Articles tagged with "world-soccer"
Daily Dose: September 29th, 2009
By Daryl | September 29th, 2009Something to read while you enjoy Pablo Hernandez's juggletastic goal for Valencia vs Atletico Madrid this weekend: The Irish national team's new stadium. Eventually. (Pitch Invasion) Should ...
Daily Dose: September 28th, 2009
By Daryl | September 28th, 2009Something to read after you watch Nantes defender Remy Mareval score this insane goal from kickoff vs Nimes: Originally spotted on Off the Post, but then ...
Use Football to Learn Languages!
By Daryl | September 28th, 2009Not entire languages of course. Just the football words. Because football is global, it's a great way to learn about other cultures. Most recently, Alessio posted ...
Revierderby Madness: A "Wembley Goal", Celebrating in Front of Opposition Fans, and a Possible Backwards Headbutt
By Daryl | September 28th, 2009Plenty of drama in the Revierderby this weekend, where FC Schalke 04 won 1-0 at BVB Dortmund's Westfalenstadion. First there was the "did it cross the ...
Torres, Zlatan, Messi and Villa: Are Player to Player Comparison Arguments Ultimately Pointless?
By Daryl | September 27th, 2009Yesterday, I posted video of Fernando Torres' hat-trick vs Hull. Mostly because I just wanted to celebrate and share video of an impressive achievement by ...
Fernando Torres is Ridiculously Good at His Job
By Daryl | September 26th, 2009He may look like your awkward freckly teenage nephew (or maybe even niece) but Fernando Torres is arguably the most graceful goalscorer around these days. ...
So Far, So Good for Zlatan and C-Ron
By Daryl | September 25th, 2009You know how sometimes big money transfers don't work out? I'm thinking Andriy Shevchenko at Chelsea, Juan Sebastian Veron at Man Utd, Denilson at Real ...
Daily Dose: September 24th, 2009
By Daryl | September 24th, 2009Something to read while Mark Hughes and Alex Ferguson answer some tough questions about the Manchester derby... [Talksport Mag via The Spoiler] The return of Gary Neville's ...
A Football Team is? Or a Football Team Are?
By Daryl | September 24th, 2009We love a linguistics debate here on The Offside, so I wanted to bring up a question that constantly confuses me: A football team is, ...
Soundoff: Nominate Your Underrated Footballers
By Daryl | September 23rd, 2009The Manchester derby post-match talk was dominated by debates about time-keeping. So much so, no one seemed to notice that Darren Fletcher scored twice. Which is ...
Sol Campbell Shows David Beckham How It's Done
By Daryl | September 23rd, 2009Notts County are in the news again. The English League Two club were bought by billionaires, installed Sven Goran Eriksson as director of football, and ...
The Offside, El Fuera de juego, Il Fuorigioco, Das Abseits, Le hors-jeu
By Daryl | September 21st, 2009Apologies for the Google Translate inspired translations in the title. Any language mangling was unintentional. I just wanted to get your attention. Longtime Offside readers will ...
Should Soccer Have a Visible Game Clock?
By Daryl | September 21st, 2009Plenty of controversy following Sunday's Manchester derby and Michael Owen's late late winner for Man Utd. I don't want to get into the question of ...
Spartak Moscow Pitch Invader Shows the Pros How to Take a Penalty
By Daryl | September 21st, 2009UPDATE: Seems Rob beat me to posting this video over the weekend. Ah well, now we get to enjoy it twice I suppose. Every fan dreams ...
Offside Rewind: Who Wants It?
By Daryl | September 18th, 2009Seven links from the last seven days on The Offside and WorldCupBlog. 10 players that never made a World Cup You do what Sir Alex says, or ...
Daily Dose: September 18th, 2009
By Daryl | September 18th, 2009Seven finger-clickin' links for you, but first please enjoy this fan footage of Glenovan's Kyle Neill having his penalty saved and then missing the most ...
CFR Cluj vs FC København: Proof That Extra Assistant Referees are Pointless?
By Daryl | September 18th, 2009While discussing the debatable usefulness and potential loneliness of the Europa League's extra assistant referees yesterday, we got a great tip-off from Vlad in the ...
How Much is Leo Messi Earning at Barcelona?
By Daryl | September 18th, 2009Big news on the official Barcelona website today is that Leo Messi has signed a new, improved contract with the Blaugrana. They even have a ...
When Graeme Souness Planted the Galatasaray Flag in Fenerbahçe's Pitch
By Daryl | September 18th, 2009When it comes to antagonizing opposition fans, Emmanuel Adebayor is a mere amateur next to Graeme Souness. Souness was managing Galatasaray in 1996, and his team ...
Daily Dose: September 17th, 2009
By Daryl | September 17th, 2009Something to read after you enjoy C-Ron's appearance on Crackòvia... No idea what they're saying, but for some reason I still chuckled. There's a Barcelona ...
The Loneliness of the Europa League Extra Assistant Referee
By Daryl | September 17th, 2009Today was the start of the Europa League, and the full debut of UEFA's experiment with goal-line referees, one of whom is pictured above looking ...
How the Bundesliga Could Take Serie A's Fourth Champions League Spot
By Daryl | September 17th, 2009I'm not a huge fan of the UEFA Champions League group stages, especially not in the early matches as it all feels a bit pointless. ...
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 ...
Top 20 Goal Celebrations
By Daryl | September 17th, 2009The recent Emmanuel Adebayor controversy had me thinking about goal celebrations, which led me to this excellent YouTube video featuring 20 of the best. Plenty of ...
Daily Dose: September 16th, 2009
By Daryl | September 16th, 2009Links to click after you enjoy this bit of skill from Marseille's Mamadou Niang... Champions League highlights and reaction (CL Offside) Top 5 playmakers in the world ...
English Premier League to Grow Their Own
By Daryl | September 16th, 2009There's a bit of a shakeup happening in the world of football right now, with more than one organization taking steps to self-correct the problems ...
Champions League Matchday 1 Wednesday LiveBlog (or More Specifically: Inter vs Barça)
By Daryl | September 16th, 2009It's the Wednesday portion of Champions League Matchday One. Eight games, but there's really only one game if you're a neutral. I'm talking of course ...
UEFA Champions League 2009/10 Prize Money
By Daryl | September 16th, 2009When Michel Platini's plan for clubs to spend only what they earn take effect, then prize money is going to get extra important. So now's ...
Daily Dose: September 11th, 2009
By Daryl | September 11th, 2009Something to read while you experience 45 seconds as a Luton Town fan, with Oxford United about to take a penalty against your team... Meet Jim ...
"Baby Champions League" for Youth Teams?
By Daryl | September 11th, 2009Not sure is this is an actual story yet, or still just a rumour, but Italian website Datasport is claiming that we're about to see ...
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