Bayern Munich celebrate their 115th anniversary
And they crowned their anniversary celebrations with a 4 -1 win over Cologne
Monthly Archives: February 2015
Monaco Fallout: Should Wenger be sacked ?
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Besiktas oust Liverpool on penalties
Liverpool crashed out of the Europa League after a penalty shootout defeat to Besiktas. They had a 1-0 lead...
How not to take a free kick
Players playing in a Tunisian Cup game between Hammam-Sousse and Club Athletique Bizertin demonstrate one of the classic ways...
Arsenal come unstuck against Monaco
Dimitar Berbatov rejoices after scoring against his old rivals in a 3-1 win for Monaco in the first leg...
Nani scores a goal that brings tears to his eyes
Nani scored this super goal against Gil Vicente and then did an unusual goal celebration.He wept. “It was a...
Barcelona vastly superior to Manchester City
It would have been 3 -1 if Messi had converted the penalty in injury time. As it is the...
Jose Mourinho and the four minute saga
Jose refers to the 30th, 33rd,43rd and 69th minutes of the game that led to Chelsea losing against Burnsley....
And the Oscar goes to…
The Oscar for best soccer skills does not go to Messi or Ronaldo or even to Oscar himself. The...
Manchester City back to their best
The title race is on again. City demolished Newcastle 5 – 0 even as Chelsea were held to a...
Giroud winner takes Arsenal to 3rd spot
Crystal Palace who were two goals down at half time came back to give Arsenal the biggest scare they...
Swansea surprise
Manchester United’s recent run of good form came to an unlikely end with a 2 -1 home loss to...
Malaga surprise
A fatal blunder from Dani Alves lead to the demise of Barcelona’s opportunity to go top of the table.What...
Zlatan gets the ban
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been given a retrospective 2-game ban for one karate kick too many. This one aimed at...
In search of the perfect own goal..
Here’s the latest contender. Ben Richards playing for Partick Thistle against Dundee in an SPFL development game scored this...
Ronaldo ends the drought against Schalke
Ronaldo scored again at last giving much relief to his legion of fans. However he had to use his...
David Luiz moves vanishing spray before it vanishes
PSG were awarded a free kick against Chelsea just before half time. The ref duly marked the spot with...
Thibaut Courtois is brilliant for Chelsea
José Mourinho called Thibaut Courtois’ goalkeeping “phenomenal” Blaise Matuidi and Zlatan Ibrahimovic were both denied goals due to some...
Rooney ends goal drought
C Ron isn’t the only one looking for his missing goal scoring touch. Most people can’t remember when Rooney...
Olivier Giroud double sees Middlesbrough off..
Olivier Giroud scored 2 and Arsenal’s defence of their FA Cup title is looking as good as it can...
Bayern Munich blast Hamburg for 8
Bayern Munich blasted Hamburg 8-0 to maintain their eight-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga.
Suarez scores brilliant scissor kick..
How do you stay in the picture on a day that your team mate Messi is in dazzlingly delightful...
Messi hat trick among other things..
While Ronaldo grimly contemplates the consequences of becoming hideously old at 30 Messi at 27 continues his youthful exuberant...
Ronaldo stays goal less
Another game has gone by with Cristiano Ronaldo being unable to score.Real Madrid opened up a four point lead...
Liverpool still on track for FA cup final
Steven Gerrard may yet play in the FA Cup final on his 35th birthday the 30th of May. Second-half...
Ronaldo scores hat trick – of sorts
He has now gone three games on the trot without scoring. The last time such a thing happened was...
Suarez begins to show his class
Suarez had the Barcelona fans chanting his name after he set up Lionel Messi to score the opening goal...
Willian keeps Chelsea 7 points clear
Willian was the hero who scored the winning goal but full marks to Eden Hazard for doing the king...
United beat Burnley 3 -1
Chris Smalling and Van Persie were the scorers for United.Smalling’s brace makes his Premier League goal tally equal to...
Aguero marks return with two goals
Manchester City got their title hopes back on the rails again with a 4 – 1 win over Stoke.....
Big Sam and Van Gaal in the battle of the long balls…!
West Ham held Manchester United to a 1 -1 draw…. Sam Allardyce made some disparaging remarks about the ‘long...
Arsenal back in top 4
Leicester gave Arsenal some anxious moments in the second half when Andrej Kramaric pulled one back for his team...
Balotelli scores at last
Tottenham Spurs had come back twice from being behind when Balotelli finally scored his first and game winning premier...
Video:Ivory Coast beat Ghana on penalties
Check here for an absolutely brilliant reaction from the Drogba household when they saw the winning penalty being scored....
Barcelona close in on Real Madrid
Lionel Messi scored one and assisted in three others scored by Luis Suarez, Neymar and Pedro Oscar de Marcos...
City’s title defence hangs by a thread..
City’s last win was the 3-2 victory over Sunderland on New Year’s Day.Since then they have played drawn games...
Arsenal outplayed by Harry Kane
Harry Kane in his first north London derby scripted a fairy tale comeback victory for Spurs. Mesut Özil scored...
Villa score at last and Chelsea extend lead..
The Birmingham Mail carried a “Memo to Villa,” recently which featured the photograph of an empty goal and the...
Atletico Madrid blow Real Madrid away…
Atletico Madrid blew their city rivals away and also blew the title race wide open. Tiago Mendes opened the...
BBC reporter interviews Tommy Lawrence by mistake.
Tommy Lawrence is a former professional footballer who was goalkeeper for Liverpool and Tranmere Rovers in the 1950’s through...
Adidas release another instalment of their new ad
Gareth Bale is the one facing all the haters.This is closer to home than Adidas might have intended as...
Happy Birthday Ronaldo
C Ron turns a venerable 30 years old today. Here’s a video on FATV of a goal he scored...
The dreaded Metatarsal Injury
James Rodrigues helped Real Madrid beat Sevilla 2 -1 thus taking them four points clear at the top of...
Cambridge no match for United
Manchester United beat Cambridge 3 – 0 in the FA cup replay. At the end of first leg game...
Coutinho breaks Bolton at the end
Eidur Gudjohnsen’s penalty took Bolton ahead of Liverpool in the FA cup tie but shortly after that Neil Danns’...
Anderson and Ronaldo when they were young and innocent..
Anderson and Ronaldo in a SkySports Ad – long time ago in a galaxy far away.
Super skills from Van Persie and Ozil..
Van Persie’s goal against Leicester . Not as sublime as his swan dive world cup goal but pretty sublimish...
Messi winner takes Barcelona past Villareal
Barcelona came back from being a goal down twice.Villarreal – who hadn’t lost a game since early november last...
Arsenal put 5 past hapless Villa
Olivier Giroud, Mesut Ozil,Theo Walcott,Santi Cazorla and Hector Bellerin got their names on the scoresheet. Aston Villa had to...