Soccer ads we missed
While we wait for the Champion’s League finals to get underway,here,to while away the time,are some old Soccer Ads...
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Zlatan is back
The mighty Z returned to action after a two game suspension and immediately made his presence felt – scoring...
Chelsea thrash Arsenal in Europa Cup final
The Europa Cup final was played in front of many empty seats in the stadium in Azerbaijan due to...
Beckham rolls back the years
It’s been a while since Beckham featured on Soccerblog.Manchester United Legends played Bayern Munich Legends at Old Trafford last...
Messi leaves Ronaldo behind in the golden boot race
Messi picked up his 6th “Pichichi” Award for ending the season as the top scoring player in the La...
Messi gets the boot – for the 6th time
Messi picked up Golden Shoe Number #6 for 36 goals for Barcelona this season. That makes it two more...
The effect of Trump’s trade war on the humble football boot
The humble football boot,despite its servile status,can cost a pretty packet when it happens to be made by Nike,Adidas...
Messi in the EPL
Messi is top of the charts in 15 categories in the La Liga this season However when that stat...
Bale benched in final fiasco
Real Madrid’s last game of the season came to a fittingly miserable end on Sunday. They chalked up their...
Dortmund – so near and yet so far
Nobody would have thought at the start of the season that just ended that Borussia Dortmund would give Bayern...
Rooney’s solution to Manchester United’s problems
Alistair Maclean wrote a book about it – which incidentally was made into a movie in 1973. Kipling wrote...
The future of Manchester United
The good times,it seems,went away with Sir Alex. United,in the five years since he’s gone,have been slowly disintegrating. First...
Mo Salah’s daughter is a chip off the old block
Mo Salah’s young daughter, Makka, toddled across the field with the ball and scored the finally final goal of...
Klopp
“I don’t think I would have believed it but I am not a very negative person.I would not have...
Pep did not get pipped at the post
The fat lady has sung.The curtain fell on a most dramatic EPL season with Manchester City retaining their title....
Neymar skill
Neymar picked up a 3 match ban for losing his cool in PSG’s penalty-shootout loss to Rennes in the...
The reign of Spain is over
The finalists of both Champion’s League and Europa League feature no Spanish team this time.This strange concatenation of events...
Spurs pull off an incredible comeback win
This seems to be the season of the impossible comeback. First the Avengers,against all odds,defeated Thanos. Then Liverpool came...
Liverpool pull off another “Istanbul”
Liverpool pulled off another comeback for the ages by scoring four goals against Barcelona yesterday. Facing a three goal...
Kompany stunner takes City back to the top
Klopp said that destiny would decide the title winner this season. Well destiny decreed that it should be Vincent...
Manchester United blow their last chance to get to the top four
Tottenham Spurs had done United a huge favour by losing 1- 0 to Bournemouth last wednesday.That game was a...
Liverpool go back into the lead
The good news is that they are two points ahead of City again.The bad news is that Salah got...
Zidane’s shopping list
Real Madrid have been reduced a mere shadow of their former selves and so Zidane has to go on...
Messi destroys Liverpool with an incredible free kick
Liverpool crumbled against Barcelona. They were already 2 – 0 down when Messi stepped up to take a free...
Ajax keep the dream alive
When the Champions League season 2018-19 kicked off, Ajax were already written off. They were not expected to emerge...