Arsenal: Schizophrenic performances perplex fans
Who can understand this year’s Arsenal? Are they sublime or utterly ridiculous? After tearing Liverpool’s heart out, 3-0, they...
Author: Shourin Roy
What ails Indian football? Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, AIFF chief
Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, the present Union Information and Broadcasting Minister is also the president of the All India...
What ails Indian football? Cricket provides an insight
Growing up in India, where cricket was such a huge game, when we formed teams in our neighborhood park,...
The legend that was Puskas: Eduardo Galeano remembers
Eduardo Galeano has a delightful entry on Ferenc Puskas in his immensely readable book Soccer in Sun and Shadow...
What ails Indian football? An overview
It is the state of affairs in Indian sports that when you google ‘What ails Indian football?’ you not...
Ferenc Puskas: A player with a supernatural left foot and an imprudent generosity
El Pais has a beautiful little article on how Real team mates and opponents alike remember Puskas. Gento, Stefano,...
Real to David Beckham: No Tom Cruise wedding for you
Beckham’s days in Real are but over. He has only played in three games this season and is out...
Video: 1954 World Cup, Germany 3 Hungary 2
The Mighty Magyars should have won this finals. An injured Puskas scored the first goal and was denied an...
Video: Wembley, 1953 Ferenc Puskas vs Billy Wright: The perfect goal
Brilliant goal and footwork by Puskas. Loses Billy Wright completely.
Video: 10 best Real Madrid goals
Includes two goals from the 1960 European Cup final against Eintracht Frankfurt scored by Puskas (# 7) and Alfredo...
Video: May 1954, Hungary 7 England 1
Puskas and the Mighty Magyars destroy the Three Lions again.
Wembley, November 1953: Hungary 6 England 3
Billy Wright (L) Ferenc Puskas (R), Wembley 1953 A match that destroyed the aura of the invincibility and changed...
Tributes pour in for Ferenc Puskas: ‘A wonderful player and person’
The death of Ferenc Puskás in Budapest today has been felt throughout the footballing world. uefa.com rounds up the...
The Mighty Magyars: A fable as Hungary struggles
With the passing away of Ferenc Puskás, the last of the Mighty Magyars is gone. There is only one...
Will Freddy Adu succeed in Europe?
The US soccer establishment has been agog with the news that we might finally see David Beckham land up...
West Ham’s finest moment: The 1966 World Cup
Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, and Martin Peters: Hammers all! West Ham with all the ups and downs as a...
West Ham’s Tevez and Mascherano are busts: Trade rumours get stronger
Amongst all the brouhaha over West Ham’s signings of Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano signings that shook the football...
North Korea wins the Asian Youth Football Championship
North Korea is in the news for disagreeable reasons, mostly to do with realpolitik and nuclear ambitions, a perennial...
Meanwhile the MLS finals has Scotland talking……..
Houston Dynamo coach Dominic Kinnear was born in Glasgow. 35 miles away from Troon, the birthplace of Steve Nicol,...
Video: Kenny Dalglish’s Celtic days
King Kenny, Celtic and Liverpool legend son Paul played for the Dynamo in the MLS finals. Dalglish, Sr. is...
Video: MLS finals 2006: Dynamo win on penalty kicks, 4-3
Jay Heaps misses and its all over for the Revs, who remain winless in three championship games.
Video: MLS finals 2006: Revolution vs Dynamo, 1-1 (Extra time)
Twellman sends the Revolution ahead and a minute later Ching equalizes for the Dynamo. 1-1 at the end of...
Where was the MLS finals coverage in the national media?
Having ABC telecast the 2006 MLS finals maybe a big deal but that is about it. ESPN and PTI...
Video: Arsenal vs Liverpool, 3-0
All the highlights of the fantastic Arsenal win over Liverpool including Flamini! Toure! Gallas! Worth every minute of the...
Video: The history of Al Ahly, the club of the century.
Al Ahly lifted the African Champions League crown for the fifth time as they beat CS Sfaxien of Tunisia,...
The Houston Dynamo are the 2006 MLS champions
Congratulations to the Houston Dynamo- 2006 MLS champions! 90 minutes of regular time, 30 minutes of extra time could...
Arsenal destroys Liverpool, 3-0. Flamini! Toure! Gallas!
Flamini! Toure! Gallas! The goalscorers for the Gunners!!! Henry the best defender!!! This was Gunners football at it’s best,...
Meet Paul Dalglish: Football legend’s son finds a home in Texas
Kenny Dalglish, Liverpool and Scotland Paul Dalglish, Houston Dynamo Today as the Houston Dynamo takes on the New England...
Video: MLS goal of the season: Brian Ching
Fantastic bicycle kick by Ching!
MLS Finals preview: New England Revolution vs Houston Dynamo
New England Revolution meet Houston Dynamo tomorrow 12 November, at 2:30 PM. The New England Revs marched to their...
FIFA bans Kenya: Its sanctions target the vulnerable
FIFA bans Kenya from international football competition, it should have done the same with Italy. Italy’s league always seems...
Video: Borat mocks Paul Robinson
As Robinson’s foot meets air, the e-hoarding flashes Jagshemash and a grinning Borat comes on!
Kazakhstan to Ali G: We play footbal!
As humans we like to define everything in singularities. Personalities, concepts, countries. Some are flattering, others less so. Mahatma...
Video: 1986 World Cup final: Argentina 3 W. Germany 2
Jorge Burruchaga seals Argentina’s win over Germany, in a footrace after a great little flick from that pibe Maradona...
Will Eggert Magnusson be the new owner of West Ham?
Eggert Magnusson, the head of the Icelandic Football Association seems to have bested the Kia Joorabchian – Eli Papoushado...
Asian Youth Football Championships: Jordan in World Cup U-20
India plays host to the ongoing Asian Youth Football Championship from October 29th to November 12th. However as hosts...
Arsenal FC: The Argentinian club is making waves
Arsenal FC lost to Boca Juniors, 1-2 in the Apertura 2006 but is overall an impressive 4th position in...
Video: Real Madrid vs Celta Vigo, 1-2
Real fall to Celta Vigo making their journey up the league even tougher.
FIFA’s proposal to protect national teams: Should Owen Hargreaves be insulted?
Today FIFA and FIfPro proposed the implementation of a six plus five system, whereby six members of a side...
Aruna Dindane: Cote D’Ivoirian leads the French league
The many African stars in football are now a staple in most leagues and this year is seeing a...
Andrew Jenning’s FOUL! exposes Sepp Blatter, Jack Warner, and FIFA
Andrew Jennings is in the forefront of exposing corruption in the sporting world. His most famous book translated into...
Neurosciences and Diego Maradona: Why he is the best player
A recent article in Nature Neuroscience (Nature Neuroscience – 9, 1083 – 1084 (2006) doi:10.1038/nn0906-1083) discusses how we pay...
Video: Tiziano Crudeli, the voice of AC Milan
This man is for real. He is not some hack in the Jerry Springer show, paid to ham up...
Video: The Milan derby: Inter vs AC Milan, 4-3
Crespo gets the first. Stankovic, Ibrahamovic, Seedorf, Kaka, Gilardino, and Materazzi get the others. Great match between these two...
Didier Drogba again: A phenomenal season, indeed!
Didier Drogba is having a phenomenal year. If this was the USA, there would already been an investigation into...
The rejects: RVN, Morientes, Crespo and Gudjohnsen thrive
Remember Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Fernando Morientes, Eidur Gudjohnsen, and Hernan Crespo, till recently fixtures in a Premiership club? Great...
SA World Cup: The danger is not the crime rate but neo-liberalism
We have heard horror stories of the high crime rate in South Africa where more than 50 people are...
English Premiership clubs will dominate future European competition
The Champions Cup was first played in 1955- 56. The first winner was Real Madrid who have won the...
Sepp Blatter apologizes to the Socceroos
Sepp Blatter tried to soothe the Socceroos by saying that they deserved to go to the quarterfinals instead of...
Rush Limbaugh, Michael J Fox, and football fakers
Having Rush Limbaugh go berserk with rage at Michael J Fox for faking his symptoms of his disease in...
South Africa World Cup 2010 costs escalate
The South African government will spend 15.1 billion rands on the World Cup. About 40% of it is on...
Video: Kaka and Materazzi square off
Kaka is dead on when he says Materazzi sometimes gets nasty on the pitch. A treat for Kaka fans!...
Sheva opens his account: Chelsea vs Boro
Chelski’s 30 million pound acquisition, Shevchenko finally scores his first goal! At this rate he’ll score 4 more for...
Video: Mido opens his account: Spurs vs West Ham
Mido took sometime but he got it in style against the Hammers.