Man United’s debt balloons to record levels
Just as Peter Hill-Wood was talking about running Arsenal as a business, here comes a report that should peel...
Category: Soccer Books & Magazines
Peter Hill Wood to Aleshir Usmanov: We need no bailout
It was refreshing to hear Peter Hill-Wood on the possibility of holding talks issuing this smackdown of David Dein....
Jorge Vergara rushes in where Man Utd fears to tread
China’s huge soccer fan base continues to attract the soccer business world. However Jorge Vergara seems to have stepped...
Azzurri meet Les Bleus: A history of penalty jinxes
Watch out. This match is another in a long series of grudge matches between these two countries. The storyline...
Lets just bury our heads in sand
Ok. So Landon Donovan and David Beckham are out of the Super Liga final along with half the LA...
What exactly is an assist in soccer?
The greatest contribution of the US to soccer aka football is the bowdlerization of ‘association football’ to soccer. The...
The Premiership is the perfect league for TV replay
Horrible refereeing decisions have marked the beginning of the Premiership and it does not seem as if mere suspensions...
Video: Robinson’s blunder against Germany
K. KuranyiUploaded by tzonner Robinson’s poor goalkeeping lets Germany back into the game through Kuranyi. Before that Lampard puts...
Who is lying: Juande Ramos or Spurs?
Juande Ramos, the Sevilla coach is claiming that he turned down a very lucrative deal to coach at White...
Deep thoughts by Marco Materazzi
So Marco Materazzi decided to reveal in his yet to be released autobiography what he actually said to Zidane....
Video: Al Hilal decimates Ahly, 3-0
A shocker as Al Hilal takes apart Ahly in a CAF Champions group match leaving the champions aspirations for...
The NY Red Bulls vs LA Galaxy match was a seminal event
Nearly 67,000 fans came out to see this match and they were not disappointed. David Beckham came out to...
A killjoy entity called NetResults is removing YouTube clips
A brain eating zombie entity called Net Results is removing the You Tube video clips of the matches we...
Roy Keane’s Sunderland: The cult of personality
Martin Jol called his teams display match against Sunderland “boring.” The critique does not augur well for the potentially...
The agony and ecstasy of being Arsenal: Bendtner was big
Arsenal 2 Fulham 1. To watch Arsenal start this season against Fulham was to watch another piece of theater...
Video: Rhain Davis: The first viral marketing soccer signing
Reports are that Man U and You Tube have merged to create a soccer video jockey behemoth, Tube Man...
Beckham will likely be a no show against Toronto
16 minutes. That is the sum total of Becks appearance. You know if Alexi Lalas was at all concerned...
Simon Kuper on Florent Malouda
Simon Kuper first met Florent Malouda at Camp Guingamp four years ago playing alongside team mate Didier Drogba. They...
Liverpool gets Ryan Babel: Wenger will rue this decision
The Independent, a credible source and not Tribal football are reporting that Liverpool’s offer of 13m euros for 20...
Copa America: Argentina pips Paraguay, 1-0
Argentina VS Paraguay 1-0 TVTUGAUploaded by simaodcosta Lovely bit of approach work by Leo Messi to set up the...
Video: Darren Bent in action
Excellent finisher with a fair bit of speed.
Victoria Beckham has her own reality show
That’s the one benefit of coming to the USA. Any thing and everything can become a reality show including...
In India following Arsenal is way cool
Mukul Kesavan discovers that Indian schoolkids are warming up to soccer, especially Premiership league. Arsenal is their choice because...
Goalless: The Story of a Unique Footballing Nation
A great account of the history of Indian soccer. From the moment in 1877 that an Indian boy kicked...
Shevchenko denies favouritism
Sheva must have read the Soccerblog entry which talks about his friendship with Abramovich causing a rift between Mourinho...
Pele: The ultimate collectible
The Carnival edition on Pele Amidst the hue and cry of David Beckham coming to the USA with the...
How big is Beckham? The NYT goes ga ga
You normally turn to the NYT for the inside scoop on the world and the US. Front page articles...
Gooch to join Fulham
The latest buzz is that Fulham is close to signing a deal worth £1 million for US defender Oguchi...
World Cup 2006: High art captures the headbutt
A very tongue in cheek art piece on Zidane and Materazzi, compliments of the Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar. This...
Soccer for kids: Is it bad for their brains?
A lot of studies have researched the consequences of heading a ball in soccer. Does frequent soccer heading lead...
Stocking stuffers: What to give your soccer mad friends
It is the time of the season to be jolly. Too bad US soccer lovers were not given their...
BBC Panorama, Dec 10: Andrew Jennings buttonholes Jack Warner
Those who enjoyed Andrew Jennings expose the corruption in FIFA starting with Sepp Blatter’s secret payout of £1m worth...
Dubai takeover of Liverpool FC: Infrastructural benefits, not team success
Dubai International Capital’s (DIC) takeover does not mean much in terms of Liverpool’s success, although there are undoubtedly infrastructural...
Gianluca Vialli: Cheats never prosper? Yeah, right!!
Read The Italian Job and Gianluca Vialli’s take on cheating in football. As he says, Machiavelli is an inspiration,...
Saburo Kawabuchi: The man behind Japan’s resurgent football
It seems as if Japan has been playing football all its life. The reality is that organized football is...
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...
Emir Kusturica’s Maradona: Out in 2006
Maradona shows his solidarity! Look out for Emir Kusturica’s documentary on Diego Maradona in post production now. It is...
David Goldblatt: The Ball is Round
For soccer lovers this is the ultimate book. A 992 page book on everything and anything to do with...
Foul: Andrew Jennings book exposes FIFA
Andrew Jennings’s book gives us the scoop on how Sepp Blatter became president and how FIFA awards World Cups.
Boris Berezovsky: Roman Abramovich’s partner, Russia’s most feared oligarch
In all the hullaballoo of West Ham being taken over by Kia Joorabchian, in most likelihood, a proxy for...
To Wayne Rooney: Cock up and play the game
Football players should be seen and not heard. Again it’s not just Ashley Cole calling abuse on Arsene Wenger...
Frank Lampard misses with this one too
What is with these football players? All of them seem to be in self confessional mode. A book by...
Franklin Foer’s analysis: Which form of government is most likely to win the World Cup?
I read Franklin Foer’s afterword in the The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup. In it he discusses...
Rooney’s literary skills are subtle: Like a foot on the groin
Read Marina Hyde’s review of Rooney’s autobiography Part I for a hearty chuckle >>
Wayne Rooney: The shy and sensitive type
Wayne Rooney has signed a 5 book autobiography with Harper Collins worth 5 million pounds. It is supposed to...
The story of soccer in Oz: How the Socceroos made it.
The Socceroos last made it to the World Cup in 1972 and they scored no goals and made a...
The World Cup: The Economist is gloomy on the future of soccer in the US
The Economist is a reliably right wing rag but sometimes they do get pretty close to the truth. And...
Soccer Cartoons: NYTimes’ World Cup Fact-o-Rama
What a blast >>
Basil Fawlty makes peace with the Germans on the eve of the World Cup
In Episode 6 of Fawlty Towers, “The Germans” a clearly discombobulated Basil Fawlty goes around his staff imploring them...
The Beatles: Albert Stubbins and Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Cover designed by Peter Blake Albert Stubbins- 1930’s Liverpool player The cover of the Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club...
National Geographic: Why the World Loves Soccer
Tons of good stuff from the soccer nerds at National Geographic: “Introduction” by Sean Wilsey “IVORY COAST—The Way to...
Phorpa:The Tibetan version of the World Cup
It is not just Catholic priests who look to the World Cup to find their raison d’etre. But Tibetan...
Apartheid era soccer legend Ace Ntsoelengoe passes away
Patrick Ace Ntsoelengoe A few days ago I had written about the role that soccer played in the struggle...
Pele:The Autobiography
Simon and Schuster, UK has just published Pele’s autobiography. We all know Pele, the legend, the player. But in...