Awards for the "Western" Conference Final
By Laurie | November 16th, 2008Once again, we are here to ignore the obvious and give the players, teams and advertisers the awards they really deserve: The "Sarah Palin Commemorative Award ...
Weekend Quiz Answers: The Stadiums
By Daryl | November 16th, 2008If you haven't already tried the quiz, go take a look at the eight football stadiums we asked you to name. Congrats to Shazback, who was ...
Heurelho Gomes Continues His Ode To Paul Robinson
By chris | November 15th, 2008Tottenham fans must've thought they were making an addition by subtraction in getting rid of Roboslop in the summer. Added bonus being his not-all-that-inexpensive replacement ...
Weekend Quiz: Name These Stadiums
By Daryl | November 15th, 2008Name of the game this weekend is name that stadium. Eight football stadiums from around Europe and South America. Can you name the stadium and ...
Offside Rewind: Celebration Time.
By chris | November 14th, 2008Arsenal should be in the Championship. If footy bloggers ruled the universe. Brazil's search for the country's sexiest fan. Italy's all-refugee football club. Didier Drogba flings currency into the ...
Ronaldo's Doppelgänger Gets A Job In Porn
By chris | November 14th, 2008Even better, Ronaldo's doppelgänger - basically some chunky bloke grew some chin fuzz and a quasi-afro - his real name unknown as of yet, got ...
Everton Should Be The Best Team in the World by 2012
By Daryl | November 14th, 2008As Chris has already mentioned, crack-cocaine addictive computer game Football Manager 2009 was released today, meaning pets everywhere will be going unfed. Sorry Fido. One real-life ...
The Offside's Awards for the MLS Eastern Conference Final
By Laurie | November 14th, 2008We all know the usual awards after a big game, right? MVP, Best Goal, blah blah blah. Those are so boring. So, ...
Christmas for the Fan: Football Manager 2009 Released
By chris | November 13th, 2008Time to close the books, let your boss know your productivity levels will hover somewhere around Dubya's approval rating, buy some Febreze/air freshener as a ...
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