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The Messi Ronaldo polarisation
More evidence of the extreme polarisation that plagues our planet these days.Messi won FIFA player of the year 2023...
Zlatan settles the GOAT debate once and for all
Who is the greatest player of all time. Zlatan settles the matter once and for all..
Charity Matches featuring legends of old
Old – but still Gold ( Great Britain and Ireland v/s the Rest of the World) -for UNICEF in...
Franz Beckenbauer RIP
The Kaiser has gone to his well deserved heavenly reward. ( 11th Sept 1945 – 7th Jan 2024) “It...
Alison Becker’s best saves
Liverpool have released a video of Alison Becker’s best saves to mark his 250th game for the club. Click...
Mo Salah joins the Top 10
Salah joins the legends..
The 100 best football players of 2023
The Guardian has compiled this list of the top 100 football players of the year.Here they are – minus...
Messi wins his 7th GOAL 50 award
GOAL 50 is an annual award presented by GOAL which ranks the 50 best footballers in the world over...
FIFA’s award shortlist is out
The three nominees in each category of the FIFA awards 2023 is here The three contenders for the Ferenc...
Messi is Athlete of the Year 2023 on Time
8 Ballon d’Ors and now this. He’s on a roll.
Giggs hits 50 as Barcelona turn 124
Double celebrations today as Ryan Giggs celebrates his 50th birthday even as Barcelona celebrate their 124th anniversary
The 10 greatest scissor kicks ever
Garnacho’s scissor kick against Everton has sparked some kind of nostalgia for scissor kicks and this has led to...
Adidas organise a Messi Zidane chat
Zidane and Messi sit down to have a chat about old times – courtesy Adidas
Leo Messi shares his favourite goal
He has scored over 800 goals for club and country and looking back at he chooses one that stands...
Messi makes it 8 Ballon d’Ors
Soccerblog has been following the trail of Messi’s Ballon d’Or wins with a tremendously high degree of accuracy.Here are...
Ronaldinho in India
Ronaldinho has been spotted in Kolkata, where he apparently stopped to take a selfie with a passing tiger and...
The Number 7 Manchester United Shirt
Mason Mount ,Memphis Depay,Angel Di Maria,Michael Owen,Alexis Sanchez,Edinson Cavani,Antonio Valencia,Keith Gillespie,Bryan Robson,David Beckham,George Best,Eric Cantona,( Ella Toone) and Cristiano...
Messi documentary on Apple Tv
Beckham is on Netflix and Messi is on Apple TV. Directions to get there here…
Ronaldo hits 850 goals
Another Ronaldo record… Messi,when reports last came in,had scored 813 819 and had taken his shirt off to indicate...
Beckham is coming to Netflix
Stranger things have happened. A documentary on Beckham is being released on Netflix in early october.
El Clasico Flashback
Time travel to 2005 and see a bunch a fabulous players in their prime – Beckham,Zidane,Xavi, Eto’o, Iniesta,Puyol,Messi,Casillas,Roberto Carlos,Sergio...
Ballon d’Or frontrunners
Messi in the lead..
2023 Ballon d’Or longlist
Ronaldo is MIA for the first time since 2003 .Messi and Halaand frontrunners.
Spain are World Champions
Spain,against all odds,are World Champion’s Olga Carmona scored the only and winning goal. Her goal celebration was a tribute...
Inter Miami win their first bit of Silverware ever.
Four defenders and the goalkeeper between him and the goal – no problem. He scored anyway.Messi is having the...
Wenger looks back a bit
A relaxed Arsene Wenger speaks on days gone by and days yet to come.. And shortly after this interview...
Marta bids adeiu to the World Cup at last
Marta Vieira da Silva’s career spanning 6 Women World Cup’s came to end at last when Brazil failed to...
Wenger becomes immortal in bronze
In his time Arsène Wenger won for Arsenal three Premier League titles,seven FA Cups, and managed the invincibles who...
Harry Kane in a heated interview
Harry Kane plays russian roulette with a bunch of bottles of hot and hotter sauces. Kane mentions his favourite...
Messi sets a record in Miami already
The game at the DRV PNK Stadium became the most watched football game in US TV history. A total...
Messi goes shopping in Miami
Messi mingled with ordinary mortals in Miami and did a bit of shopping before hitting the training ground. With...
Who will take the place of Sergio Busquets?
Sergio learned his bag of tricks from the best – Pep Guardiola himself,who in turn was mentored by the...
After De Gea – who?
David De Gea to his fans on twitter….“My farewell message to all Manchester United supporters is extremely difficult to...
Cesc Fabregas calls it a day
Cesc Fabregas,after 110 caps for spain,2 European Championships,a World Cup and 12 major trophies has now decided that enough...
Messi plays in Riquelme farewell game
Juan Roman Riquelme finally got his farewell – which was pending since the year 2015. The farewell match,which was...
Messi turns 36
Messi hit 36 on the 24th of June 36 things about him as he turns 36. “1. Messi has scored...
Ronaldo scores wearing his 200th Portugal Cap
Cristiano Ronaldo got a certificate from Guinness World Records for becoming the first player in the world to represent...
Mo Salah hits 31
Not 31 goals but 31 years on his 31st birthday today,FIFA are releasing a documentary video to mark the...
City get their Treble
Manchester City made history Rodri’s goal that sealed the treble . It was a double treble of sorts because...
Zlatan calls it a day
Zlatan,much to everyone surprise, has decided to ride of into the sunset at the ripe old age of 41....
Remembering Man Utd’s Historic Treble
As Manchester City continue their relentless pursuit of the treble let us remember today the day that Man Utd...
When Steven Gerrard was the best midfielder in the world..
17 years ago,on the 13th of May, Steven Gerrard led Liverpool to victory against West Ham United in the 2006...
Paeans of praise for De Bruyne
“He has, as it was often said of Xavi, “a protractor for a brain and a compass for a...
More Haaland heroics
There was a time not so long ago when Salah was something else but now its Haaland’s heroics that...
Haaland chalks another record
Haaland scored the third of the three goals that Bayern lost to City by.He now has 45 goals in...
Haaland chalks up goal number 30 in style
Erling scored 2 goals in City’s 4-1 demolition of Southampton. He is well on the way to the Golden...
Happy Birthday Ronaldinho
Ronaldinho turned 43 on the 21st. Memories of his magic “Ronaldinho was more talented than Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo,”...
Chip off the old block?
Joao de Assis Moreira,son of legend and has been Ronaldinho ,has been signed up by Barcelona. Will he be...
Halaand-Goal Machine
The hat trick against Wolverhampton took Halaand past a record long held by Nistelrooy – and he became the...
The art of bicycle kicking – Pele’s regret
Pele had a regret.In his autobiography he said “I have just three-four of my 1,283 goals with a bicycle...
Messi’s face on a corn field
Maximiliano Spinazze has paid a tribute to Messi in corn- in a most unsual and extraordinary way. He planted...
Messi flies high
Tributes and adulation from a soccer crazy nation…