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Monthly Archives: November 2016

Mourning for their loss

The names and photographs of the players from the team who died can be viewed here… The plane crashed...
Soccer Hall of Fame, Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - Club

Brazilian football team tragedy

A plane carrying 81 people,which included team members of the Chapecoense team crashed on its approach to the city...
Soccer Teams - Club

Danish Coach shows off super ball control

Silkeborg head coach Peter Sorensen demonstrates marvellous ball control to take down a wayward ball heading towards him on...
Soccer Coaches & Coaching, Soccer Skills, Soccer Teams - Club

More mourning for Mourinho

Mourinho has more than one reason to be even a bit more mournful than usual.Manchester United played out their...
English Premier League

Chelsea end Tottenham’s unbeaten run

Chelsea have cruised to the top of the table with a 2 – 1 win over Tottenham Spurs.Conte will...
English Premier League

Ronaldo has changed gears

Ronaldo started the La Liga season rather sedately leading some to believe that he wasn’t going to that well...
La Liga, Soccer Players

Aguero Brace takes City past Burnley

Dean Marney scored a brilliant early goal for Burnley but Aguero’s double saw City home.They have slipped to second...
English Premier League

Bob Bradley gets a win – and how

Swansea and Crystal Palace played out the most improbable game of the season – which ended 5 – 4...
English Premier League

Rooney gets a record

Rooney scored in United’s 4 – 0 win over Feyenoord. He now has 39 European goals and broke Ruud...
Soccer Hall of Fame, Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - Club

Steven Gerrard calls it a day

Steven Gerrard called time on a 19 year career. What comes next for him? Coaching at Liverpool. Chatting with...
Soccer Hall of Fame, Soccer Players

Puma put out Antonine Griezmann goal celebration Ad

Antoine Griezmann’s legendary Hotline Bling Goal Celebration has now been immortalized in a neat Ad by Puma
Soccer Advertising, Soccer Players

Arsenal let PSG away with a draw

Arsenal lost a golden opportunity to top the group when they let PSG come back from being 2 -1...
Champions League

Messi sends Celtic home

Messi came back to Barcelona and scored both the goals against Celtic.It was always a forlorn kind of hope...
Champions League, Soccer Players

Dortmund and Legia Warsaw combine to create Champion’s League history

Borussia Dortmund and Legia Warsaw scored a ridiculously large number of goals in their Champion’s League clash and created...
Champions League

Kane cannot work the magic twice

Harry Kane had pulled off a major miracle against West Ham just a couple of days ago.Tottenham were minutes...
Champions League, English Premier League

Leicester’s run

Leicester City continued their remarkable run in the Champion’s League when they beat Club Bruges 2 -1 and entered...
Champions League

Midweek bloopers

A couple of bloopers to keep us going as we get to the middle of the week. First here’s...
Soccer Humor, Soccer Players

Klinsmann gets the boot

After 98 matches in charge of the US team – with a 56.12% win ratio Klinsmann has been told...
Soccer Coaches & Coaching, Soccer Teams - National, World Cup 2018

Puskas Award 2016 shortlist

Shortlist for FIFA Puskas Award 2016 Mario Gaspar (Spain) — 13.11.2015, Spain vs. England, international friendly Hlompho Kekana (South...
Soccer Hall of Fame, Soccer Players, Soccer Skills

Ronaldo scores hat trick in Calderon curtain game

In the highly anticipated last La Liga game to be played in the Vicente Calderón stadium Ronaldo had the...
La Liga

Toure is the comeback king

The soap opera episode involving Dimitri Seluk-Yaya Toure’s agent,Toure and Guardiola had a very happy ending for City yesterday.In...
English Premier League

Arsenal escape with a draw

Manchester United put up a vastly improved performance and should have won the match easily.However an 89th minute headed...
English Premier League

Feud Renewed

About an hour and a half left to go for Wenger to come face to face with his old...
English Premier League

4 – 0 so Klinsmann should go.

Costa Rica beat USA 4 – 0 on Tuesday and Klinsmann’s eleven are in last place with zero points...
World Cup 2018

Samba days are back again for Brazil

Tite’s triumphant reign continues.Brazil beat Peru 2 – 0 and not since qualifying for the 1970 World Cup have...
Soccer Teams - National, World Cup 2018

Alexis Sanchez scores a brilliant brace

Arsene Wenger had been holding his breath for awhile now because his star striker Sanchez was to play in...
World Cup 2018

England concede two late goals against Spain

After taking an early 2 – 0 lead and Jamie Vardy doing an awesome mannequin goal celebration England then...
Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - National

Messi inspires Argentina to big win over Colombia

After enduring the ignominy and humiliation of that 3 – 0 loss to Brazil,Argentina desperately needed a win against...
World Cup 2018

Puyol’s Eleven

That’s the lineup that Puyol considers to be the most formidable set of players he has ever played against....
Soccer Hall of Fame, Soccer Players

Ronaldo misses penalty,equals record

Not a record of missed penalties.He scored twice against Latvia yesterday – thereby drawing level with Robbie Keane and...
World Cup 2018

Mexico beat USA with last minute header

Highlights of Mexico’s dramatic win over USA when Captain Rafael Marquez headed in an 89th-minute winner in their 2018...
World Cup 2018

England,Scotland defy FIFA

England and Scotland played out their World Cup qualifier with arm bands bearing a poppy to remember armistice day...
World Cup 2018

Uruguay continue their impressive run

Uruguay extended their unbeaten run to four matches with a 2-1 win over Ecuador despite missing a few key...
World Cup 2014

Brazil thrash Argentina

Brazil made it 5 wins in 5 qualifying games with a 3 – 0 win over Argentina.Coutinho handed them...
World Cup 2018

Vincent Kompany’s dark thoughts…

…on the US Election results.. @VincentKompany not true, pep is our manager remember — Jamie (@McfcJamie_) November 9, 2016
Soccer Players

Ronaldo commits his future to Real Madrid

Ronaldo is not going back to Manchester United.Not till the 30th of June 2021 anyway.His new contract,due to be...
La Liga, Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - Club

Zlatan scores the 25,000th Premier League Goal

When Zlatan scored his first goal against Swansea yesterday it turned out that it was the 25,000th Premier League...
Soccer Hall of Fame, Soccer Humor, Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - Club

Arsenal and the November curse

At 1-0 up, Arsenal both blew the chance to beat their ancient rivals Tottenham Hotspur and the chance to...
English Premier League

Bob Bradley braces for a long hard winter

Bob Bradley,still searching for his first win with Swansea,has questioned his players’ commitment following their 3-1 home defeat by...
English Premier League

Liverpool go top with imperious win over Watford

The Watford manager, Walter Mazzarri, after seeing his team getting beaten 6 – 1 said that Liverpool was the...
English Premier League

Moyes gets a win at last

Sunderland got their first win of the season after coming from behind to win at Bournemouth. It was David...
English Premier League

Manchester City lose the top spot

City lost the opportunity of grabbing three points and remaining at the top of the EPL table.They have been...
English Premier League

Conte has transformed Chelsea into a fearsome force

Chelsea beat Everton 5 – 0 yesterday – their 5th victory in a row. In just 11 Premier League...
English Premier League

Bayern Munich have a “rubbish kit” for their next game.

Bayern Munich will play their next game against Hoffenheim in a kit made from recycled plastic found in the...
Bundesliga, Soccer Players

Goalie gets one year ban for throwing match

North Korean goalie Jang Paek Ho gives a not quite Oscar winning performance of a goalkeeper trying his best...
Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - National

Fifa and England in ugly unnecessary row over poppies

Fifa and the football associations of England and Scotland have gotten into a scrap about whether it is legal...
FIFA Corruption, Soccer Culture, Soccer Teams - National

The news gets worse for Mourinho

Plenty of bad news for Mourinho. Manchester United went down 2-1 to Fenerbahce in the Europa League. Moussa Sow...
Europa Cup, Soccer Teams - Club

Zlatan might be rethinking this

Current EPL standings Manchester United are holding on grimly to 8th spot. Sometimes it’s wise to mince words –...
English Premier League, Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - Club

Bale scores fastest Real Madrid C L goal ever

Gareth Bale celebrated his new contract with Real Madrid which makes him the highest paid player in the world...
Champions League, Soccer Hall of Fame, Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - Club

Dortmund enter last 16 without Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Borussia Dortmund,beat Sporting Lisbon to reach the last 16 of the Champions League even though their star stiker Pierre-Emerick...
Champions League, Soccer Players

Higuain both hero and villain in Lyon draw

Gonzalo Higuain played both Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in Juventus’ 1-1 draw against Lyon. He heroically scored off...
Champions League, Soccer Players

Legia Warsaw come back from 2 goal deficit

Why does C R look so sad ? After winning the first leg against Legia Warsaw 5 -1 it...
Champions League, Soccer Players

Is Mourinho unravelling?

When Mourinho was banished from the touchline in Manchester United’s frenetic 0- 0 draw against Burnley he looked pretty...
English Premier League, Soccer Coaches & Coaching, Soccer Teams - Club

Ozil magic

A moment of magic from Ozil in the second half ensured that Arsenal qualified for the knockout stages of...
Champions League, Soccer Players
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