Best EPL goals in April
April has fool’s day and earth day and brings spring along with it to some places. A good month...
Category: Soccer Teams – Club
For the rules they are a changing
Bob Dylan warned us long ago. Change is inevitable. New rules for the 2025 -2026 season. Reduced Goalkeeper Holding...
A scorpion kick for the ages
Tigres Femenil star Lizbeth Ovalle produced a moment of brilliance and scored what is definitely a contender for goal...
Mourinho makes the headlines again
A grey and grizzled Mourinho is back in the news,aged but belligerent as ever. He got himself fined a...
Neymar needs to find his mojo
Neymar was welcomed back at his club Santos and he wept tears of joy at the rapturous welcome he...
Yamal beats Messi dribbling record
Messi as a precocious teenager attempted 20 dribbles and completed 10 when Barcelona played Mallorca 18 years .It stood as...
Neymar’s headed home
After enduring a largely pointless stint in the Saudi Arabian League Neymar has said thank you very much and...
Mbappe betters a Ronaldo record
Mbappe has put that goal drought well behind him and has gone on to score 21 goals in 31...
Barcelona thrash Real Madrid 5-2 to win the Spanish Supercup
Barcelona were 4-1 up by half time and ended it 5-2 inspite of losing their goalie to a red...
Ronaldo looks back at 2 years in the Saudi Leage
C R 7 ‘s musings on life,the universe,the Saudi League and everything…
Best EPL Goals of 2024
Goals that need a standing ovation each time..
Big difference between Pep and Mourinho
When things don’t go his way Mourinho blames the referee,the weather,global warming,the pitch,his players and anything else he can...
Salah is King
Some Salah records His contract with Liverpool will end this summer and PSG who are lurking nearby are offering...
2024 Globe Soccer Awards.
Real Madrid won best club of the year and the other winners were …
Garnacho wins the Puskas award for 2024
For a goal he scored against Everton And the best of the best team..
Mbappe ends another goal drought
His last goal drought had lasted 5 games.He broke that when he finally scored against Leganes on the 25th...
Eduardo Bove is better
The good news is that Eduardo Bove is better. He,at the age of 22,had a cardiac arrest on the...
Man City lose 4-0 at home
The fifth of five successive defeats was the worst of the lot. A 4-0 home loss.Man City last lost...
Nistelrooy goes out in blaze of Glory
Man Utd beat Leicester City 3-0 their last game with Nistelrooy in charge. So he gets to go out...
Nistelrooy – then and now
Ruud Van Nistelrooy scored 150 goals in just 219 games for United, as well as becoming at the time their all-time...
Ten Hag gets the boot
The sword of Damocles,which had been hanging over his head for a while now,has fallen at last.Ten Hag has...
Yamal becomes the youngest player to score an El Clasico goal
Real Madrid,Mbappe and Vicinius Jr notwithstanding, got hammered 4-0 and will take some time to live that down. The...
Analysing the Raphinha and Vicinius Jr Hat Tricks
Real Madrid and Barcelona head towards an El Clasico with each team having a Champion’s League hat trick scorer...
Bayern Munich get beaten 4-1
Vincent Kompany has to digest the fact that the last time Bayern Munich lost to Barcelona was 9 years...
Another Messi Hat trick
Messi came on in the second half,played for about 35 minutes and used the time usefully to add yet...
The fastest EPL goals ever
This video has the slowest fastest goal taking 19.4 seconds after kickoff and the fastest fastest goal taking 9.11...
Two songs from Encanto sum up things at Manchester United.
Tag,they said,was given two games to fix things at United or get the boot. The first of those 2...
Messi names his favourite team
Messi called Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona his choice for the greatest team of all time.. More arguments to back Messi’s...
Zidane names his favourite goal
In a recent interview ( which can be viewed here) Zidane named the best goal he ever scored for...
Mbappe is on a two game goal drought
He’s been handed the ball but hasn’t managed to score yet in two games. Coach Ancelloti puts on a...
The rise of Wrexham Football Club
An interesting tale that began sometime in 2021.. “One day during the pandemic, Ryan Reynolds ( aka Deadpool) decided to...
Man City suffer second pre season defeat
AC Milan beat Man City 3-2 .Ancient AC Milan warhorse – the might Zlatan had some interesting comments on...
Celtic beat Man City in pre season friendly
Pep sent out an extremely young team, with players such as Rico Lewis, Jahmai Simpson-Pusey, Luke Mbete, Joshua Wilson-Esbrand,...
Were the Beatles Liverpool fans ?
The most famousest of all Liverpudlians ( yes there is such a word) were surely Liverpool fans right ?...
Mbappe reaches Real Madrid at last
He spoke in spanish at the presentation ceremony and that was a neat thing to do. “I embraced it...
Giroud’s goodbyes..
Giroud says goodbye to AC Milan and to the French National team. What next ? Milan’s loss is MLS’...
Klopp says goodbye to Liverpool
Everything ends and thus Klopp’s nine beautiful years at Liverpool came to an end too. His farewell speech.. Elsewhere...
Housecleaning at ManU
Is Manchester United going to unload its non-productive players? Getting rid of players like Marcus Rashford and even Bruno...
Is it over for Ten Hag?
At this point, Manchester United is beginning to look like the Boeing of the Premier League. When your owners...
The EPL season could actually end in a playoff
The Premier League title race is on fire.Arsenal and Liverpool neck are neck at the top of the table,...
John Cena calls Erling Haaland
Haaland and Cena combine in a clever promo for Man City’s next season’s pre season tour to the USA....
Xabi Alonso is taking Bayer Leverkusen where they haven’t been before.
Bayern Leverkusen made it to the quarterfinals of the Europa Cup on the back of not one but two...
Klopp and Pep had their last showdown.
It was,alas.probably the finally final time that these two supercoaches faced off against each other in the EPL. (There...
Kane scores record 4th hat trick
Harry Kane is on fire. He broke 2 records in Bayern’s 8-1 demolition of Mainz. He is the first...
Messi and Suarez – Deadly Duo
Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez played together at Barcelona for 6 years and during that time won four LaLiga titles, four...
EPL 3 horse race heading for a tight finish
Klopp is smiling for now because his horse is still ahead but it is going to be a close...
Man City end Man Utd 143 game streak
That record has bitten the dust thanks to a spectacular Foden brace and one from Haaland. And here is...
Bayern continue their downward spiral
Kane looks like he has got the Bundesliga Golden Boot for the season in the bag. 2 goals against...
The Return of the King
The Return of the King Kevin. One midfielder to rule them all…. ( A documentary on the return of...
Liverpool prove Fausto Coppi wrong.
The average age of Klopp’s Liverpool’s team on Wednesday was 23 years. Fausto Coppi’s rather gloomy prediction that they would...
Mbappe’s moving out
It looks like one of the longest transfer sagas in history is coming to an end at long last....
Fans upset as Messi goes missing
Things are bad enough for the folks in Hong Kong what with all the problems they are having with...
Inter Miami no match for Al Nassr
Getting a 6-0 hammering is not what Inter Miami wanted but its what they got anyway. And Ronaldo wasn’t...
Miami suffer second straight loss
4-3 against Al Hilal gives Inter Miami their second friendly loss of the pre season. Hmm (That chuckling sound...