In tribute: Alan Ball, 1945- 2007
1966 World Cup final. Alan Ball, Everton and Arsenal midfielder, was the scrappy, motoring midfielder with his socks down...
Category: Soccer Culture
Who is rooting for a Liverpool vs Milan rematch?
I am. With memories of the most fascinating and enthralling final played in CL history between these two teams...
Chicago Fire awaits bad boy Cuauhtémoc Blanco
Is the MLS ready for the Cuauhtémoc? MLS is underway and the biggest news is Beckham’s debut for the...
Arsenal’s midfield needs to score
Arsenal is still the best team to watch in the Premiership. They outclassed West Ham and were unlucky not...
Jafar Panahi’s Offside: A poignant Iranian vignette
Jafar Panahi’s new movie, Offside captures the passion of the global game and the hold it has on the...
Michael Chopra: South Asian pride in da house
Michael Chopra becomes the leading scorer in the Championship. 21 goals! And renews his contract with Cardiff City. Now...
Video: Ferenc Puskas: A delayed birthday tribute
On April 2nd, Ferenc Puskas would have turned 80. A tribute to the galloping major. His days in Honved,...
Arsenal awaits a new owner
Indications are that Arsenal may have a new owner. Unlike the other big three, Man Utd, Chelsea, and Liverpool,...
Video: AS Roma 2 Man Utd 1
Roma – Man Utd | Match HighlightsUploaded by GOAAAAL Great game. Man Utd was kept off its stride by...
Lille and now Roma: Coincidence? Man U fans cry foul
Moral of the story: If you are to play Man U, play them in a neutral venue, preferably with...
Defenders are the new attackers
Van Buyten, Riise, Oddo, and Phillip Lahm, the new hunting pack Mocha is the new black. The 40’s are...
Blatter’s unopposed election calls for term limits
The UN has 192 member states and since its inception in 1945 has had 8 Secretary Generals, the effective...
Champions League: Big games today
Liverpool meets PSV Eindhoven Dirk Kuyt gets back to familiar territory with a great chance of scoring his first...
Maradona to go to Switzerland to heal himself
Diego Maradona will spend another fortnight in hospital with suspected alcoholic hepatitis. He has had numerous problems with his...
Soccer stands to gain following India’s disgraceful exit
Right now effigies of Indian cricketers are being burned and their families threatened with dire consequences. And for those...
Steve McLaren: Bloke on the ropes
Watching Steve McLaren at his press conference after England’s lugubrious victory over Andorra was like watching a man who...
Carolina for Kibera
Carolina for Kibera supports youth soccer and HIV/AIDS awareness in Nairobi, Kenya: music by Django Haskins and The Old...
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...
Wenger has a point: Arsenal are the most booked team
I may have been a bit too quick to condemn Arsene Wenger’s sense of martyrdom as there are some...
Andrew Jennings: Sepp Blatter’s shell games continue
Sepp Blatter is upto his old tricks with his willing accomplice FIFA’s vice president Jack Warner. At stake are...
Other leagues show less disparity
Lets look at the other leagues and find where the Premiership stands. The Serie clubs have played a couple...
Goal differential: A tale of two Premierships
The big four Premiership clubs walk away with the lions share of the revenues filling their already swollen coffers...
Video: Steve Nash shows soccer moxie
Why do I get this strange feeling that Steve Nash might do more to promote soccer in this country...
Steve Nash, NBA All Star: Soccer mad and potential Spurs owner
Steve Nash, Phoenix Suns star trains with NY Red Bulls Steve Nash, the Phoenix Suns point guard, perennial All...
Wenger’s martyr mentality is taking a toll
I am a great supporter of Arsene Wenger and I find his commitment to nurturing Arsenal’s young players a...
Video: A closer look at OM’s Samir Nasri
Born in Marseille just like Marseille’s favourite son Zinedine Zidane as well as sharing Algerian ancestry, it is inevitable...
Jack Kachkar: Olympique Marseille’s new owner
Jack Kachkar, L’OMs new owner L’ OM’s fortunes have been on the wane for over a decade since Bernard...
Cricket fades as the West Indies takes to soccer
Every four years we have cricket’s version of the World Cup and this year the West Indies is hosting...
Who wants to bet against Liverpool now?
We called it foolhardy when Rafa Benitez sent his squad a week before the game against Barca in the...
Drogba’s award sells African soccer short
A bow to the Premiership and its selling power as it rules the roost in global viewership. But if...
Dimitar Berbatov: White hot in White Hart
Dimitar Berbatov is the tour de force in the Spurs attack. As Robbie Keane and Mido play now you...
Premiership action: Shootout at the Fantasy Factory
Shootout at the Fantasy Factory was a 1973 Traffic album but it could well describe the Premiership this weekend...
What a Game: Walcott Scores, Terry Out Cold, Drogba Scores Twice, Players Brawl, 3 Red Cards, Chelsea Take the Cup
Another bizarre game, but this time it’s for the silverware. Drogba shows why he’s class by saving Chelsea’s behind....
Video: Ali G interviews Posh and Becks
Oldie but goodie. Posh comes off as far more feisty than Becks.
Eurocentric bias: Blatter and FIFA overstep in Kenya ban
Sepp Blatter is a political animal. His FIFA career has been an orchestration of lining up votes, doling out...
West Ham left dead in the water
Alan Curbishley vs Alan Pardew in the clash of the 500 lbs gorillas and it is Curbs left with...
Brazil, Where have You Gone?
That’s what I think when I see this: Is it time to think past Dunga yet? And now Ronaldinho...
Kenya’s FIFA impasse continues
With virtually no soccer being played in their country because of the FIFA suspension, Kenyan players have left to...
Gazza to star in sci-fi horror movie
You’ll soon see Gazza in movie halls in a sci-fi horror movie called Final Run. And no, its title...
British soccer hardmen pale in comparison
Craig Bellamy has impulse control issues, Lee Bowyer is a racist thug, Vinnie Jones enforces by squeezing sensitive body...
Video: David Villa’s bender against Inter
C1 Inter-Valence :1-1 Villa 21/02/07Uploaded by Luca_Toni Villa’s magnificent freekick restores parity for Valencia
Video: The fastest recorded shot
Sporting Lisbon’s Brazilian left-back Ronny Heberson, who rocketed in this free-kick against Naval in November 2006, reportedly from 16.5...
What would your Brazilian soccer name be?
Want to know what your name would be if you played for Brazil? Go to this website >> Nick...
Melbourne Victory’s victory: Global game, local connections
Archie Thompson and Fred, Victory’s deadly duo On Sunday, the Melbourne victory crushed Adelaide United, 6-0 at Telstra stadium...
Video: Jefferson Farfan, PSV Eindhoven star
Arsenal will be hoping that Farfan’s injury will keep him away from today’s Champions League match. The marauding left...
Video: Tomas Rosicky, Arsenal’s little gunner
Tomas Rosicky guns them goals directional bias or no directional bias.
Liverpool takes up golf under new owners
It seems under the new US owners, some players have taken up golf, except that they are not whacking...
Tomas Rosicky and directional bias
It happened once. Then it happened again. And when it happened a half dozen times it appeared to be...
Does soccer also have its ‘unproductive’ stars?
Marx addressed the issue of worker productivity and set into motion modern day labour laws. The ILO now records...
Site Review: Sportscheat.org
Here’s an interesting site dedicated to fighting cheating in the Premiership. Midnightjester (not his real name, or is it?)...
Video: The Police at the Grammys
Police frontman, Sting is a staunch Newcastle supporter. He penned the lyrics to The Black and White Army (Bringing...
Video: Obafemi Martins vs Didier Drogba
Too early to compare him to Drogba but Martins is coming on nicely. So why not? Both are physically...
Obafemi Martins: The best transfer this season
When we look at players who have exploded on the Premiership in their first season and single handedly changed...
A T-shirt says it all
As floods (NY Times, subscription needed) ravage Mozambique, a poignant reminder, soccer as the global game. Beckham’s role in...