Gareth Bale Hat trick
Ronaldo’s injury allowed the Bernabeu crowd and Valladolid to see that Bale is a class act by himself. FIRST...
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Andre Villas Boas in happier days
Spurs against Manchester United at home will be the acid test.History of previous games played on Man Utd home...
Ryan Giggs’ wonderful run
Game stats of the recent Manchester United Game against Bayer Leverkusen reveal that Giggs ran over 10 km in the game.Only 2...
So who needs the Ballon d’Or anyway ?
Ibrahimovic apparently does not need one to know that he’s the best. Sour grapes, we believe, are an integral...
Wondergoal disallowed.
Two views of a wonderful goal by Yoann Gourcuff against Real Betis last night.He belts it in from somewhere...
Ronaldo fan support
Ronaldo watching the match against Galatasaray has good reason to look so contented. Look the fan support he got…
Ajax score famous victory over Barcelona
Barcelona’s first defeat of the season after an unbeaten run of twenty-eight matches
Manchester United shred Bayer Leverkusen 5-0
United have a game to spare in Group A and they have already made it to the knock out...
Gareth Bale 35 yard free kick
Best goal from Real Madrid’s 4-1 win over Galatasaray.Gareth Bale from 35 yards out.Cristiano Ronaldo would have watched this...
Chelsea needed just one point…
…to ensure passage to the next round.Basel didn’t let them get it though .Mohamed Salah’s 87th minute goal gave...
Jack Wilshere takes all of 27 seconds
Arsenal are all but home and dry to the last 16 of the Champion’s League with Jack Wilshere’s two...
Burkina Faso lose appeal
For the Burkina Faso World Cup team it was a case so near and yet sofa. After being eliminated...
The ball is never too far away
Martinuzzi is the goalkeeper and the game is part of the Peruvian first league.He thought the ball was too...
Rooney makes the news for the wrong reasons
Remember England against Monetengro?Rooney’s moment of madness?He kicked Miodrag Dzudovic and was promptly given the red card that ended his...
All goals of Manchester City’s 6 – 0 destruction of Tottenham Spurs
Total destruction. Jesus Navas gave City the lead after just 14 seconds.This was followed by a Sandro own goal...
Why West Ham blow bubbles in the air
If you always wanted to know why West Ham supporters ( Obama being among the more famous of them)...
Ronaldo may join Messi…
….on the sidelines. Barcelona thrashed Granada 4 – 0 while Messi watched pensively from the sidelines and Real Madrid...
Artur Boruc dribbles himself
Artur Boruc made a complete mess of trying to dribble the ball away from Olivier Giroud. All he had...
Footer skills on a basketball court
It is like a combination of basketball, football and squash.We are looking at a possible new game form here…....
Mourinho on “Giant Clubs”
Jack had a hard time dealing with giants wielding clubs and other assorted weaponry. It’s not quite what Mourinho...
Messi gets 3 golden shoes
One more to keep alongside the other two he has already won. Lionel Messi was awarded a record third...
Pele biopic gets underway
Leonardo Lima Carvalho plays the role of a young Pele in a film written and directed by Michael Zimbalist...
What’s Mr Bean doing on the sideline ?
Adrian Mutu was banned from the Romanian team for ever and ever for comparing the national team manager Piturca...
French revolution sinks Ukraine
The French team produced a stunning comeback in their World Cup play-off against Ukraine, winning 3-0 in Paris to progress...
Ibra 2 Ronaldo 3
Ronaldo scored an incredible hat trick to almost single leggedly take Portugal through to the world cup ( and...
The Nike England Matters Videos
Episode 1 Episode 2 and the latest episode
There’s a dip in diving
A comparison of diving statistics reveals that in November 2012, there had been 19 incidents of diving whereas this...
Fergie gets his figures wrong
One customer so far has claimed for a full refund after at least 45 factual inaccuracies were found in...
Cameroon reach Brazil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuU06o7D4xE A gang of Carthage Eagles tangled with a bunch of Indomitable lions and came out second best. Cameroon...
Nigeria qualify for the World Cup for the 5th time
The other African teams in the fray include Cameroon and Tunisia who are level after a 0-0 draw...
Drogba’s in the World Cup
Ivory Coast are in the World Cup with a 4-2 aggregate win over Senegal. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x179wfk_senegal-1-1-ivory-coast-highlights-16-11-ourmatch-net_sport#from=embediframe
Is this the worst French team ever?
The French papers lambasted the national football team after their 2 – 0 defeat against Ukraine in the first leg...
Chile beat England 2 – 0
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x178ira_england-vs-chile-0-2-goals-highlights_sport#from=embediframe Alexis Sanchez scored both goals.England’s first loss in 11 games. Next up: Germany at Wembley on tuesday.It’s back...
Advantage Portugal
Ronaldo – 1 , Ibrahimovic – 0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XzLa6BbVQ Portugal are ahead by a nose – which is exactly what...
Messi’s modest Trophy Haul
While the focus is on the clash between Ibrahimovic and Ronaldo here’s an image that sums up an older...
Star Wars
The Portuguese sports newspaper A Bola (“The Ball”) has Ronaldo as Luke Skywalker and Zlatan as Darth Vader facing...
Portugal or Sweden ?
Two matches, the first in Portugal this Friday and the second in Sweden next Tuesday will decide whether it...
Spain break 90 years of tradition
If you were looking forward to seeing Spain playing in the familiar red shirts and blue shorts at the...
Steven Gerrard loses race
More good news for Children on Children’s Day. Steven Gerrard, Luis Suarez and Lucas Leiva took part in an...
Football genius in the making.
The 14th of November is celebrated as Children’s Day here in India.So its kind of the right day to...
Germany add a splash of purple to their World Cup Kit
Purple – The colour of kings…
Austria’s unusually excellent football stamps
When Austria were chosen to co-host the 2008 UEFA European Football Championships the Austrian Post Office produced a stamp...
Before Zlatan got his face stamped there were others….
A look at some other football players that made it to the halls of philatelic fame… A youthful Messsi...
Zlatan gets stamp of approval
The swedish postal service is going to honour Zlatan Ibrahimovic by putting his face on a postage stamp.The stamp...
Samsung has aliens challenging earthlings to a football game.
Aliens are going to take over the earth unless we beat them at a football game. And so Messi...
Robin van Persie scores set-piece goal.
Arsenal blew their chance to underline the seriousness of their title intent.Van Persie’s header put paid to that.Wenger said...
Ronaldo scores 23rd hat trick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8tgo47T2y8 Cristiano Ronaldo’s scoring spree continutes. His latest hat trick in Real Madrid’s 5-1 win over Real Sociedad took...
Ramirez saves Chelsea with a dodgy penalty call
Chelsea’s Eden Hazard scored a controversial penalty deep into stoppage time after Ramirez went down in the penalty area...