The ball balloons into the goal.
Literally. Darren Bent scored this winning goal for Sunderland off a balloon lying near the Liverpool goal.That sound you...
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Bjorn Heidelstrom is cycling from Oslo to Cape Town and collecting signed football jerseys from all teams of all...
Africa’s first world cup winners
Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu of Ghana will get his name written into the history books.He scored the winning penalty that gave...
Adidas get Kaka on their dream team
Kaka is “The Maestro” and he’s the latest addition to Zidane’s squad.
Long arm of the law catches up with the hand of god
Which is merely a creative way of saying that the awful justice of FIFA may catch up with Maradona...
The Maradona soap opera takes an ugly turn..
Shortly after Argentina had scraped together another extremely modest victory Maradona,carried away by relief or the emotion of the...
Papa Berbatov scores hat trick
Dimitar Berbatov scored a hat-trick in Bulgaria’s 6-2 win over Georgia in a World Cup qualifier and also became...
Italy’s hat trick hero
Alberto Gilardino scored a late hat-trick to bring Italy back from the brink- back from being 2-0 down to...
Sir Alex Ferguson has to say sorry again
Fergie will be making a second apology over his comments about referee Alan Wiley to try and stop the...
Mexican bees try to distract El Salvador goalie…
The World Cup qualifier between Mexico and El Salvador saw some un -bee – coming tactics by a swarm...
Two overhead kick goals in the same game.
An unusual occurrence.Of the 7 goals scored in the world cup qualifier between Greece and Latvia – two were...
Germany beat Russia in Russia
Miroslav Klose’s 35th-minute goal helped them to beat Russia in Russia which is no mean feat in itself.It also...
The Maradona Dive
And after he had picked himself up here are some of the things he said to the press On...
Video:Argentina scrape past Peru
Diego’s tattered dream lives on.Still alive,barely so, but alive still.Martin Palermo did a Paulo Rossi – he was in...
Portugal beat Hungary 3 – 0
Simao Sabrosa scored twice and the third goal came from Liedson . Rooney will be disappointed… Ronaldo is laughing.
The musical side of Cristiano Ronaldo
Yesterday we had Ronaldinho on the bongos.Today’s musical entertainment comes from the golden voice of ..wait for it .....
Fergie backtracks…
In a statement to his club’s website, Alex Ferguson said the following with regard to the Alan Wiley issue...
Ronaldinho keeps the beat
At the L’Ermitage club in Paris celebrating the goal he scored the other day.The powers that be at AC...
Pasquale Schiattarella’s half line goal
Torino and Ancona from Italy’s Serie B was where this bit of long range marksmanship took place.Torino keeper Matteo...
Rooney remembers the red..
…remembers stamping on Portugal’s Ricardo Carvalho in the World Cup quarter-final in Germany and the subsequent theatrics from Ronaldo...
The other side of Mourinho….
Mourinho takes questions from a bunch of really small italian reporters …and looks really happy for a change. One...
What’s the similarity between soccer players and a bunch of meerkats?
Plenty if this picture is anything to go by.That’s definitely a wall they are forming.Judging by the number of...
Jack Warner proposes the sin bin
Divers at the World Cup in SA may find themselves in Warner’s sin bin.
Alan Wiley ran further than most Man U players
Alan Wiley, the official accused by Sir Alex Ferguson of not being fit enough to referee, ran farther than...
Kaka has a pig named after him
Scientists from a Spanish University have cloned some pigs and have named one of them after Kaka if this...
Casillas: Amazing save
Brilliant but not enough to prevent Sevilla from giving Real Madrid their first defeat of the season.
England Ukraine tie set to make history
England’s World Cup qualifier against Ukraine on saturday is going to make history.For the first time since the invention...
Martin Palermo does a Rory Delap with his head
Boca Juniors striker Martin Palermo did with his head what Rory Delap does with his hands – namely propelling...
Video:Gunners use Blackburn for target practice
And they got 6 shots on target.Blackburn managed 2 in return.Allardyce is blaming the ref. EPL 7 Round Arsenal...
A name we haven’t heard in a while..
Ronaldinho. Here he is saving AC Milan from defeat with 6 minutes to go and the weight of the...
Pedro wonder goal takes Barca to the top
Pedro received a pass with his back to goal, moved slightly past the defender and sent the ball swerwing...
Video:Berbatov Scissor Kick
A moment of brilliance from Berbatov against Sunderland at Old Trafford yesterday. The video of the goal. Man U...
Adidas Illusionist
Adidas and EA Sports unleash Schweinsteiger “The illusionist” for the release of FIFA 10
Ribery and the goal of the century…
Ribery did a Messi -esque flicker between two Juventus defenders and then almost pulled off what Buffon called “the...
Adebayor – the lightning strika..
Part of an Adidas ad campaign.
Adidas in quest of the ultimate team..
Follow Zidane on the quest to assemble the ultimate team There is a graphic novel version which can be...
Ronaldo and the cow…
He’s usually not cowed down by the opposition and is pretty bullish when he plays but it looks like...
Raul also gets a Real Record.
Raul made it into the Real Madrid record book again with his 709th appearance for the club while they...
Goal of the week…
Hannu Tihinen for FC Zurich against A C Milan.It’s a bit of football and a bit of ballet.
Ryan Giggs : 150 and counting…
Eleven league titles, two Champions Leagues, four FA Cups and now 150 goals for Manchester United.Some legends still walk...
The wizard of Orz takes Florentina past Liverpool
The Fiorentina coach,Cesare Prandelli is called “Il Mago di Orz” — the Wizard of Orz — in honour of...
Video:Dynamo Kiev – Barcelona goals
Dynamo Kiev could not manage to keep Barcelona’s pint sized dynamo from scoring.Messi opened the account for Barca and...
Spain Adidas World Cup 2010 look unveiled…
Is what the Spanish Armada will be clad in come 2010.(This and blue shorts to be completely accurate.)
Tahiti lose by 8 goals again…
This must be some kind of record surely.To lose two games in the same tournament by the same margin...
Tevez scores 2 against West Ham – apologises
Tevez apologised to his West Ham fans after helping Manchester City to beat his old club 3 -1 ....
Ibrahimovic leaves Ronaldo behind..
This goal gainst Malaga made it a record 5 goals in 5 games for Ibrahimovic.The goal comes after a...
Maradona goes in search of a winning formula …
Victory is the missing element in the formula.Here are some of the new faces Maradona is introducing into the...
Carlo Ancelotti misses record
Ancelotti missed a personal milestone.He missed out on a chance to equal a Premier League best start to the...
A brace of hat tricks…
Two sets of hat tricks in one EPL evening.Torres was totally on fire in Liverpool’s 6 -1 victory over...
Spain beat Tahiti 8 – 0
First things first.Where’s Tahiti? The game was part of the ongoing FIFA under 20 World Cup being played in...
Beckham becomes a diabetic nightmare..
The good news is that the sculpture was made at least 4 months ago so hopefully someone has eaten...
How to get a referee to give your team some more time…
It’s called subliminal messaging……………….!
Swedish goalkeeper figures out a new way of narrowing the angle…
In a smart bit of out of the box thinking this Swedish goalie figures out a way of narrowing...