Chelsea and YouTube link up
Chelsea have linked up with YouTube and have launched the first football-branded channel on the internet site.The channel will...
Category: Copa America
Matchnight calls it a day
America’s soccer news network “Matchnight in America” has announced that they will be closing shop and shutting down after...
Platini says 5 referees
Platini’s bold new move to take the total number of referees refereeing a football match upto five is ”...
Italy overtakes Brazil in FIFA rankings
For the first time since 1993 Italy have got the top spot in the FIFA rankings.Brazil had to vacate...
Arsenal’s triple trophy bid remains alive
Arsenal overcame a bit of a scare to reach the 5th round of the FA Cup with a 3-1...
12 of the finest
A collection of 12 great goals scored in Jan 2007
Ronaldinho back among the goals
Ronaldinho in sublime form again.Two goals from him took Barcelona to a 2 -0 win at home to Racing...
Arsenal link up with Colorado Rapids
Arsenal moves across the Atlantic with a new partnership with Major League Soccer club Colorado Rapids announced on Friday....
Italian football sans fans
Officer Filippo Raciti’s killing was the second in a week in Italian soccer after an amateur team coach was...
USA dominance over Mexico continues..
Jimmy Conrad and Landon Donovan scored to take USA to a 2 -0 win over Mexico.Bob Bradley’s score is...
Cisse breaks another leg.
Not really.He broke someone else’s leg actually.Paris Saint Germain’s Colombian defender Mario Yepes season came to an end after...
Portugal beats Brazil in friendly
Portugal beat Brazil 2-0 in a friendly on Tuesday, ending Dunga’s unbeaten streak as manager.Simao Sabrosa, one of five...
Beckham in Super Bowl Ad
There is no indication in a thaw in the relationship between Fabio Capello and David Beckham.He continues to remain...
USA vs Mexico – 7th February
Interim coach Bob Bradley led the US team to a victory in his debut game against Denmark some time...
Real Madrid lose again
Real Madrid lost 1- 0 to lowly Levante .(Video) Capella had a few harsh words for Beckham again –...
Manchester United rout Tottenham Spurs
Cristiano Ronaldo got a controversial penalty for this bit of falling down .One of these days he will get...
Soccer and Gridiron: Place kickers in the sun
Pete Gogolak, soccer style inventor; Jan Stenrud, Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Famer When Robbie Gould takes the field...
Ronaldinho is quitting Brazil …?
Duncan Castles writing in The Times is suggesting that Ronaldinho is seriously considering not playing for Brazil anymore.The strained...
Henry Heroics save Arsenal again
Henry’s equaliser against Middlesbrough .Arsenal were playing with 10 men at the time after Philippe Senderos got a red...
Soccer comes to a violent halt in Italy
The bad news from Italy is that violence got a bit out of hand yesterday.All football matches have been...
Cole’s injury in Blackburn game
Ashley Cole was chasing a ball towards the left touchline when he suffered this knee injury which may keep...
Carling Cup – goal of the tournament contenders
ITV hosts a competition for UK residents .They have to choose a winner from the goals listed below.
Another side of Beckham
Plenty of Beckham stories in the news but here’s an unusual one– about how he rang up Rebecca Johnstone...
Materazzi headbutted again
He can write another book.Sampdoria’s Gennaro Delvecchio did the honours this time.More on that story here..…and the video here.
Chelsea demolish Nottingham
Chelsea cruise into the last 16 of the FA Cup with a 3-0 win at home to Nottingham Forest...
Les Bleus in the news again: Racism, nationhood and politics
The matters of racial politics and the global game has always seen a very fluid and uneasy interface, a...
Rooney’s touch of class
Rooney was forced to sit and cool his heels on the bench for an hour before being introduced into...
Julio Baptista stars in Arsenal fightback
Julio Baptista scored a kind of hat trick.Once into his own goal and twice into the Tottenham goal. Arsenal...
Manchester United Outgunned
Alex Ferguson was outmarshalled by Wenger and the Gunners outgunned,outplayed,outclassed and out everything elsed Manchester United yesteday. Rooney scored...
Cech to return wearing helmet
The word is out that Chelsea keeper Petr Cech has successfully passed his final medical check-up and could now...
He saw the Hand of God
Bulgarian linesman Bogdan Dotchev has broken his 20-year silence about Maradona’s famous hand of god goal.Referee Ali Bin Nasser...
Round the World with a Football Table
The story of a football table that travelled the world.It was carried by Andy Sloan, a city lawyer, from...
Arsenal youngsters propel Birmingham
Arsenal has been good to Birmingham in the past. Matthew Upson, Jermaine Pennant, and Julian Gray. Upson and Pennant...
Video: Chelsea rout Wigan
The tension between Abramovich and Mourinho mar the victory.More on that here Some other goal videos from the weekend...
Liverpool FC: A tale of two clubs
There seems to be two Liverpool sides that show up at Premiership games. The home team that has scored...
Blatter in an apologetic mood
Every now and then Blatter seems to get these conscience attacks which then compel him to make an apology...
West Ham: Don’t expect Boa Morte to do it
West Ham’s season has been one of swelling the ranks of players. But the players lack quality, alluded to...
Israel Palestine peace game
Members of Israel’s national squad partnered Palestinian players against a team representing the southern Spanish region of Andalusia in...
Buffon’s eyes drift westwards: The Premiership?
Gianluigi Buffon is feeling left out of the top flight action of the Serie as Juventus battle to get...
Le Guen is gone: Rangers coach fired
Paul Le Guen’s stripping Barry Ferguson of the captaincy and then dropping him altogether from the Rangers squad against...
Fulham goalkeeper lands on his head
While on the subject of head injuries here’s another one that could have been much worse than it turned...
Soccer in 2006 and the year that was
With 5 days left to go in the year here’s one look at Soccer in 2006 from A to...
Merry Christmas
Happy Christmas to all soccerblog readers.Here is a compilation by someone called Wezz of the top 50 goals in...
Blatter’s Indian initiative
“All I can say now is ‘stay tuned’ – years from now, people will look back and see 2007...
Mourinho is sorry
Wasn’t it Elton John who sang ” Sorry seems to be the hardest word.” ? Mourinho may well be...
Controversy mars Juventus game
Juventus vs Bologna. A minute of silence was observed before the game for two Juventus youth players who drowned...
Serie B heats up
Outside of Italy few soccer fans have ever paid much attention to the serie B tournament, populated as it...
Is this a dive ?
Everton (taking the view that people who live in glass houses should not go around chucking stones) are ready...
Barcelona dethroned
While away in Japan Barcelona were dethroned from their top spot in the Spanish League.Sevilla now currently reign in...
Spectacular goal from Miguel Angel Angulo
Action from the spanish season.This spectacular goal from Miguel Angel Angulo helped Valencia to a crucial 1-0 away win...
FIFA Club World Cup Finals: Barcelona to meet Internacional
Alexander Pato, Internacional’s wunderkid Ronaldinho has every reason to be cautious when he insisted “I’ve said it before and...
Iraq had a bit of joy
When the referee blows the opening whistle, Iraqis divided by sectarian violence put their differences aside to cheer on...
Blatter sacks four
Fallout from the Mastercard vs FIFA case. Blatter – apparently determined to teach all FIFA executives never to tell...
Ronaldinho’s Japan Plan
World Club Cup or the Toyota Cup. It’s apparently the only cup that’s missing from Barcelona’s trophy cupboard and...