Articles tagged with "xabi-alonso"

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What now....

By Cesar | September 16th, 2009

Hello again everybody. I just read on As.com that Xabi's injury ig going to take him out of the nex two games, against ...

The Xabi Alonso Lesson: If You're Going To Sell, Sell.

By chris | September 2nd, 2009

Footballers have egos. A revelation! No. So often we hear footballers claim "such and such team wanted me more", only for fans to retort "he chased ...



The Premiership: Now Frugal.

By chris | September 1st, 2009

The window closed today, officially, so it's time to look back. A naked glance could tell you that spending in the Prem has been curbed, ...

Will Liverpool rally this season?

By Rob | August 25th, 2009

First off, apologies for my absence for a few days, it went a bit crazy my end over the weekend. Its all alright now though, ...

Daily Dose: August 18th, 2009.

By chris | August 18th, 2009

Stuff to read while you watch Robbie Fowler run out the ol' handstand-to-kick-in-the-face move..... Sad news: this is Mad Jens' retirement tour. (Deutsche Welle) The quotes of ...

Real Madrid 3, DC United 0

By jon | August 9th, 2009

Well, you kind of knew it was going to happen. For 45 minutes, United was able to frustrate Madrid, keeping compact and with great ...

Daily Dose: August 6th, 2009

By Daryl | August 6th, 2009

Something to read while you consider attending this Miami FC game... Bruce Grobbelar has a good grasp of irony (Bet Offside) Assessing Altidore's work permit case (SBI) Xabi ...

The Goal of 2009.

By chris | August 6th, 2009

This is, plain and simple, one of the best goals you will ever see. Not that every own-half goal isn't brilliant, it's just the pace, ...

Real Madrid Complete Their Quarter Billion Euro Summer Spending Spree

By Daryl | August 5th, 2009

With the €30m (plus extras) signing of Xabi Alonso, Real Madrid are finally done spending for the summer. Possibly because they've used up all the ...

Daily Dose: August 4th, 2009.

By chris | August 4th, 2009

Stuff to read while you casually chip one in with :03 left on regulation against the big, bad Bundesclub..... ...only to lose on penalties. Can a football ...

Arbeloa Out, Xabi Next?

By CSD | July 29th, 2009

Well...crap. One of my favorite players is now off to Real Madrid. Although, I'm not totally surprised after the signing of Glen ...

Say It Ain't So, Alonso

By CSD | July 20th, 2009

When one of your favorite and most important players is continually linked with another club, all you want them to do is come out and ...



Transfer Talk: Didn't See That Coming.

By chris | July 13th, 2009

Even kit number transfers can leave us perplexed. Perhaps the strangest rumor of the day involves, once again, Michael Owen and those blokes from Manchester ...

A Little TOO Quiet

By CSD | July 7th, 2009

Thus far, players are making moves all over the place, well, except here. Aside from the destined to be overpriced addition of Glen Johnson, ...

Transfer Talk: It's All About The Love.

By chris | July 6th, 2009

Keirrison is all but Barcelona's - much to the delight of everyone at former club Palmeiras. But he's being flogged about as loan fodder in ...

The D'Agostino Deal

By alessio | June 16th, 2009

Everyone thought, myself included, that Diego would be the dragged-out mercato aim of this summer. Given his price, Bremen's reluctance to let him go, and ...

Transfer Talk: The Post-Ronaldo-pocalypse.

By chris | June 12th, 2009

Everybody watch out, Fergie's swingin' a big stick. With close to €100m euros in his pocket from the impending CRTBA sale, plus whatever was in ...

Transfer Talk: What's 'Cough, Please' In Spanish?

By chris | June 8th, 2009

Love that the Ricky Kaka news is leaking from everyone but Real Madrid, Milan and disreputable news outfits. Today's poor secret-keeper? The slightly dyslexic Brazilian ...

Transfer Talk: Everybody In, Everybody Out.

By chris | June 2nd, 2009

Rumor has it Florentino Perez's first act after hiring Manuel Pellegrini will be to install a revolving door in the Bernabeu dressing room. Out will ...

Justice is served.

By Jack | February 3rd, 2009

I'm still too bitter to write about the Liverpool match. Damn that game! However, at least there's something positive to take away from it. Referee Mike ...

Premier League: Liverpool 2 Chelsea 0

By Nadia | February 2nd, 2009

Dearest Liverpool Offside readers, sorry for being MIA. Was on a 9 day leave from work, and Rock Band is taking over my life While one ...

Did Frank Lampard Deserve a Red For This Tackle?

By Daryl | February 2nd, 2009

Frank Lampard was sent off for this tackle on Xabi Alonso yesterday, and Chelsea went on to lose 2-0 - possibly ending their title challenge. But ...

FA Cup 3rd Round: Preston 0, Liverpool 2

By Kai | January 5th, 2009

Following the high of our win at St James' Park, Rafa rested Benayoun, Lucas, Kuyt & Reina. Replacing them in the starting lineup are Keane, ...

Cesc Out Four Months; Arsenal's Title Run Over.

By chris | December 23rd, 2008

Well, in a year where things couldn't get much worse than they already are, things got way worse for Arsenal last evening, as it's being ...

Liverpool 1 Marseille 0: Unconvincing but does the job

By Nadia | November 27th, 2008

Rafa finally learns how to pronounce ‘dilemma’, some Marseille fans are morons and clearly, we have a goal-scoring crisis CSD was spot-on when he predicted a ...

UCL Matchday 4: Liverpool 1 Atletico Madrid 1

By Nadia | November 4th, 2008

It was a boring match until the last 4 minutes of stoppage time, which saw a questionable penalty given to Liverpool (Fine by me, we'll ...

10 Things We Learned in the Premier League

By Daryl | October 27th, 2008

1. The Rocket Club in Birmingham is like Lourdes for footballers Despite suffering from fatigue, Villa's John Carew was spotted at the Birmingham lapdancing club the ...

Chelsea's 86 Game Home Record Ends as Liverpool go Top.

By Rob | October 26th, 2008

Chelsea 0 - 1 Liverpool Liverpool were the team that finally ended Chelsea's 86 game undefeated streak at Stamford Bridge after Xabi Alonso's deflected shot ...

Down Goes Chelsea's Home Streak

By chris | October 26th, 2008

Talk of the town will be "Pool's 4 realz b*ches!!!!", but more impressive than anything is the fact that they were able to down Chelsea's ...

The Friday Junk Pile

By chris | October 24th, 2008

Every weekend we tend to find ourselves with random junk on our computers which isn't quite worth throwing away, but isn't quite worth posting about. ...

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