Video: Roma recapture top spot after beating Lazio Tommaso Rocchi gave Lazio an early lead and the derby rivals should have gone ahead further after half time...
Video: La Salsa du Raymond Domenech On the occasion of Raymond Domenech being retained as the French national coach for the 2010 World Cup. Old...
Tevez once again creates controversy Seems like the Daily Mail interview with Carlos Tevez openly questioning at Roberto Mancini’s training methods at such an...
Sunil Chhetri debut ends disappointingly Indian striker Sunil Chhetri’s highly anticipated debut for the Kansas City Wizards was not exactly anything to write home...
Video: Roma take over the Serie top spot A goalkeeping flap by Andrea Consigli allows Mirko Vucinic’s shot to trickle over the goal line giving Roma the...
Messi’s 40th goal of the season comes against Real Madrid Barcelona claimed El Clasico 2 – 0 . Lionel Messi was not to be denied.The same cannot be said...
Pellegrini’s challenge: Stopping Messi at the Bernabeu The Clasico showdown between these two: Fire vs air, drums vs strings, directness vs angles There is but a...
Maradona on whether Messi is the greatest.. “He’s at a select level, being the best in the world and a star at Barcelona. Leo is playing...
What Messi brings to football Tim Vickery highlights how Messi sets up a decoy for other players. Even when not scoring goals at his...
Video: Inter advances to the CL semi-finals Wesley Sneijder’s free kick goes through an ill disciplined CSKA Moscow defense and past Igor Akinfeev for an early...
Lampard becomes 3rd highest Chelsea scorer ever. Four goals against a hapless Aston Villa yesterday have taken Lampard to new heights and Villa in the other...
For Inter bouquets; for Juventus brickbats Fulham’s magnificent victory capped what must be a schizophrenic week for the Serie clubs. Just as the dust from...
Let the stories of Ancelotti’s demise begin ….. Carlo Ancelotti gone from Stamford Bridge. 10… 9… 8….7….6 ….. In certain gloomy fan forums David Moyes is being...
David Villa pays homage to Messi “When the best player in the world has his day, he is difficult to stop.” A tribute from a...
Keith Alexander funeral today The world of football misses a true believer and a gentleman. Keith Alexander’s memory will be preserved in a...
Video: FA Cup QF: Pompey win through Piquionne’s brace Great win for Pompey. A goalmouth melee and Joe Hart who did not help his cause by a helpful...
Zidane, Henri Emile, and Algeria after the World Cup? Looks like Zinedine Zidane maybe a step closer to taking over the Algeria job after the World Cup. Rabah...
FA Cup QFs: Portsmouth shock Birmingham, 2-0 Portsmouth maybe in administration but it showed that it has lots of football left. They beat Birmingham through a...
Cote D’Ivoire hope: Hiddink will likely leave before Russia contract up Guus Hiddink not part of the 2010 World Cup? Not possible. Right on cue, Didier Drogba reportedly reaches out...
The George Best dance tribute. Some of George Best’s greatest moves are going to be rendered in music and contemporary dance by Belfast-based Maiden...
Ricky Broadley’s red card record broken Ricky Broadley has the dubious honour of having picked up 4 red cards in a single game.He got his...
The knives are unsheathed for Pellegrini yet again As the Marca editorial (In Spanish) makes it clear, Real’s goal is nothing less than the CL final. Their...
World Cup 1930: Francisco Varallo celebrates his century The oldest surviving player of the 1930 World Cup final celebrates his 100th birthday. Happy birthday, Francisco Varallo! The...
Stand with Haiti No time to lose. Check out Partners in Health >> In addition to providing emergency relief, these organizations are...
SoccerBlog Awards 2009: Inspiration of the Year The members of the Iranian team who wore green in support of the green revolution.Some of them were booted...
SoccerBlog Awards 2009: Idiot of the Year And the award goes to: FIFA. What’s that you say about fair play?
SoccerBlog Awards 2009: Player of the Year The winner: Lionel Messi. The video doesn’t do him justice. The tragedy here is that with Maradona as coach,...
[UPDATED] SoccerBlog Awards 2009: Coach of the Year Hold on. We have a new Coach of the Year. After reading NSider’s comment, and deliberating for 2 minutes,...
The SoccerBlog Awards 2009 Since we’re in a giving mood here at Soccer Blog, we’ve decided to end the year by handing out...
Cruyff’s dream team give Maradona’s Argentina another nightmare Yohan Cruyff’s Cataonian dream tream gave Argentina a 4 -2 beating in a friendly.Maradona,still in search of that magic...
FIFA World Player of the Year The FIFA/FIFPro World XI of 2009: Goalkeeper: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid); Defenders: Daniel Alves (Barcelona), John Terry (Chelsea), Nemanja...
Messi centrestage as Barcelona make history Barca collected their 6th cup for the year.Messi scored a historic extra time winner to take Barcelona to their...
The last days of Graeme Souness Julian Dicks: The end of the “Liverpool culture.” Graeme Souness has been on Rafa Benitez’s back fearing a “meltdown”...
In Italy, Balotelli struggles for acceptance The Independent has an article about Jose Mourinho not being particularly effusive about Mario Balotelli’s scintillating performance against Rubin...
Video: A live version of K’naan’s “Waving Flag” Canada may not be in the World Cup but one of their own will prove ubiquitous. Somalia-born Toronto raised,...
Notts County is ready for a third takeover The picture continues to get grainier in Notts County’s ownership saga. The latest sees Sven Goran Ericksson as a...
Leo Messi: Favourite to win FIFA world player of the year Leo Messi heads a Barcelona contingent to the top five world players of the year category with Andres Iniesta...
World Cup 2010: The Springboks back Bafana Bafana The 1995 Springboks are celluloid heroes too After praying for New Zealand, Paraguay, and Slovenia but instead getting, Mexico,...
Messi wins the Ballon D’Or Well deserved win for the man who occupied centerstage in Barca’s glorious treble – The Champions League, the Liga...
Video:Ibrahimovic wins El Classico for Barca… As Neil Diamond said sometime somewhere “Money talks,but it can’t sing and dance,and it can’t walk.” Real Madrid found...
El Clasico: Messi meets Ronaldo Here we are. This is the true test – will Real’s money win over Barcelona? Who is the best...
Video: CL: Rodrigo Tello sinks Man Utd Ben Foster won’t be the one to say, “I tello so.” Besiktas continued the theme of the underdog shocking...
Thousands turn out for moving Enke memorial RIP: Robert Enke: 24 August 1977- 10 November 2009 A sight never seen in Germany as tens of thousands...
Zidane scores classy free kick French third division side Amiens took on Variety Club of France for a charity match.A free kick from Zidane...
Hackett to try covering “viewing angles” after Ngog dive Keith Hackett stating the obvious. “I have said to managers in the past that this is an area of...
Video: “Shame at the Bernabeu” All that talk of righting the ship turned out to be bluster as in the Copa Del Rey return...
Video: Lyon vs Marseille epic ends in 10 goals, no victory Lyon 5 Marseille 5 at the Stade De Gerland. November 9, 2009. A nail biting epic with end to...
The fastest goal ever just got faster… A 21-year-old Saudi striker Nawaf Al Abed scored the definitive fastest goal ever recorded in a professional football match....
In which Becks earns his keep David Beckham chooses the LA Galaxy over breaking Peter Shilton’s record 125 England appearances. He can at best case...
sportsdirect.com@StJames’Park I weep for the Newcastle fans who have to put up with this execrable name. How about MikeAshleydumbass@StJames’Park while...