Articles tagged with "zidane"
The Appeal of Hating a Great Footballer
By Rob | November 7th, 2009Albert 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!
By Rob | November 7th, 2009Last week, I asked you to vote for you favourite 20 players of the decade, here in this very post, are the Top 100 players ...
The Offside 100: 2000-09
By Rob | November 4th, 2009As 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, ...
What In the Wide World of Sports Is a'goin On Here?
By Sneakers O'Toole | July 23rd, 2009This month is going to be a slow one for me on this blog, but I will post any news I hear (Yeah, I realize ...
PotD/VotD: La Partita Del Cuore
By alessio | May 21st, 2009Some of you were wondering about that game in Turin the other night. The 18th annual charity match, "Partita Del Cuore," took place at the ...
16 Soccer Postcards
By Daryl | May 21st, 2009I was reading Football Filter recently (which I recommend, by the way) and came across a link to this Flickr pool devoted to soccer postcards. The ...
Zizou loses it
By Jack | March 13th, 2009The great Zinedine Zidane has a mancrush on Steven Gerrard. How big is it? Well, he admires Stevie so much that he went as far ...
Daily Dose: February 5th, 2009.
By chris | February 5th, 2009Stuff to read while you get a rock up the arse while your driver describes it with hand gestures......... Marco Materazzi still winning big bucks in ...
Offside Rewind: Kiss Ma Arse.
By chris | November 28th, 2008Expansion drafts in Europe? Unnecessary showboating in Denmark. The greatest flash of yellows known to man. The women's game has a Rory Delap too. Should the Copa America be ...
Drogba - 'I wish I'd Punched Vidic'
By Rob | October 21st, 2008Didier Drogba is being investigated by the FA, after he claimed in his new autobiography that he regrets not punching Nemanja Vidic in the Champions ...
Juventus Legends: Zinedine Zidane
By alessio | September 3rd, 2008Damn the international breaks, seriously. Could there be any worse timing? We get one weekend of Serie A and then have to wait two weeks ...
City line Cesc, El Nino...and Cristiano Ronaldo
By Rob | September 2nd, 2008As the world recovers from the shock of Manchetser City's buyout and subsequent buying of Robinho, the new owners have outlined the players that they ...
Brazil, represent!
By Moka | July 17th, 2008On the international level, Kaká has been relatively quiet, despite a rather impressive 22 goals in 59 caps. His debut was in January 2002 against ...
An Apology for Materazzi (but not from Zidane)
By Laurie | April 9th, 2008Over on my France page, I have a commenter who stops by every month or so to ask, "Has Zidane apologized to Materazzi yet?" ...
Enzo Maresca Pulls A Zidane
By chris | March 24th, 2008And then goes completely batshit on Monday for some odd reason. First off, as you can see in the above video, Enzo - a yo-yo ...
Zidane Parachutes for Charity (Video)
By Laurie | January 14th, 2008ZIZOU-PARACHUTISTE POUR ELAUploaded by flo_6 Watch fast! These kinds of videos tend to disappear within a few days. Here we have Zinedine Zidane jumping ...
Quotes From the Man Behind Real Madrid's Galactico Era
By Laurie | January 7th, 2008I was clearing out old magazines last night and found a Planet Football from before World Cup. (I should add this to my ...
Happy 20th Birthday, Karim Benzema
By Laurie | December 19th, 2007Every once in awhile, when the camera angle is just right, I look at Karim Benzema and think, Zidane. It's not surprising. Both were born ...
Zidane Considers Return to Real Madrid!
By Laurie | December 17th, 2007Breaking news: Zinedine Zidane says he'll consider returning to Real Madrid! Yes! It's true! He says it himself! Well, okay, sure, what ...
Donovan Heading Out? And Ronaldo In? (RONALDO?!?)
By Laurie | November 13th, 2007I haven't given you any unsubstantiated Galaxy rumors in ages, have I? This is an untenable situation in need of immediate remedy. Okay, ...
Zidane and Figo Linked to Galaxy? Again?
By Laurie | September 19th, 2007That Zizou. He is such a tease. One day he is so totally retired, the next he's meeting with Alexi Lalas. Or ...
Can Chivas USA get a "David Beckham"?
By Alex | September 18th, 2007If you could pick any one in the world right now to play for Chivas USA, who would it be? There has been a lot ...
Beckham meets the Chivas USA
By Alex | August 29th, 2007WHAT A DERBY! Well, I typically don't condone an all out brawl on the pitch but I think there was a lot of good that came ...
Weekend wrap-up: all bad news for Los Merengues
By Steve | August 21st, 2007Well Madrid fans, it's not looking pretty. No apologies for the lack of blogging on the weekend, we need a break sometimes. I ...
Zidane (and Barthez) to Play Against Galaxy?
By Laurie | August 20th, 2007This is old news (a couple of weeks old, at least), but I need something to brighten my day, so I think I'll write ...
Weekend Odds and Ends as We All Laugh at Adriano
By Martha | August 18th, 2007•Despite having weeks more time on training than one of the players chosen over him, Adriano was left out of Roberto Mancini's squad for tomorrow's ...
Beckham, Ronaldinho, Zidane to Chelsea????
By Andy | July 29th, 2007Fear not. Beckham isn't leaving LA Galaxy, Zidane isn't coming out of retirement and Ronaldinho isn't leaving Barcelona. These were players offered to Jose by ...
The Zidane chase
By Ivan | June 21st, 2007Yes, I know you're all exhausted with the Zidane to MLS rumors, but this one is for all the marbles, we hope.. As reported by ...
Beckham and Real Win the Title (and Oh! Look! It's Zidane!)
By Laurie | June 20th, 2007I'm several days behind in posting this, having just gotten rid of the visiting relatives, so it's no longer news that Real Madrid won the ...
Zidane Says Beckham Deserves to Win with Real
By Laurie | June 13th, 2007I am hip-deep in visiting relatives right now, but NOTHING can make me turn away from the opportunity to post another Zizou photo. So ...
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