Arsenal: A familiar scene plays out
Arsene Wenger and Pat Rice have that familiar pinched look on their faces. All that beautiful possession from Fabregas...
Category: Soccer Culture
Its over: Man Utd goes two up over City
Tevez’s step son like treatment at the hands of Sir Alex has everyone agog. It provides the background to...
Hiddink has words of advice for Wenger
Chelsea meet Arsenal at the Emirates. Two clubs licking their wounds. Nothing materially changes with a result but there...
Video: Mario Gomez stuns Wolfsburg
Link: Bayern has a lot to thank Mario Gomez for. All four goals in Stuttgart’s 4-1 thrashing of Wolfsburg...
Relegation derby: Why Newcastle suffers more than Boro?
It all comes down to the wage bill that sticks out like a sore thumb. And a lot of...
Video: Rangers win Old Firm rivalry
Link: Maurice Edu’s team wins the most celebrated derby in the world and goes two up on their rivals....
Deep thought: Max Bretos loves saying Guillermo Barros Schelotto
Not just Schelotto. But the whole name. Its so, how you say it? So deliciously foreign, it makes the...
Video: Baraja goal ensures likely Juande Ramos exit
Link: Real lost to Valencia, 0-3 on the heels of their most humiliating loss at the Bernabeu in 38...
The 5 most infuriating players in the Premiership
These players are central to their clubs fortunes but they always manage to live in the twilight zone with...
SPL’s hand forced by Setanta’s crucial exposure
Setanta is now negotiating a lower contract for the TV rights to the SPL matches as a way of...
Mohammed Bin Hammam gifted a birthday present
Sepp Blatter sent his legal team to ensure that the elections to the FIFA executive committee went off smoothly...
More ways of looking at Ballack chasing the ref…
…while the debate continues…
Politics poison Asian football on election day
An Arabic metaphor is misunderstood by South Korean football officials and sets the tone for the poisonous state of...
Video: Hamburg’s comedy of errors guides Werder to UEFA final
Link: The Frank Baumann winner was a comedy of errors as Michael Gravgaard’s clearance hits a piece of debris...
Drogba apologizes: Norway calls him a sissy
The Norwegians are not taking this too kindly. Today, Drogba’s apology was posted on the Chelsea website. “I was...
Memories of Andres Frisk
In the first leg of a 2005 second round match against Barca, the referee Andres Frisk sent off Drogba,...
Video: Drogba might face a ban till Christmas
If Hiddink was looking for a graceful exit back to Russian national team duties, he is not going to...
Burnham’s most controversial proposal is not new
The NFL has been revenue sharing for decades and because of it American football has become the most highly...
Rudo y Cursi: Two brothers, destiny, and a soccer match
The hit of the Tribeca Film Festival opens May 8th and follows Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal as...
Iniesta, a heavenly goal!
The Spanish media reacts.
Chelsea were a bunch of petulant spoilsports
Drogba’s eyes zone on the ground, his best friend all night Drogba spent a lot of times flopping and...
Video: Barca vs Chelsea: The sublime and the ridiculous
Link: Link: Chelsea lost a heartbreaker in the 93rd minute due to a fabulous Iniesta strike. The aggregate was...
The morning after: The view from the bottom up
The reaction is varied: Arseblog: “My solution is simple and it’s something I’ve said all season long: Arsene needs...
Video: The whole horror show: Man Utd v Arsenal: 3- 1
Link: I feel very badly for Gibbs. He looked so gutted. Almunia was a trifle too late in reacting...
Arsenal: The longest 80 minutes
It was all over in 11 minutes. It must have been bewildering and frightening to find the team down...
Emirates: Turn up the volume!
Arsenal v Manchester United UEFA Champions League Tuesday, May 05, 2009, 19:45 Go Gunners! An appeal to all the...
Didier Deschamps installed at Marseille
A familiar face returns to Marseille. Deschamps was part of the Bernard Tapie revolution of the late 80s and...
Video: Juninho primer
The look of terror on the goalie’s face at 1:34 is priceless. For Juninho’s free kicks refer to the...
End of the road for Juninho?
This may not be a familiar sight anymore As Juninho rose, Lyon did too. The Brazilian is now at...
Finally! Arsenal wins silverware!
The ladies. So don’t get your knickers in a twist. They are the best in the land and have...
Maurice Edu gains Walter Smith’s confidence
Edu played all 90 minutes in Rangers win against Hearts this weekend. The former Toronto FC man is relishing...
Villa close out Hull: Relegation looms large
The weekend misery for all the drop zone clubs continued with Hull losing to Villa after John Carew scored...
Franck Ribery: Man with long scar much wanted
What is Man U using? AIG bailout money? Ribery is definitely not worth £63m. Great on and off the...
Arsenal: Its time to play, not for board room politics
Arseblog has more on the war brewing between Usmanov’s Red and White Holdings (the dark forces) and the Stan...
For Arsenal to be effective, Nasri has to define the left
The big dance is tomorrow. Arsenal finds out whether they can pull off what will be one of their...
Florentino Perez jumps the shark, umpteenth edition
Florentino Perez declares May 14 as the day Real football was saved. His signing wish list include Kaka, Cesc,...
Thierry Henry may miss the CL second leg
Thierry Henry suffered a knee injury during the Real match and is likely to miss the second leg against...
Alan Shearer is no Gary Megson
Good read. I have always wondered why Newcastle resorts to inspirational figures in its past to pull its way...
Top ten things that can happen with Klinsi out of Bayern
– Replace Bruce Arena at the Galaxy and get them to win two games, back to back. – A...
Add Sunderland to those unable to create daylight
The upper echelon had its way with the lower echelon. There were no spoilers this weekend. It got bleaker...
False equivalence
After the Chelsea’s win over Fulham, the English media indulges in some false equivalence to try and take the...
Video: Arsenal gets it done against Pompey
Link: 9+ minutes video. Good stuff from mostly the youth squad. Carlos Vela getting his first goal in the...
Its Bruce Arena over Robert Warzycha
With the Barca vs Real El Clasico, the world comes to an end. But the real news is that...
Deep thought: Where are you, Bernd Schuster?
It seems like aeons ago, that Real won the title but it was just last season and the coach...
Video: The most painful defeat in Real’s history
Link: Anish’s video of Barca vs Real has been posted below. But we can’t get enough of how Barca...
Stan Kroenke is recession proof
Stan Kroenke will not be denied. As his Colorado Rapids muddle along, Stan Kroenke upped his stakes yet again...
Swine flu leaves Mexican stadiums empty
Hector Reynosa of Club Gualdajara uses Sebastian Penco of Chile’s Everton as a spittoon. The Chilean media saw this...
Asian Football Confederation: Mutiny in the air
Mohammed Bin Hammam, AFC president is thumbing his nose at FIFA directives that reinstate the voting rights of five...
Other clubs do it, why single out Juve?
The “Black Italian” The racist taunts that Mario Balotelli seems to attract occurs obviously because of his colour but...
Rio will play the Emirates second leg
Good news for Man Utd as Rio Ferdinand will be back to play the CL second leg at the...
Video: Arsenal: Where was the defense?
Link: Timid. The first 25 minutes were a self appeasing display of tackles being missed, players left unmarked, passing...
Chelsea vs Barca: Drawing scrappy
Chelsea sure knows how to spoil a good party. Hiddink outcoached Guardiola with his tactic of dropping Ballack deep....
Everyone is Messi-ed up: Its Andres Iniesta
Chelsea vs Barca, CL semi-final first leg. The spotlight is on Leo Messi as it should be, arguably the...
A certain Rupert Lowe finds no love
Theo Walcott’s former club will fold if they do not find a investor in about a week. Rupert Lowe’s...