For Inter bouquets; for Juventus brickbats
Fulham’s magnificent victory capped what must be a schizophrenic week for the Serie clubs. Just as the dust from...
Category: Soccer Hall of Fame
Let the stories of Ancelotti’s demise begin …..
Carlo Ancelotti gone from Stamford Bridge. 10… 9… 8….7….6 ….. In certain gloomy fan forums David Moyes is being...
David Villa pays homage to Messi
“When the best player in the world has his day, he is difficult to stop.” A tribute from a...
Keith Alexander funeral today
The world of football misses a true believer and a gentleman. Keith Alexander’s memory will be preserved in a...
Video: FA Cup QF: Pompey win through Piquionne’s brace
Great win for Pompey. A goalmouth melee and Joe Hart who did not help his cause by a helpful...
Zidane, Henri Emile, and Algeria after the World Cup?
Looks like Zinedine Zidane maybe a step closer to taking over the Algeria job after the World Cup. Rabah...
FA Cup QFs: Portsmouth shock Birmingham, 2-0
Portsmouth maybe in administration but it showed that it has lots of football left. They beat Birmingham through a...
Cote D’Ivoire hope: Hiddink will likely leave before Russia contract up
Guus Hiddink not part of the 2010 World Cup? Not possible. Right on cue, Didier Drogba reportedly reaches out...
The George Best dance tribute.
Some of George Best’s greatest moves are going to be rendered in music and contemporary dance by Belfast-based Maiden...
Ricky Broadley’s red card record broken
Ricky Broadley has the dubious honour of having picked up 4 red cards in a single game.He got his...
The knives are unsheathed for Pellegrini yet again
As the Marca editorial (In Spanish) makes it clear, Real’s goal is nothing less than the CL final. Their...
Video: Robinho’s backheel lifts Santos
Nifty backheel but it should have been ruled offside.
World Cup 1930: Francisco Varallo celebrates his century
The oldest surviving player of the 1930 World Cup final celebrates his 100th birthday. Happy birthday, Francisco Varallo! The...
Stand with Haiti
No time to lose. Check out Partners in Health >> In addition to providing emergency relief, these organizations are...
SoccerBlog Awards 2009: Inspiration of the Year
The members of the Iranian team who wore green in support of the green revolution.Some of them were booted...
SoccerBlog Awards 2009: Idiot of the Year
And the award goes to: FIFA. What’s that you say about fair play?
SoccerBlog Awards 2009: Goal of the Year
Nilmar. Enough said. I just hope Dunga takes him to SA!
SoccerBlog Awards 2009: Player of the Year
The winner: Lionel Messi. The video doesn’t do him justice. The tragedy here is that with Maradona as coach,...
[UPDATED] SoccerBlog Awards 2009: Coach of the Year
Hold on. We have a new Coach of the Year. After reading NSider’s comment, and deliberating for 2 minutes,...
The SoccerBlog Awards 2009
Since we’re in a giving mood here at Soccer Blog, we’ve decided to end the year by handing out...
Cruyff’s dream team give Maradona’s Argentina another nightmare
Yohan Cruyff’s Cataonian dream tream gave Argentina a 4 -2 beating in a friendly.Maradona,still in search of that magic...
FIFA World Player of the Year
The FIFA/FIFPro World XI of 2009: Goalkeeper: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid); Defenders: Daniel Alves (Barcelona), John Terry (Chelsea), Nemanja...
Messi centrestage as Barcelona make history
Barca collected their 6th cup for the year.Messi scored a historic extra time winner to take Barcelona to their...
The last days of Graeme Souness
Julian Dicks: The end of the “Liverpool culture.” Graeme Souness has been on Rafa Benitez’s back fearing a “meltdown”...
In Italy, Balotelli struggles for acceptance
The Independent has an article about Jose Mourinho not being particularly effusive about Mario Balotelli’s scintillating performance against Rubin...
Video: A live version of K’naan’s “Waving Flag”
Canada may not be in the World Cup but one of their own will prove ubiquitous. Somalia-born Toronto raised,...
Notts County is ready for a third takeover
The picture continues to get grainier in Notts County’s ownership saga. The latest sees Sven Goran Ericksson as a...
Leo Messi: Favourite to win FIFA world player of the year
Leo Messi heads a Barcelona contingent to the top five world players of the year category with Andres Iniesta...
World Cup 2010: The Springboks back Bafana Bafana
The 1995 Springboks are celluloid heroes too After praying for New Zealand, Paraguay, and Slovenia but instead getting, Mexico,...
Messi wins the Ballon D’Or
Well deserved win for the man who occupied centerstage in Barca’s glorious treble – The Champions League, the Liga...
Video:Ibrahimovic wins El Classico for Barca…
As Neil Diamond said sometime somewhere “Money talks,but it can’t sing and dance,and it can’t walk.” Real Madrid found...
El Clasico: Messi meets Ronaldo
Here we are. This is the true test – will Real’s money win over Barcelona? Who is the best...
Video: CL: Rodrigo Tello sinks Man Utd
Ben Foster won’t be the one to say, “I tello so.” Besiktas continued the theme of the underdog shocking...
Thousands turn out for moving Enke memorial
RIP: Robert Enke: 24 August 1977- 10 November 2009 A sight never seen in Germany as tens of thousands...
Zidane scores classy free kick
French third division side Amiens took on Variety Club of France for a charity match.A free kick from Zidane...
Hackett to try covering “viewing angles” after Ngog dive
Keith Hackett stating the obvious. “I have said to managers in the past that this is an area of...
Video: “Shame at the Bernabeu”
All that talk of righting the ship turned out to be bluster as in the Copa Del Rey return...
Video: Lyon vs Marseille epic ends in 10 goals, no victory
Lyon 5 Marseille 5 at the Stade De Gerland. November 9, 2009. A nail biting epic with end to...
The fastest goal ever just got faster…
A 21-year-old Saudi striker Nawaf Al Abed scored the definitive fastest goal ever recorded in a professional football match....
In which Becks earns his keep
David Beckham chooses the LA Galaxy over breaking Peter Shilton’s record 125 England appearances. He can at best case...
sportsdirect.com@StJames’Park
I weep for the Newcastle fans who have to put up with this execrable name. How about MikeAshleydumbass@StJames’Park while...
10 notable football felons: Some lovable, some otherwise
Marlon King: King has vaulted to the top of the rogues gallery with his second conviction. The first one...
Henrik Larsson retires
“Henrik Larsson always scores.” The clip shows Celtic fighting back through Larsson against Porto in a pulsating 2003 UEFA...
10 most memorable games at Giants Stadium
Jack Bell creates a list of 10 most memorable games at Giants Stadium. Some of the highlights. Last summer’s...
Clutch performers in US World Cup qualifiers
Its become almost automatic for the US to qualify for the World Cup nowadays. But there were forty years...
FIFA Ferenc Puskas Award
FIFA have established a new award named after Hungarian legend Ferenc Puskas that will be given to the player...
A Casey in point!
The US goes through to the World Cup! I gave the Hondurans the benefit of their stranglehold at San...
Team USA vs Honduras: The revolution will not be televised
Not a literal reference to the Honduran coup which ousted Manuel Zelaya but the decision not to broadcast the...
Who will tell Maradona the Truth?
The sad part of it is that it has actually gotten to this point and he’s still the coach. ...
Raul also gets a Real Record.
Raul made it into the Real Madrid record book again with his 709th appearance for the club while they...
Tahiti lose by 8 goals again…
This must be some kind of record surely.To lose two games in the same tournament by the same margin...
Ibrahimovic leaves Ronaldo behind..
This goal gainst Malaga made it a record 5 goals in 5 games for Ibrahimovic.The goal comes after a...
Ronaldo gets a Real record
C Ron was a man in a hurry.He was undoubtedly miffed at Ibrahimovic’s inconsideration in going ahead and getting...