Champions League: A woeful Arsenal escape from Dortmund with a 0-2 loss
Arsenal were left “exposed” in the middle and down below. No balls. Arsene Wenger’s tactical philosophy seems to be...
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Champions League: A shorthanded Arsenal takes on Borussia Dortmund
Adrian Ramos will be a major threat to the Arsenal defense A Chambers- Mertesacker- Koscielny- Gibbs remains Arsenal’s best...
Jeremy Menez’s goal was merely history repeating itself.
Jeremy Menez’s marvellous backheel against Parma the other day is amazingly...
Who is Jerome Champagne ?
Blatter has got a challenger at last. Champagne is the knight in shining armour who has dared to challenge...
Jeremy Menez scores most brilliant backheel of the year…
Jeremy Menez scored this magically brilliant backheel goal and one...
Manchester United dismantle QPR
Manchester United’s nightmare vanishes as they hammer QPR 4- 0. Angel Di Maria scored on debut. Ferdinand must have...
Manchester United – The survivors
The Val Gaal Effect on the team that David Moyes left behind.
Real Madrid beaten at home by Atletico
Star studded Real Madrid suffered an embarrassing 2 – 1 home loss to Atletico Madrid – who in comparison...
Liverpool beaten by Aston Villa
Liverpool started poorly and were a goal down after eight minutes – the goal being scored by Gabriel Agbonlahor...
Diego Costa Hat Trick against Swansea
He is being called “unstoppable”
Arsenal’s glorious goals undone by familiar blunders as City equalize, 2-2
The best of times and the worst of times! Absolutely filthily gorgeous and absolutely cravenly abject! You are perfectly...
Fernando Torres: A new lease of life at AC Milan?
If Fernando Torres was a car at this point, what would he be? A burning Ford Pinto? There was...
Plantation era Cain Hoy Investment sparks a potential Tottenham takeover
Jonathan Goldstein, Spurs fan, could be the face of the new ownership An investment group with a plantation era...
Another Messi in the making…
Barcelona wonderkid Xavier Simons all of 11 years old...
The Four Towers: A novel set around Real Madrid’s 2011 locker room leaks
Relax. The Four Towers is not Gandalf seeing double. Although from what one gathers there are evil Sauron like...
Louis Van Gaal’s Welbeck comments are uncalled for
Van Gaal is infamous for his temper Football fans slag their underperforming players mercilessly. That is to be expected...
Indian football: Michael Chopra is a good first step, now recruit the diaspora
Chopra wants to be the Sachin Tendulkar of Indian football Finally it’s happened. Michael Chopra, journeyman striker, will give...
Sevilla players gifted a beer belly each.
The Sevilla players who won last season’s Europa League trophy were each given their weight in beer...
Jack Wilshere: Will the metamorphosis succeed?
That’s the first lesson England found another quanta of energy in their Euro qualifier against Switzerland. Roy Hodgson, surprised...
Dream start for Conte
Conte, who replaced Cesare Prandelli who resigned after Italy’s World Cup exit got a dream start seeing his team...
Willian gives Dunga his second win
Brazil beat Ecuador 1- 0 in a friendly – the winning and only goal being scored by Willian Enner...
Wesley Sneijder stands apart
Wesley Sneijder sidesteps a mascot who is almost as tall as him before Holland’s game against the Czech Republic
Euro 2016 Qualifying: Hiddink starts on a losing note as the Czechs beat the Dutch, 2-1
Hiddink was verbolgenheid after the Dutch lost to the Czech Republic. Guus Hiddink, switched to Louis Van Gaal’s favoured...
Scottish football: Poisoned by juxtaposition, independence will stop self loathing
With the Yes group taking a slim lead for the first time, Scotland faces a knifes edge in the...
Alaba gets an Elbow from Zlatan
Zlatan was not too impressed with the attention that David Alaba was paying him during the Euro qualifier between...
Spain start title defence
Spain chugged to a 5 -1 win over Macedonia as they began their Euro title defence campaign. Spain 5-1...
Euro 2016 Qualifying: Welbeck on target as England open with a win over Switzerland, 2-0
It’s hard to find a picture of Roy Hodgson smiling, his usual demeanour utterly devastated or beleaguered or chastened...
The Three Lions do a bit of roaring again
Danny Welbeck – playing in place of the injured Sturridge scored 2 goals to take England to a 2-...
Nigeria lose for the first time in 33 years
No such scenes of Jubilation now. This was last year – shortly after they won the African Nations Cup....
Aleksandar Kolarov free kick denies France
Of course he was wearing his national colours when...
Gibraltar make a rocky start
The Gibraltar defence did not live up to the rock that they are famous for. They were a very...
Albania shock Portugal 1- 0
A Ronaldo less Portugal’s Euro 2016 Group I qualifying campaign started with disaster.They lost 1- 0 to a team...
Muller ensures German win
Darren Fletcher’s team did their best to topple world champions Germany in their opening match of Euro 2016 qualifying....
Ronaldinho becomes a White Rooster
Ronaldinho’s rumoured move to...
Zlatan equals Ronaldo’s record
When Zlatan scored his record 50th Swedish goal against Estonia the other day he equalled Ronaldo’s record of scoring...
Balotelli loses his head already
Brazil and Colombia weren’t the only ones doing unfriendly friendlies. Balotelli lost his cool in a Liverpool – Wolves...
International Unfriendly: Brazil win the World Cup beating 10 man Colombia, 1-0
You would think so, with the sort of cathartic celebrations that followed Neymar Jr’s stroke of individual brilliance. More...
World Cup 2018: The political and racial contours of a boycott
The giant This is Russia banner at Euro 2012 depicting Dmitry Pozharsky, a 17th century Russian military commander fighting...
Two – Zero International Friendlies
We have had a frenzy of international friendlies most of which seem to have been won by the same...
Introducing Radamel Falcao
Some recently released videos on Radamel Falcao’s goal scoring exploits for River Plate, Porto and Atletico Madrid – which...
International: Boring, boring England beat Norway, 1-0 through Rooney’s PK
Calum Chambers made his debut for the England side Arsenal fans should be quite encouraged with Danny Welbeck’s second...
International: Young guns shine as USA beat Czech Republic for the first time, 1-0
Joe Gyau’s first USMNT appearance was impressive. Reminds one of Charlie Davies with his power and speed. Alejandro Bedoya’s...
International: Angel Di Maria’s sturm und drang as Argentina light up Germany, 4-2
This could become a familiar celebration to Utd fans. Good thing he lets his feet do the talking. Germany...
Where Man Utd gets its moolah
The £150m that Manchester United have splurged on transfers is small change. Petty cash. The commercial revenues generated by...
Angel Di Maria and Alexis Sanchez overpriced, Mario Balotelli underpriced, Welbeck just right
The CIES Football Observatory has developed an econometric model that calculates the “right transfer price” for a player in...
India reunites Freddie Ljungberg and Roberto Pires
The long waited arrivals of two of my favourite Arsenal legends to the Hero-ISL. Freddie Ljungberg is now the...
Ronaldinho to join the new Indian Super League?
One of the fascinating bylines to the Peace Match in Rome, the one that Arsene Wenger decamped to on...
Cristiano Ronaldo is unhappy with Real Madrid selling Di Maria and Alonso
He maybe teaching others his smile but he himself is unsmiling after Real’s transfer business. This ad is truly...
Radamel Falcao transfer: Manchester United’s global brand, less homegrown considerations
NYSE, Wall St, hedge fund managers, and 700 million more dictate Utd’s success. They don’t care how they get...
Forget the price tag: Welbeck’s Arsenal arrival is a potential boost for both
On transfer deadline day, Arsene Wenger skipped town for Rome to coach a charity match thus proving pointedly there...
Sanchez scores his first EPL goal
The joy was short lived because Leonardo Ulloa equalised for Leicester shortly afterwards and thats as far as it...
Danny Welbeck Arsenal transfer going down to the wire
Danny Welbeck sees Arsenal in the horizon The transfer will happen but its taking a long time to sort...
Chicharito Hernandez goes to Real Madrid on loan
After the stunning loss to Real Sociedad, the Galacticos v5.0, have addressed their notable attacking deficits with a loan...